Signing up for the best workshop

I am failing at finding time to make more Spaz Hands comics even though I am still writing things down to do comics about. So until I have time, that should be the middle of March, I am going to post the comics I drew about my trip to Vermont in August 2013 to go to the Cartooning Studio workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies. It was an amazing trip and I think I missed a lot of the great stuff. But I can still remember the wonderful feeling of being there. Comics all day every day. So here is the first.

You can also buy the whole book with these comics an the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Animal smothers

Over the course of the week of watching my mom's place, the pets were getting more and more lonely until I was smothered in them. Kikkens is the little grey cat. Curry is the monsterous ragdoll cat, and Blue is the dog. Kikkens never did end up on my head, but it came pretty close. And Blue did prefer trying to crawl into my lap than chase the ball.

Pet sitting

I watched my mom's house for a week and a half while she was in Italy. It was the first time I had to take care of a horse in about 15 years. And Moby was not amused by my cabin-fever-esque antics.
It was kind of like vacation because I was somewhere new, but I still had to telecommute to work. Blue, my mom's dog, just made me miss Ernie more, too.

Edit: I forgot to mention why I haven't posted in so long. I was too busy with school. So much school. I was drawing nonstop for three months and only 1% was comics I bet.

Henry's in Portland, OR

Seriously, that was so much food I can barely even think about it now. And I have told pretty much everyone I have seen IRL about the horrors of the PumKing.

In-room Dining

Yummers!

Old Wives Tales

Old Wives' Tales is a restaurant in Portland, OR.
Rijl and I eat so much sugar when we are together. I wonder if she eats that much sugar when I am not there. Instead of coffee or tea when we want to stay up late, she gets us soda and gummy candy. Sugar high.

Corn Maze

Hoo. This was a while ago now. Well, I guess it was only a couple months ago. It was fun, but exhausting. We were there for hours! Rijl and I both weren't dressed great. I had black leggings on there were brown by the end. And Rijl had Birkenstocks on so her feet were filthy by the end. And then Tiernan spilled apple cider on her feet and it was just so much worse.
I was in Portland for LavaCon, a conference for content designers (like myself, a technical writer). I have other comics about that, but I got to go down early and hang out with Rijl and Tiernan for a day. This corn maze was at a pumpkin patch. So we also got some cinnamon almonds and they picked out some pumpkins for Halloween
Looking at this, I think I need to draw less shine in my hair. And less curls. We'll see. I like drawing it that way because that's how I would like if my hair did look. Speaking of hair, boy do I need to get it done again - cut and dye. Why does it have to cost $120 or more for a cut and dye! Too much hair on this head of mine.