This is from a family vacation last winter. I finally made time to draw this! That's what reference photos are for.Hey patrons! I hope the holidays are treating you well. If not, don't worry: they're almost over and you've got this!
A friend of mine commissioned this postcard of her hu...
2025-12-30 02:39:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry's and my November political cartoon (now with more of Becky's thoughts about transportation below!):
This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts through East Portland. It's flanked on both sides by shopping centers and grocery stores, car dealerships and auto repairs. It services the busiest bus line in Oregon, which is of...
2025-12-17 06:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a true story from the children's theater. It must have happened during my first year or two there. I swear I eventually got better at making small talk with children! I've been meaning to turn this anecdote into a comic for years. It was a moment that changed how I think about car crashes. Also, I was tickled by the way each of my attempts to be reassuring backfired even worse than the ...
2025-12-06 21:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Barry's and my political cartoon for October. It's a genre of cartoon I like to call "Nine types of jerks."
As a cartoonist in the internet age, I'm really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as reference photos! I found wheelchairs really hard to draw from photos (what are all those bars for? WHAT'S HAPPENING UNDER THERE?!). But I knew there were some tips and drawi...
2025-12-02 01:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons! Here's the latest in postcards and sketchbook pages.
I went to a fundraising concert at Portland Center Stage and had some great luck with seating:
Larry Owens aka Zach from Abbott Elementary sang Sondheim. It ruled.A couple that I'm friends with just moved to Greece, and ...
2025-11-11 19:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my September political cartoon for Barry.
In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some galvanizing experiences, like witnessing a hit and run during a group bike ride ...
2025-11-03 18:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This was at Pictures Tell The Story: Political Cartooning in Portland. If you have some time, the panel discussion is ...
2025-10-24 17:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm so pleased with how this postcard turned out! Naomi and I checked out Alchemy Cider Co.--ask about their cider discount if you bike there!--and the evening light on the patio was really gorgeous. I took a picture and made the postcard over the next week.
I can't believe it's late-mid-October (didn't the summer just end?!) but my sketchbook is full of all the things I've been ...
2025-10-17 16:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostBarry wrote this cartoon, and I was happy to draw it. I went to public schools in predominantly-Black neighborhoods from Kindergarten through 9th grade, and I lived in Brooklyn on and off after college, so these neighborhood scenes felt familiar to me.
Speaking of political cartoons, there's a free 2025-10-08 17:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I was proud.
I'm really happy with how I colored the back of this postcard. I feel ...
2025-09-17 04:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really proud of this postcard from The Hollywood Theatre! It's a gorgeous, iconic building that shows new movies and rare/thoughtfully curated ones. It holds a lot of good memories for me.
I took this photo of ...
2025-09-02 04:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons! I drew this cartoon for Barry last month. I'm really happy with how it looks, so I'm sharing it here, along with our original Patreon post. The comic I drew for Jonathan Baylis' next issue of So Buttons will debut at Small Press Expo in a few weeks...
2025-08-25 17:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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I tried to find a link for this hot sauce and got a defunct Square site, but it's this stuff:
This summer has been very bikey, perhaps my bikeyest on record!
2025-08-16 01:59:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi patrons! I've been working hard on a 4-page comic for Jonathan Baylis's next issue of So Buttons. Jonathan writes autobio comics and gets a different artist to draw each one. He has a knack for fitting the right artist to each story. For example, in 2013, I drew a story about Jonathan getting laid off and using his sever...
2025-08-08 06:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Every year, Portland celebrates Bike Summer (formerly Pedalpalooza) from June through August (formerly just June). There are 5-10 group rides per day, with every theme from "Portland Str...
2025-07-29 14:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I love visiting the area that the Turtle River Highway is based on. And I really enjoy getting a chance to draw all the cool dramatic shapes and textures that you don't find in a city.
a photo from my 2015 birthday bike ride, making an appearance in panel 1
Lillian's enthusiasm for t...
2025-07-18 18:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons!
I really enjoy how people connect (and sometimes butt heads) over food.
Despite being from Pittsburgh, a pierogi-rich city, I don't have a personal connection to pierogies. According to the internet, "pierogi" is a plural noun, and adding the S is an English thing that annoys some pedants. But plenty of Ukrainian-Canadians with immigrant relatives write "perogies." There...
2025-07-11 06:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've drawn more smoking in SuperButch than anywhere else in my life, put together!
Pros:
Historically accurate
Every character always has something to do with their hands
Cons:
How does smoking work, again?
I have to draw so many hands!
Naomi's mom was in town last week, which was a great excuse to go to the Portland Art Museum. The current exhibit centers on Monet's Waterlilies, displayed between collections of the Japanese woodblock prints that Monet was excited about at the time, and some European prints inspired and influenced by the Japanese prints. It ...
2025-07-03 15:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
You know I love drawing a background, so let me tell you all about panel 1! Barry describes the setting as "a grassy area at the side of a road, by a hole-in-the-wall town." For an optimal view of the town, I interpreted "grassy area" as a parking lot next to the train station off the main street. I've taken a 2025-06-28 02:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I enjoy drawing workspaces and clutter, so panel 2 was fun. This is the lobby of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle. They have a bunch of mosaics inside.
Google street view was helpful for panel 1. I also had a photo of this view from the time I'd texted "whew, almost there!" ...
2025-06-18 05:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll let you be the judge here:
Hi patrons! Happy Pride Month.
It's also the start of Bike Summer in Portla...
2025-06-01 23:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
It's been a rough week in a couple of ways...
...but I'm really happy with how thes...
2025-04-14 17:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been trying to show up where I can. It's hard to know where to put time and energy, given how many things need attention. A couple weeks ago, I saw a flyer asking people to show up to a City Council meeting to "stop Zenith" (aka show support for a City Council resolution to ask the mayor and the auditor to investigate Zenith Energy).
2025-04-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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This postcard was my best imitation of Jaime Hernandez, whose latest comic collection, Life Drawing, recently ...
I still get a kick out of the buildings when I visit LA. Seriously, why is the post office an amusement park castle, and what in the half-timbered heck is going on next door?
Naomi and I went to SoCal at the end of January, but I just finished some postcards from the trip, so here's...
2025-03-20 18:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! This is Becky from the paaast, scheduling a political cartoon to go out while I'm on vacation.
Barry keeps a digital folder of potential political cartoon scripts. Sometimes he'll point my attention to a script that requires drawing specific environments or various historical periods. Other times I'll browse the folder and pick something that sounds fun to draw, or that covers...
2025-01-27 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
Happy new year! I'm sharing a cartoon that I did with Barry last November because a) I'm super happy with it, and b) I'm visiting family for the next 2 weeks and I wanted to post something that's not a half-finished SuperButch page.
Here's what I wrote about the cartoon for Barry's Patreon:
I've been a bike-commuter for twelve years and in that time I'v...
2025-01-18 22:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Great news:
I'm the new Patron Services & Office Coordinator for Cappella Romana, a vocal group and genuine buncha music nerds here in Portland!
One of my first days of work was a 13-hour day trip to Seattle ...
2024-12-19 06:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all: WOO-HOO! PAGE TWO HUNDRED!!!
It's so gratifying to have a few pages to just draw the heck out of this highway. Especially since Barry lets me ignore his script:
This page is divided into three panels, one on top of the other, each taking up a third of the page. There are also a few narrative captions floating over the panels.
Panel 1 shows the car sto...
2024-12-15 20:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post