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Jane Mai is a Pratt Institute graduate living in Brooklyn, NY. She creates her own comics, zines, and t-shirts as a freelance illustrator. Her work is often humorous, in a cynical and sarcastic kind of way, made more so by the childlike and simple style of her drawings. Jane Mai's comics are journalistic and personal, depicting scenes from her own life which read like diary entries. She also runs an 'advice blog' on tumblr, where people ask questions about anything and she gives hypothetical and often humorous advice.
I like Jane Mai's work because she has effectively taken her life and turned it into art. Her work is about her life, in a very direct way. She's painfully honest, at times addressing subjects that could be considered 'taboo' by society at large, without any apologies. She confronts issues of sex and gender as they appear in her life. When I look at her work, and see her doing something so honest and seeing people respond to that I find it comforting. Perhaps I could be that honest with my work one day.
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