I've had this binder since May. It's where I put all of the character sketches, snippets of story, and research I've prepared for the book that's been simmering in my head for two years. The book doesn't have a name yet, so for the last year it's just been referred to as "The Book."
Now that all of the bookplates from last year's Kickstarter are finally done (shipping out t...
2018-10-01 05:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Y'all, our new webcomic, BOO! It's Sex debuts on LINE Webtoon TODAY and you can read it right here!!
If you're a patron (this post is public!), you may remember 2018-06-28 04:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Guys, I got the dummies for the exteriors of the books, and they. are. perfect.
When I photoshopped the mockup for these last year (backwards, woops!), I was worried that the mockup would look better than the end product. No sir, no ma'am. The end product BLOWS THE MOCKUP AWAY.
If you're someone who preordered the books on Kickstarter (before you ask: YES, they'll be available to order online this summer if you missed it!), you'll be receiving an update and your survey questions pr...
2018-02-15 22:55:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had to skip figure drawing for the last couple of weeks, but I'll be making it up in spades now that I'm back at The Animation Workshop in Denmark! I'm making this post public for everyone; this is the stuff that I share with the $5+ patrons. :)
Because this place is full of animation students (I'm in the neighboring building, teaching the Graphic Storytelling badasses), their twice-weekly figure drawing sessions are FAST ...
2018-01-10 19:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2018, guys!! I'm pushing to finish the last few bonus strips for the GWS books before I leave for Denmark on Friday; I just finished coloring this one. Fresh off the coloring presses for ya.
If you wanna read it in context, you'll want to start here at #1542 - the bonus strip happens right after Jamie tells Fiona that her boobs are so magical she has to cover them up if she wants to sco...
2018-01-02 05:29:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hoo boy, it has been a long week for creators who use Patreon, but it has probably felt like a decade to the people who work at Patreon. They fucked up hard, and they paid for it in backlash. To their credit, they spent the last week making a LOT of phonecalls to their angriest creators.
I don't want to put too much time into this post, but I just wanted to confirm, from my end, that both Jack (co-CEO) and Heather (creator care rep) spent a lot of time either on the phone with or fielding emai...
2017-12-13 20:09:36 +0000 UTC View PostI don't mean to be cryptic - and most of you already know what this is about, so hopefully it doesn't come off that way - but I would greatly appreciate it everyone would sign up for my mailing list, assuming you're not already on it.
You can sign up for my mailing list here. (It looks like my bedroom in there because I have no idea ho...
2017-12-07 18:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, pals! I'll be sharing the bonus strips for the big hardcover GWS compilation all December long for $3+ backers. I'll make this first one a public post so you all can see it. :)
While re-reading the first book, I realized that Jameson and Maureen never really resolved their vegetarianism-versus-carnivorism issues...
2017-12-02 20:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I started hosting a private Art Night event at my house on Friday nights this year, and it's done wonders for my a) social life and b) happiness, which c) might be the same thing. I've learned in the last few years that I'm not made up of 100% introvert, and that a lot of my depression through my thirties has stemmed from a lack of human beings in my life (no offense to my cats).
Speaking of cats and humans, I spent last night's Art Night practicing drawing cartoon cats (there are so man...
2017-11-18 20:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post
As much as I love Inktober, it's always hard for me to keep up halfway through the month, because I'm usually putting all my spare time into my Halloween costume. I only got to #15 this time around, but it was a fun excuse to practice drawing Ellie and Pip!
Here are the photos I used for reference on some of the Inktober/Catober art. I don't do Ellie justice - she's a gorgeous cat - but don't be fooled; that scowl I draw her wearing is 100% accurate. She's my grumpy beauty.
I'll pu...
2017-11-01 18:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Forgive me, o patrons, if you've already seen this EVERYWHERE ELSE (I know a lot of you are probably following me on all other forms of social media), but just in case you HAVEN'T seen this: FIVE HOURS LEFT FIVE HOOOOUUURRRS LEFFFFFFT!!!
The Complete GWS Kickstarter ends at 5:00 pm EST today, so if you want these books, get on it!!
Someone recently made this post in the GWS comment section (yes, there's a comment section, and yes, believe it or not, it's generally civil!):
So are these books just not profitable at all? You're not the first web cartoonist (e.g.) I've seen say "I've had a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that exceeded all expectations and still didn't bring in enough capital to finance ... 2017-10-13 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, friends and loyal patrons!! If you're on the GWS mailing list, you may have just received a big excited heads-up about the Kickstarter we're launching next week for the final, much-anticipated Complete Girls With Slingshots collection!!
I'll make a bigger announcement (and a direct link) once the page launches, to remind you! IT I...
2017-09-15 17:14:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, friends! As you may already know, the final, complete collection of GWS - in two giant books - is under way and scheduled to be available by the end of this year.
What you may NOT know is that I'm creating a few new strips to slip in here and there throughout the old strips!
I'm re-reading all 2,008 original strips now, making note of clarity &continuity changes that need to be made, and also noting where I could add an extra strip or twelve.
This is where I'd love y...
2017-06-07 17:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Soooooo... some things changed from early Hazelnuts to later Hazelnuts and GWS! In this old strip I did in 1998, Hazel has a father figure of some sort... and I think those are the prototypes for Jamie and Reese in panel one.
(I'll have to share some art from college when we get to the end of this series; I drew Hazel and Jamie into a few college art projects, and they were VERY different back then as well!)
This strip was definitely based in reality; I used to race people on the h...
