Check it out! There won't be anything new here except the cover drawing, but nothing that's been printed before, so if you are a Carina completist, pick this up at canzine west on nov 2! 
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
More dispatches from the road
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping 'round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
Piazza New York catcher are you straight or are you Gay?
We hung about the stadium we've got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell about the saddest book you've ever read, it always makes you cry
The statue's crying too, and Willie Mays. 
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
I've been drawing!
This has been an incredible summer and its not quite done yet. I am planning on keeping daily notes and drawings while on my big bike trip next week, but things were already getting weird by July so I started the diary early! I am not going to publish it here but I will be compiling it and selling it in corporeal form only! I aim to have my summer journal ready in all it's gory glory for Canzine West in November! I'm really enjoying using watercolours again. 
Friday, July 19, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Kitsilano Boner Bandit
Last year when we lived in Kitsilano there was an extended period where I was hearing lots of warnings about some pervert looking in peoples windows and exposing himself around the neighborhood, including from one of my coworkers at Bennys. Little did I know that I would play a small part in this crime spree. Here's the first 3 pages of a short comic about the "incident".
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Hourly Comic Day 2013
It's that time of year again!! This year's hourly comic day turned out to be a great burden placed on my shoulders by fate, as we headed down to Seattle to Visit our pal Jake and his family, and attend the release party for Jake's new video game, "Skulls of the Shogun" available now on XBOX live and windows Surface!
Sunday, January 27, 2013
One Mans Trash......
Hey fanbase! I made a new comic! My return to the world of corrupting youth has blessed me with fodder and abundant free time. This comic is actually about something that happened years ago that I've always wanted to draw. All names have been changed, but the event happened exactly like this. it's comic gold, I tell ya.
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Ye olde recap
I have been an insufferable grump this winter, and i thought maybe it would give me some perspective to recap my year. Pretty sure everyone else's year was just as "eye opening" and "incredible".
January 2012:
I started the year like many others waking up on a cold tile bathroom floor with a throbbing welt on my face. Oh yeah, I also pissed myself. I had passed out and smashed my face on the toilet paper roll holder, after what I thought was a pretty restrained and responsible New Years. Coming home I even undressed, brushed my teeth And drank water before bed. Even though that was a horrible morning I thought the whole thing was pretty hilarious, although now I look back and realize I could have cracked my skull and died pretty easily. It's a good thing I landed on my face.
Also I bought a new iPod touch
February
Back to work teaching part time high school art with Swey, one of my favorite people. The kids are loud, crazy, funny and the adventures continue.
March
32 birthday, I celebrate by shooting a pump action shotgun. Funnn. Then Swey and I drive a rented "David" Suzuki to Portland for a weekend trip. I buy many things. Atli and I get matching Javelina tattoos.
April
The house we've lived in for over 5 years goes on the market again, life is in upheaval. Atli announces moving to Hawaii indefinitely. We have three of the most hilarious and satisfying yard sales and sell all her worldly possessions and many of mine. I consider being a crazy yard sale lady. I renew my passport and discover its actually Atli's passport I have, mere hours before she's due to fly to Honolulu, action movie like tension ensues. She gets there okay.
May:
House hunting. We are gentrified out of Kitsalano and its yoga moms, and move to the hippy pinko commie lefty cool dad world of Commercial drive, into a virtually identical to our old place, dumpy upstairs of a falling apart 100 year old house. I jog the first avenue viaduct instead of the beach. We hang out in Crab Park and eat in Chinatown.
June:
I start out our new life on the drive by rear ending a semi-truck in a traffic jam and my beloved shitty 1998 VW golf, Friday, comes to the end of her time with me.
I begin driving my dad's all black, leathery monster V6 VW GTI around. It's as dark as sin inside it, I name it Darth Vader.
late June I went to visit Atli on Oahu's north shore for 10 days. We do the things we always do. Bike ride, drink coffee, swim and talk. I enjoy eating raw crabs, mangos and my hostel, and also getting the worst sunburn of my life.
July:
Prepping for being a Bridesmaid in Christine and Travises wedding, and preparing for trip to Europe. The wedding was perfect, then The night of the wedding I shit myself in my 200$ jcrew dress, then I'm sick all night. 48hours later I am in europe, still weak and shit myself in the car driving from frankfurt to switzerland with my parents and aunt and uncle. Then again at my aunts house.
August:
Whole month in Europe, we road trip the whole thing. we hike the alps, I draw, I slip and fall into the Grand Canal in Venice. I see zurich, I see the Louvre in paris, And a French girl knew what my "flaneuse" tattoo meant. I watch "the Italian job" on the flight home.
