Took some time off at the end of December.
Did as close to nothing as it's possible to do.
I had this notebook i got from Silvanie a couple of years ago, with great drawing paper in it.
Unfortunately the binding was so tight it wasn't very good as a sketchbook.
So I took it apart and rebound it.
Making little pen and ink drawings with my morning coffee.
Been using a Hunt 102 again.
It's nice.
Last year I started keeping a list of songs I heard throughout the day that really struck me.
Songs I hadn't heard before or at least not in awhile.
I thought I'd try to keep that up this year, so putting them up on a page here.
After the news today of facebook's bullshit, I've downloaded my insta archive and marked my account for deletion. Good riddance. It feels odd loosing a whole chunk of your life, just like that. Leaving twitter when Elon bought it felt similar. You're used to having this constant feed of information, whatever connections made with folks, your little garden of posts. Then it's gone. Poof.
Short Run was at the beginning of November, and I had printed 4 new zines.
I just got around to putting them up on the site.
Candy Thief number one!
Color printing is expensive so let's redraw it in black and white.
Maybe I'll draw more?
I think it came out nice.
Isometric Tuna 9, little drawings from my pocket notebooks from 2024.
Object on Arrival, bigger drawings from bigger sketchbooks from this year.
Is it odd to separate the drawings by size or thickness of line? Who knows.
It feels like I've run a lot of these ideas to ground.
Maybe time to till some new fields?
Winter is good for that.
A month ago I decided I needed a break from instagram.
I was spending too much time on that app, doesn't feel healthy.
First few days felt like quitting smoking, twitchy fingers constantly wanting to open up the app and scroll.
The FOMO's strong. It feels like insta is the only place that comics and art folks are posting stuff.
I mean there's patreon, but that has it's own issues.
While I miss seeing what everyone is doing, I don't miss generating content and clicks for zuck.
Who needs it?
Originally was just going to take a break, but now it feels more or less permanent.
We'll see.
Jeez, I'm bad at blogging.
Meant to try and post something weekly, and it's been a month.
I've been drawing a lot of comics.
Some colabs with Max and more Candy Thief.
It's fun.
I just payed my table fee's for this years Short Run Comix Festival.
It's November 2nd in Seattle, WA at the Fisher Pavilion.
I'm excited to go again, it's by far my favorite zine/comix show to table at.
Now to get to work!
Listening
The new Onidea album is good! Especially the first track.
Miami Review of Comics a new podcast from Drew Lerman.
First episode was a nice conversation between Alex Graham (Dog Biscuits) and Ceder Van Tassel (Apple and Beefwood) about some of the nuances of online comics posting.
I'm a big fan of Snake Creek and look forward to episode 2.
Bubbles #20
This issue of Bubbles is mostly interview transcriptions and photos from Bubbles Fest.
I'd like every show to do this.
There is something nice about being able to catch up on talks you missed when tabling, other then scrubbing through youtube.
Felder #1 and #2, Kevin Huizenga
Also reread through my stack of Ganges comics
I think Kevin's one of the best to be working now, and a bit under sung.
The newest issue of Felder has been nominated for an Ignatz this year.
Have you heard about "Week Notes"?
I like the idea, little regular posts summing up the various things you've been up to.
I had meant to start at the beginning of the year, but well.
Going to give it a try.
I'd like to post stuff here and not just on the socials, and weekly feels like a cadence I can handle.
I've put up a page collecting some comics I've been drawing this year.
Quick, fun, no planning, pen on letter sized paper with color pencil.
They're about a crocodile (or is it an alligator) who steals candy from children.
Go take a look.
I need to clean up the scans, but if I waited around to do it proper, I'd never get them up.
Shelly Duval passed away this week and I've been listening to her tracks from the Robert Altman "Popeye" movie.
This demo is a good listen.
I hadn't heard it before.
Last weekend I read a ton of great comics, and got the new Peep Show in the mail today.
Maybe I'll write something about them next week.
Here's a list.
