World, Have Your Say

Hi.

Are there any images of mine that you wish would exist in print form?
A particular calendar page you wish didn't have the month printed at the top, or perhaps something you've seen in a book or on my website?
Have your say!
Please tell me in the comment section!

xoxo
n.g.

Updates from Home

Hi Everyone.

1. I have officially been home from tour for a week.

2. My computer promptly caught viruses/had hard drive failure upon my return, and was taken to the kind surgeons at Red Star Machine Works, where a hard drive transplant was performed. It is now as good as new, giving me the joy of listening to podcasts whilst working on comics (instead of listening to NPRs coverage of the oil spill and wanting to jam my brushpen into my eye as a result).

3. If you emailed me over the past month about anything, like zine distribution or pet portraits or even just a love/hate letter, I will get to it I Promise.

4. I almost forgot to tell you that my friends Ariel and Aron Nels Steinke got married recently and I made them this portrait as a gift!




5. You can order Dope Flounder, the comic I submitted to for Free Comic Book Day here . Subscribers, I may try to wrestle some of these out of the hands of Tugboat Press / Sparkplug Comics for you. We Shall See!

6. SUBSCRIBERS: I put out 20 copies of issue 17 of Invincible Summer for tour, but I have to say I really want to make it better before I commit to making enough copies for the world. I appreciate your patience!

7. Turning in my graphic novel on June 1st. Aye yay yay.

Take care.

xoxo
n.g.

P.S. I got my hands on a copy of The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier, and I can't recommend it highly enough! Run don't Walk to pre order this young pirate adventure, or sit on your hands until September & snatch it up in person!

I'm Home From Tour!

Hi friends.
I am home from tour, and now understand why it is that people eat baby carrots.
I've started taking pet portrait orders again, and am slowly getting back on track.
Thank you to everyone who came out, especially this nice girl in Wisconsin who showed up with 2 NJG tattoos! Holy Cow!
xoxo
n.g.

Arrrgh

Hi Everyone.

1. I am finished drawing the book!

2. Tour's in a week! I'm trying to figure out if my Etsy shop will be closed or not whilst I am away. Get your orders in by April 5th Just in case!

3. SUBSCRIBERS:
a. I'm not going to have the new issue ready for you before tour; but it's So Close that it's scanned in, altogether, and just waiting to be edited & printed! Gnaw on your fingernails until I get back!

b. Come see me on tour, why don't you? Say Hello!

c. I'm going to try and acquire a summer intern, which will mean an updated database, which will mean you will receive emails from me about your subscriptions and if you're one of the people who has not yet received your card or button, you will have a chance to speak up and I will send them your way with your next package.


4. I'm going to have a benefit show for Sister Spit's 2010 Eurotrash Tour here in PORTLAND on JUNE 19TH at MISSISSIPPI PIZZA. Featured guests include myself, Michelle Tea, Tara Jane Oneil, and more TBA.

See you later.
n.g.

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.

Tour Dates for April 2010!

Things of Note

Ten Things You Should Know:

1. I had to take down my advice videos because they conflicted with my day job, which is teaching 5th graders. More details once school is out.

2. My dear Volvo Gandalf was struck by another car and totaled recently. Comic to follow.



2.5 Here is my new car (both images are weird reproductions of my Volvos in toy version)



(i wish it was this color)


3. I saw a 104 year old participant of the "Tell It Like It Tiz" zine today after getting my eyes dilated at the Doctor's Office. If you don't know, Marc Parker, Meg Storey, Diane Gasperin and myself do a zine workshop each week with a senior center and have produced two issues in which we interview the participants, do comics about our adventures, their adventures, and more. You can get it by clicking on the link above (click on the title) and harassing Marc Parker for a copy.
This link is to an article about us from the Oregonian.




4. Teaching some workshops at the Portland Art Museum this summer.

5. Going to Europe with Sister Spit in November!

Wow!

6. Only 30 pages left to draw of my graphic novel (knock on wood knock on wood knock on wood).



6.5. HARLAN is helping me with scanning and advanced photoshop/indesign tomfoolery.





7. I was in the Oregonian Newspaper this week as they checked in on some stories from years past. Please note: I do not live near Mississippi Street.


8. Look for me in the anthology comic Dope Flounder, which will appear on Free Comic Book Day in selected establishments for FREE! It will also feature these dudes:
David Wein
Tom Lechner
Sean Christensen
Ian Sundahl
Jesse Reklaw
and will be published by Sparkplug and Tugboat Press (together!).

9. I found out that Wishbone came to me knowing how to shake. I was trying fruitlessly to get Beija to shake hands by grabbing her paw and saying "Shake!" and giving her a treat, when Wishbone stepped in and basically said "you mean like this?" and offered her hand (paw). No Joke! What other secrets does she hold?

10. No Pet Portraits until after May. I'm booked up.

xoxo
n.g.