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Family time and travel-limbo
This was an actual text exchange with my sister, cartoonified with permission in my best imitation of Dykes to Watch Out For. I used to do a lot of hatching and stippling (see this 12-year-old comic on the website I never update) because "that's what indie comix look like." I started pla...
HELLO (how tf is January almost over)
Hi Patrons,This cartoon went in the theater's e-newsletter. It's the most personal newsletter cartoon I've done, and much longer than usual, but I couldn't think of anything else to write about. The first three weeks of January were pretty rough. I got COVID and we had to cancel one ...
Postcard roundup
This is an intersection on my commute home. I took a photo at a red light in July and finally got around to drawing it. The theater is surrounded by much different buildings than the old location. I didn't think downtown could be fun to draw, but I was inspired by cartoonist and painter Mateusz ...
November/December at the childen's theater
Hi patrons,This first postcard took me two tries to lay out. This was my first attempt. (Excuse the poor picture quality; this is what I texted to Barry asking if it worked.)Because action in comics usually goes left-to-right, Barry had thought that the techies were carrying things out of the buildi...
SuperButch Book 1, Page 184
Happy Long Weekend of Eating Leftovers to those who celebrate! This year I'm thankful for getting going on this comic again.Panel 1 was brought to you by the You Are Good podcast episode about "But I'm a Cheerleader." Of course there were hours of podcasts involved in drawing this pa...
Joining the 21st Century
This is the first political cartoon I did entirely in Clip Studio Paint! It went up on Barry's Patreon a couple of months ago, but this post has been sitting half-finished in my Drafts. Coloring digitally is a lot faster and easier in Clip Studio Paint than in Photoshop. There are lots of neat d...
The Halloween Ball
Welp, my day job is super cute lately. The October "Halloween Ball" was interactive and the audience was encouraged to show up in costume. This sometimes meant full-family Mario or Star Wars costumes and, in one case, a family of 3 different David Bowies at their toddler's request!Dress-...
I Thought We Were Done with Moving Vans...
Moving has certainly been a theme of the past year! The children's theater spent last August/September moving out of the old building, then we worked out of storage units and satellite locations for 4 months, then we moved into the new building and had our first shows, classes, and camps. Then, ...
Summer sketches and postcards
True story, the theater was right between a parking lot and WasabiCon last weekend, so the people-watching was unmatched! Naomi helped me pick out which cosplayers to draw since I'm not as familiar with popular anime characters. The baby Pikachu/Ash Ketchum pairing was a happy accident. The pare...
Theater and theater-adjacent watercolors
Here's the source for panel 4 if you're curious.My soundtrack for this comic was the audiobook of If Tomorrow Doesn't Come. It's really good so far, although content warnings for suicidality, homophobia, and college students who weren't born yet when the movie "Bend it Like B...
Bike Camping!
These days, when I'm not at the children's theater (or recovering from summer camp chaos), I'm in full outdoorsy mode. Most of the time that just means taking the scenic route home from work, but a couple weeks ago Naomi and I did a 3-night camping trip in the Columbia River Gorge. We to...
Theater cartoons
I keep going back and forth between "I don't have enough postcards to warrant a whole Patreon post," "I'm too busy to post," and "oops I haven't posted in a couple weeks, so here's a bunch of postcards."This one was from Spring Break Camp:I'm starting to h...
VanCAF 2023
Hi patrons!Iβm home from the Vancouver Comic Arts Fest, which feels like it warrants a Patreon post.Naomi and I drove to Canada on Thursday......which gave us a free day before the convention.We found a short hike that had good reviews......and I got to cross something off my bucket list!Note: alw...
Behind the scenes on p180-181
I promised some details about this double-page spread!Barry got the idea from a cartoonist named Gianni de Luca.This Romeo & Juliet comic consisted of detailed backgrounds that often encompassed two pages. The characters appear multiple times, traversing the pages left-to-right.You can see some colo...
Book 1, Page 183
Hi patrons,This page was brought to you by reference photos, old shoes, and Barry's copy of How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way.Let's just say I wasn't happy with my first couple of passes at this page.Note to self, reference photos are the best. I'm bad about throwing away old shoes, ...