2017-06-04 19:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends! Our regular figure drawing class was canceled last-minute last night, but on Tuesday, Michael and I tried something new (well, new for me): we hired a model for JUST a portrait session. I decided to bring my watercolors for the night and show y'all how I use them.
I should note that I am NOT trained in watercolor! Some of you following me here probably know how to use this medium better ...
2017-04-13 23:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This was actually from last week - my last night of intense FAST figure drawing! The organizer had us do 10-second gestures that I thought would be impossible, but inevitably just warmed me up for the 30-second poses.
This model was SO GOOD (big surprise there!) - he kept making his head and face part of the pose, which is something a lot of models forget to include, but can make or break a good session! In addition to that, his poses were always super dynamic; he'd get into a dynamic pose, an...
2017-03-29 21:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The drawing sessions here at the Drawing Academy in Viborg have the fastest poses I've ever been challenged to draw! We start out with a TON of 30-second poses, move on to 1-minute poses, 2 minutes, maybe 3, and then break and start over with 30 seconds again.
At the end we'll do a 5 minute, which is always what I want in the beginning, but by the time we get to it I'm so revved up I just want to keep going fast!
So here's most of my drawings from tonight, all done with black color...
2017-03-21 22:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! I'm still teaching here in Viborg, Denmark and I have been EXHAUSTED all week! Despite that, I've taken every single opportunity to socialize with the other teachers and the absurdly talented, friendly, karaoke-crazed students that has been extended to me thus far.
Last night there was a class dinner downstairs, where a few of the students prepared BEAUTIFUL open sandwiches, a traditional Danish meal. I left my phone in my room since I don't have a data plan anyway, but I wish...
2017-03-18 22:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! Just a quick post (apologies to those who follow me on Twitter and Instagram and have already seen this): here's the curriculum for next week's class! Anybody in the $20+ Education Level will get the light version of these lessons (by "light" I mean I won't be lecturing you for 6 hours ;):
Lesson 1: The anatomy of the traditional comic strip; an introduction humor writing and pacing. Considering your audience and format.
Lesson 2...
2017-03-10 18:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It's stupid, but it works.
If you're not a patron and you'd like to keep seeing these, pick a level and sign up! If I can reach my goal amount, I can put out more of these for you. :)
2017-03-01 07:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
And to think, these days I tell y'all about my period at least once out of every four #TMITuesday.
You may see more of these little autobio comics from now on! I'll make some strips (like this one) public, but if you're a patron in any tier ($1/month or more), you'll see all of them.
The more exciting reason I've started doing these (and forgive for repeating myself to some of you) is that I finally, finally have a new project I want to work on. But it's going to take at least two ...
2017-02-21 04:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welp, that's really it! I'm ready to make comics again, this time without ads. I've thought it over for months, and I think Patreon is the best way to do it.
If you're already a patron, you'll see every non-fiction comic I make, assuming there are enough pledges that I can reach my goal. If the goal can't be reached I'll probably find another way to pay my bills while I work on my next project, but this is the most fun option, and gives me an excuse to draw monthly comics for you. :)
If ...
2017-02-14 06:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, for maybe (?) the first time ever, I successfully accomplished an entire Hourly Comics Day! In the past I recall starting two or three panels, and then just having to drop the whole thing.
And now I remember why: it's time consuming! You spend 30-40 minutes doing stuff to write about, and then the other nearly-half of an hour recording it on paper.
So I didn't get much in the way of everyday work done yesterday, but here's a collection of the little comics I ma...
2017-02-02 17:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
WHOOOO BOY this one took WAY longer than I intended it to! But the person who commisioned it has been waiting FOREVER for this, so I was happy to put in the extra effort. Plus, I was basically experimenting while I went, so it doubled as practice. :)
One of those experiments was THE PAPER, which as you may notice from the photos WARPED LIKE MAD so I will stop using it for commissions! It's from a pad of Canson XL Watercolor Paper, which is fun for quick sketches and figure drawing, but uhh NOT...
2017-02-01 07:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like I was the only person I know within a 2-hour drive of Washington who wasn't down in DC for the Women's March this past weekend. Which makes me really proud, actually, because it made me realize that I know a LOT of really really great people. :)
Instead, I stayed home and did paintings of protesters for anyone who donated $150+ to Planned Parenthood, which I picked due to our president's urgency in dismantling the Affordable Care Act. It just seemed like the most appropriate organi...
2017-01-23 06:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Brand-New Year!! Here's the first installment of Ramblers, the kinda-terrible strip I did in college for publication in our student newspaper, The Picket .
I'm allowed to say "kinda-terrible" because you can't even really tell that's a lowrider. I was still learning how to draw a lot of different things back then (and I'll be learning how to draw cars for the rest of my life).
I do enjoy the turtle detail.
Ram...
2017-01-02 01:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaahhh, and we don't even get to find out how Goat Boy saved everyone, because this was the LAST STRIP!
I actually couldn't remember whether I'd had a chance to wrap up the strip, or if I'd left it hanging, but I guess the WWN ended pretty abruptly.
Thanks for hanging around reading these with me for the last three months!! I hope you enjoyed Bat Boy. :) I'll announce the next $3 reward when I'm home - whatever goes up, it'll probably be older than this one!!
2016-12-27 00:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Poor Bat Boy! Poor confused jurors!
Juror Number One here happens to be an exact replica of my father, whose visage you can also see here! Total coincidence, to be sure.
2016-11-21 04:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm in a rush to get to the first event for the ISCA caricature convention tonight, but wanted to post this before I went! The people here in Phoenix are bonkers-nice, it really surprised me!
I'm hoping to participate in an Art Fight tonight, I'll let you know how it goes!
2016-11-14 01:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post