September:
I am substitute teaching again.
I almost spontaneously buy a new VW, a grey v5 standard Golf named Sprinkles. and get my first car payment ever. I finish the drawings from my trip, that's about it.
October:
Colin's sister comes to visit from New York, we carve pumpkins. I drive to Cambell River on the island in my new car, it goes very fast. Eleanor goes home and dad comes to finish up Colin's giant ATAT sculpture. I do absolutely nothing for Halloween. I draw inktober drawings.
November
Colin shows his work in the East side culture crawl. I finish my travel journal comic and show in Canzine West.
Sweatpants, my antique and beloved guinea pig, dies in my arms at the ripe old age of 6.
December:
I teach a lot. I work at Benny's a lot. Andria comes back from Hawaii and starts working at Benny's too. I do an oil painting of my dads villiage in Italy. I drive in a snowstorm. I read at Wolf Mountain poetry reading.
Looking back it feels like I just got here, I guess it was a pretty busy year for me, and a mostly happy one. I supposed the worst thing was sweatpants dying, which was sad but in the grand scheme of things not so bad. The one thing is my life is pretty much identical to how it was last year. Even my new apartment is so similar. I would like to be able to do something radical, like move into a warehouse, or join an NGO, or bike ride to Dallas. I think I'm going to start by just drawing more.
January 2012:
I started the year like many others waking up on a cold tile bathroom floor with a throbbing welt on my face. Oh yeah, I also pissed myself. I had passed out and smashed my face on the toilet paper roll holder, after what I thought was a pretty restrained and responsible New Years. Coming home I even undressed, brushed my teeth And drank water before bed. Even though that was a horrible morning I thought the whole thing was pretty hilarious, although now I look back and realize I could have cracked my skull and died pretty easily. It's a good thing I landed on my face.
Also I bought a new iPod touch
February
Back to work teaching part time high school art with Swey, one of my favorite people. The kids are loud, crazy, funny and the adventures continue.
March
32 birthday, I celebrate by shooting a pump action shotgun. Funnn. Then Swey and I drive a rented "David" Suzuki to Portland for a weekend trip. I buy many things. Atli and I get matching Javelina tattoos.
April
The house we've lived in for over 5 years goes on the market again, life is in upheaval. Atli announces moving to Hawaii indefinitely. We have three of the most hilarious and satisfying yard sales and sell all her worldly possessions and many of mine. I consider being a crazy yard sale lady. I renew my passport and discover its actually Atli's passport I have, mere hours before she's due to fly to Honolulu, action movie like tension ensues. She gets there okay.
May:
House hunting. We are gentrified out of Kitsalano and its yoga moms, and move to the hippy pinko commie lefty cool dad world of Commercial drive, into a virtually identical to our old place, dumpy upstairs of a falling apart 100 year old house. I jog the first avenue viaduct instead of the beach. We hang out in Crab Park and eat in Chinatown.
June:
I start out our new life on the drive by rear ending a semi-truck in a traffic jam and my beloved shitty 1998 VW golf, Friday, comes to the end of her time with me.
I begin driving my dad's all black, leathery monster V6 VW GTI around. It's as dark as sin inside it, I name it Darth Vader.
late June I went to visit Atli on Oahu's north shore for 10 days. We do the things we always do. Bike ride, drink coffee, swim and talk. I enjoy eating raw crabs, mangos and my hostel, and also getting the worst sunburn of my life.
July:
Prepping for being a Bridesmaid in Christine and Travises wedding, and preparing for trip to Europe. The wedding was perfect, then The night of the wedding I shit myself in my 200$ jcrew dress, then I'm sick all night. 48hours later I am in europe, still weak and shit myself in the car driving from frankfurt to switzerland with my parents and aunt and uncle. Then again at my aunts house.
August:
Whole month in Europe, we road trip the whole thing. we hike the alps, I draw, I slip and fall into the Grand Canal in Venice. I see zurich, I see the Louvre in paris, And a French girl knew what my "flaneuse" tattoo meant. I watch "the Italian job" on the flight home.
September:
I am substitute teaching again.
I almost spontaneously buy a new VW, a grey v5 standard Golf named Sprinkles. and get my first car payment ever. I finish the drawings from my trip, that's about it.
October:
Colin's sister comes to visit from New York, we carve pumpkins. I drive to Cambell River on the island in my new car, it goes very fast. Eleanor goes home and dad comes to finish up Colin's giant ATAT sculpture. I do absolutely nothing for Halloween. I draw inktober drawings.
