Setting: a second floor hallway. A closed door opens a few inches. A cartoonist peaks his head out just enough to survey the world outside without letting it in. Satisfied, he withdraws, and places an envelope beside the door before retreating once more. It reads: “First post in 8 years. Comic from 2017.” Motes of dust dance in the still postmeridian sunlight.
It’s been quite a spell, what with finishing up the MFA, doing Dancing Bear Variety Hour and six months of public radio internships, but I’ve been drawing a handful of comics lately. Don’t know if this is going to be regular thing, but it’s been a nice way to record recent experiences. I don’t have a scanner in New York right now, so the quality is kinda garbage. I’ll try and remember to rectify this while I’m home for the holidays.
Hey! Drew a comic. I’m on the road, so I just took a picture with my tablet and did my best job at touching it up. Which isn’t really a good job, but this is all you get until I get back home to my scanner.
Lately I’ve been doing a lot more writing than drawing. It kind of comes in shifts – sometimes I spend hours drawing cartoon vegetables taking part in a Viking raid, other times I spend hours writing dialogue for cartoon vegetables taking part in a Viking raid. But the writing doesn’t really get shared, and the site sits for weeks with no updates. I’ve thought about setting up a “writing” page, but I want to make sure I have worthwhile, quality stuff to share first (so expect that around 2018 sometime). Maybe I could start exploiting the “blog” feature to say interesting things when I don’t have interesting things to show you!
What about that?
I like to think of this as entry one in a long series of “Don’t worry sweetie, you can try harder tomorrow” motivational posters. I drew this one day last spring when – surprise – I was feeling a bit down in the dumps. Surprisingly, I actually felt much better when I finished.
I’ve occasionally gifted prints of this to folks who like a little sunshine in their workspace, and now you can do the same! Buy this strip as a print (or greeting card) right HERE.
