I’ve been busy with work, helping a friend redesign her website, and reminding myself that I do indeed like drawing, following the gulag-like six weeks that preceded completing Furlough 3. It’s a full schedule these days.

I just rejiggered my Etsy store, adding Furlough 3 to my complete works and replenishing inventory. (The real-world parallel of this was putting most of my comics inventory on my bed a few minutes ago. This process had to be curtailed, due to proverbial curious cat.)

I’m going to be at the Olympia Comics Festival this Saturday the 21st at table 22. You should come by and say hello. Even if you don’t, you should just show up anyway – Olympia’s fest is small but impeccably run and full of the nicest, most interesting people. It was one of my favorite fests last year, and I’m excited about this one too.

On June 4th, I’ll be at the Punk Rock Flea Market here in Seattle. I’ll have comics, but I may be doing something interesting with the table I’ll be sharing with my friend Jenny. We shall see. But there’ll definitely be funnybooks to be had, as well as a ton of other stuff.

And… yeah, that’s life right now. I’m gearing up to my next big creative project, although I haven’t narrowed down which idea I’m going to pursue next. One of my cats has pinkeye. I’m eating a lot of vegetables these days and doing some awesome cooking. I’m going to be in a wedding in a couple of weeks, which I think means I’ve officially entered my late 20s. I’m reading A Wrinkle in Time for the first time and wishing I’d had that story in my life as a kid. I’m delighting in the enchantingly abundant flowers that mean spring has arrived in Seattle. It’s good times. I hope you’re having some too.

I’m still working on thumbnails for Furlough three. Did you know that as you get to know more about something, doing it can actually become more difficult? It’s true. I’m also devoting part of my day to the scifi novel I’ve been working on for the last year or so. Did you know that if you assign yourself a daily word quota, you get more done? Also true!

I’ll have a new spam for you soon. Did you know that there exists ink that is merely water resistant? That’s a fact. Do you know why they make ink like that, that will briefly seem to maintain its integrity as you sweep watercolor across it, only to blur after you’ve put some work into it? If you do, please tell me, because I’m rather at a loss.

Issue three is currently in the thumbnailing stage. More on that once I have something pretty to show for all my work.