Beyond excited to be invited to read my comics at the Rochester Indie Comics Expo (RICE) 2025 Slideshow at Writers and Books, Friday night (April 11). RICE, proper, rocked the next day, too.

Read my good-natured jab at “the Siren” (pictured above), here.

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I’m exhibiting at the 2024 Rochester Small Press Book Fair September 28! With a new comic in zine form from my second set of Persephone’s web comics, “Persephone in Stereo.”

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I had a great time at RICE in Rochester, New York, last year, so I’m excited to head back (with TWO new collections) this year! Check out the RICE website, here.

The fest runs from 10 am to 1 pm, Friday, March 22, 2024 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and is open to the public.

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A comic about coffee heaven in the midst of ancient hell. When Persephone goes south for her yearly six-month stint in the Underworld, she runs an independent coffee shop. All to say, when life hands you cursed pomegranates, make lemonade. 🔥 🍋 🌺

It’s drawn from my great decade in indie coffee. If you’re a barista (always a barista), you’ll recognize yourself. If you’ve only been on the customer side of the counter, tip, you bastard.

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered in November. Persephone was drawn, shipped, and otherwise released in 2023.

Or click here to browse the book

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From quitting improv, to sketching comics on the subway, I share my “hero’s journey” of creativity (to Hades!) with podcaster Tom Ray.

Visit his webpage, for tips and insights on the creative life.

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My loot is go

Wednesday, March 22nd, RICE will be co-hosting a comics workshop with Riso Club of Rochester – event details TBD. 

Thursday, March 23rd, Gene Luen Yang will be speaking at RIT in the afternoon and MCC in the evening (please see attached flyer). 

Friday, March 24th at 7pm at the Strong Museum will be the RICE Kickoff Event Comics Showcase featuring 10 comic authors reading from their work, more information here: https://wnycomicarts.com/rice-2023/2023-showcase/

Saturday, March 25th at 10 am (BEFORE the Exhibit Hall opens), graphic novelist Brian Yanish will be leading a children’s comic workshop in the Sibley building. Attendance is free, but registration is required, https://wnycomicarts.com/rice-2023/yanish-workshop/

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“Hourly Comic Day is an annual event that takes place on February 1st where participants draw one short comic for every hour that they’re awake.”

—knowyourmeme.com

Fresno eats at 4:50 am SHARP.

First sun all week. It’s not the cold that gets me, it’s the cloudiness.

Still life with mini donuts. Patti Smith killed me at 9 am with her tribute to Tom Verlaine (Television).

“He devoured poetry and dark-chocolate-covered Entenmann’s doughnuts, downed with coffee and cigarettes. Sometimes he would seem dreamy and faraway then suddenly break into peals of laughter. He was angelic yet slightly demonic, a cartoon character with the grace of a dervish. I knew him then.”

—Patti Smith in The New Yorker

The donuts were my own d*mn fault.

We get one really good sunbeam in here, and it showed up today. 🖤

My friend Liz texted in the noon hour. She has been very obsessed with lavender and goats (milk, cheese) lately. Now, I see lavender and goats everywhere, in a book about monks, in kombucha, as a single carton of goat milk in Wegmans. What do you want from me lavender and goats??

Love her more than anything

I don’t think this is a spoiler? Every character has received and rejected love 200 times now.

And that was Wednesday. ❤️ 🐈‍⬛

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What is 24-HOUR-COMIC Day?

24-Hour Comics Day is an annual international celebration of comics creation. On this day, creative folks take on the challenge to create a 24 page comic book story, normally months worth of work, in 24 straight hours.

— from the 24 Hour Comics Day website

Quick work and slow work

Interestingly, the last two years have been about pacing for me, as far as comics go. Technically, I sped up by about 500% by finally buying an iPad Pro with Procreate. I was a sketchbook monster, like I said, but for my longer comics, I followed a really arduous digital process.

I’d draw fast with a marker on Bristol paper, not pencilling first (I wanted “Zen immediacy”), and then took a photo of it with my phone. Then, I traced the lines in the photo in Illustrator. After that, I cut and moved tons of sections of lines that came out “too Zen.” Then, I added color. If you didn’t get all that, you probably at least noticed there’s like 25 steps.

With the tablet, I use a “marker,” and I can “erase” as I go. It enables my bad behavior of not pencilling first, but I love, love it.

So, the technical aspects of my art sped up. The composition part slowed down.

I want to create stuff that’s more layered, moving and funny. So, I’m actually writing scripts, squirreling them away for a few months, and revisiting them for edits. And repeating. I’m working harder and being patient, and to revisit stuff with fresh eyes. I think the quality of my work has improved.

So, it’s weird that I ended up, for 24-Hour Comic Day, drawing a short story that I’ve been mulling over for two years. I only took a few hours, though, to think through how to adapt it as a comic …

Oct. 9, 2022
I opted to draw a creepy short story I wrote a few years ago, but had not drawn, and finished 12 pages in 24 hours—over a week. That’s very good for me, but next year, I’ll nail that 24-hour challenge.

Read “Donna” here!

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