Your humble author will be at this year’s Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia September 3-6.
I’ll be tabling with my good friends Becky and Frank from Tiny Kitten Teeth (table # yet to be determined).
I’ll be hanging out, selling books, taking custom painting commissions and getting drunk. The usual.
HULK DRUNK!
Come by the Comics and pop artists’ alley and say hi!
So I’ve sloughed off my lethargy from the Chicago move and things are holding together, however precariously. Looking for employment has been disheartening and a few underlying personal issues which I won’t trouble you with put the strip on hold well into the three-month period, my second hiatus of that length in the comic’s run. With the end of this low period comes another stylistic change once this chapter terminates. I will be rewriting and drawing the entire beginning section of the comic to fit the stylistic change from brush to crowquill, and I will be re-toning each strip by hand. The amended first section will be available in the first print run of the GO YE DOGS! mini comic this fall.
While I’m still piecing together the shambles of my business, my personal life is steadfastly happy. I don’t have to panic about money, yet. My family supports me. I’m living in a new and exciting city with two of my fondest and most talented friends. After nearly two years of mulling it over, I am in a certain way with a man, a dearer friend still. And I love him. I get to eat fresh, beautifully colorful vegetables every day and drink more than my fill of cold Midwestern beer into the night. Life is not just right, but right enough. I am satisfied. Now it’s time to draw.
Please forgive the delay while the artist ties up loose ends before he moves to Chicago. Thanks ever so much for your patience.
-M
Hey Funny Animal fans! News galore.
I spent this corporate-endorsed non-holiday back in Savannah with my main squeeze Miles. It is his birthday today! It was so lovely taking pulls of Wild Turkey with all of my cartoonist friends and fading off into sleep in the arms of my man. I’m so pleased and happy. Atlanta was hit hard by that odd burst of deep-south snow, the kind we rarely see, and the entire metropolitan area was all sixes and sevens for the weekend, so it was nice to get out, though the snow on the trees was breathtaking.
In business news, my interview with Eleanor Davis and the other creators of the Secret Science Alliance is finally up on the Comics Journal. It’s my first professional interview with a group of cartoonists I seriously idolize, so please be kind in your consideration.
