Meatball Romance

In which I love meatball.

Oh my god, this one's French.

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

Mandragora with the Bad Vibes

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

We're Sizzling

I'm burned out, Tomie dePaola makes comics, and I have sad gay feelings about it.

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

Sketch Joy

I have been trying to find ways to make art in ways that are a little more removed from the realm of the digital. With all the big tech companies leaning hard into generative AI, including some that really should be better stewards for the artists who make up the

The Magician (and the responsible use of magic)

I don't really have a naming convention for the tarot decks I always start and sometimes finish, but I sort of gravitate toward mundane names. I'd love for tarot to be a completely non-intimidating thing that people can play with, so I might try to figure

Fortitude

I'd fallen off working on this deck for a while because I have a lot of other projects that need tending. Comics take so long, though, that it's difficult to nail down a sense of satisfaction at any interval, so I have to make sure I&

May so far

Hello! Sorry it's been a hot minute, but I got busy basically immediately at the beginning of the month. I've got some sketchbook images and new work to post soon, and I'm always happy to put out a few pages of my side comic

Backlog: The Boy and the Heron

A version of this post was originally published to Patreon on December 23, 2023 Please note that this writing contains some mild spoilers for The Boy and the Heron. Hayao Miyazaki’s 2023 feature animated film The Boy and the Heron reads as an extended meditation on grief and legacy.

Backlog: Processing Process, and More Processing

This entry was originally posted to Patreon on March 14, 2024 I wrote “process” more than once, and now the word looks funny and is beginning to lose its meaning to me. This post is about a few things, and it’s a little bit on the sad end. Nothing

Bear Prince, Slumberland, Many Hats

This week, I am deep in the comics trenches and hopefully making progress with pages for Angelica and the Bear Prince. I keep accidentally making wild amounts of work for myself by doing things like, for instance, writing segments that take place in rooms with a lot of meaningful picture

MerMay?

Dear Reader, This is the post where I figure out how to do those little integrated call-to-action and product buttons, starting here: Why Would a Fish Wear a Dress? Print Available on INPRNT I'm not totally sure I'm doing it right, but it seems to work