I Drew this picture for my sister Cassidy for her birthday, which was a while ago. I’m just getting around to posting it now! Cassidy and I have collaborated on a couple sweet chapbooks, featuring her riddles and poetry and my illustrations. Actually, that reminds me, we should print more of both books…
So! I made the journey with a couple pals to White River Junction to witness my brother Dakota’s Cartooning MFA commencement ceremony at the Centre for Cartoon Studies.
Pictured: Jonah, Dakota, comics
It has so far been a joy to hang out again in the comics community at White River Junction, where half the village are incredible cartoonists and the other half are probably jealous of the cartoonists. Having taken in some workshops here last summer, this was a return trip I had been excited to make. Something about the connectedness of the comics community around CCS is invigorating and something I am in complete awe of. Congratulations White River, Center for Cartoon Studies, and Dakota McFadzean, MFA.
Well! That old idiom ‘when it rains it pours’ is fairly applicable to my world. Though I would alter it slightly to a less elegant ‘when it rains, I disappear into a world of work for months at a time.’ My art practice has been in full swing for a while, though you wouldn’t know it from the blog I keep. Art shows, chapbooks, and action figures are on my mind lately.
I’m going to make my Knew Year’s resolution (as in “I knew I’d forget to start following through with my resolutions until April”) to not just exist in the bubble of my studio. Let’s try to get me some blog traffic. Let’s try to put up some content. That seems like a good place to start.
Also: I’ve been drawing this monster guy for a little while. If anyone out there knows what to call it let me know before I give it a really stupid name that I’m sure to regret but keep anyway out of obligation to my unconscious obsessiveness. I’m thinking Wolfman Face!
Judy, Catie
‘Tis the season to be jolly. Between studio work and familial obligations I spent a night drawing my friends an image for a Christmas party they are throwing. I did this for them for fun, but hopefully they did not think I was making fun of them. It’s been a while since I’ve drawn real people, so this drawing only turned out somewhat accurate… oh well. Their original want was a pin-up christmas themed drawing of the two of them which wound up being more ambitious than I had time for. Also drawing your friends in festive negligee is weird. Also also: horrible christmas sweaters are rad.
Please email me if you would like a semi-accurate and strange sketch of yourself.
I recently received a package from my dear friend Amy Lorencz who now lives in Halifax whilst pursuing a Masters of Library and Information Studies degree. She had promised to send me a few bulbs of her father’s very delicious garlic after getting settled into her new home and mentioned that she may put in some games that she no longer needed as well.
Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a penchant for (especially older) video games. It looks like I have some very good gaming in my future. Much love and thanks Amy!
And the garlic is delicious!