Abbott Elementary sketches
Is everyone caught up on Abbott Elementary? HOW ABOUT THAT SEASON 2 FINALE?! That show is my current happy place.I started drawing these over the past couple of months when I need a no-pressure, no-planning drawing activity. There are a ton of great faces on this show, and fortunately, lots of Tumbl...
Book 1, Page 182
Hi patrons!It's not a superhero comic without a chase scene through an alley, right? (Right? I'm not as familiar with superhero comics.)I had some fortunate timing while I was working on this page. A friend of mine invited me to an antique mall in an old movie theater in a suburban downtown....
Book 1, Page 180-181
Hi patrons!There will be a couple of word balloons on this spread, but I wanted to post this as soon as the art was done, cause I'm excited.This took more than one audiobook's worth of time to draw, but the book that comes to mind when I look at this page is "Small Game" by Blair Bra...
Postcards from the theater
Hi patrons,In just over a month, the children's theater will open a show in its new location! It's starting to look done......especially after a late night of painting by staff and volunteers.Have I mentioned that there's a pretty bike route by the scene shop?There's a pretty bike ro...
Sketchbook Dump
Hi patrons,While I work on a double-page SuperButch spread (and try not to lose entire days finding cool but off-topic photos on Shorpy) I've also been doodling in my sketchbook. I've been using Handbook sketchbooks since my cruise ship days because they're a comfy size and have a clear ...
Book 1, Page 179
Drawing a multi-panel physical gag felt new to me.Does it count as slapstick when everyone narrowly avoids bumping into anything? The poses were really fun, but drawing the exact same background four times was a combination of boring and stressful. I copy-pasted the digital pencils, and it still fel...
January Postcards
Naomi called it.Anyway, Hi there! I just realized I haven't shown you these postcards yet. I've been "about to finish the SuperButch page" for so long that it slipped my mind.This popped into my head every time Naomi made Japanese-style curry for years. I'm so happy with how the ...
Holiday Travel Sketchbook
Hi patrons,Happy New Year! I hope you had some holiday fun. I basically fulfilled my promise not to work (minus one newsletter cartoon for the theater). But I ended up doing a lot more sketching than expected, so I'm posting those here!This page references the theater's Winter Break Camps. M...
Book 1, Page 178
Barry is one of those valuable script writers who aids in the search for reference photos! He included this peanut vendor in the script.I had fun looking at old hand-painted signs and feeling way inadequate because those signs had so many fun fonts and such cool brushwork. I hope I got the idea acro...
Book 1, Page 177
Barry and I had an "oh shit" moment on the previous page. Remember when Captain Turtle was trying to start the motor on his shell backpack? The script originally had a caption about Captain Turtle looking for a clear path between the power lines and telephone wires. But I realized I'd be...
Wizard School and misty bike rides
True story from Wizard School, cartooned with the parent's permission! The theater's Fall Break Camp involved a lot of role playing--the campers decorated their own magic wands and solved a mystery together--and apparently one kid made an off-recipe potion at home.I got to break out my most ...
Postcards: construction, stress dreams, and A League of their Own
Hi patrons!The new venue for the children's theater is still under construction. Apparently the construction crew is tickled by the unique job!One awkward thing about doing journal comics is that drawing can take awhile. You end up drawing a stress dream about summer camp while you're gettin...
Book 1, Page 176
Hi patrons!Off the subject, while I was drawing this page, I was listening to an audiobook called "The Facemaker: a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I." So now when I look at this page, all kinds of grisly-but-fascinating anecdotes pop into my head....
Book 1, Page 175
Hi patrons,Fun fact: Lillian was hopping onto public transit next to cute children up to 5 years before Eddie Valiant became famous for it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.Also fun: I feel like I'm working back up to weekly SuperButch pages!(If you're not as online as me, here's a quick explai...
a teeny follow-up
Remember this postcard from a few months ago, when I did some set painting?I thought of it when I saw this exchange on Twitter:Sorry, Shoulder Angel. I guess that totally could happen to us π
