This is the next page that comes after the last page in my new comic, so it's not in the book, but I love it so I'm sharing.

Here's the cover for my latest endevor in comics!! This is not going to be a limited edition of 25 books (because one page is missing) and I am going to do a new edition of the Finger part 2 once I get enough pages together for it to stand alone.
What this book consists of is about 9 pages more of The Finger, and a 7 page long short comic about how colin and I found Jimmy the baby Seagull this summer! That's him on the cover! lil' cutie!
So come down to Word On The Street, at the main library downtown, this sunday from 10 to 6, and buy some comics from me and all my dorkus malorcus comic friends!

Here's page 3 of the Jimmy the Seagull comic, (that's a working title).

If you're wondering what happened to page 1, it hasn't been drawn yet.

This is kinda unusual! A comic post!
I just got confirmation that I will be showing my stuff at Word On The Street book and magazine festival at the downtown library again this fall. I have about five pages of part 2 of The Finger done, so I am kinda under the wire now if I want to have new work to show.
anyway this drawing is not for the Finger, this is a little short story I was working on in tandem with Colin, about finding a baby seagull on the mean streets of East Vancouver. This drawing is not photoshopped yet so you can see all the stains and stuff on the paper. ooo, realism.

Okay, fine I'll show you what the shirt looks like: This has got to be one of the coolest designs we've had so far, and we still have lots of shirts that we need to sell! If you want one, drop me an email, yournamehere19@hotmail.com and I can hook you up! they are 20 bucks a peice, and they're american apparel brand shirts. ooooo nice!

This is fun, here's an article that David Morrison, a fan of GMMF since day one, wrote about our little festival. It's super nice except that they've got an old version of the poster with the article, and I am pretty sure that we send them a new one. Now there's no Sun Wizard and a tonne more sponsors, too. show is in one week today!!!!! I am super pumped. I can't wait to wear a walkie talkie again. kinda makes you want to go into law enforcement or security, them things do! In other news, the design for this years T-shirt has been completed by myself and Mike from Top Drawer, and he made it look so incredibly hot that it absolutely puts me to shame, and I almost don't want to show you.

Hello folks, I thought I would update you all on this years Big Greenie. We've got a deluge of new sponsors since I "finished" the poster, and some bands have come and gone, as usual. This is what the newest version of the poster looks like:

We've got some great new people on board, like a new recording studio that opened up in Nanaimo, The Noise Floor.

here's the final version of this year's Green Mountain Music Festival poster!

Helloo digital fanbase!!

Guess what time of year it is ???

This upcoming thursday there will be a fundraiser for the epic Green Mountain Music Festival 4!! one for every year I've been a teacher. It's going down at the Library Square Pub (which is in the library building, duh) in downtown Vancouver. This is also the first ever public show of MEGABEAR! The new band of Green Mountain founder, former Hotel Lobbyists frontman, and my friend, James Wood. I am so excited to see him play again and I want big bucks for this festival to go down! Get your hineys out peoples.

Guess what time of year it is again??????

Ahh, Bison. Such fine metal we produce here in the Pacific NOrthwest.

Green Mountain is on again this year! The list of crazy awesome bands is getting longer and longer...I hope I can fit them on the poster. We have Bison on board for the headliners again, if any of you were there for Green Mountain 2, you will recall the absolute nuts it was.

Date is going to be July 17th, at Rogers arena...I mean, Tara's farm in Nanaimo again.

February the 1st is hourly comic day!! here's my day.

Here's another page of THE FINGER PART 2 .......still thinking of a catchy name. any suggestions, digital fan base?

on a related note, I bought one of those Kindle e-readers, and I was using it's "experimental web browser"... I could use it to log into this blog, and even type stuff in this little text window, but not upload. I suppose it's because blogger uses pop-up windows. hmmm.

I've been teaching full time art at a really nice school for the past two months. I haven't had much time to draw during class since I actually have responsibilities besides supervision. Also, I no longer have a studio space and have been trying to work out of my apartment, but it's taking a while for me to work out the kinks in that arrangement. All the things I was worried about are all true: distracted by chores, boyfriend, other responsibilities and other activities. Pro's however...no more spending money on burritos, no more radical changes in temperature, and no more extra expense. wee. I promptly spent the extra expence money on upgrading the Wacom tablet and a really distracting, really unnecessary Kindle.

wondering what I've been up to? page 23 of The Finger.

Hello digital fanbase!

for the festive season my parents bought me a Wacom digital drawing tablet! I am really enjoying it, especially those moments where I've been messing around with the mouse, going "this would be SO much easier if I could just do it with a pencil!!"

so to practice I drew this little comic:

Yesterday I participated in the Waldorf Hotel Comic and Zine Fair, in scenic east Van! I had a great time. It was a tiny little affair, with pretty much everyone from the local scene and a few people that I don't know yet. The fair was held in the tiki room basement of the hotel, which was pretty cute. I'd never been to the renovated hotel, yet. I had only seen it when it was a nasty alchaholics dive bar. Anyway, for being such a small affair, I sold a LOT of comics! I think it was because I was moving them for so cheap. I sold them basically at cost, and everyone was able to afford them.

