I even got to meet this trifecta of furriness.
If you want to see all the portraits I've done (give or take) in the past year or so, click on the label Pet Portraits below, or click here.
xoxo
n.g.
by NJG
Friday, August 26, 2011
Did I ever show you these pet portraits?
A trio of pet portraits!
I even got to meet this trifecta of furriness.
If you want to see all the portraits I've done (give or take) in the past year or so, click on the label Pet Portraits below, or click here.
xoxo
n.g.
I even got to meet this trifecta of furriness.
If you want to see all the portraits I've done (give or take) in the past year or so, click on the label Pet Portraits below, or click here.
xoxo
n.g.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
This, That, The Other. (Doilies, Retreat, Sparkplug)
Hello!
1. It is the end of summer, and I am selling a batch of hand-drawn one of a kind Dog Doilies on my etsy page. They range from $12- $24, and for this you are buying a piece of original art. Which is neat. Here are a few examples, with links.
Italian Greyhound
French Bulldog
Boston Terrier
Whistling Hound
and Fun-Loving Yorkie
2. We are turning in my book to the publisher on September 1st. Knock on Wood Knock on Wood.
3. Thank you to the Radar Lab for offering a free, tropical residency for queer writers and artists.
4. There is a new Clutch/Invincible Summer split, AND a new copy of Tell It Like It Tiz (the oldies zine). Neither is in my clutches, but both will be SOON!
5. Sparkplug Comics founder Dylan Williams is a friend of mine who has fallen seriously ill. As he is a comic book purveyor and not an office-man, he has no health insurance.
A great way to support Dylan and Sparkplug would be to buy something from them!
I suggest:
Passage by Tessa Brunton
(I love Tessa's comic In The Tall Grass, which you can buy from Sparkplug. My copy of Passage is on its way to my house as we speak.)
or
Whirlwind Wonderland by Rina Ayuyang (I haven't read Whirlwind Wonderland YET but I hope to soon).
6. I can't think of anything else. I'm starting a podcast soon. I'll tell you all about it.
In the meantime, here's Beija:
1. It is the end of summer, and I am selling a batch of hand-drawn one of a kind Dog Doilies on my etsy page. They range from $12- $24, and for this you are buying a piece of original art. Which is neat. Here are a few examples, with links.
2. We are turning in my book to the publisher on September 1st. Knock on Wood Knock on Wood.
3. Thank you to the Radar Lab for offering a free, tropical residency for queer writers and artists.
4. There is a new Clutch/Invincible Summer split, AND a new copy of Tell It Like It Tiz (the oldies zine). Neither is in my clutches, but both will be SOON!
5. Sparkplug Comics founder Dylan Williams is a friend of mine who has fallen seriously ill. As he is a comic book purveyor and not an office-man, he has no health insurance.
A great way to support Dylan and Sparkplug would be to buy something from them!
I suggest:
Passage by Tessa Brunton
(I love Tessa's comic In The Tall Grass, which you can buy from Sparkplug. My copy of Passage is on its way to my house as we speak.)
or
Whirlwind Wonderland by Rina Ayuyang (I haven't read Whirlwind Wonderland YET but I hope to soon).
6. I can't think of anything else. I'm starting a podcast soon. I'll tell you all about it.
In the meantime, here's Beija:
Monday, August 1, 2011
Tattoo Talk, or "Tat Chat"
Hello!
Have you ever wanted to get a tattoo of one of my drawings? I say do it. Just do it, and then send me a picture.
I am not trying to be presumptuous.
Maybe you hate my art and you just visit my blog to feel superior. Maybe you think tattoos are for circus freaks.
Whatever your vibe is, I thought of this post because someone posted their giant , beautiful back piece on my FB wall, and my very humble owl is sitting in the center.
This made me want to do a tattoo round-up.
Here it is:
It's not creepy, it's nice.
Speaking of tattoos & not being creepy, I have a tattoo based on art by my friend Ryan Jacob Smith, who recently moved back to Portland. Check him out!
(below is an example of his art, not of the thing I have)
Also, my tattoo artist Dan Gilsdorf has just relocated to San Francisco for the year and is taking walk-ins. Make wait-listed Portlanders jealous by strolling in there and getting some of the nicest work from Dan on the spot! He'll be working Mondays and Tuesdays at Black Heart Tattoo in SF, & Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at Freddy Corbin's Tattoo 13 in Oakland.
Look at how nice he is!
Okay. Take care and keep your tattoos covered in sunscreen this summer!
n.g.
p.s. Do you want me to draw a custom tattoo for you? If so, check out the pet portrait page on my website. The same prices and process applies. It's a little expensive and takes forever, but I am happy to do it.
p.p.s.
