Plus comicfest, markets, and new art
May 30, 2024
Hello!
At the start of the month I did the comic zine market! I only had some comics & bookmarks so it was nice and low effort. I was once again faced with the knowledge of multiple people telling me that they studied my webcomic (overgrown) in uni or wrote papers on it, which is wild. I made a little tiktok vlog here.
This weekend I will be at the Newtown Vintage & Craft market! If you’re in Wellington and have wanted to get anything from me in person recently that’s your chance. Unfortunately cancelled as people had to pull out. This may be the case again in July, I’ll keep updating I guess.
I’ll also be applying to the Winter Zinefest which is in July - hopefully I’ll get in to that! I do actually have a bunch of new zines planned and in the works. Otherwise this is my events for the next few months:
All in Wellington other than Spring Armageddon in Auckland.
I have started holding weekly raffle giveaways to encourage people to donate to fundraisers for Palestinians escaping Gaza:
This week is a set of all my old books bookmarks & stickers. Probably next week will be my roots of chaos art, the following weeks probably mostly original stuff again!
To enter:
Even if you don’t want to enter this giveaway, please consider finding another verified gofundme on operation olive branch an donating what you can, or by buying an esim - which are one of the only ways people in Gaza are able to communicate with the outside world. If you want any other incentives to donate - the Cartoonists Collective is a large group of artists doing commissions in exchange for eSim donations, Sara’s Bookish Macarons is doing an exclusive custom macaron giveaway (US only, til June 4), Artists4Gaza has numerous commission and merch prizes, as does Commissions of Hope.
New Art
I drew a lichen creature. a bog girl. just for fun. I have prints of this coming soon.
I read Someone You Can Build A Nest In last month and it was fun! I wanted to draw a silly little drawing of Shesheshen and Blueberrry. I struggle with drawing Silly Little Things, and I do like the first version (no hat) but I wanted it to be simpler and cuter, which…..maybe the version with the hat is. idk.
I’ve been working on a few new things…… I have four new bookmarks coming! Two new fungi designs (rounding out my fungi to more or less a rainbow, if we count this as both yelloworange)
and two new book spines, a fantasy pair:
I will be getting proofs of these in the next week hopefully, so I’ll probably be posting about them soon.
I’ve also been thinking about some new wood pin designs! Hopefully I’ll get around to ordering these & restocking my other ones later in the year.
Plus a couple things that are in progress or I just haven’t posted yet:
Good Books I’ve Read
Delicious In Dungeon - I read the whole thing in like 3 days after having started the anime. It’s very good.
Where Sleeping Girls Lie - a YA mystery thriller about a girl investigating the disappearance of her roommate at the rich boarding school she recently started at.
A Dark and Drowning Tide - a great fantasy romance exploring dark fairytales. see the above wip that I started before even finishing the book