APE CON CON-TINUED!

thought I should say some more about Snan Fransisco.....

after the book launch at floating world in Portland, we got to spend the night with the generous and hospitable Joe Keatinge ( who won an eisner award and a harvey award for his compilation!) he had an awful lot of books in his apartment. The next day we picked up young Farel Dalrymple author of Pop Gun War http://www.popgunwar.com/ to help us drive to San Fransisco. The I5 is always good for fun times like road kill spotting, and punchbuggy religious-propaganda billboard.

Here's Farel driving Friday. I always want to spell his name "Faryl" probably because of the awesome way his last name is spelled.....DALRYMPLE ....also fun to say out loud: "fair-rell dall-rim-pell". The drive down was pretty smooth and uneventful except for the cruel manipulations of a Mazda full of teenage-ish girls up to no goods with my men on the highway. There were three girls in their car plus some large cage containing some kind of animal, which was convenient. Three loose-moraled girls for the lads, and whatever mammal was in the cage for me.
Farel got us into downtown San Fran around 8PM and we went straight to the Last Gasp warehouse party, which was pretty cool....a bunch of cartoonists milling about stacks of books with spilly alchaholic drinks like red wine!! It was really hot and crowded but I felt somehow like I had hit the big time, without even publishing one comic. Did I mention my box of comics never made it? I don't recall. Well, my box of comics never made it so I had nothing to sell/trade for the weekend. Farel Stayed the night at his sisters house, and I felt awesome driving around downtown SF in my own car...I felt like I had gotten some serious XP points on my driving proficiency. If you don't understand that last sentence you shouldn't attend a comic convention.
The city was beutiful but our hotel was ghetto...as was the neighborhood. I got that feeling when I checked it out on google maps street view. My reasoning was that no neighborhood could be worse than our own Downtown East Side, a notorious crack-fueled ground zero of mental illness and poverty for the entire country of Canada...nevertheless, Vancouver crackies don't seem to have the same air of anger and hostility that the american homeless did. Most of the homeless...at home...seem to just want to crack around in their own cracky dance, staring at the ground and such. Our first morning in SF, a fine fellow on the sidewalk outside out hotel greeted us with what we thought was "...THIS IS JOHNSON TOWN!! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GET OUT!!" or something like that. Then he told me to "shut up, bitch!" or something like that.
Well after that, the convention was super fun. Despite not having my books I was well entertained with Dan Clowes, and Julia Wertz, and Vannessa Davis, and Erica Moen and Lynda Barry and Hellen Jo and all sorts.

Here's another little ditty I am putting together for a poster....try to guess the theme.

Hello Friends!

I am back from an epic weekend trip to San Fransisco Alternative Press Expo! I drove down with Robin McConnell of Inkstuds Radio http://www.inkstuds.com/, who happens to be an old roomate of my man Colin, from back in the days before me. Robin is a fantastic hillarious fellow, but he doesn't drive. Colin is a fantastic, hillarious fellow, but guess what he doesn't do? We tried to solicit another driver but nothing worked out so I was psycologically prepared to spend about 40 hours behind the wheel of my car.

Now, in order to streamline the journey, Robin and I shipped our books to Portland to be picked up at his first book launch at Floating world Comics. His books were there, but mine were not. My trip changed from buisness to pleasure. I was dissapointed, but there wasn't much I could do about it. The book launch went fine, and Colin and I got a chance to meet up with our old roomie Jen Whechsler, who lives in Portland now. Portland is a great place, it has light rail!!!

Here's Robin at Floating World, selling the very first copy of Inkstuds to his friend and noted comic book guy, Joe Keatinge.

Well, I participated in my first comic-con today...which wasn't really a comic-con it was the comic room at the Word On The Street book and magazine festival. It was nice, because it was small and there were a lot of people that don't really read comics, coming around to check out everything. When you're at a big, popular con, there's so much density of material, it's nearly impossible to look at everything. I kept my hopes pretty low for today, I expected to sell about ten comics, (five of them being to people I know) and the FIRST PERSON that came to my table bought something! I tried to keep a tally of how much of everything I sold, but I often forgot to write it down. I sold at least 20 comics, and gave away a pile of free cards with prints of our rock posters on them. it's definatly a start. I know now, bring a table cloth, and lots of free stuff to give away, and everyone likes cute animals. Dear Diaryahh 2 with Sweatpants on the cover definatly got the most "traffic", and funnily enough, there is not a single drawing of a guinea pig in that comic. Today was also the debut of my new comic, "THE FINGER- part one, My Right Hand" I was going to call the whole comic My Right Hand, but Colin and I decided that The Finger was more catchy, and funny. Here's what the cover looks like: