Old Ladies of the ID.

I've lived in the International District of Seattle for about a month now. Here are a few of my neighbors-



When I am an old woman, I will have blue hair with a leopard-print jacket and hang out in Starbucks with my laptop all day, like this lady.



This woman scared the hell out of me coming out of the bank. She's either Dracula's grandma, or a Star Trek villain.



Not sure if this lady is crazy or just WAY too fashion forward for me.

And it's Friday, so there's a new (old) comic up on the website.

Comic updates on the website!

Hey look, it's a comic! We haven't seen one of those in months.
I decided to start regular updates here again, there will be comics every Monday-Friday. Not new comics, but they might be new to you.

Recently I read this article on comics for kids, which refers to zines as "code for 'not available anywhere'", which got me thinking about how many zines and anthologies I've drawn comics for, where only like 100 copies were printed, most of which were given away to the contributors, and that was it. It's...a lot of pages.

There'll be comics from Caboose, Trees and Hills...other stuff that's been out of print so long I can't find a working website. Hope you enjoy!

Funny Aminals!

Happy Friday everyone! My big accomplishment of the week was turning in a submission to Funny Aminals 3, edited by Jeff Lok and Bryan Stone.

I highly recommend submitting work to this quality publication. I think it's going to debut at MoCCA? And they may have animal crackers.

And as a reminder that I am still taking commissions, here's another funny aminal. Recently I was asked for a sketch of "a robot made out of a pig and curling irons"-

-and this was the best I could come up with. Poor Pigbot. He stands as testament to the fact that I will draw all kinds of crazy nonsense for $5.

Diary Tunes 2011

Diary Tunes time again! Robyn Chapman organizes this mixed cd exchange every year, and this is the fifth time that I've been asked to participate.

This was a weird year. Moved across the county, new job, new place.I tried to find songs to go along with that.

Moving means I no longer have access to all the equipment in the CCS Production Lab, so my cd booklet isn't as fancy as it has been in previous years, but I made the best with what I had.

Coming Friday- Funny Aminals.

Razor Clams

It figures, immediately after announcing a new update schedule I forget about it and skip a day. But it was a holiday Monday, so I've decided that it doesn't count.

Over the holiday weekend, I went on a razor clam dig. It was cold and raining and the ocean was uncooperative, but it's still great fun. And when it's all over you get clam chowder!

Of course, it was all research for a comics project. Everything is research.

Found Objects

I am still without reliable internet access (hello coffee shops) and my efforts to PAY a company to provide me with internet service have only met with frustration. 

BUT I'M NOT GIVING UP YET! 

The plan right now is to try and update this blog every Monday and Friday, whether it means walking to the library and leaning out the window to try and steal wifi from a neighbor. This is happening.

On today's menu- things I discovered while unpacking! 

Does this count as my first zine? It was in a box of my pre-school artwork. Hey, I stayed inside the lines!

...yes..

These sketches are from last spring, while sitting around by myself waiting for a concert to start.

I'd completely forgotten about this whole thing until I found the sketchbook at the bottom of a box. Always check your tire pressure before starting out on a long trip! ...also, I need to invest in some color pens. My sketchbooks are pretty dull. 

ALIVE! and live from Seattle.

I am alive and well and living in the International District of Seattle. Six blocks from my work, one block from the Seattle Pinball Museum. There's an art supply store downstairs and a coffee shop about every ten feet. It's good to be home.



There's a few basics I still don't have sorted out yet. Regular internet access. A scanner. What happened to my favorite pencil case, (bummed about that one. So many brush pens lost!) but it's all slowly being sorted.



Regular content is on it's way!