Writhe and Shine makes fun of the alternative underground scene from the inside and shows us that no matter how much black we wear or how moody we seem, we can still laugh at ourselves. Running off and on since 1998, it has been compared to The Addams Family and Cheers. The series follows a group of friends that work at and run The Bastille, the only Goth club in the historic and iconic city of New Orleans. It shows the difficulties of being a DJ, a doorman, a bartender, and an owner in a scene filled with the peculiar and the particular. Writhe and Shine is fueled with coffee, cloves, scene politics, overbearing ex-girlfriends, and beignets.
Looks like this particular strip is from 2011 and the artist/writer eventually shifted to other work, though the comic strip archive is still online.
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Seems the artist went on to do hand-drawn illustrations (i.e. without computers) of crows and skulls, framing them with vintage frames. Check out this badass cat skull he did:
Cool shit, thanks for sharing this.
![Writhe and Shine - Just Can't Win [cartoon]](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/65fa5c9d-c65c-4c53-9f5e-6f4065dfb013.jpeg){kind=link}