#end of summer

[petaltexturedskies]

September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can't face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951

[emilyscartoons]

BACK FROM SUMMER HIATUS

I posted this comic one year ago, and it marked at a turning point for me both artistically and personally. I started making monthly long form comics like this on my Patreon, which has become the main output for my work, and travelled for the first time to Lisbon, which I'm lucky enough to now call home

It also turned out to be our last summer with Nellie, who died in February of this year. Then, last month, I myself became an auntie for the first time, and was able to share some of the baby's beautiful first days. For once, I'm relatively at peace with the summer coming to an end

New comics coming soon - now for some Virgo season admin:

If you want to read the rest of this comic, and many more, head to my PATREON and sign up to the $2 tier! The comic can be found in September 2022. As I say, this is where all my best work goes currently

SHOP IS BACK, with booklets and prints - more on this to follow.

If you would like a silly, fun, brightly coloured book with tons of jokes - BLOODLUST & BONNETS, my queer fantasy graphic novel, remains available in shops

And if you would like an even bigger graphic novel with less colour but more jokes and plot intrigue about tech CEOs trying to take over the world (cough Elon), TWELVE PERCENT DREAD is also still available online and in bookstores!!

That's all for now, luv ya xxxx

[classycoffeesublime]

Anything food related >>

[theemeraldforesthideout]

[cubur]

Meeting again ...after the summer 🌅

[bebemoon]

late september; saying our good-byes .

[socialbutterfly19]

Last day at the pool

[incorectpercyjackson]

Sally, picking up Percabeth from Camp at the end of Summer: So, how was your break? Percy: We almost got surprise adopted! Sally: What? Annabeth: We almost got kidnapped Sally: Oh, ok Sally: slams breaks YOU WERE WHAT?!

[frequentpondcrosser]

So here's an end of roaming

On eves when autumn nighs:

The ear too fondly listens

  For summer's parting sighs,

  And then the heart replies.

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from Dogfish, featured in Dream Work

[aviationgeek71]

Solitude of Change

With only the soft whisper of a September's breeze, old barns savor the solitude of season's change...

Pataskala, Ohio. September 10, 2023.

By @aviationgeek71

[retr0-dayz]

end of summer nostalgia

[oneleggedflamingo]

01.09-23

Two of my faves. :3

- Vivera Rossi

[classycoffeesublime]

Summer in the vineyard

[socialbutterfly19]

I don’t want summer to be over

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

end of summer