Tabling in Toronto
Here I am in the big, big city, folks! I’m such a stay-at-home of late that if feels like a huge adventure, even though I know travelling like this is […]
Here I am in the big, big city, folks! I’m such a stay-at-home of late that if feels like a huge adventure, even though I know travelling like this is […]
Since I’m off to TCAF this week I decided it would be fun to blog as I go, even though I’m not taking my computer – I really want to […]
A few days ago, I got an email that set my heart to racing and my feet to jumping up and down in a happy dance — I’ve been accepted […]
How often do April Fool’s Day and Easter fall on the same day? I couldn’t resist the urge to do this funny li’l guy, once he’d popped into my head! […]
Seems like crows are everywhere these days. For us urban dwellers, they’re one of the few representatives of wildlife we see on a regular basis. Social media is full of […]
When I first decided to keep this public studio journal, the plan was that it would make me feel guilty if I didn’t report to the world my progress in […]
Hourly Comic Day is an informal, annual event started in 2009 by John Campbell. It takes place on February 1. Here’s a really good post about it by Sarah McIntyre. […]
Every room tells a story. A room full of stuff tells even more stories, if you can focus on each bit and its interrelationship to other bits. Which is a […]
When faced with overwhelming details in a big job, if there is no clear beginning point, I often start with the easy stuff just to get started. From there, order, […]
Whenever I’m faced with a daunting project, I always think of it as a tangle of string, and start searching for an end to tug, tracing the knots to unwind […]
All that measuring of artwork for my previous post gave me an idea: why not do the same thing, only by the week? And report on other things going on […]
Happy New Year! Here’s this bright shiny year, as full of promise as an blank sheet of paper, and maybe as scary too, for the same reasons. Thankfully, we all […]
We’ve reached that strange time at the end of the year that I call Holiday Limbo. I saw it described in a post on Facebook as “…that time between Christmas […]
That has kind of a nice ring, eh? “The Cats of Yule” — I think it should be a song, or maybe the name for an Irish-style fiddle tune! I’ve […]
If you’ve been following me for a while, you may remember that back in January, I was working on a comic about dinosaurs for an anthology. I wanted to wait a […]
I’ve been so busy with Inktober, and it’s all been Quadra Cats — inking the comic pages and doing the little drawings of interplanetary felines. So I haven’t had time […]
It’s a turtle. Why a turtle? Because I’m very slow off the mark in reporting on a week of my life that challenged and inspired me, while scaring me a […]
It’s time to share some more Inktober drawings! At halfway through the month, I’ve been flagging a bit, trying to keep up with all my other drawing work, in addition […]
I’ve been thinking about seasons and cycles lately; not only the natural ones, but personal and cultural ones. I have noticed that one of my sets of seasons consists of […]
How ’bout that headline, eh? I can think of all kinds of things it could be about if I read it in a newspaper! But since you’re reading it here, […]
Did I mention that the Quadra Cats have returned from their summer vacation, too? No I did not! Here’s the cover to book 3, The Feline Federation, now up on […]
Now that I’m back in my nice quiet studio, and caught up on all the things that need catching up on after a trip, I’m starting to make some time […]
When first I embarked on this attempt to tell about my inspiring two weeks on the west coast of Vancouver Island, I thought seven days would be plenty. It’s not. […]
A love of aquariums came upon me suddenly around the age of nine or ten. Not those little ten-gallon things you keep a few goldfish in — I had one, […]
Do you ever have a dream where you find some kind of treasure, only to wake up and find that it was only a dream, but still with a sense […]