Mermaids!
For the month of May, I resolved to do my best to try and draw a mermaid every single day. I didn't quite make it, but I enjoyed being able to pump out a little drawing all the time. I did not use the MerMay prompts, but I
I'm heading to ALA, and other things
Hello everyone! This week, I am headed to Philadelphia for the American Library Association’s annual conference. I’ll be there with my publisher to promote Angelica and the Bear Prince (which recently got a starred review from Kirkus), so please let me know if you’ll be in attendance.
It's April Already, How Did This Happen
Hello everyone! Once again, it has been a hot minute. I’m so sorry. It turns out, Emerald City kicked my butt in mostly extremely good ways but also in one odd and annoying way—I developed an isolated dry cough that lasted a month. Mostly I just couldn’t
March Mildness
Hello hello! I apologize it’s been a while since my last post. Things have been bonkers, and this is mostly a little journal post to check in and catch up. I probably need to check in with my therapist about this, but I’ve been experiencing some absolutely wild,
Little Drawings of Chickens
Here are some little drawings of chickens. And now, some weary journaling. Every day, I’m surprised at just how sticky burnout is. I read about it plenty and understand, at least cerebrally, that it’s this indefinite blow to my mental health and productivity, but I can’t help
Office Hours - Character Types and Ship Dynamics
Time for some more questions from the inbox! If you have a question, feel free to drop it here. do you have a character or character type in your back pocket you've been wanting to write into a comic but havent had the time or space to yet?
Office Hours! What's your dream IP project?
Welcome to this new, hopefully regular way for me to attempt to organize all the questions folks might ask about me or my work. I'll do my best to answer them, and I have a healthy backlog of these to get through! Onto our first question. No holds
Reason Enough
I recently sent in all the files to get the first portion of this webcomic printed up, and I thought I'd publish the backmatter/note from the author. It got away from me, but I think I tied it back up at the end okay, and I hope
Author Corner!
I've been keeping myself pretty occupied with the administrative details of my upcoming conventions, travel, and life stuff, and I am once again finding myself frustrated that all these tasks take me away from my OGN work. The thing I always forget about contract work, which currently mostly
What's in a name, anyway?
I honestly can't believe I've gone seventy pages into this webcomic without even once considering that it should have a name. And then, with CAKE, Autoptic, and A2CAF coming up, I decided I wanted to make a print edition of the comic, which meant I needed
Embrace the Jank
I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that most of my long posts are somewhat aimless streams of conscious that find their thesis partway through. Crafting an essay, editing it, and endlessly rewriting it to perfection is such a skill, and I don’t know how writers do it.
Grandma in Italy
In 2019, my partner and I took my grandmother on a trip to Italy. I drew a few journal comics in my sketchbook in ballpoint pen as we went along, and I've collected the panels here. I might refine them into something else in the future, when I