A cartoon illustration of a group of dogs in a park holding sticks and a ball in their mouths underneath a banner titled "Annual Bring your Favorite Stick or Whatever". Caption reads "I'm so glad we do this every year."
One week from today (Tuesday, December 16th at 6pm) I’ll be at my beloved local outdoor bookstore, Bart’s Books, for an interactive evening with fellow Ojaian and powerhouse cartoonist Shay Mirk.
We’re celebrating the publication of Making Nonfiction Comics, a comprehensive illustrated guide for everyone who’s ever wanted to tell stories about the world around us in words and pictures. (If you can’t make the event, that link takes you to bookshop.org where you can buy the book online.)
Look at this chonker!
This beast is a collaboration between Shay and fellow cartoonist Eleri Harris and it is so!! good!!! In addition to Eleri and Shay’s hard-won expertise, there are also interviews and tips from so many big names in the field. You can learn about crafting everything from on-the-ground protest reportage to deep dive historical research to authentic personal narrative. This book is going to be the gold standard for years to come.
I feel lucky to have a brief cameo talking about running a community drawing night in Portland for several years in the twenty teens. Here’s a look at that:
This baby can fit so many cartoonists in it! (2013)
If you’re in the area, do come by. I’m gonna show off some kelp farming comics, Shay’s gonna talk about making the book, it’s gonna be very fun. Ojai may be 80º during the day right now, but it gets chilly after dark, so bundle up! We’ll have zine templates for folks to fill out and fun slides to share and, knowing Shay, killer snacks.
Contrary to popular belief, not every flower both looks and smells good. However, that’s not the case with Chocolate Cosmos, known for its deep, velvety color and its subtle cocoa-like fragrance. Our Crepe Paper Dark Chocolate Cosmos video workshop captures this flower’s rare, exotic elegance in crepe paper for a project that’s both dramatic and playful.
THE real BIG FIGHT ;-)
Note: I sincerely hope that the MMA fighter on the far right (both literally and figuratively) will suffer a crushing defeat.
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