I have a new long piece at Cartoon Movement about faith-based crisis pregnancy centers in the Bay Area. I visited a bunch of them over the last couple months pretending to be naive and knocked-up. A column detailing why and how I did it will be up later today is right here.
I have a new piece up at Cartoon Movement about my trip with Cartooning for Peace to Corsica in June. And this weekend is Zine Fest! Where I will be selling comics per usual with the inimitable Joey Sayers. It’s the 10th annual Zine Fest, so if you’re in the Bay Area, I recommend stopping by — after all, it’s free.
In two weeks, I will have a big new piece up at Cartoon Movement culminating a lot of research and reporting over the last couple months. I’m pretty excited about this one.
Another month has passed! Holy crap! Here’s the first half of my latest 7×7 piece, about gay pride events in San Francisco; part two is here.
Stay tuned for all the comics I’ve been working on that I am contractually obligated not to show you yet, sorry — two upcoming pieces for Cartoon Movement, plus three other top-secret things are in the works…
I’m on deadline (four, actually) and coming down with a cold, but I wanted to point you to this column I wrote for Cartoon Movement today about how personally and politically rewarding and economically dreadful it is to draw local cartoons. (It is all of these things, a lot.)
(Apparently some people came away from this with the perception that the SF Appeal is struggling, because somehow that is a more obvious conclusion than that I am doing awesome. So let me say again: we’re both doing great, bringing the magic every day, and no one is going too hungry in the process.)
Though my schedule prevents me from contributing to the thriving, wonderful SF Appeal on the regular these days, I am looking forward to bigger one-offs for them in the not-distant future. Eve Batey at the Appeal believed in this kind of work when no one else did; it’s stunning to me to think about how much has changed for me and for, I think, the acceptance of comics journalism in media in such a short time. I will always be thankful to Eve for the opportunity and launchpad. <3 <3 <3
Okay, back to those deadlines! I’ll have something to show for them very soon!
Man I am really terrible at writing headlines. Anyway! Today my first in a three part series on the recent travails of the San Francisco Police Department went up over at the SF Appeal. Expect parts two and three later this week and next; I’ll post the whole thing here when it’s complete. The corruption, the FBI, the revoked press passes — trust me, it only gets crazier.
My full Kid Koala piece is up at the Noise Pop site now.
I’m not sure if it’ll run anywhere else, but there it is!
This was a blast to do. Usually I’m forced to report a story separate from drawing it, taking reference photos and notes to work from later at home, but this show gave me the opportunity to sketch the entire piece on site, which I think comes across in the quality of the drawings.
I can only hope more editors give me the chance and space to do work like this in the future.
Hiiiint.
I went to Noise Pop last weekend to report on the festivities, along with some other cartoonists. This is the first page of my piece about the Kid Koala show, which was really wonderful — there are two more pages after this one, all in one long scrolly chunk. It should be up in full at the Noise Pop site soon — I’ll link it here when it’s live.
This one seems to have struck a chord on the #BaySnoMG Twitter thread. (As of Friday afternoon, it’s sunny skies all around.)
I updated the events page with some actual sweet upcoming events: comics demo at the Museum of Craft and Folk art in SF in March, a comics journalism workshop/panel at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston in April, and a whole mess of comics conventions are on the docket for the next couple months. Hope to see some of you at some of these.
I haven’t decided yet when I will start using different me’s at the bottom there. Maybe soon, maybe not.