Black & White

For years I've been making comics with color or grey tones done in Photoshop. I've become tired of so  much time working on the screen. Comics take time, but I want to find a way to spend more of that time working on the paper. I haven't done much shading and blacks with a pen and ink in a long time. It's feeling a little awkward, but also kind of like going home.

Spring Training

Color

I've been thinking about how to color comics a lot lately because I want to get away from computer color and try something more tactile like colored pencil or water color. That said, I want to keep the general palette and approach to color that I've developed on the computer. When I was figuring out how to color Watergate Sue, my husband showed me some comics by Fumiko Takano - a strip called Miss Ruki

I love how simple it is and how she leaves a lot uncolored. Her work kind of gave me "permission" to only color the parts of the panels I was interested in coloring. You can see her influence in Watergate Sue.

symbolic language

Broken Washing Machine

Ink Goddess

this is one of the drafts of an illustration I did for the poster for the upcoming University of Florida comics conference focussing on women creators and characters: "A Comic of Her Own."

here's the poster!

Some work in progress!

I'm working on this right now. It's going to be about 20 pages. It's called "The Egg Room." I started it at ACA in Florida, but it's something I've been thinking about since 2005 or so.