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sumikoska

Member since Dec. 10, 2012

About

Sumiko Saulson is a science-fiction and horror writer, author of three novels "Solitude", "The Moon Cried Blood", and "Warmth. She is also the author of the short story compilation "Things That Go Bump In My Head" and is currently in the process of creating a comic adaptaion of one of the short stories from the anthology, "Agrippa".

Her website is here:
http://sumikosaulson.com/

Comics by sumikoska

7 Principles of Kwanzaa

Rated:

Everyone

Genre:

Spiritual

Volume:

3 pages

Updated:

Dec. 18, 2012

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A cartoon/illustrated version of Dr. Maulana Karenga's "7 Principles of Kwanzaa". Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in God, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in God, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Agrippa

Rated:

Mature

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Volume:

34 pages

Updated:

March 3, 2013

Popularity:

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“Agrippa” is a dystopic near-future tale that takes place in an unnamed industrialized nation very much like the United States. When foreign creditors demand that the nation repay its considerable international debt or face war it enacts the Dulcetta Reforms, ultra-restrictive laws establishing debtor’s prison, and causing a large number of people – many of them seniors – to go to jail or even face execution if not continuously working to pay off their personal debts to the government. Dr. Tine, an expert in geriatric medicine, is desperately searching for employment at the beginning of our tale, having lost her useful functioning in society as the elders she once treated were rounded up and hauled off to the prison camps. Things were so bad she didn't think they could possibly get any worse. How very wrong she was. The story line for the comic strip follows closely that of a short story by Sumiko Saulson of the same name, however due to the differences in the two mediums, the comic contains more dialogue and less exposition.
And We Lived Long Enough To Bury Our Dead

Rated:

Everyone

Genre:

Horror

Volume:

9 pages

Updated:

July 10, 2023

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"And They Lived Long Enough to Bury Their Dead" is a dark fantasy comic zine about a group of Gen X goth/punk folks growing older and processing the deaths of loved ones. A paranormal urban fantasy, it centers around Billie, a nonbinary African-American alternative rocker from Oakland who develops the psychic ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Their nesting partner, Davis, a formerly homeless African-American transgender man, their twin brother Sean, and the ghost of their mother and cat are other central characters. In the story Billie, Davis, and their Gen X circle of friends are coming to terms with aging, the declining health (and loss) of their parents, and adjusting to a new post-pandemic world. It is an urban fantasy taking place in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dreamworlds

Rated:

Everyone

Genre:

Fantasy

Volume:

51 pages

Updated:

Oct. 5, 2019

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After a breakups and a series of bad starts, author Sumiko Saulson is trying to heal. So is Flynn Keahi, one of her fictional characters. Her life changes completely when Flynn abandons the paranormal romance she's cast him in, and demands that they both go to group therapy to fix their dysfunctional relationships. Once the two become intimately involved, Sumiko raises concerns their relationship it isn’t healthy. Flynn grows increasingly touchy about her assertion that he isn’t real. This is complicated further when Sumiko is flooded with requests from other imaginary personalities demanding to join in the conversation.
Mauskaveli

Rated:

Mature

Genre:

Fantasy

Volume:

22 pages

Updated:

Feb. 16, 2019

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Mauskaveli is a mini-comic/zine about a group of polyamorous, politically active mice. They center around a threesome, Mauskaveli and her two bisexual boyfriends, Rogue-9 and Petricio, or as they like to call themselves, Micki Menage. They are the happy rodent family. Life was all cuddle-puddles and love until the day Rogue-9 died. He returned from the dead as Count Slackula. Every since then. they've had adventures, defending the homeless, and fighting against Nazis and the Patriarchy while raising their supernatural child, Death Angel, a Mauzreaper, who can bring dead mice back from the dead so they can complete special missions, and their pet cat-batz, Dooky. http://sumikosaulson.tumblr.com/
Mauskaveli in Full Color

Rated:

Everyone

Genre:

Fantasy

Volume:

70 pages

Updated:

March 26, 2021

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Mauskaveli is a mini-comic/zine about a group of polyamorous, politically active mice. They center around a threesome, Mauskaveli and her two bisexual boyfriends, Rogue-9 and Petricio, or as they like to call themselves, Miki Menage. They are the happy rodent family. Life was all cuddle-puddles and love until the day Rogue-9 died. He returned from the dead as Count Slackula. Every since then. they've had adventures, defending the homeless, and fighting against Nazis and the Patriarchy while raising their supernatural child, Death Angel, a Mauzreaper, who can bring dead mice back from the dead so they can complete special missions, and their pet cat-batz, Dooky.
Tales of An Iconoclast

Rated:

Everyone

Genre:

Political

Volume:

30 pages

Updated:

Oct. 5, 2019

Popularity:

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A zine honoring Carolyn Saulson, a Bay Area African American and Disability Rights community activist who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer affecting African Americans at a rate twice that of the general population, on August 10, 2009. The zine features artwork, writing, collaging and photography by Carolyn, her daughter, award-winning horror author Sumiko Saulson, her granddaughter, beat poet Franchesca Saulson, and fellow disabled artists Kat Fury, Serena Toxicat, and Beth Johnson. It has facts and highlights about the rare blood cancer, about her fight against it, her life, her art, and her work with the communities she serves. Funde by the Ara Jo Memorial Fund 2018.