some pictures are worth more than a thousand words

hut hut, yo.

this is what i do when i'm not doing anything.

good soldier

let me axe you sump'n...

i am working on another comic, at least 3 pages long (i've done 2.5 pages on it already, so...) but i couldn't resist sharing these two pencil panels before i ink them. i was especially proud of this one. i can very clearly see the influence some of my favorite artists have had on my style in this drawing. that makes me happy. my school has been comics and other artists (and JCJC - in the haouse!), so that matters to me. it's graduatey. drawing perspective has always been a challenge for me and to me this shows that i AM getting it, and then it's just an emotionally powerful drawing, straight from the heart.
oh, and the detail on the axe head is !@#$ awesome. ;)

and just fyi, the axe is just a fun thing to draw - not an actual THEME in my work, i promise. it's also good symbol for how i'm feeling... but, if i REALLY snapped and went genocidal, i'd use something blowey uppey. and who's gunna let ME get ahold of anything like that, i ask you? (*building a hadron collider in the shed*)

Chapeau (Shappo), Part 1.

This was a hard story to tell. I hope no one innocent is injured in any way by my telling it. I just should have told it sooner.
This is for my brother on his birthday.




Our house caught fire in the night while there were no adults at home. After that, my family had to move to a rough place near the cemetery while our new home was built.


I understand a lot more now. I have tried hard to puzzle things out from her perspective as well, as best i can of course. I have thought about postpartum depression, about the kinds of things doctors prescribed back then, about her own past and mental health issues, about her state of living and state of mind in general and i am able to feel sorry for all of that, and still none of it makes any of this ok. and it's not just her either. but mothers aren't supposed to abandon or hurt their children. NO one is. But especially mothers.





- continued in part 2...

Chapeau (Shappo), Part 2.

none of us had a chance, in some ways. some heartaches are inescapable.




**(he really IS everywhere.)
and not ALL of us. Mandy and Shawn are good, fairly normal kids - sorry, people.


Mokie is here in this picture. He's just run off down the hill for a minute. :)