Is the State Nonbinary

The main features of this Comic are

• Small and cute
• Hilarious
• So deep
• Intellectually groundbreaking

The goals of this crowdfunding are

• To have funds to print it.
• To distribute it to activists in need and others who don’t identify as such.
• To have the possibility to go to diverse climate camps and eco-social gatherings over the summer and distribute the physical copies of the comic around.
• To capitalize on this anticapitalist artwork in a socially acceptable way (donations) and expand and make more and more until I have a monopoly over all the comics in the world.
• To bring joy to the world.

First, I think it is important to share stories of activists, to make visible the struggles of being in the middle of direct actions and losing all hope facing the violence and repressive nature of the state. But I think there is too much at stake to give up on this tactic and I truly believe that direct actions can have a huge impact on different levels. This project aims to regain the hope that we lose so easily in our activist circles. But more than direct action, Is The State Noninary? adresses and emphasize the need for a diversity of tactics and strategies to bring forth change.

Second, more than the content of the comic, I believe that art is a crucial tool to vehicle ideas, experiences, and reflections. This project is inscribed into the efforts of the Degrowth movement to render theory accessible and to push for actions. Art is a way to bridge the gap between receiving information and taking action upon it. In this spirit, this comic aims to bridge this awareness/action gap, for visualization can overcome abstraction and render effects sensible through emotions.

Let’s start with experience cause that’s gonna go fast. It is very close to none. This is my first ever comic and the confidence that I could realize a project like this came mainly from delusion. This is not fully true because I have taken a class on how to write comics when I was 11 and i have doodle everywhere since. Still, quite a limited experience but hopefully, if you give me enough money maybe this can the start of something.

Team; To say that I have realized this project by myself would be a lie, I have created the story and drawn the whole shebang but I could not have made it without the following people.

First, my two thesis supervisors Carlo Sella and Lara Stammen have accompanied the whole creative process, both on an artistic and academic level.

Second, my father, Blaise Thiercelin has been involved in the digitalization, the edition and the setting up of this crowdfunding. Sometimes I think he is more dedicated to this project than me.

Finally, there are my peers from the Degrowth Master’s 5th edition, from which I have completely stolen their reflections and ideas to put it in this comic. They have been a source of inspiration but also of support from the beginning to the end and this project could not have happened without them. Thanks for the hivemind, hope we don’t lose this in the coming years.