My tour is technically done. I had a lovely launch celebration at Moona Moono, a local Asian cafe. But I’m still traveling around, somehow. I just got back from Yallfest, a young adult book festival in Charleston, which was a very nice time. I got to meet a lot
It’s summer of 2004, and my Gamecube is sweaty. I am fourteen years old and about to enter high school, leaving my eleven-year-old brother behind in our middle school. Ever since I was eight years old, my little brother had always been a few classrooms away from me. When
In which I love meatball.
I drew this page very shortly after the last comic. It amused me so much I opted to ink it right away instead of waiting to do it later. I want to do one of these a week, time permitting. They're actually fairly quick, even with all the
I originally wrote this post for Patreon two times. That platform, for some reason dislikes me posting from my phone, so I guess this means every post needs to be a sit-down-at-my-desk type of endeavor. It feels more at home on Ghost anyway. I’ve been having fun with traditional
I'm burned out, Tomie dePaola makes comics, and I have sad gay feelings about it.
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
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.
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
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,
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
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?