Communities of Practice (Comic #803)
Posted on November 13, 2025 by liz

I’m really feeling the beauty of the various communities I get to be a part of right now. What a gift it is to get to be part of things with people.

This comic is inspired by the Communities of practice blog post I created this weekend. I’m quite pleased with how it came out.

 

Thanks to all my patrons and a special big extra thanks to Kate Webb, Erik Owomoyela, Stuart Barrow, Jesse the K, Brian Fies and Jay Hedtke.

 

Good things,

Liz

Communities of Practice, cartoon transcript

If you want to do a thing.

Thing 1 looks sadly at a battered yellow hat.

 

Find the generous teachers, and more importantly the people also drawn to learning.

 

Thing 1 and 2 (wearing hats) look up a t a tall entity wearing a somewhat crown-ish hat)

Paper hat expert: In my travles I’ve explored many paper hat making cultures.

 

Communities of practice can become more than the craft.

Thing 1: I struggle with crisp folds.

Thing 2: Me too! I’ve been using a ruler, but I’m going to buy a bone folder.

Thing 1: Ooooh! What brand?

 

They can be a way to find people just as weird as you are.

Multiple folks wearing different hats, some more silly than others, smiling at each other.

Communities of dreaming – love letters to Star Trek

Posted on October 25, 2016 by liz
If you would like more Things in your diet please head over to Uncanny Magazine and check out Things React to Star Trek where we look at love as a tool we use to shape ourselves, and shape our communities.  Thanks to Mary Anne Mohanraj and Una McCormack for being the muses on this one (go read their essays), and thanks as always to Uncanny Magazine and all the Uncanny backers for creating this space for the Things to come, play and be inspired by the great fiction, non-fiction, poetry and interviews. http://uncannymagazine.com/liz-argalls-things-react-star-trek/

Uncanny Things

Posted on April 28, 2016 by liz
Did you know that if you look at the webcomics tag over at Uncanny Magazine, you can look at all the comics we’ve drawn for them thus far! Half way through! Thanks again to all the Uncanny backers that made these special extra Things possible. http://uncannymagazine.com/category/webcomic/ Bunson I’m working on the comic for Issue 10 right now! The cover is a gorgeous one by Galen Dara, click through to check it out in all its beauty (you can even buy a copy of the poster at Uncanny’s zazzle store!) uncanny

472b: Special Announcement, update new schedule plus hats

Posted on January 11, 2016 by liz
Dear Friends of the Things, Our three times a week schedule has suffered over the last few months (stupid real life!). We’re getting back into it, but the struggle to earn a living wage (through job search or freelance) is time and energy consuming. We’re going to a once a week update schedule. Fresh Things every Monday is a can hold ourselves to. Thank you for your support, knowing there are folks out there reading us, wanting the next comic, keeps us going. Much Love The Things

Things Comic over at Uncanny Magazine!

Posted on December 8, 2015 by liz
The fab editors at Uncanny put it best:

Space Unicorns! As you may remember, one of the stretch goals for the Uncanny Magazine Year Two Kickstarter was a new webcomic feature. Each issue, the multi-talented Liz Argall will have a special Uncanny edition of her webcomic Things Without Arms and Without Legs where they react to a story in the current issue of Uncanny Magazine.

This month, they’re reacting to Yoon Ha Lee’s Uncanny Magazine Issue 8 story, “Interlingua.”

http://uncannymagazine.com/liz-argalls-things-react-interlingua/