On a very non-tattoo note, I wanted to tell you about my new favorite thing to get in the mail, that being chocolates from Lagusta's Luscious.
Look at how nice she is!
Lagusta is located in New York and makes "heartbreakingly delicious and painstakingly made by hand" vegan chocolates which you can order by mail or receive in person!
She is also a feminist and has an entire line of chocolates named after her feminist heroes. Can you get better than that? Oh, you can. You can add this to the pot:
All our chocolate is organic and fair trade, and more than 95% of our fresh ingredients are certified organic. We are a completely vegan business using 100% post-consumer recycled paper and packing materials. We compost all kitchen scraps, use all eco-friendly cleaning products, and generate almost no waste! We make all our chocolates in our lovingly renovated chocolate shop, carefully built with the most eco-friendly materials our budget could buy. We walk the walk!
So....
I recommend to you the rosemary sea salt caramels, the furious vulvas, and any of the truffles. Bon Appetit!
Have you ever wanted to get a tattoo of one of my drawings? I say do it. Just do it, and then send me a picture.
I am not trying to be presumptuous.
Maybe you hate my art and you just visit my blog to feel superior. Maybe you think tattoos are for circus freaks.
Whatever your vibe is, I thought of this post because someone posted their giant , beautiful back piece on my FB wall, and my very humble owl is sitting in the center.
This made me want to do a tattoo round-up.
Here it is:
It's not creepy, it's nice.
Speaking of tattoos & not being creepy, I have a tattoo based on art by my friend Ryan Jacob Smith, who recently moved back to Portland. Check him out!
(below is an example of his art, not of the thing I have)
Look at how nice he is!
Okay. Take care and keep your tattoos covered in sunscreen this summer!
n.g.
p.s. Do you want me to draw a custom tattoo for you? If so, check out the pet portrait page on my website. The same prices and process applies. It's a little expensive and takes forever, but I am happy to do it.
p.p.s.
On a very non-tattoo note, I wanted to tell you about my new favorite thing to get in the mail, that being chocolates from Lagusta's Luscious.
Lagusta is located in New York and makes "heartbreakingly delicious and painstakingly made by hand" vegan chocolates which you can order by mail or receive in person!
She is also a feminist and has an entire line of chocolates named after her feminist heroes. Can you get better than that? Oh, you can. You can add this to the pot:
All our chocolate is organic and fair trade, and more than 95% of our fresh ingredients are certified organic. We are a completely vegan business using 100% post-consumer recycled paper and packing materials. We compost all kitchen scraps, use all eco-friendly cleaning products, and generate almost no waste! We make all our chocolates in our lovingly renovated chocolate shop, carefully built with the most eco-friendly materials our budget could buy. We walk the walk!
So....
I recommend to you the rosemary sea salt caramels, the furious vulvas, and any of the truffles. Bon Appetit!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Breaking News: Formerly landlocked Kansan leaves the continent, blogs about it
Hello from Portland,
city of giant tomato plants, cabbage-eating-aphids, and two geriatric dogs, one of whom sits in the kitchen while I am away and the other, the basement.
". The lesson I learned in this is: If your dogs is 14 years old and you make any mention of the word "goodbye" (or get a tattoo of her name for that matter), everyone will assume your dog is dead and start freaking out.
I had to tell everyone Beija was not dead, and that I was just bidding audieu online. Okay.
So after years of being landlocked and only crossing the border to see Canada and Mexico, I traveled to Europe (in particular Italy and England) to visit Jeb (who was on tour in Italy with YACHT) and Beth (who is staying in London).
I wanted to show you some comics & food highlights from my trip.
1. Sketchbook pages about the 24 hour trip there (click to enlarge):
I landed in Milan and at my first show of the tour found this:
2. Italian Food Highlights and lowlights
COFFEE: even from a machine in the hotel lobby you have delicious espresso with crema. It is what you get anytime you ask for coffee. I was in hog heaven.
ROADSIDE FOOD: When you stop at a "My Chef" or "Autogrill" in Italy, you will be treated to DELICIOUS olive bread sticks, pasta, some vegetables, possibly focaccia, and always olive oil with balsalmic vinegar in the dining area. This was a food highlight for me after years of touring in the U.S. where ketchup packets and the smell of Subway are the hallmarks of our road food.
PEOPLE FEED YOU. When you are touring Italy, it is customary for your hosts to both house and feed you.
Highlights of this: many courses of delicious food and wine, always finished with espresso.
