the other senioritis

Return of the pretty words posts! This was the opening line on a reply email my friend sent me the other day, and it just really stuck. Sorry there hasn't been nor won't be much lately, as the title suggests, for those who don't know, I'm in my final term at college and have over commitments, a full course load, and a graduating/not graduating defining gallery show in less than 2 months. Oh, and the whole find a job bit.

(while we're at it, want to mention The Company You Keep Drive is still going strong, and if you looked at it before, you probably "huh?"ed at the description..mix-up on some of the drive product descriptions, if you bid on something with my name in the title, you will get a comic of short to moderate length about whatever you want it to be about. And if you're not feeling that creative, you can just buy one of the last copies of Away)

warning sign (a pretty words post)

Just a lazy, dreamy on and off rain day in Florence, so here's something from le sketchpad that I never got around to posting. I left it really rough, I know, but I just really wanted to draw something with deer and cat interactions, as videos of it are pretty much my favorite internet thing, and by the time I figured out deer legs, I'd pretty much gone as far as I needed to go with it for right now. Not that I don't care, it just wasn't the same on paper as what I thought drawing it would be like. Still a nice one anyhow, no?

wordplay

So I've been looking very much at the separate elements of my comics-making, usually it starts with one phrase or image, so out of curiosity (and lack of time) I've been getting down just the image or text quickly. And some of these, once I get them out, are only children...they aren't worth or don't need context. So I'm trying some messing with spacing, background, different handwritings, color, to make the text bits their own little somethings. This one was in a letter I was writing, and I was hurrying to finish. There's some more which I'm not going to post right now, because they're, ahem, sensitive, as in if the person who they were thought up in response to saw it, they'd know. Yes, I know, hah, like anyone I see in the day to day looks at this!