November
Colin shows his work in the East side culture crawl. I finish my travel journal comic and show in Canzine West.
Sweatpants, my antique and beloved guinea pig, dies in my arms at the ripe old age of 6.
December:
I teach a lot. I work at Benny's a lot. Andria comes back from Hawaii and starts working at Benny's too. I do an oil painting of my dads villiage in Italy. I drive in a snowstorm. I read at Wolf Mountain poetry reading.
Looking back it feels like I just got here, I guess it was a pretty busy year for me, and a mostly happy one. I supposed the worst thing was sweatpants dying, which was sad but in the grand scheme of things not so bad. The one thing is my life is pretty much identical to how it was last year. Even my new apartment is so similar. I would like to be able to do something radical, like move into a warehouse, or join an NGO, or bike ride to Dallas. I think I'm going to start by just drawing more.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
cover art and a jogging mix.
So I've spent the last 3 days cloistered in my office working on layouts and printing up the AMAZING FULL COLOUR 50 PAGE EPIC called "Avanti" which means, "lets go" in Italian. For any of you that were privvy to my sketchbook and saw the drawings in real life, there's a couple pages of writing that you've never seen, plus one exciting extra page that I added after the fact, because in order to make the signature work it needed to be there! Excitement! Try and guess which page it was.
I also bought myself a fantastic chocolate brown coloured HP printer, and I'm experimenting with printing the book myself since colour prints are expensive. So far, the quality is better than I would get at a print shop, but it takes a fair chunk of time. I've been sitting in front of the computer for 8 hours a day for three days. I hope I never have the misfortune of an office job, because my back and hips are burning. Today at work I stood around as much as I could because sitting at my desk was agony, fortunately the kids were really annoying so I got to run around a lot yelling. When I got home I went for a 5km run and the endorphin rush was fan-freaking-tastic.
So, here's what the cover of the new book looks like:
also if you're interested, here's my No-Fail jogging mix:
1. Who Was In My Room Last Night?- Butthole Surfers - you have to listen to this track first, the rest the order isn't so important.
2.Party Up (Up in Here) - DMX
3.Bamboo Banga -MIA
4. Love Lockdown- Kanye West
5.A-Punk- Vampire Weekend
6.Ace Of Spades- Motorhead
7. Run To the Hills -Iron Maiden
8. Single Ladies- Beyonce
9. E-Pro -Beck
10. Lust for Life- Iggy Pop.
I also bought myself a fantastic chocolate brown coloured HP printer, and I'm experimenting with printing the book myself since colour prints are expensive. So far, the quality is better than I would get at a print shop, but it takes a fair chunk of time. I've been sitting in front of the computer for 8 hours a day for three days. I hope I never have the misfortune of an office job, because my back and hips are burning. Today at work I stood around as much as I could because sitting at my desk was agony, fortunately the kids were really annoying so I got to run around a lot yelling. When I got home I went for a 5km run and the endorphin rush was fan-freaking-tastic.
So, here's what the cover of the new book looks like:
1. Who Was In My Room Last Night?- Butthole Surfers - you have to listen to this track first, the rest the order isn't so important.
2.Party Up (Up in Here) - DMX
3.Bamboo Banga -MIA
4. Love Lockdown- Kanye West
5.A-Punk- Vampire Weekend
6.Ace Of Spades- Motorhead
7. Run To the Hills -Iron Maiden
8. Single Ladies- Beyonce
9. E-Pro -Beck
10. Lust for Life- Iggy Pop.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Canzine West!
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Inktober staff meetings and such
These are my last couple of drawings for Inktober. I didn't nearly draw a picture every day, and no excuses! I was busy, I had family visiting, blah blah blah. The point of the activity is to give yourself goals and deadlines and get motivated, therefore learning how to make time to draw and develop good habits. Despite not drawing EVERY day, I am really happy with what I did draw and I hope you liked em too!
November is going to be a busy month, I'm showing my comics on November 17 at Broken Pencil's Canzine West! I hope to have a BIG TASTY FULL COLOUR 50 PAGE COMIC of my Europe trip journal, that will inevitably be expensive to make. I might buy a colour laser printer.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Lotsa inktober!
Here's the last couple of days worth of INKtober drawings. I skipped the 5th and the 7th, I'm eternally sorry.
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
INKtober!
Did you know that October is international INKtober month?? draw a new ink drawing every day for the month of October....inky! I've decided that I'm getting on this train, although I missed the first day here's October 2nd and 3rd. I think I'll be posting every couple of days instead of every day because scanning sucks.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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