LOWLIGHT: Getting charged $11.00 for two espressos when Jeb & I were set free in Milan with our unwieldy Italian. Damn you, service charge for sitting!
HIGHLIGHT: Eating redemptive gelato (senza latte) for $2.50 and taking a photo with my filthy Food Fight tote bag in front of the Prada store.
HIGHLIGHT: Swimming in the Adriatic Sea
NOW ON TO LONDON
ENGLISH BREAKFAST: Often including vegan sausages. Shown here is breakfast from a hotel with butter-soaked mushrooms but otherwise vegan fare (I hate the word fare).
HIGHLIGHT: BANGERS AND MASH AT THE S&M CAFE.
Kind of like long , sausage-shaped veggie burgers. Delicious ones.
MIXED BAG: SAF RESTAURANT
I went to Saf in London for a late dinner with six people.
If you ever go there, I recommend coming early (our top three choices from the menu were sold out). I enjoyed their drinks (including quinoa vodka) , appetizers (Ex:Caviar Blinis- Beetroot and fresh herb caviars served on sourcream, sweet potato blinis with chives and shallots), and my dessert (chocolate orange torte). Here are some entree details:
This taco trio arrived soggy, with each shell heaped full of a salsa or bland guacamole only. The side salad was delicious.
BLACKENED TOFU
This was the stand out dish from our table. The plating was lovely, and the tofu had all the flavor that I was missing from my sad risotto. Speaking of the risotto....
It's main selling point (from the waiter) was that it was "filling". That feature was missing from the very dainty tofu dish, but when you are fine-ish dining, do you really need it to be a giant hearty vat?
Anyway, the risotto was missing something. Most definitely salt. When we received some salt it was locked inside a hellish and non-functional grinder, maddening each risotto-haver at the table as we ground and ground the salt to no avail.
The longer the risotto sat around, the more oatmealish it became. It was a large, heavy portion that, though complex on it's own, could have benefited from some flavor diversity and something to lighten it up.
I think this risotto deserves to be a strong side, and not a weak main course.
My last meal abroad was this strict vegetarian snack provided by Delta, with it's own sterile grape holder and totally not vegan gelato (first ingredient: skimmed milk). In case you're wondering, there is a very decent mini baguette with vegetables and vegan pesto shrouded in that foil.
I leave you with this buck toothed fellow from the Natural History Museum in London.
Over and out,
n.g.
p.s. Here is a video of Italian highlights.
p.p.s. Here is an interview I did with Radar Productions about my upcoming writer's retreat in Mexico.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Update & Pet Portraits
Hello out there!
I am about to go out of town, so my Etsy shop will be on vacation mode.
Here's some news:
I am happy to have the COVER of the Bad Roommate Zine in my clutches.
The cover was completed by the very lovely Lily Pepper.
As for the zine itself,
it will NOT be out by the Zine Symposium, but it WILL be out soon. I am still collecting everything, but as of now I have EXCELLENT submissions from the likes of Carrie McNinch, Laura Moulton, Lisa Eisenberg , J.T. Yost, and more.
Here are a couple of pet portraits I've just finished.
I won't be accepting pet portrait orders again until the fall, as I toil over the last bits of my book (yes, still!).
I'm not going to be at the Zine Symposium this year, but I will be represented!
I believe Tugboat Press will be peddling the latest Invincible Summer/Clutch split,
and there will be a new new new issue of Tell It Like It Tiz, the zine I do with senior citizens.
Take care!
n.g.
p.s. Don't forget to take a look at my weekly dog comic, Muttley Crue, in the Nomad Editions magazine Good Dog .
I am about to go out of town, so my Etsy shop will be on vacation mode.
Here's some news:
I am happy to have the COVER of the Bad Roommate Zine in my clutches.
The cover was completed by the very lovely Lily Pepper.
As for the zine itself,
it will NOT be out by the Zine Symposium, but it WILL be out soon. I am still collecting everything, but as of now I have EXCELLENT submissions from the likes of Carrie McNinch, Laura Moulton, Lisa Eisenberg , J.T. Yost, and more.
Here are a couple of pet portraits I've just finished.
I won't be accepting pet portrait orders again until the fall, as I toil over the last bits of my book (yes, still!).
I'm not going to be at the Zine Symposium this year, but I will be represented!
I believe Tugboat Press will be peddling the latest Invincible Summer/Clutch split,
and there will be a new new new issue of Tell It Like It Tiz, the zine I do with senior citizens.
Take care!
n.g.
p.s. Don't forget to take a look at my weekly dog comic, Muttley Crue, in the Nomad Editions magazine Good Dog .
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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