Since the Easter weekend I’ve been doing (almost) the last round of edits on my book, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me. I’ve been posting small drawings from the book on my Facebook fan page. I’ve been getting some wonderful, energizing feedback — thanks, everyone! Check it out and let me know what you think!
Just found these doodles in some notes from a workshop last fall about fostering sustainable behaviour. Really, I was paying attention. It’s just hard to take notes for more than a few minutes without sketching something.
Two of my favourite children. Although they actually don’t really look like this, as I am not very good at a) drawing children or b) accurate likenesses. But here they are. I love talking to kids, hearing their explanations of games, their logic.
Way back in September at Word Under the Street (the comix part of Word On The Street), my friend Eve Corbel and I held a contest called One Panel Starring Me. People submitted short true stories from their own lives and the winner got an original framed comic based on their story (this is our sample from the last time we did the contest, in 2006). This year we had to pick two winners because they were both awesome. I did this drawing based on Roni Light’s story… Eve’s comic for the other winner coming next…
I was going to write a post about the artwork I did for the DOXA documentary film festival fundraiser on November 21. But sugarlovegirl wrote such a heartwarming awesome sweet post about it that I will just link to hers. Thanks for doing all the work, sugarlove!
Finally getting around to posting this somewhat depressed looking photo of me at WUTS. Thanks to Brian Nicol for taking it– not sure what my problem was. But look at all my stuff! I can’t believe I got it done. On the right you can see the fridge door I got from the recycling transfer station; it’s got my fridge magnets on it– two designs sold out that day! Also on the table: tiny books with my creatures in them, a new small dog story, the ever popular small dog romances. Also bookmarks! And that weird cyclindrical spotted container is for entries in Eve Corbel’s and my contest where people tell us a short story about themselves and we illustrate it. (OK, so we haven’t informed the entrants who won yet, but we will! Comics artists move slow sometimes!)
Anyway, WUTS was lots o fun. And the Vancouver Public Library bought some of my stuff for their zine collection. How awesome is that??
And one more thing– the book on the table is Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? by the lovely lovely Brian Fies. I contacted Brian for advice about my book and he has been extremely generous and supportive. You should check out his book and become a fan of his on Facebook. I put the book on the table so that I could send him the photo for his collection of images of his book “in the wild.”
Oops. I got a bit overzealous deleting spam comments and deleted all comments since January 2009. So if your comment is missing a) don’t take it personally and b) consider commenting again. Sigh.
Please stop by my table at the Word on the Street festival! I’ll be joining the dodgy gang in the basement for Word Under the Street, the comics part of the fest. Hoping to have Eve Corbel with me.
It’s been three years since we last attended. I’ve reprinted my sold-out magnets: Small Dog Haiku and Why Editors Have No Friends. Plus I have some mini-comics. So come say hi!
Here I am, at work on the edits for my book. This involves drawing new pages and fixing up some existing pages. I’m using these last few weeks of summer to cram in as much drawing as possible, while I have time off from my day job.
The dog is very helpful.
I brought my cute sketchbook to the Dyke March but didn’t actually draw anything until the next day or something, and just this tiny sketch of my friend Tara. You can read her account of the lesbrarian contingent on her blog.
