December 2010

December 2010

Television would have us believe that on Christmas morning all kids (after having dreamt of sugar plums and such) come tumbling down the stairs to pillage the tree. All the while, mom and dad watch the carnage while sipping cider, hot chocolate, eggnog, or whatever...

Spending Christmas morning with my parents is important, and in many ways similar to this, but it starts off in a very different way.

I wake up early, before the sun rises, put the kettle on and wake the kids. As we're getting some breakfast ready and packing up the car, mom comes shuffling down the hallway like an extra from a zombie movie.

This is where I get some measure of retributionfor our Fourth of July shenanigans...driving across the state for Christmas morning and cinnamon rolls with my folks.

I started keeping track of my life with the girls in 2009, in a series of illustrated status updates called "Daily Life"...As I finish up collecting some of these stories for print books, and catch up on some freelance work, I thought it would be a good time to post some of these older stories, so that everything is collected here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. :)

Cincy Comicon

Cincy Comicon is coming up in just a little over a week. This is a show that I've been looking forward to since last fall, with awesome artists like Bernie Wrightson, and Arthur Adams (Literally two of my childhood art/comic heroes), as well as Katie Cook, and too many others to really get into naming. Maybe you could hop over to their website and check out the line up. It's incredible. 

On top of that, I'll get to hang out with my friend Leighton Connor, of Laser Brigade fame, Adron Buske and Dan Cassidy of Loop and Hoodie, as well as visit my friends Annie and Martin on the way. I feel like I'm all over the place getting ready, but really wanted to share some of the things that the girls and I did together this week.

Abby had  some long strips of scrap paper and wanted to make a comic. She had the idea of using dogs, and wanted a wagon in it, the rest just sort of evolved from there. She thought the people skeleton was hilarious.

Olive and I spent part of the morning making pin-back buttons this morning. She was quite the industrious helper, and was a lot of fun to work with. The only snag we hit was when she decided that all of the button blanks were pirate treasure, and I had to dip into my reserves for awhile in order to keep working.

We're really happy with this set of 34 new buttons, including a 5 pack of Life With Girls buttons. Olive thought hers was so cool that she demanded to wear one of them, and tried to talk me out of every one we made. It's a picture of her, so it must be hers, right?

I'll drawing and chatting in Artist Alley at the con on September 6-8, stop by and hi!