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GhostShark Press

@ghostsharkpress / ghostsharkpress.tumblr.com

A small team of two makin' books! We are @ghostiestart and @melonsharks

Hey! The past few weeks have been so busy for us that we forgot to announce the fact that our digital books have long since been released! You can still pick up a digital copy of Transcartoonology even now. Our physical books are still currently in production, and we thank you very much for your patience!

Before pride month ends, I wanted to share my contribution to @ghostsharkpress 's newest zine, Transcartoonology! My comic was about the experience of passing that all trans people brush shoulders with at some point in their lives, and how that affects our actions and day to day lives. Thanks so much to Ghost and Shark and all the amazing artists for helping this project get made!! can't wait for you all to see it <3

💫To Be A Man💫

Thrilled I get to post my part of @ghostsharkpress ‘s transology zine before pride month ends. Our prompt was to recontextualize a formative childhood cartoon through the lense of transness/gncness.

These are thoughts I’ve had spilling around in my head for a while and seeing how important Treasure Planet was for me as a kid I thought it would be perfect. I always struggled with the fact I don’t really have any older male guide or figure to learn myself from so as a kid I tried to mimic the masculinity of shows or my peers. Growing older and wanting to step out of boyhood has really been a journey of self discovery and self worth and I’m really proud of the person I’m becoming.

I joined the zine "Transcartoonology" by @ghostsharkpress this year aaand in March i finished this two page comic! The task was to pick a cartoon from your childhood and review it through the gender lense, so i took my favourite two Digimon Adventure characters and made this. This show aired when i was a kid and i still remember the feeling it gave me, so it was very fun to revisit and make my own versions of the designs. :> Also Gatomon is my alltime fave and i still have her plushie. I mean!! they got to be angels!! ofc i liked them. :D

Hey hey! I just learned about this project and would love to get a physical copy, but it seems that I can’t do that on the website? How would i go about buying a copy? Or am I too late?

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Hey there! Physical copies will be available again after we’ve shipped our current preorders out! Our books are still currently in production, but they should be arriving in the next few weeks!

Hello folks!

While we’ve almost completely wrapped up on PDF prep, our designer, Shark, is still finishing college and has been trapped in finals. We need to take a brief delay in the digital release to make sure they can take care of themself! It shouldn’t be even a week, but we wanted to make it known!

Thank you for your patience.

Preorders are now CLOSED! Thank you so much again for passing our stretch goal and supporting our first book hosted on our small press’s website.

Orders should ship out in the summer around June and limited overstock will go up as soon as they’re all shipped! 🏳️‍⚧️

Thrilled to announce that we’ve hit our stretch goal! Every order (book or not) will now include one of these beautiful art postcard prints by @trisiray

Late post tonight, but there are only 3 days left to preorder our book!

We've almost made it to the stretch goal and we would absolutely love to include a print with every order, so don't wait!