An Attempt at a Libretto (a word I’ve just learned to spell)

A mini-opera experiment for ENO

In which I learn about the terms and some difficulties one encounters while creating an opera.

Weekend at Barry’s

We had an amazing weekend at my best friend’s fiance’s family’s house, during which we took a hot air balloon ride, played with their gorgeous dogs, and ate too many times a day. Now I can come home and work on my book, pretending that I am a character that lives that kind of life all the time…

Here’s a photo of Clarence, the gorgeous mutt who keeps their house safe from the Fed-Ex truck.

Recipes for the Dead: Issue 2 and Issue 3

So, I know I’m rubbish at posting updates, and I’m absolutely sorry about that, but here I am finally – and here are some happy-making updates!

Recipes for the Dead: Issue 2 – Apricot Asylum is done! If you’d like to own a copy of your own (and Issue 1 as well!), you can totally do that now here: greenteapublishing.com

Meanwhile, I’m so proud to announce that Allison and I are completely hidden in our burrow, working on Issue 3. I’m mostly proud of the Issue 3, rather than being hidden in a burrow. Right. Anyways! AND even better, we have an editor now, the amazing Mr. Knave of the Eisner and Harvey-winning anthology Popgun. We are so proud of this our buttons are fit to burst! Thanks, Adam!

 

Happy 2012, punks

2011 has been a crazy year full of introspection and beginnings to projects and no clear endings to anything – until Dec. 31st. It’s been a bit rough working on things and barely seeing the buds soldiering out of the resistant soil… but no matter. Of course, many amazing things have happened, but I want something that I can really show for myself. And to you guys.

So, here’s some of what’s been happening.

RocoCookie Shop Promo Ad

Check out this marvelous preview of Recipes for the Dead: Issue 2: Apricot Asylum drawn and enchanted by the frakin’ awesome Allison Strom. This crazy thing was painted using the Copic markers that those wonderful people sent to her as a present. Between Allison’s artgenius and Copic’s generosity, I feel like Hannukah has come a full week early.

5 Tips for Running a Comics Project

The kind folks from Kickstarter kindly asked if I’d be interested in writing 5 tips on how to run a successful comics project on Kickstarter. If you know me, you might know that I’ve been successfully using their site since 2010 to fund my comics. I funded Recipes for the Dead: Issue 1 (Dark Delight with Cranberries), Recipes for the Dead: Issue 2 (Apricot Asylum) and To Stop Dreaming of Goddesses all on this incredible site.

I definitely owe much of my success to these amazing people. So, I delightedly assented to their small request and wrote up my 5 tips in order to help the next comics writer/artist create a successful comics project.  I’m already seeing some comics projects that are using some of the successful techniques and it makes me feel warm on the inside to know that we can do this, regardless of how unconnected, unknown, and unknowing we were before we did this.

So check out the tips here: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/5-tips-for-running-a-comics-project and know this; you can create something amazing and see it to fruition. Good luck!

xo

Copic Marker and Notebook Preview!

A glorious email had reached the headquarters of Recipes for the Dead!  It came from Copic Marker, the rockstar creators of amazing re-fillable markers that are used to kick art up and down around the world, and they have generously offered to sponsor the creation of Recipes for the Dead.

We can’t wait to start subjecting these gorgeous markers to some crazy art torture! Thanks for the love, Copic!