I “finished” my Sketchbook Project. There is a lot missing that I wanted in here that I couldn’t draw due to pain and forced myself to complete it because I sunk $40 on the thing. Speaking of pain, I don’t have carpal tunnel which isn’t really good news yet. I’m waiting for lab results to tell me if I have a disease or if I’m going to be crippled for the rest of my life. I’m still overwhelmed by the prospect of not doing art as a Serious Thing and can’t really put into words what I am feeling so I won’t try.

Anyway here are pictures of the shitty hardcover book I handmade that you can view in the Brooklyn Art Library and on tour whenever it goes on tour whateverwhocaresholyshit.

One of the last things I drew before my ailment was my Smut Peddler comic Overboard. We’ll be having a Kickstarter at some point, so I will post about that when it happens, but you totally want this book if you are of legal age and a cool person cause all cool people will have it trust me.

I’m closing down Sage Comics next month. It’s time. If you’re a fan I hope you continue to keep up with all the comics you liked from our roster that are still updating and support the ones who have moved on with their new projects.

Okay I guess I have to say something about Two Rooks. The diagnosis I get this month will decide what’s going to happen with that, my currently closed freelance business, and pretty much everything in my life…but I do know that not completing 2R when I’m so close will make me feel like the biggest failure and probably impede me from ever drawing again even for fun so don’t worry about that. What I have absolutely no clue on is printing it. That’s a rant for another day when I know what the fuck my problem is and it will probably involve a reader poll or something if there are even any readers left.

See you in February.

Nena’s secret dudes who she has to write about or I’m going to kill her I MEAN IT.

I developed carpal tunnel or RSI or tendonitis or something about a week ago for the first time. Slowly switching to an ergonomic work space and sleeping in wrist braces but I can’t draw or type or do anything for longer than a few minutes at a time which means if it isn’t important I don’t do it.

Except when I really really want to. :S I finally found a new printer that looks super promising. A little pricey but worth it. I’ll have second editions available this month or next but Serus’ back story is taking forever so I have no idea when I can put out volume 2.

[edit] Maybe because I have no idea how to draw children.

SERUS’ DAD IS SO COOL AND BUYS HIM AND HIS FRIEND ICE CREAMS AND SITS THROUGH GAMERA AND THEN DIES FORM RADIATION POISONING so sad. ok so it’s set quite a bit later than that

Everything I could find looked weird to me so I made my own.

So, I have a Tumblr now. I don’t like or understand Tumblr but WordPress has a plugin for everything. Since I’m cross-posting to not two but three sites now I’m going to scale back posts into occasional art dumps to stop crowding your list with my junk. Sorry for that LJ!

I hate doing self portraits, especially when I just did one, but I need it for a project and buzzed off my hair last week! IT FEELS SO GOOD LADIES YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MISSING.

This is not a happy little tree. Yet.

Been doing a lot of art I can’t show anyone yet but there’s this 99% done thing…

I just sent volume 1 off to the printer for a proof and got slapped with taxes I hadn’t previously been charged (thanks New York, like I haven’t paid you thousands already!). I’m going to be making about $1.50 for each book this time around which I guess is the price to pay for NOT HAVING PAGES FALL OUT OF THREE QUARTERS OF YOUR BOOKS. This is why signature sketches are ridiculously overpriced I’msosorry. orz