This is from a family vacation last winter. I finally made time to draw this! That's what reference photos are for.Hey patrons! I hope the holidays are treating you well. If not, don't worry: ...
2025-12-30 02:39:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry's and my November political cartoon (now with more of Becky's thoughts about transportation below!):
This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts through East Portland. It's flanked on both sides by shopping centers and groce...
2025-12-17 06:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a true story from the children's theater. It must have happened during my first year or two there. I swear I eventually got better at making small talk with children! I've been meaning to turn this anecdote into a comic for years. It was a moment that changed how I think about car crashes...
2025-12-06 21:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Barry's and my political cartoon for October. It's a genre of cartoon I like to call "Nine types of jerks."
As a cartoonist in the internet age, I'm really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as reference photos! I found wheelchairs really hard to draw from photos (wha...
2025-12-02 01:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons! Here's the latest in postcards and sketchbook pages.
I went to a fundraising concert at Portland Center Stage and had some great luck with seating:
This is my September political cartoon for Barry.
In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some galvanizing experiences, like witnessing a 2025-11-03 18:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This was at Pictures Tell The Story: Political Cartooning in Portland. If you have some time, the 2025-10-24 17:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm so pleased with how this postcard turned out! Naomi and I checked out Alchemy Cider Co.--ask about their cider discount if you bike there!--and the evening light on the patio was really gorgeous. I took a picture and made the postcard over the next week.
I can't believe it's late-mid-Oc...
2025-10-17 16:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostBarry wrote this cartoon, and I was happy to draw it. I went to public schools in predominantly-Black neighborhoods from Kindergarten through 9th grade, and I lived in Brooklyn on and off after college, so these neighborhood scenes felt familiar to me.
Speaking of political cartoons, there'...
2025-10-08 17:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I was proud.
I'm really proud of this postcard from The Hollywood Theatre! It's a gorgeous, iconic building that shows new movies and rare/thoughtfully curated ones. It holds a lot of good memories for me.
Hey patrons! I drew this cartoon for Barry last month. I'm really happy with how it looks, so I'm sharing it here, along with our original Patreon post. The comic I drew for Jonathan Baylis' next issue of So Buttons will debut ...
2025-08-25 17:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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I tried to find a link for this hot sauce and got a defunct Square site, but it's this stuff:
T...
2025-08-16 01:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! I've been working hard on a 4-page comic for Jonathan Baylis's next issue of So Buttons. Jonathan writes autobio comics and gets a different artist to draw each one. He has a knack for fitting the right artist to ...
2025-08-08 06:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Every year, Portland celebrates Bike Summer (formerly Pedalpalooza) from June through August (f...
2025-07-29 14:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I love visiting the area that the Turtle River Highway is based on. And I really enjoy getting a chance to draw all the cool dramatic shapes and textures that you don't find in a city.
a photo fr...
Hi Patrons!
I really enjoy how people connect (and sometimes butt heads) over food.
Despite being from Pittsburgh, a pierogi-rich city, I don't have a personal connection to pierogies. According to the internet, "pierogi" is a plural noun, and adding the S is an English thing that ann...
2025-07-11 06:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've drawn more smoking in SuperButch than anywhere else in my life, put together!
Pros:
Historically accurate
Every character always has something to do with their hands
Cons:
How does smoking work, again?
I have to ...
2025-07-04 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Naomi's mom was in town last week, which was a great excuse to go to the Portland Art Museum. The current exhibit centers on Monet's Waterlilies, displayed between collections of the Japanese woodblock prints that Monet was exc...
2025-07-03 15:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
You know I love drawing a background, so let me tell you all about panel 1! Barry describes the setting as "a grassy area at the side of a road, by a hole-in-the-wall town." For an optimal view of the town, I interpreted "grassy area" as a parking lot next to the train station ...
2025-06-28 02:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I enjoy drawing workspaces and clutter, so panel 2 was fun. This is the lobby of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle. They have a bunch of mosaics inside.
Google street view was ...
2025-06-18 05:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll let you be the judge here:
Hi patrons! Happy Pride Month.
It's also the start of 2025-06-01 23:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
It's been a rough week in a couple of ways...
2025-04-14 17:30:12 +0000 UTC
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I've been trying to show up where I can. It's hard to know where to put time and energy, given how many things need attention. A couple weeks ago, I saw a flyer asking people to show up to a City Council meeting to "stop Zenith" (aka show support for a City Council resolution to ask the mayor and...
2025-04-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This postcard was my best imitation of Jaime Hernandez, whose latest comic collection, 2025-04-01 17:04:57 +0000 UTC
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I still get a kick out of the buildings when I visit LA. Seriously, why is the post office an amusement park castle, and what in the half-timbered heck is going on next door?
Naomi and I went to So...
2025-03-20 18:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! This is Becky from the paaast, scheduling a political cartoon to go out while I'm on vacation.
Barry keeps a digital folder of potential political cartoon scripts. Sometimes he'll point my attention to a script that requires drawing specific environments or various historical pe...
2025-01-27 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
Happy new year! I'm sharing a cartoon that I did with Barry last November because a) I'm super happy with it, and b) I'm visiting family for the next 2 weeks and I wanted to post something that's not a half-finished SuperButch page.
Here's what I wrote about the cartoon fo...
2025-01-18 22:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Great news:
I'm the new Patron Services & Office Coordinator for Cappella Romana, a vocal group and genuine buncha...
2024-12-19 06:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all: WOO-HOO! PAGE TWO HUNDRED!!!
It's so gratifying to have a few pages to just draw the heck out of this highway. Especially since Barry lets me ignore his script:
This page is divided into three panels, one on top of the other, each taking up a third of the pag...
2024-12-15 20:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Larry Owens aka Zach from Abbott E...