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Winter 2022

New! Holly’s comics, zines and articles are online. Go to “Comics, Zines and Articles” page. Or hit: https://issuu.com/hollyenglish

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Support Holly to continue her artistic projects. Holly is an artist with a disability (See Graphic Novel page for info) and survives on a DSP with huge medical expenses. If you like Holly’s work, please donate and support her in getting the support she needs, to survive and continue creating.

A$20.00

You can find Holly on Instagram: byronbay_artist

(Swipe for details of comic).⭐️Now EVERYONE seems to be in a housing crisis & it is making mainstream news + in community, council & government discussions. ⭐️HOWEVER, the housing crisis started LONG ago, affecting people of lower-income, disability- be it mental or physical or both, single-parents (mainly women) & students. 🌊 I remember having to move back into mum’s after the car accident & how much flack & shaming I got FOR YEARS about living at mum’s. 🤨And it WAS NOT easy living with mum, but I had no choice. 🙃 5 years ago I ‘bit the bullet’ & got a mortgage (via mum) to build a granny flat out the back. 🤘🏽 It is still not ideal, but I have a roof over my head & get to stay in the community I’ve been a part of for 30 years, & feel supported & nourished by, which is SO IMPORTANT for single, child-free people with disability. 💗 Of course, everybody GETS IT now, & says how lucky I am to live at my mum’s. 😂How the tide has turned. ☄️It sucks how things have to get to a crisis point in society for the disadvantaged to have their needs met- or even just validated. 🤷‍♀️ You can’t “positive think” your way out of disadvantage. 😀SURE. A good attitude really helps, but as the poster girl of wellness, optimism & meditation, I can confidently say that if you think that people should just use mind-control, you can go & GET FUCKED.⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ Sunday’s at The Suffolk Park Community Garden 💜 Today!!! 🤘🏾⚡️⭐️❤️ Byron Bay 🌞 Sexy times at Lennox Head (a long time ago!!!) 💕Under the eclipsing full moon🌘🌗🌖🌕. After making love, we slept while the moon was shadowed, & woke up as it came out again from the eclipse🌑. It was strange, it was like…when the moon was shadowed, all went quiet, the ocean, the night critters…🌊 Some of you know- but most of you don't, that I have "the gift" (ha!) & am a tarot reader to the STARS ⭐️. Ok, just the local bigwig tarot readers. 👍I do Mexican Lotteria Tarot Counselling🪸, $25 for 30 min. I can do zoom (anywhere in world) or in person, in Byron. I am AMAZING😆🥰😘. Even if I am crap personally, I can still read. ❤️So, let me know if you or a dear one need support & guidance. It ain't flat out prediction (unless something comes "through"- ergh, sounds so flaky⚡️). Ive been through everything & also have done counselling courses, group therapy, therapy-therapy, & have a zen practice for 16 yrs now. It is fun, creative & collaborative. 😇 Sure! I can do vouchers. XX Holly 💕 DM me💗⭐️🙏 Doodles done while having an appointment at the bank, which was soooo boring. Swipe for cartoon details 💙💗 On my dad‘s 1967 Minolta film camera. Unedited, unfiltered.💜 🚙Car crash. From my graphic novel draft about chronic pain. 💫I had a serious MVA (motor vehicle accident) when I was 28. Someone overtook me on the highway at Tyagarah. They lost control, had a rear-wheel spin & hit my car, then I spun off the road into a tree. They were going SUPER FAST, so impact was hard. ANYWAY. ⚡️This was the beginning of the end of one life (partner, planning a family, full-time job in screen industry, surfing, being “popular” etc) & a new life of pain, disability, singledom, moving back in with mum etc. ❄️But also: new mindset, new friends, a zen practice, an arts practice, years of physical recovery & rehab. ⭐️I’ve come a LONG WAY since then. I am so much clearer than I was in my 20’s. I had to learn SO MUCH about myself & my trauma during my 30’s. 💗But since I was so crippled, I was forced to SIT THERE & DEAL WITH IT. Life works in mysterious ways. 🌸PS the second page is before this one, but this one looks better, so I put it first. XX 💛Tattoo ritual ceremonial celebration of my dog Poppy.🐶 I miss her so much… I can’t believe how much it hurts💔. She was my partner, my child, my best friend. I feel like my heart is being ripped out & I’m drowning 🌊👹. I’m distracting myself a lot⚡️. I’m deep in the grieving process & doing grief meditations every day, as well as watching lots of Mad Men (TV), funny old movies I love like Kenny & Napoleon dynamite…Gardening, breathing, noticing, paying attention. Taking drugs. Ringing friends… sobbing, laughing, crying. 🙃 Hanging out with dear ones💙💜 a lot, doing fun stuff, playing games, dancing- in the street that is. Doing one creative thing a day. Keeping the house tidy. Keeping myself fed. Making sure I get some physical bodywork, walking & touch. Despair. Ok. Hope. Collapse. Pain. 🐚🍂🌘I’m wearing a mask: the last thing I want is Covid or the flu. I’m all about wearing masks👍. This was a good birthday party. People went ‘next level’ singing along. 💗 We had an “endless love” cake, we all cut it with our hands on top of each other 😂 in a crazy tight circle. @vmlcc took some great photos that night ⚡️🌈