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still very very slowly making art!! i'll have my little 8pg accordion zine about tidepools at seattle art book fair may 11 & 12 -- in slightly different colors because of [fucked up the riso printing process]

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do you have a tip jar or patreon or anything?

ooh i do not because i live a very "sign up for 8 platforms and so immediately forget they exist" lifestyle but if you want to throw a dollar or two at the PCRF or Crips for eSims for Gaza neither has donation minimums i believe!!

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i'm sorry did you say street magic

i'm sorry did you say street magic is a game about creating a strange magical city with your friends, it runs completely gmless, and it can either be a fun game to play with friends, or a tool to create a town to play in

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some things that i experienced in 2023.... i did not make a ton of art this year and most of it was cats lksdjfksd but that's how it goes!

see you all in 2024 🫡 if you are not there already

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31st December 2023.

They still need more esims. Please refer to the website on how to purchase esims.

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some things that i experienced in 2023.... i did not make a ton of art this year and most of it was cats lksdjfksd but that's how it goes!

see you all in 2024 🫡 if you are not there already

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i started 2017 with the extremely ambitious resolution to do tiny daily comics and failed in dramatic, spectacular, entirely predictable fashion. but! i still enjoy some of these quite a bit! 

i want to give it another shot next year–the loose, fast scribbling + trying to find something funny/document-able about each day was a really good exercise–but i need to work out a schedule that i can actually stick to

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my piece for the @swimonzine! you can get the pdf with over a hundred cool sharks for $1+ here

bull sharks can live in salt and freshwater (growing up in mangroves & salt marshes then migrating upriver or to the ocean), a cool fact i briefly attempted to work into the illustration before giving up and just dumping some weird old tech in there

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my sf zine fest haul* (*did not have a chance to even do a little loop around the floor lskdfjskl), PENCILGUY from the best maker-of-fellows in the business @sleepnoises & this needlefelted FISH OF MY HEART from @amserpand

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Is there a place I can buy your zines online?

hey!! lskdjfds so i got like 70% of the way through setting up an online store and then got distracted / now need all my stock for conventions BUT I DO REALLY WANT TO uh, like, let people who do not live in the pnw get zines! if they want them! so..... i'm thinking like. nov/dec of this year (after portland zine symposium)?

tl;dr Watch This Space i WILL get my act together and offer some stuff online, hopefully soon

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FASCINATE, a new minicomic that i will have at SF ZINE FEST this sunday (9/3)! come to table 38 and pick it up along with uhh slkfjsd books that will hopefully have arrived at my house before friday! i guess!!

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it's time for the FALL/WINTER 2023 (zinefest) COLLECTION -- catch me around the pnw at SF Zine Fest, Olympia Zine Fest, and Portland Zine Symposium!

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Perhaps Asher was learning to read their unhappiness too, because she said, “I promised to get you all through here, and I meant it.” “Not all of us,” said Cascabela. They stood a little ahead, and they didn’t look back as they spoke, but it was clear they meant to be heard. Their carapace was a black bulk wreathed in smoke from the flame that burned in their palm. They looked unhelpfully like an allegory.

friends i read in one sitting & truly can't recommend enough The Iron Children -- it's an INCREDIBLE ensemble cast at odds with one another in an impossible situation (war) now forced to work together in a smaller impossible situation (manager quit one day into your internship and handed the entire project to the intern). It's about loyalty and duty, cyborgs, religious ethics…… really really character-driven science fiction at its best!!

i love these STUPID SAD CYBORGS so MUCH please read this book

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hey everyone i'm BACK with a new and updated cat commission format! here is the deal:

this form will be open 8AM - 8PM pacific time tomorrow july 15th

pay-what-you-want on completion

these will be slow, i'm hoping to get a pool of cats that i can randomly pull from over like.... many months

essentially what you're signing up for is "probably a cat picture one to twelve months from now" at pwyw rates! $20 per would be lovely but slkfdslkj these are going to happen so far out so please pay whatever circumstances permit at the time

>> COMMISSION FORM HERE &lt;<

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a little drawing i made for a risograph workshop! loosely referenced from this cat photo by Kutygin Eduard which i love very much

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where/how did you learn how to draw cats? i LOVEEE your style

ahhh thank you so much!!! my method which i DO recommend was to get in deep parasocial relationships with all my friends' cats and do nonstop fanart.... here's a bunch from last year:

you can kind of see i'm still figuring out shapes.... sldkfjs also IN BETWEEN the b/w batch and the current batch (several months?) i fully forgot how to draw cats and did a few iterations on the very first cat drawing to decide how i wanted them to look:

also a huge fan of (as with basically any art i do!) looking at how other people draw/simplify the subject and trying out pieces of it for size!! (like, "oh this artist i like does cat faces in THIS way, can i apply that to this photo ref") uh and i definitely use reference heavily, the poses are pretty directly pulled from the photos folks sent in!

i know sometimes anatomy study (skeleton, musculature, etc) is recommended & i FULLY believe this would be helpful in understanding poses and drawing cats without photo ref but i'm.... distractible & easily bored.... slkfjds so i have a lot more fun approaching from a "how do i stylize THIS specific photo" angle

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batch of cat commissions!!!! everyone's creatures are really really incredible