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Ramble #33

Happy Ramble Day!

All over the place in this one, but it's so good to be walking again. Hit play to hear me yell about snakes and coyotes and get lost on someone's private property and also d...

Serpentine Launching on Wednesday!

Hello, hello!

Woof. So. Been a minute. Rather than trying to fill in all the events of the past month before I let myself get to the good stuff, I'm going to skip to the end:

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Why I Have Finally Reprinted Those Minicomics

Some of you probably recall that I'd been putting off reprinting my four travelogue minicomics for ages...

February Figure Drawing Club

Finally caught an installment of Babs's online Figure Drawing Club last month! Here's a few noodz, all drawn straight...

Penny Stackin'

I dunno about you, but sometimes when I get anxious I decide it's time to make a little graph.

I joked with my partner that this behavior feels like stacking my pocket change. "Look! I can ma...

"These Don't Shuffle"

Back at the beginning of 2021, you might remember this conversation I had with my pal Robin Rendle about ...

Horrible Drudgery Update

Over the past five months I've been verrrrry slowly moving forward with getting my 100 Day Project from 2020 printed up into a physical object. It's so different doing something like this without t...

T-Shirt Design in 7 Easy Steps (+/- Several Years)

Way back in the mists of my early freelance career, my pal Matt asked if I'd be game to design a t-shirt for Ojai's beloved outdoor bookshop 2023-02-06 05:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Tiny Desk Zine

Shay Mirk was visiting town last month and put on a really sweet little zine-making meetup at a local brewery. I've been thinking a...

Ramble #32

Oh the deep, deep relief of releasing a Ramble! There's nothing like it.

Today it's bucketing down with rain, but yesterday I grabbed a break in the clouds to go walk around the pres...

ROUGHS! ARE! DONE!

Not even writing anything smart I'm just so fucking relieved here's a video of a bunch of tiny goofy dances and a screenshot of my progress bar and now I am collapsing in a heap GOOD DAY SIR

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Seacritters Snapshot #5

Real important question to lead off this week's Seacritters update:

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE WHEN I'M THIS CLOSE TO BEING DONE WITH THE BOOK?

2022-12-02 05:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Seacritters Snapshot #4

Hello everyone! I'm back from Canada! 

I've actually been back from Canada for a while but it was so good I had to bask in it quietly for a minute/dive right back into my regular careg...

Daily Diaries - August #1

Sometimes you stop drawing comics because it's summer and you fall in love out of the blue and your whole world gets turned upside-down and you just want to be alive in your animal body every secon...

Tell the Turning's Second Printing

Tell the Turning, the collection of Tara Shepersky's contemplative nature poems I illustrated last year, is 2022-08-11 22:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Why I Have Not Reprinted Those Minicomics

This week I received another sweet, out-of-the-blue email from someone who'd read my minicomics about rafting down the Grand Canyon and wanted to know if they could buy hard copies anywhere.

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More Good Drawer

There's a lot of pictures in this so I'm doing the ones I've already shared elsewhere on social media in the gallery and then the new stuff inline in the post??? Semi-ideal solution. Thanks to all ...

May Drawing Hangout This Friday!

Here we are again: another month, another chance to gather on Zoom and have some low-key drawing hangout time together.

This month's prompts are...

RODENTS 🐀

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FLOWER...

Ramble #31

Hey look it's one of these!

Mentioned herein:

• Funeral LARPing??
• Christina Tran's new gr...
  2022-04-26 23:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Figures 4/10

Caught another installment of Babs's monthly Figure Drawing Club today, which felt more like medicine than recreation after the eve...

Events of the Week

Content Warning: this post talks about an ER visit, elder care, and grief.

Two days ago I was trying to explain to a partner how intense being a caregier is despite there not being v...

April Drawing Hangout This Friday

[PSA: if you missed the live call, all the images we drew from are attached to this post in a PDF so you can follow along at home! I'll be adding prompt images to past months' posts, too, so ch...