Author: Comicatrix
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – Fucking smartphones](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_9.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – Fucking smartphones
Many of my early Jenspirations were about work-life balance being completely messed up. Smart phones really didn’t help matters :/
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – The return of the Top Shelf](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_8.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – The return of the Top Shelf
This one very much goes with the previous comic. I genuinely can’t remember what art was published in this Bizarre?
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – The Struggles of being Top Shelf](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_7.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – The Struggles of being Top Shelf
Yes that happened. I had to ask for help to reach the magazine my stuff was in. If I remember correctly (this was way back in like 2010 so have mercy), my art was published in Bizarre as part of their Steampunk special with Clockwork Watch. I could be wrong though? Maybe I had some
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – A very traditional English pub](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_6-795x1024.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – A very traditional English pub
Ah Bristol Expo (RIP) What a time! I think this was first comic con where I had my own table? Or I may still have been sharing with Corey and Yoms. I’m not entirely sure? But we were collabing on the Steampunk transmedia project Clockwork Watch where I was doing the comic art. I was
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – Uni guest lecturer: Paul Gravett](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_5.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – Uni guest lecturer: Paul Gravett
So I think this was technically even before 2010, this might’ve been in like 2008? I was still at university, doing a degree in illustration (there was no comic book focused degree close to me back then). Wild to think about how long ago that was – yikes. We’d have guest lecturers come in now
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – The Passionate Artist](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_4.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – The Passionate Artist
Wow, uh. So this is another very old Jenspiration from probably around 2012? I would regularly get into deep focus and literally just… not wash. Which I probably saw as like a version of “wow so into my art I don’t take time to shower. I’m SO REAL” – Instead of the combination of undiagnosed
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – How I was scarred for life as a girl (nr2)](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_3.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – How I was scarred for life as a girl (nr2)
Think this was back when I was around 16-17? Swedish parents, man.
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – How I was scarred for life as a girl (nr1)](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_2-1.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – How I was scarred for life as a girl (nr1)
Look, I’m not saying that you can tell that they’re my family and relatives, but… Whenever I asked questions as a kid, I would get proper answers back. My aunties especially didn’t sugarcoat stuff – bless them 😀 Ah, the miracle of childbirth… As a vagina splitting watermelon.
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![From the Archive [2010-2018] – Awkward Gyno](https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jenspiration_Archive_1.jpg)
From the Archive [2010-2018] – Awkward Gyno
Alright! It’s time to go through my old diary comics from back in the day and re-post some of them! I’ll add some Present Day Jen Thoughts on them if I have any! Not sure why this happens to to be the first of my selected comics from the old dusty archives, but here we
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*slithers around in the gutter*
Look at us… Making our own wordpress blog. Our own little space on the internet. What if this works? What if we can start going *nuts* with it? (I’m sorry this is just a test post to see if I can get my free blog up XD)
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