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What's Going On

Hello People!

1. We moved!

The dogs & I moved into a much larger house (compared to my Little House, which rang in at 596 square feet). It is not the house shown here.

2. Keep your eyes out for my short "It Gets Better" comic in this week's Pride Edition of the Portland Mercury.

3. I'm drawing a comic about the great Vanport flood for the Dill Pickle Club.

4. I'm also working on this year's split with Clutch.

5. I've started wearing a weird orthopedic mitt on my drawing hand, called a Wrist-O-Prene. Drawing to follow.

Here's a photo while you wait.


6. Am so close to the graphic novel finish line.

7. Am conceptualizing a podcast. Stay tuned.

8. I'm teaching at the IPRC's Comic Certification Program this summer and fall. Check it out, aspiring cartoonists!

9. Please be a fan of my Invincible Summer page on Facebook! Much better than strangers personally befriending my on there!

10. Submit submit submit to the BAD ROOMMATE ZINE by July 1st!
And if you're lively, stop by the Bad Roommate Storytelling Night at Mississippi Pizza July 2nd. Here's the info:

Hosted by Nicole J. Georges with special
guest cohost and longtime cohabitator STS.
Featuring
Kirsten Kuppenbender
Laura Moulton
Diane Gasperin
Lisa Koluvek
Cooper Lee Bombardier
Erin Fairchild
Valentine
and more TBA.

with a chance to tell your own bad roommate story
Open Mic
and
a contest for the worst tale of cohabitation.

This is your last chance to submit your story for publication in the Bad Roommate Zine!

$5, promptly at 9p.m.

Take Care!

xoxo
n.g.

p.s. Here's a cell phone picture of my new cattoo, done by the tattooing genius Dan Gilsdorf.

Dan will soon be in San Francisco, so lucky you, go and get something nice from him.

p.p.s. Do you like Light Rock? Then perhaps you will enjoy California Lite, by the very near & dear Katy Davidson with her band Key Losers! You can listen to it here for free (I think), and then buy it on your own.

Mood Barometer from the studio

The Way Of The Paw

Hello!
I've started doing a canine comic for a digital dog magazine by Nomad Editions .
It's not out yet, but in the meantime I asked a group of middle schoolers what I should name my new comic.
Here are their ideas:

One Dog Too Many
Four Legged Masterpieces
A Dog's Bark
Barked Up The Wrong Tree
Dog Days
In the Eyes of a Dog
A Dog Goes To Space
It's a Dog Eat Dog World
Hot Dog
Dogs, Dogs, Dogs, So Many Dogs So Little Time
Man's Best Friend Or Not
Doggy Days
The World of Dogs
The Eastern Paw
The Way of the Paw
Tuesday Treats
The Reel World Of Dogs
The Reanimation
Man's Best Friend
Two-Paws-Up
Doggy Dish
It's a Dog Thing

I also received a verbal (true) story about a dog who got shot, was put in a dog morgue freezer, and who then wagged his tail & was actually alive.

If only I could make a different comic to go with each of their ideas!

I ended up going with something totally different,
and as of now the comic will be called Muttley Crew.

Here is a sketch of one that didn't make the cut:

In other news,
We didn't get beamed up to outer space yesterday during the Rapture!
Woo hoo! I did have a dream that I turned into crystally glass bits with the rest of the planet during the rapture and it felt GREAT.

I am in the last weeks of finishing my book (again), so forgive my poor penpalship, bloggership, friendship, etc.

Take care, Reader friends!

n.g.

New Studio!

Dear Friends,
After 4 years of working in the closet nook of Little House, I've moved to greener pastures along the Willamette River!
Break a cyber champagne bottle in honor of my new studio!
I'll be sharing it with zinester and co-author of the Tell It Like It Tiz senior citizen zine/project, Marc Parker.

The dogs even like it here.

For a little perspective, here is my old drawing space:

...And my new drawing space:

Very psyched.

xoxo
n.g.

Stumptown Comics Fest Nametags

I had some fun at Stumptown this year, getting to table with my great friends Alec Longstreth, Claire and Tugboat Press.

I have some photos from a panel I was on with Trevor Dodge, Diana Schutz, Brian Michael Bendis ,and Patrick Rosenkranz.


Here's a photo in which you can catch a glimpse of Brian yawning as I spoke.
These photos were taken by a very patient 6 year old who sat through the entire 2 hour panel on college-level comic classes without so much as a whine or a sniffle.

How People See Me, part I

Here is some feedback from two people, circa 2008.

One is a portrait by my friend (writer, blogger, comedian) Tara Jepsen, drawn while on vacation in New York City.

The second is a quote from a drunk guy to me at El Rio in San Francisco, California.

Enjoy!

n.g.