Wow, this cartoon really hit me in the heart.
Intellectually, I reject the white-thin-young-cis-etc-etc beauty standards and I do see the human beauty that exists outside those restrictions. In my teens and twenties I remember judging the women who paid for surgery to create an artifice of youth. "I'll embrace my age!" I thought smugly. "I'm so much more enlightened than these sel...
2023-12-24 22:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the firs...
2023-12-23 22:36:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the mental hospital program. This is my third draft, you can read the fir... 2023-12-22 02:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was:
#9: When no o...
2023-12-20 05:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember that time I decided to make a simple six panel comic explaining how to replace your boot zipper and then I was like "Let's make this take one million times longer by illustrating it with collage'd paper and fabric"? There's no need to remember it like it's in the past because, baby, IT'S STILL HAPPENING. With the art for the first panel done, it's time to tackle Panel Two!
He...
2023-12-16 06:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember how I replaced the zipper on my boots? It was surprisingly easy and I wanted to show other people how to do it, too! The only way I know how to share information is to put it in comic form, so I made a mock-up with photos from my earlier documentation:
And then I was like "Uhg, this is w...
2023-12-13 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"What ever happened to that sci-fi Twinkies parody comic Erika was making with David Levine?" I can tell you're asking yourself- and I have good news! IT'S DONE.
After the pencils I shared with you all in the last update, I went on to the inks:
Then it was time for Matt t...
2023-12-12 06:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
What did I get up to in November? I'm so glad you asked!
You thought it was done, but it ain't! I'm creating brand new pages to pad out t...
2023-12-08 00:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In addition to his incredible behind-the-scenes support of Oh Joy Sex Toy, author David D. Levine has just released his newest book this month- The Kuiper Belt Job. To celebrate, we are collaborating on a parody comic of the classic Hostess Twin...
2023-11-29 20:32:54 +0000 UTC View Post
My favorite shorts have a hole in the left butt cheek zone, BUT-
-I have leftover shiny gold fabric from a previous project, THEREFORE-
2023-11-19 00:48:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
This third draft is hopefully the final revision* of the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp, which will be the sample pages I send to potential publishers. The very first version can...
2023-11-16 23:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Some years ago I bought some cheap boots on sale at my grocery store. They were either $40 or $20, I can't remember. They served me well but they were not made to last, so inevitably the interiors began disintegrating- which was fine, I could still wear them! Nobody but me knew that the insides looked like a literal rat's nest. But then each boot zipper's teeth grew progressively more mangled until they were finally unusable.
2023-11-12 04:49:56 +0000 UTC
View Post
My excitement at successfully registering for one of Repair PDX's very popular and very difficult-to-get-a-spot-in Kintsugi repair classes was short-lived when the directions instructed me to bring in a broken ceramic to work on and I realized that, for on...
Today (Sunday, 11/5) only, Amazon* is having a massive bonkers sale on our sex and relationship ebook for teens- $1.99 for an ebook that normally costs $17.99.
*For Amazon alternatives, check this handy link of other book shops. Unfortunately, they are not having massive sales on our books right now, sorry :(
If you've already bought or read LT...
2023-11-06 03:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Collages! Road trips! Seed bombs! Unearthing 20-year-old comics! Building a shipping station! Crying on a podcast! Fixing my husband’s ratty old jumper! Yup, October had a lot going on. Here's a recap of all the shit I shared on Patreon, plus a few extra places as well.
Matt and I were approached by an client who needed some vulva illustrations for a program they're developing around sexual issues that breast cancer survivors encounter. They'd seen my vulva drawings in Emily Nagoski PhD.'s Come As You Are (affiliate link) and requested more in my cartoony-but-accurate style.
They specified they wanted a hand pulling back one of the labia minoras (labia
One million years ago (20), my gaggle of fellow teenage girl cartoonists put together a black and white zine of short stories to sell at a comic convention. The theme was fairy tales and I adapted a short poem I found in a book collecting the old weird stuff (You know, the kind of folk stories Disney would sanitize before turning into an animated classic safe for '90s families).
Cover...
2023-11-01 06:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Recap For The Newbs: I am revising a chapter from Letters From Space Camp so my agent can send it as a sample to potential publishers to help them realize how much they want to pay me more than their competitors to have the honor of publishing my finished book which will obviously make them back tons of money and we can all retire early (lolsob). In this post I will explain some of the d...
2023-10-28 07:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and I made a shipping station!
Back in the day, I used to fulfill all my orders myself- starting with my hand-folded and stapled black and white minicomics and then moving on up to the squarebound Real Books Matt and I started producing. Then our tiny self-publishing operation took off enough that we signed on with bigger companies to take over those distribution and delivery roles. (Thanks...
2023-10-27 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
🎵 Hello, daddy, hello, mom
🎵 I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry NATIVE WEST COAST WILDFLOWER SEED MIX bomb
🎵 Hello world I'm your wild girl
🎵 I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry NATIVE WEST COAST WILDFLOWER SEED MIX bomb
Yup, you guessed it: I took a class on making Native West Coast Wildflower Seed Mix bombs!
Thi...
2023-10-25 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I chucked flower seeds into the neglected patches of my garden.
People gift me flower seeds because they know I like gardening and I mean it when I tell them I'm so excited to plant them but then they (the seeds, not my friends) go in my drawer for gardening tools and ephemera for "later" and later never comes because they're FLOWER SEEDS and, for some inexplicable reason in my brain, FLOWERS need to be treated "RIGHT". Flowers are not hardy like vegetables! Those fuckers...
2023-10-22 00:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I tricked my friend Clare into flying across the country (from Maryland!) to go on a week-long road trip with me even though I am For Reals A Bad Driver!
She won't be making that mistake again any time soon!
On October 10th we departed from Portland to Eugene to the Terwilliger Cougar Hot Sp...
2023-10-20 06:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post
What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was:
2023-10-09 21:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, if I were listing my projects chronologically, then this one would have to go at the bottom of the post because it’s the last thing I made in September. But. It’s my favorite thing I made that month and I am the Queen of this Newsletter Domain, so who’s gunna stop me from showing you this first:
What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was:
#7: The time of day I fee...
2023-10-05 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I made something a little bit ridiculous.
Just a teensy weensy bit!
As so many things in life do, this tiny tale began on Instagram when I discovered The Ultra Tiny Little Free Library....
2023-09-28 00:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I keep myself busy! Collaging, comicking, obsessively diagraming- Here’s the bullshit I made in August:
What She Knows is an art practice/experiment that my friend, Lucy Bellwood, is developing, which pro...
2023-09-22 20:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was:
My mundane superpower is...
<... 2023-09-22 07:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the thing: writing a memoir is different from reporting an accurate timeline of events like you would for a police report.
Yes, a memoir or autobiography is about someone's unique, real life that actually happened... and it's also a story. Stories have guidelines that help keep the reader interested and understanding of what's happening, let alone entertained. Real life doesn't always unfold with a linear story structure, so when you're translating your experiences into ...
2023-09-18 07:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was:
I am nourished by...
I am ...
2023-09-15 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post