| Veronica May |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|11:29 pm] |
She's here! A 15 hour labour and natural birth, today July 2nd at 3:50 this afternoon. She weighed in at 7lbs 11 oz and she's absolutely adorable. We can't believe she's here. I'm exhausted and sore but ecstatic.
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| I made a laptop cozy. |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
It's padded!
I still can't sew a straight line. How do you do that?
Mind you I can't draw a straight line either.....
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| Okay I succumbed... |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|06:56 pm] |
Madame Zaritska, using her mystical powers, has the following prediction:
The day you deliver, outside will be overcast. Your baby will arrive in the middle of the night. After a labor lasting approximately 13 hours, your child, a girl, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 9 pounds, 6 ounces, and will be 19,19-1/2 inches long. This child will have dark brown eyes and a little patch of blonde hair.
(she already got the girl part right).
It's overcast right now....
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| sketches |
[May. 22nd, 2009|05:12 pm] |
I drew some babies for the banner of my lovely due-date community and also explored some fashion advice from 'The Complete Book Of Breastfeeding'. Oh yes!
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| sketches |
[May. 22nd, 2009|05:08 pm] |
Romance novel covers, more bus stop sights and a man from work:
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[May. 22nd, 2009|05:05 pm] |
Watching Mike Leigh's 'Happy Go Lucky' (really liked it) and being at the bus stop:
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| Things I haven't been drawing this week... |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|06:22 pm] |
Sketchbook stuff has been minimal recently (although I have been working on comics, doing rough layouts for a story..) so rather than abandon this blog altogether I thought I'd show you what I have been making, even if it's too precious for words. I'm very excited about this baby coming (two more months!) and can't stop making things for her room/for her hiney. So here's a little photo tour:
A mobile! I got the idea from Readymade magazine, you wrap a balloon with embroidery thread and dip the whole thing in fabric stiffener (a non-toxic affair, embarrassingly called 'Stiffy'. They wouldn't get away with that in Britain). Here it is, plus closeup:
 
Some embroidered 'Little Spittle' bibs and a teething toy from the Aranzi Aronzo book 'Baby Stuff':
Awwww!
Artwork for the baby's walls. I based these critters on some really cute greetings cards I found in England. I made drawings of them, enlarged them and then turned them into collages from magazine pages, catalogs and scrap paper:
 
A 'Boppy' style cushion, shown in it's cover. Made for a fraction of the store price. Cost about $3 for filling...
Okay, I'm almost done, I promise. I made a huge stash of cloth 'contour' diapers. I bought some 'Kissaluvs' cloth diapers and used them to make a pattern. Using thrift-store bought towels and flannel sheets I've made almost 50 of these things, in various sizes that Miss May will wear wrapped in shop bought diapers covers. I really hope they work and don't allow for the spraying of poop in multiple directions! I guess I'll find out soon:
Okay, so you see I've not been lazy. Just really, really 'nesty'. A Saturday afternoon, a pot of mint tea, my sewing machine and an audiobook. It's my idea of a good time right now.
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| In Nominee Thingumee |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|11:57 am] |
So it transpires that my comic Manhole#3 has been nominated for the 2009 Kukoc Award. I feel really honored to be on the shortlist that includes Vanessa Davis and Onsmith and a bunch of other cartoonists I really admire. Nice one Judges!
The 2009 Kukoc Award will be awarded at Guapo Comics and Coffee on Friday, April 17th, 2009, to coincide with the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR, and includes a cash prize of $450. Voting opens April 1 and closes April 16. Eligible comics for the 2009 Kukoc Award have to be published between April 2008 and March 2009, and be at least partially hand-made by the cartoonist. Email reklaw@slowwave.com if you read mini-comics and want to be sent a ballot.
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| Gobius! |
[Feb. 17th, 2009|09:39 am] |
(Sorry for the dodgy photo quality)
The current comics journal has a very nice review of two of my mini comics, 'Washing Machine' and 'Manhole'. Go buy us at Ted's Cat Shop page (scroll down a bit) and also they'll soon be available at the all-new St Louis clubhouse Usscatastrophe shop which is currently being reworked by elves, over at Kevin Huizenga's house. Watch this space.
