Here's the original script for this page:
A full page splash panel shows the car driving along and everyone in the car. I’m imagining that we’re looking at it from the front, and slightly elevated, so we can see the people in...
2024-12-06 23:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Just as we started the beach episode of SuperButch, the podcast 99% Invisible did an episode about an unofficial gay beach in New York: Jacob Riis beac...
2024-11-16 00:36:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This post comprises of watercolors that I started weeks or months ago, but I always had something more pressing to work on. I finally made the time to finish them during a cafe-session at Refuge with Barry. Yay!
The page above is a scene fro...
2024-11-13 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The beach-trip issue commences!
Please enjoy this view without the inset panels:
This is the sixth double-page spread in SuperButch. It...
2024-11-08 06:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Here are some things I've been up to in between jury duty, drawing political cartoons for Barry, and being on hold with Unemployment. The watercolor is from a photo I took of Walnut St in Pittsburgh. I hate that natural light mak...
2024-10-27 00:04:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dough Zone was delicious. So was Momosan, which we hit on the way back....
2024-10-13 00:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
I'm about to fly east for a family visit. (First time in Pittsburgh since 2019!) I was trying to finish this spread first, but unemployment knocked me off-schedule. This post was all ready to go, so I'm giving you a preview and a...
2024-09-29 16:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I started this cartoon towards the beginning of summer camp and finished it just in time for the beginning of fall classes. Have I mentioned that drawing multiple panels and picking contemporary hair/outfits adds exponential drawing time to a Beck...
2024-09-22 05:09:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Strong Songs is the musical deep dive I didn't know I needed! It feels so good ...
The box office is right at the top of these stairs, so I overhear complaints/comments about the stairs every day. This one cracked me up, though. I hope the diaper bag, lunch box, and dry cleaning bags communicate that Mommy has, in fact, been run...
2024-08-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
My progress chart said to finish the cover "by 6/10?" and I made it!
This left us four days for Barry to finish lettering the issue, lay out the b...
2024-08-11 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
You read that right: issue eight is going to be a beach episode! A Pacific Northwest beach, so It’s going to have more trees than I have ever drawn.
Barry listed a few ideas for panel 2 in the script:
Panel 2
1988 ...
2024-08-05 03:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Suspense!!
It was my idea for Lillian to accidentally make her beer explode onto Kansas' lap. As always, I dig deep into life experiences to inform my art.
Mona's face in panel 4 makes me laugh. She's disappointed but sooo unsurpr...
2024-07-29 04:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Let’s give Barry a round of applause for the swoopy radio lettering. Even if it covered up some laboriously drawn hands wiping a beer glass in panel 2, per his script 😛
I took this jacket out of retirement to pose for...
2024-07-23 01:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought of the "second beer" gag while I was drawing page 183, in which Lillian face-plants in the alley. Here's my conversation with Barry:
As ...
2024-07-14 15:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Please, someone zoom in to appreciate the era-appropriate buffalo head nickel and mercury dimes that are hinted at in panel 1! Barry thoughtfully looked up the cost of beer in 1941 (about 28 cents) and wrote "one of Lillian’s hands, putting two ...
2024-07-07 15:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
There was a memorable snail in A Year With Frog and Toad, so I saw a bunch of snail-walking from the box office.
This next incident was relayed to me by the house manager, pictured on the left. Once again I got to play with contrast...
2024-07-05 21:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This page has seven new faces that we haven't seen before and won't see again in this issue.
For some of the women, I started by drawing one aspect of Lillian's appearance (face shape, hair, etc) that might catch Captain Turtle's eye, then d...
2024-06-30 21:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
My parents were in town last week, so I took a nice break from the computer.
2024-06-26 02:56:56 +0000 UTC
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This is my "yay I made it and only had to pull over and re-bungee the bike once" face. Luckily the bungees held when I kicked the grid wall which jostled the box which tipped the whole shebang over to one side. That was a wobbly ride!
BwPCon...
2024-06-18 06:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, Barry crushes it with the digital lettering and pain-stars.
Speaking of lettering: old hand-lettered signs are so flipping stylish! Take a moment to admire this exquisite rendition of banal signage.
2024-06-12 17:30:51 +0000 UTC
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Annnd with this, I’m done inking SuperButch Issue 7! We haven’t been finishing the pages in order, but I wanted to share some progress!
2024-06-07 05:14:22 +0000 UTC
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OMIGOSH, so happy to finally get to draw this gag! And can we give Barry a hand for doing the AAAAAAA lettering while I was at the box office, working through 4 shows and a Taylor Swift birthday party? The lettering makes it.
I'd like to tha...
2024-06-02 02:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings from the middle of the fray!
Is this an overambitious plan to finish SuperButch pages approximately three times faster than I've ever don...
2024-05-29 02:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The play was The Wardrobe, if you're curious. It's the first play we've done in awhile that was aimed at tweens and up instead of ages 3+. I'm so happy with h...
2024-05-13 21:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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This cartoon was inspired by an actual meeting. In real life, I was using Zoom on my phone, so my coworkers got a Blair Witch viewing experience while we were trying to discuss collaborative email accounts! I tried to draw it as ...
2024-04-29 23:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Reference for panel 5:
Hi patrons,
It's been a hectic month! Lots of good things (extended-family destination wedding, seeing a cool pl...
2024-04-23 01:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
I've finally re-started on the next SuperButch page! I just needed to step away for awhile, reopen the file, realize that I ignored Barry's script, and then ignore it a different way. Then I spilled a full cup of coffee on my des...
2024-03-20 03:40:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This was very close to a verbatim voicemail. I checked work-email during a staff meeting and everyone wanted to know why I burst out laughing!
On the other extreme, I also like bending reality for the newsletter:
2024-03-02 23:10:24 +0000 UTC
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Tell me this scene isn't lit like a pulp novel cover! I love the blues and pinks on their faces...
My parents have an old paperback bookshelf, and ...
2024-02-23 04:49:37 +0000 UTC View Post