There Are Lots Of Things To Love About Springtime.  One Being Buttercups, Which May Be The Cutest Flower. 

Really excited to share the final product with everyone with weekend #spx2015 #cauldronsandcasseroles

For the past couple of months, I’ve been madly preparing for May Day in Baltimore with an event in celebration of Robin Hardy’s The Wickerman. My friend Melissa LaMartina and I organized the event complete with bands playing songs from the soundtrack, burlesque performances, an actual maypole with an actual maypole dance (thank you Chuck and Chelsea!), a humongous wickerman photobooth (seen above, featuring me in my Summerisle lady garb and our very own Lord Summerisle himself), and an art show featuring gorgeous work from artists Monica Amneus, Alan Brown, Michael Bukowski, Zé Burnay, Shirley Chan, Jeanne D'Angelo, Alex Fine, Mandi Johnson, Justine Jones, Cailin Marie, Janna Morton, Becca Stadtlander, Maureen Sullivan, and Jabari Weathers. Jimmy Giegerich also designed a shirt from Pizza Party Printing specially for the event (and you can get that shirt here). I designed and illustrated the poster, a 2-color limited-edition screen print, which you can get here for $15.

Everything about Sunday was a blast and I couldn’t be more proud of how it turned out or more thrilled by all the hard work and response by everybody involved.

And now, come. It’s time to keep your appointment with the wickerman.

Here's a little preview of a new assignment I'm working on, which is very vague, but I'm having fun with it, and will hopefully be able to show you the final product soon.  Pulling together some reference for this one, I discovered that the white ermine moth might be one of the prettiest insects I've ever seen.

It's official!  I've flip flopped a lot, but Tumblr is now the new home for my illustration blog.  Just the fact that I feel more inclined to update this baby tells me that this is probably the way to go.  It's good timing because I've been feeling really excited about working lately, getting new things started, keeping a proper sketchbook, and being overall less precious about my art.  Not everything needs to be perfect, but it's worth it to just put things down, and draw and draw and draw.  And after all perfection is subjective.  That's going to be my outlook for this year, and I'm hoping that fun new work will result, so keep checking back! 

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween full of ghostly seances and congress with the spirits...

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HOW DID I NOT KNOW PING WAS ON TUMBLR. FORGIVE ME, PING! I'm super late on the game, so everyone is following her by now, right? Because everyone loves beautiful things, right?

life is better with colors.

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon! This silly little strip is my submission to Atomic Books'  Mutant! #3, which they'll be releasing for Free Comic Book Day. Check out the previous issues here.

Spoiler alert: she dead! I actually really love Sailor Moon. I collected the comics, and copied the drawings voraciously (there's probably a seriously embarrassing sketchbook full of them somewhere). It was definitely a huge influence...and I might still watch the show.......?

New piece for the New York Times Letters section about the rise and perhaps over-diagnoses of ADHD. It's up today online: check it out! Thanks to art director Alexandra Zsigmond.

kaiju!

My boyfriend Jimmy and I (much more rarely on my part) collect kaiju figures, and as you can see, we have a good amount (though not compared to the hard core collectors). So, since I see these every time I enter my door, and because they're really a lot of fun and have some wild designs, I decided to do a little painting of Kittyfire. She's one of the few female giant monsters and you can see her there in the right corner of the photo. So many of them have such awesome color variations and this figure has one of my favorites: red-orange on a glow-in-the-dark base. Very nice.

Next I definitely want to paint some Hedorahs once I clear my plate a little! And Agasukeron! Heck yes.

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Big news indeed! Check out Jimmy Giegerich's excellent work, now in cartoon form! More episodes are on their way too!

Big news! My comic, Executioner and Friend, has been turned into a cartoon by the fine folks at Mondo Media! You should check it out, and if you dig it, like, share, and comment so that I can keep making more!

Also, like Executioner and Friend on Facebook if you feel like it!

AND if you want to read the original comic you can buy it on my store or on gumroad!