Or maybe I'm just afraid of the future?

Hey! I drew this during some downtime at work a few weeks ago, then didn't post it because I was afraid of getting comments. Then I remembered that I almost never get comments so...there ya go. Really, I'm just afraid of everything all the time.

New Paintings

There are so many new watercolors up in the store. You have no idea.

Short Run 2012

Hey! Short Run was last weekend. I can't remember why I stopped doing post-convention write ups...Probably because I tend to be complainy. But no major complaints here!

It was a really good show, sold a lot of books, had a lovely tablemate, saw a lot of friends and reminded them that I totally live here now, and made it through the weekend without breaking anything.

Minor complaints? It's had to get round and see other exhibitors with a one-day show, and things were a little tight behind the table. I maybe have touched Theo Ellsworth's butt. I promise it was an accident.

Hey look, sketches!

 

Oh yeah, and no one seemed to know where the after party was. But that's okay, I did have a lot of awesome comics and zines to read. Next year, wanna meet up for milkshakes at Dicks in Queen Anne? It's closer.

Sunday after the show I headed to the Olympics with fellow CCSer and Only Skin cartoonist Sean Ford. It was beautiful gray, foggy and very Western Washington.

Let's all do it again next year!

Short Run this Saturday!

Hey! I'll be at the Short Run festival on Saturday. You should come because it's free, and I'll have a new mini that I'll be staying up all night to put together due to a lack of time management skills.

So far it just looks like this. 

Find me at table 17 with Amber Nelson, who totally just got a shout out in The Stanger as one of "the funnest names in zines and literary events right now". It's true!

You might start to see me here more often

Comic Tools- Circle Cutter!

Think I've mentioned this before, but I live near a little Japanese imports dollar store (Diaso!) that often has random art and mini comics making supplies- cheap brush and sketch pens, sumi ink and brushes, etc. AND I've wanted a circle cutter for a while now, for fancier mini comics covers, but thanks to the scrapbookers have never been able to find one under $30. THEN I saw this little beauty at Diaso-

Ha! Cutting holes in holes in things is too much fun. I plan to have a new mini ready for Short Run in a few weeks, and you can bet I'm gonna find a way to use this on the cover!

Halloween Mix

There's this thing I've come to call creative procrastination, where there's a project I really need to work on, but I don't feel like it for whatever reason (my brushes aren't behaving, I've come to hate the main character, lost my lettering guide again, etc.) so instead I invent some new and unimportant project that NEEDS to be done first.

This week, it was making a Halloween Mixed CD.

The self-imposed rule: songs had to already be in my iTunes library (no downloading new music or ripping things from other cds. Ended up with about 30 songs that vaguely fit the theme, narrowed it down to 20:

 

So...that was fun! Now, back to work.