April - June Bullshit (The Highlights)
HoooooooBOY.
I've, uh, I've been up to a lot over the last few months. There's more than can reasonably fit in one newsletter, so here's just the highlights:
• 🔒 I thought I was bipolar. 🔒
Well, I did. (4 pages)
• So. Much. Pussy. (2010)
Happy Pride to all the opposite-gender partnered queers and the opposite-gender partnered queers ONLY. (1 page)
• Oh Joy Sex Toy's 13th Birthday Pledge Drive
Oh Joy! 13 years of Oh Joy Sex Toy! We held our annual Pledge Drive to fund the next year's worth of comics and it was almost successful! (4 pages)
• 🔒 Making Info-Heavy Comics (part 1) 🔒 (Patrons Only)
My studio hosts a Mentorship program for up-and-coming cartoonists where we each give a presentation/workshop on something in the comics industry that we specialize in. This year I talked about making info-heavy comics! (Hella pages)
• Draw me like one of your French cats
A birthday gift illustration for my friend of the two things she loves most.
• From Thrashed to Patched
Dude, I seriously upgraded my old jean jacket after it took on an outrageously huge rip. I'm legit so proud of this. If you only look at one post, make it this one.
For the month of June, I took a daily self-portrait which sounds pretty vain but honestly I do take some pretty interesting pictures of my environments and how I live in them.
🔒 June: 1st - 7th • 8th - 14th • 15th - 21st • 22nd - 28th • 29th - 30th 🔒 (Patrons Only)
• The internet is... Good?
(Oh shit, I just realized I should have put this in the "Video" section below. Uhg, no way am I re-editing the teaser image for that.) This is a companion video I made to share my side of the story about how Lingthusiasm's Gretchen McCulloch and I accidentally made a collaboration.
• The Third Tier of Honor for an Author
Matt and I discovered our hella banned book on a Barnes and Noble display for Banned Books! It was very surprising!!
• Bombshells Zine
Another accidental collaboration! This one is a blast from the past with my dear friend Lucy Bellwood, who compiled our deep archive of photobombed reference pictures into an incredibly wholesome zine. (I also wrote a little extra about it too.)
• Volunteer Spotlight at Repair PDX
I was the spotlighted volunteer at the place where I mend people's clothes for free and it's basically the accomplishment I'm the most proud of in my life :3
• 🔒 Four Days for 25k 🔒 (Patrons Only)
I applied for a 25k grant with just four days to prepare all my material!
• Artichoke Home
It's not a home until there's an artichoke growing by the door.
• Raspberry Delivery for my Non-Enemy Neighbors
I tried to write something nice but then I started talking about my one crazy neighbor who threw dog poop at a pregnant lady.
• Seven Minutes of Yoga While the Kettle Boils
There are so many daily tasks that I fail but there is one thing I can practice reliably.
Some more writings but the newsletter is already too long so I'm not gunna write taglines for them individually:
• I don’t recognize people I’ve had entire conversations with but
• Oh shit. I think I'm going to get a ticket.
• Sorry, I’m irresponsible and unreliable and I have nothing to blame but my moral failings ¯\(ツ)/¯
• First pea pod harvest • Green Plum Jam • One minute of bees pollinating my lavender • The internet is... Good? •
Okay, and then, like, I have a fucking ton of these little photo-y, garden-y, joke-y, life-y missives. Just click at random. (This is barely a fraction of what I've shared daily on Quips)
• COUGAR ALERT! • It's mah birfday! • Clothesline at dusk • Good Morning, Helioscope! • Turning useless raspberries into useful C A K E • Sun umbrella set up • Artichoke Flower Tattoo • Pink poppies • Foxglove alternative • Hard Partying Poppy Girls: Part 1 and Part 2 • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson Lemon Twins Update • Plumming along • #WFBS • There was a POP! • Birthday Bread • Things in my Garden • The Watcher • PEAsed to meet you • First Pink Plums! • Watering the garden in the evening light • Slow Motion Allium Explosion • Battle Damage (fucking squirrels) • Blood Red Lettuce • SCREAM IF U ❤️ LETTUCE: Part 1 & Part 2 • Scenes from my garden • Raspberries • Plum in Progress