If you need another reason to gobuyus, check out the current Comix Claptrap podcast with interviews from the awesome Jesse Reklaw and Andrice Arp. During this interview Ted May and yours truly get nominated for 'hottest comics couple'! Hell yeah! I am so down with that.
"How about Ted May and Mardou? They're pretty smokin'"
Not my words readers, go listen for yourself. And then vote. Here. It's us versus that Scott Pilgrim dude and Hope Larson.
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| So, Um.... |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|03:38 pm] |
Well Christmas came and we made the announcement to Ted folks so it's time to spill the beans to my friends here....
Ted and I are having a kid sometime around June 19th! I'm feeling pretty great now the nausea's stopped but it's not been the easiest 3 months so far. But hopefully it will all go alright from this point.
I've never been so excited about a new year beginning, I'm really hopeful and happy that's it 2009! Happy New Year everyone!
(art by Ted btw, not me). |
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| Twenty-o-eight, almost done and dusted. |
[Dec. 28th, 2008|05:02 pm] |
It's been so long since I posted and I'm feeling like soloiloquising like that bit in the Beach Boys version of Auld Lang Syne where he goes "Hi, I'm Denny and Speaking for the rest of the guys I'd like to say bla bla bla". So a summing up of the year that's almost over seems a good way to do that. It's been an up and down year, mainly up.
(please note, photos from the first 9 months of this year are on the other computer not on my NEW MACBOOK (thankyou Ted and Father Christmas) so this doesn't really kick in as a photo essay until about September! Feel free to skip)...
Here's what we got up to!
January- saw the New Year in with dear friends Kevin and Katie, Leanne and Nate playing Hot Potato and drinking booze.
February- Ellen Lindner and beau, Stephen Betts visited us in St Louis. . And it was great! And it was our 2nd wedding anniversary.
March- forgot what did
April- New York with my mum! That was really fantastic.
May- the usual stuff
June- Injury Comics number 2 came out but then Ted got sick and we cancelled our trip to the Canadian Lakes and instead we stayed home and watched The Osbournes and I read lots of John Updike books
July-Ted got better. We bought more garden furniture and it was actually pleasant enough to use it!
August- Our little cat Soldy died aged at least 18. Soldy I miss you!
September- We did comics duties in Columbia, Missouri and I went to Toronto to see Leanne:
October- The best Comics shop in Missouri celebrated 20 years of service so Ted and Jason Robards did this:
Then continuing the halloween theme we went to San Francisco for the Alternantive Press Expo ('APE') at the end of October.
Here's me and Ted and Kevin's hat at Buenaventura Press H.Q. (that's Ted's publisher):
And I met my hero Daniel Clowes, here he is doing a signing with Freddy Kruger!!
Okay, that's actually Tim Hensley...
Here's a couple of birds that were crashing at Casa Buenaventura (centre is Katie, my bff).
Johnny Ryan, Kevin H and Ted May enjoying Rock Band:
By this time it was...
November- and we saw the Obama victory from our SF hotel room. Top stuff!
Which only leaves December which I'm currently enjoying on my MacBook!
Well it's almost 2009 so have a good one and a safe one everybody, and I promise to update more next year and not be a stranger. And Happy Birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) book_em_danno!
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| Playing Card Project |
[Dec. 28th, 2008|04:44 pm] |
It's been a while since I posted updates to my playing card collection and 2007's SPX and this years APE were veritable goldmines! So here goes:
From top left: Johnny Ryan, Jaime Hernandez, Chris Ware
Middle row: Daniel Clowes, Souther Salazar, Chris Cilla
Bottom row: Tim Hensley, Ron Rege, Gilbert Hernandez
Here's the back of the Johnny Ryan and Ron Rege cards:
I think my personal favourites to date are the Daniel Clowes, Ron Rege and Nick Abadzis cards.
On my want list is Herb Trimpe, Don Heck (is he still alive?), Julie Doucet, Peter Bagge and Ted May. The latter should be easy. He's promised to do the very last card....
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| Leanne in Toronto |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|09:46 am] |
The only sketch I did in Toronto, waiting for vegan food.
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