Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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10:05 pm - Michele Chidester
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
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8:50 am - Cartooning Class!
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Drew and I taught a teen cartooning class the first week of June and we really enjoyed it. The students were hardworking, excited, and joyful about making comics; they were an inspiration. I hope they had half the fun we did. Here's the cover Drew and I put together for the class anthology, including drawings from each student. You were awesome, SAUGA comics class of 2009!
And, thanks a ton to everyone who offered your sketchbook pages! They were a great help; you guys are the greatest!
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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12:55 am - Free to a Good Home; GRLA May 7th
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Man, all I'm posting about lately is GR Shows! This time it's a dog-themed benefit show, so of course I thought "What did the ancient Zoroastrians think about dogs," because I am working on a YAGN about 8th Century Uzbekistan with my mom and it's all I care about these days.
Zoroastrians had some intense ideas about dogs. This picture is loosely based on the Zoroastrian purification ritual for the dead: after preparing the body, the Zoroastrians would have a sacred 'four-eyed' dog (a dog with a spot above each eye) come and look at the deceased person. This would be enough to drive away the evil spirits that had crowded around him.
I liked that a lot. The piece was pretty fun to do also, and it gave me an excuse to draw a lot of dogs.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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12:17 am - I get my Personal on.
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So, I was picked as one of the 20 New Visual Artists by Print Magazine in their March/April issue. Ever since I saw the NVAs in Print in 2002 when I was like 19, I had a lame fantasy of getting in there, so the lame fantasy came true?
When I first saw the article I felt so strange and panicky. I'm happy with my artwork, generally, but in a really personal way, like a diary; seeing all my scrappy little lines all over the place next to work by actual designers, I didn't know what to do. I felt like I needed to write Print and apologize. "I'm sorry I junked-up your nice magazine when you put me in it."
I KNOW THAT IS WACK. It's unbelievable that I get to draw pictures, and that other people look at the pictures, and sometimes feel things. I never thought I'd be this lucky.
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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1:55 pm - Giant Robot Year of the Ox
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Hello All! I'm in yet another group show at GIant Robot Los Angeles opening Today! As usual, there are 20 million rad artists in it, so check it out.
I did this silkscreen print for it, which will be sold for a affordable $35! It is 10"x13", on lovely watercolor paper, and It's actually editioned and everything, so you know it's Very Professional.
( And here's a larger version. )
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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11:42 pm - Hey!
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I would like to officially announce, Drew and I are getting married in April. We started going out over six years ago!
We did this print together featuring all of our favorite things. It has gold ink!
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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10:28 am - Late this week
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I am late posting this week because after a pretty temperate winter, we had a crazy snow storm on Sunday, and everything was turned akimbo. Over six inches of snow, downed power lines, no electricity etc.
This post contains the interesting bits of an entire sketchbook that spanned about June-August 2008.
A beer label for an imaginary beer Drew may brew one day.
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
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11:05 pm - Sketches
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I've been going through my sketchbooks and finding lots of stuff I'm pretty sure I haven't posted yet, from as long as a year ago. So this is a mix of new and old sketches. I hope the old ones don't feel stale?
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
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12:01 am - Sketches
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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12:39 pm - Help me out!
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Hey everyone! I'm doing the spot illos for my book, not really a big deal, and I liked these weird green stripes, but then we got weirdly worried that it looked like some sort of product packaging? Maybe a cigarette pack? Let me know if this is ringing any bells. I don't want to accidentally have ripped off a 1970s Kools package.
Thanks!
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10:25 am
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I've been enjoying John Campbell's hourly comics a lot (not to mention all the other nice hourlies other folks have been doing) so I got kind of psyched up to do Hourly Comics Day. I even did a prep day in January. On both of my two attempts I totally gave up about four hours in, because I am incapable of understanding that you really have to draw pretty quickly, and not do like six panels per hour.
Anyway, the first hour of each of my failed-hourlies are about nightmares. I figured I'd go ahead and post them because I like them, and also because it's really bothersome to me how often my nightmares are about hurting or killing people.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
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3:25 am - Spiderwick Fan-Art!
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So, the very cool Tony DiTerlizzi was getting a bunch of artists to do fan-art for his upcoming Spiderwick collection, and he flatteringly asked me to contribute. If you like fantasy books and you haven't read the Spiderwick series yet you should, they're really good!
My favorite creatures are the goblins. They're born without teeth so they collect bits of glass and things to stick in their gums.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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10:45 pm - GR LA Post-It Show!
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Howdy, Folks! I'm going to be in another Giant Robot show! GR Los Angeles this time, for their annual Post-It show, which is very exciting. I got to go to one that Kate was in a couple years back and it was amazing.
All I wanted to draw today was bicycles so I decided to run with it and make it a bicycle-themed series.
( 9 more bike pics! )
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
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3:28 pm - Slow working
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I've been chugging along on The Big Project, so I haven't actually done any work on this short comic for a while. I figured I'd post up the first two pages because I'm still really excited about it- I've been learning to draw and it feels wonderful- pulling the images straight out of the air. I hope it's still readable for folks. Some of my favorite comics are super sketchy but when the art gets hard to process that's a problem.
( Two pages )
current music: CBC Ideas 2008 Massey Lectures - Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth - 3 of 5
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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11:40 pm - Art For Sale!!!
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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2:27 am
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
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7:34 pm - GR SF Show!
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Hey dudes! Giant Robot San Francisco is having their Panelists show this weekend, featuring a mad crazy amount of art by tons of awesome cartoonists! The opening is tonight, so if you live in San Fran maybe you should check it out!
I am selling each individual panel of Dot and Louisa in The 10,000 Rescues. They are awfully cute in their own little magnetic plexiglass frames, suitable for sticking to your fridge! Each panel is $75.
( Here's the comic if you haven't seen it! )
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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2:31 am - The Best American Comics.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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12:44 pm - Other people's memories
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Years ago my mom told me about my aunt saying this, in passing, and for some reason the anecdote rolled around and around in my head and without my realizing it turned into a little scene. I have been thinking a lot about women in art recently. I had a brief theory that there weren't as many women artists because women realize art is unimportant sooner than men do. I don't have any idea if this is true. I go back and forth on whether I think art is important or not.
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1:59 am - The Dyer and her Daughters
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Meg Hunt (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) exitwounds) does some really neat stuff with patterns, which I've always admired, so I thought I'd mess around with more patterns too. I get a bit of a chuckle at how literal this sketch I wound up doing is. It is not how Meg uses patterns at all!
I think I have to cut myself off from drawing pensive ladies, especially faux-victorian pensive ladies with button-up dresses.
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