Working For Yourself: A visual tour

My perception is that people think working for yourself is like this:

When actually, it's a bit more like this:

Here I am checking my email.

Saying yes to last minute projects,

and basking in the freedom from a normal 9-5 job.

This has been a public service announcement, paid for by the council of people who never leave the house because they're on a deadline.

Post Cards, Photo, etc etc

I'm the second shortest person in this picture.


Hello!
I can't WAIT for the Xmas season to be over so I can show you what I've been working on. Notably, a pet portrait and a holiday card.
But of course, these items must reach their intended recipients with the element of surprise intact, so until then, I just tell you that I cannot wait.

In other news, I'm working on the cover to my book as soon as the last pet portrait has cleared my desk.

What else- OH! Ooh La la! I believe I am going to TCAF this year!
I will tell you more about this later.

ALSO, I made some postcards. I think they are nice. There is a giant sort of disclaimer I included in the Etsy listing for them, because I find that random online shoppers (not you... ?) are a little less scruffy and/or forgiving than myself, and so I have a constant low-grade anxiety about letting them down.
Is this true? Who knows. But I've had someone fall out of their chair when the (gocco printed) greeting card they purchased from me arrived and was on a thinner stock than they'd expected.
So now, I either never list greeting cards or I do with a giant disclaimer.
If you're ever interested in a greeting card, let me know and we can talk.
But in the meantime, the postcards are nice! They are cute! I'd like them in my stocking if I didn't already have a box of them downstairs.

Here are the images from the postcards.

Here is a hand drawn bday card I included in a package for a customer.
I care! I'm scruffy, but I care.

Here are places you can get your last minute Invincible Summer calendar:

FROM ME, OF COURSE

LONDON:
Magma Books

EUREKA, CA:
Mae Henry

PORTLAND:
Food Fight Vegan Grocery
Land
Alberta Grocery CoOp
Crafty Wonderland Shop
Reading Frenzy
Powells City of Books (in the small press section)
Zim Zim

ONLINE:
Little Otsu
Buy Olympia

Thank you and good night.

xoxo
n.g.

Tattoos! The Book! Senior Citizens! A Mouse Band! & More

1. WATCH OUR AMAZING RACE TAPE.

Help us! I don't know how, but I think that watching it is a good first step.

2. Here is a photo from Lukas in Hamberg, Germany, who got a tattoo of the cone-collared cat from the 2012 Invincible Summer Calendar. Thanks for the photo, Lukas!
He & I agree that getting tattoos on her inner arm feels both disgusting and painful (disgusting being my word, as it kind of rattles your veins and yours truly has one big ole vein-phobia over here).

3. Next on the agenda, here is something that may or may not have happened to me today, in which someone revealed they'd been farting on me while I sat behind them.
I drew this comic in only five short minutes, but I just had to tell you about it.
Click to make larger.

I think that is all.
oh....

4. Cue the horns, mice:

I TURNED IN MY BOOK! (Again).
Again!
But for real this time! Like for real for real.
Woo Hoo!

And....

5.

Here is a pregnant butch comic by A.K. Summers , which is just great.

Okay that's it for real.
Have a nice weekend.
n.g.


P.s. My birthday is coming up. Here are some ideas for what to get me. It's a real shot in the dark/weird thing to steer strangers towards gifts, but YOU NEVER KNOW. Stranger things have happened.

If you are not a billionaire and live in Portland, come to my booth at CRAFTY WONDERLAND on December 10th and say hello! I'll be working there all day on my 31st birthday.

P.p.s. Thanks to the Mouse Band for providing the sound track to my book being finished.
xoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxox

House & Pet Portraits

Here, have a house:

It's a panel from my upcoming book.

Secondly, more importantly,

PET PORTRAIT SLOTS ARE FILLED FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

If you would like to purchase a gift certificate for your loved one to receive a pet portrait in 2012, that would be lovely.

Here are some pet portraits from the recent past:

Take Care! Have a nice week!

n.g.

GOOD NEWS, and some Good Pet Portraits

First thing's first:


I'm very very happy to announce that
my graphic novel will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2011.
!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very psyched.




Secondly:

I have been so busy that I haven't finished the 2011 Invincible Summer Calendar yet.
But I will! Have faith.


Thirdly:
Here are some recent pet portraits.

Nicole J. Georges | Sister Spit.mov

Reading about my first job as a karaoke jockey. Recorded in San Francisco on the first day of the 2010 Sister Spit Tour!

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE
NOT FOR MINORS!!!!

Graphic Novel Update

PHEW IS RIGHT!
I am so- so- so close to being done with my book! It is all penciled (knock on wood knock on wood) and is in the midst of getting inked, getting cleaned up, and getting sent to the publisher.
Holy cow!

See for yourself:




Here are the 20 pounds of pages:



And here, for your contrast-and-comparison, is the new 2010 version of the drawing attached to the original proposal from so very long ago (rats, i want to find the original for you to compare & contrast, but i can't find it! trust me, this looks less bizarre than its predecessor:




Please wish me luck. I may be arthritic, batty, and/or blind by the time I am finished!

Just in time to go on tour.... (see below)

xoxo
n.g.

A List for This Week

1. wishbone is "not very present".




Somebody in the world used my blog to narc on one of my friends! Boooooo.


2. dinner with eileen myles (who once ran for president of the united states) .
at the end of which she told us a story about somebody walking out of the house whilst boiling dildoes (for sanitary reasons you can do this from time to time) and having them go up in flames. A photograph of charred black penises at the bottom of a kettle was shown to friends while the charr-er explained that the fire department was called and she was evicted from her apartment for the blackened dildo-ery.





3. nicole j. georges dot com is down.
alas. yahoo has repossessed my website. i have to buy my own name back. what in the world! Apparently when you sign up for a website and don't expect for it to expire for at least three years, you should write down whatever bogus yahoo address you made up for the specific transaction, so that three years later you aren't sitting on the phone for 45 minute stints on hold (afterwhich you drop your phone on the ground and get disconnected) and then failing to prove your identity and that truly you deserve to have this domain name back once connected with a Yahoo representative. (You feel you deserve it because it is Your Actual Name).
and so.
in the meantime.
the weak version of my website:
http://www.myspace.com/nicolejgeorgesillustrations






4. graphic? how Novel!
i am about to embark on a quest called Writing A Graphic Novel About The Twisted Tale Of The Doctor Laura Show. Maybe i will print the original story here for your perusal. Wish me luck!

5. heirloom tomatoes are back.






6. basil chili sauce is the number one thing you should spread all over your vegetarian shish kabobs this year before putting them to fire. this tip from Morgan at Dovetail Bakery, who blows my mind on a regular basis.







7. next week is the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls, at which i teach a zine workshop. did you know that i illustrated a book about the rock n roll camp for girls which JUST came out from Chronicle Books? Truly! You will note that i even have a representative from my land of drawings on the cover of the book, where she is shown playing the drums.