Engineering Degree From the School of Supercrip

          Shout out to all the Crips who are making their best ways happen in an inaccessible world.

International Woman of Mystery. . .

Hello Friends!
As some may have figured out am not exactly the best at posting on a regular basis.  It has been more than a couple of months, to say the least, since the last time I have found the right combination of motivation and creativity/necessity to create new SuperCrip comic.  Without any kind of notice, in the last month or two, Supercrip has become somewhat of a Danish star, calling her name from across the great pond.  I was contacted by the Storm P Museum in Copenhagen asking if they could include a super Crip comic in their exhibition about satire and humor in relation to crossing borders.  It was and is super exciting to be asked to be included. OF COURSE, I said yes!
Security, Security Grab That Girl! is now officially being shown at the Museum from now until September.  That is 4 months on a Danish wall YA'LL!

In other great news, I was also asked to contribute a comic to REACH of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex quarterly newsletter.  Here is the first comic that will appear in the spring issue of the REACH newsletter!

Supercrip comic: Resources for Independent Hairstyling, REACH Special Issue spring 2016.  Created by Charlie tree Hughes. Girl in a wheelchair with long hair looking outwards towards the reader.  Through the comic she describes a 5 step process of putting your hair up with a vacuum cleaner nozzle.

Let's Play "The Question Game"!

 Hi Everyone!

Thanks for reading my newest comic.  It's been a while since I've had some freedom in time to create this  story.  If your wondering what song I am  referring to in the panels, 1: your a lucky person you have not been exposed, and 2: it's Miley Cyrus "wrecking ball" on the radio.  This comic is also an example why I try to be as an understanding person as possible, because when I start talking crap, I end up the fool.  None of us are perfect...this supercrip sure isn't.  

This is officially the 31st comic.  It's kind of shocking to the senses how many I've done.  Thanks for all ya'll support!!!!!!!!

-Charlie Tree

The Funky Chicken? Hokie-pokie?

[image:  The title reads "SuperCrip Presents: BRAIN WAVES AB VS SC Issue one, 2014.  The picture of split in half.  On the left side a man sitting at a table , with a giant squirrel waiter, receives a text message.  Text reads, "Move your right foot. from your brain. On the right side a girl who is in a wheelchair recieves a scroll message from a human messenger, traveling by horse.  The messenger says to the girl, "A message for you from Madam Brain The scroll reads, "Move your right foot."]

Hello there!  Happy New Year! and thank goodness that's all over with.  I don't know about you, but I always feel the relief from seasonal [dis]stress when January finally gets here.  Hooray!

I was inspired to draw/paint this issue of SuperCrip from the desire to explain to people, share with people how my body works.   I always find it easier to explain myself through pictures, so this particular analogy came into vision.  As the picture implies, I do not always receive messages from my brain that fast, although I have had time to look for some shortcuts.  Some circuits work sometimes, and some stop working, some never even had the chance.  Sometimes, when I'm trying to move my foot higher than I can without thinking about it, I imaging myself a puppet with strings, pulling the string, focusing on the string in my mind. (That could have made another good image!)

Don't forget to find more of my work on Instagram: Charlietreehouse !

Disability Reality Television

Hellooooooo There Everyone. 

Seems I was missing for a few months on here: but truth be told, I became addicted to instagram.  (follow me @charlietreehouse) 

This month's comic was inspired by the different realities of people living with and without disabilities,  (ab=able bodied.) in changing rooms.  I don't know about you, but trying on clothes is something I almost dread, depending on how much physical assistance I am having.  Trying on, getting dressed over and over is physically exhausting, so I rarely partake.  Once I get dressed it's pretty much over for me for the whole day, I'm wearing the outfit.  (of course that is not to say that I never change, something may be impossible to live with for any numerous amount of reasons) It seems to me, from observations of AB people my entire life, and in the culture of bodily perfection I've become witness, that many AB people change there outfits multiple times per day.  Sometimes I think of the amount of time and effort it would take me personally to change clothes the same amount of times the average, and then shake my head, "no way".   

Security! Security! Grab that girl!

[Image: Colorful picture of a girl in a wheelchair being pushed through airport security with other passengers waiting in line behind all staring at the girl being pushed.  Security officer asks, "Can she walk through the body scanner". ]

Ok, so I've been on a short hiatus, well one month, sorry about that.  It's been a crazy adventure and I was able to travel from Texas to Atlanta to present SuperCripComic at the Critical Juncture Conference at Emory University.  It was awesome getting to share my comic with new people, and meet some readers.

If you can't tell, I was inspired by my trip in this Issue of SuperCrip.  Airports are certainly not the friendliest or most accessible places for people with disability, with some airports better than others *cough* (Atlanta)

It is not the question the security officer asks, but rather who he asks the question too.  Some people who use wheelchairs maybe able to take a few steps "through the scanner", but they can also most likely find appreciation of being addresses like a normal person.  This erasure of individual happens in conjunction of being the "spectacle" in the line, that no one can take there eyes off.

FOOOTBALLLLL!