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Animation - The Rest of the Week

Again - I have all the animations up on my Patreon page - take a look! I stayed up late inking the pencils and scanning them, then ruined the whole thing with a botched batch processing... But this morning - I realized the black background actually looked better... so I

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Animation Reflux

I'm so glad I decided to take the Animation workshop with Alec Longstreth at the Center for Cartoon Studies -- AGAIN! I enjoyed it last summer too, but I didn't get the concepts, techniques, etc. firmly planted in my brain in a way that would let me actually USE them.

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Illustrator Saturday!

I am SO excited to be the featured artist on Kathy Teaman's WRITING and ILLUSTRATING blog for Illustrator Saturday! Click HERE to read the Interview and see all the images on Kathy's blog. And here is just a little preview: How long have you been illustrating?More than 30 years.

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A Peek at Pics in Progress

Here's a peek at some of the stuff I'm working on right now... This picture shows a progression for one page of the science comics I'm doing for the Montshire Museum of Science and Dartmouth College - This is a few days worth of work! And, yes, I DO the

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Give me some Sugar!

Last week I did a really fun project for Red Kite Candy's "Candy Lab" - I designed the candy box label for the latest winner - Apple Pie Caramels. They are only available for a limited time and the money goes to Food4Kids. And, NO, I don't get paid extra

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The Fright Before Christmas

I thought I'd share the behind-the-scenes for another of my comic/picture books that is a perfect gift for the season! A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...  I started working on a warped version of The Night Before Christmas... The text of the original story says,

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Get your freshly printed Demons!

I have a new printing of We Will Never Leave You comic/coloring books. It's very exciting to think that I actually sold (and gave away) all the copies I printed this spring! I thought I would show you the "behind-the-scenes" for creating this comic, but, if you are short

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Alternate Realities Comic - Halloween 2017

Four different ways my life could have manifested itself today - if I had made slightly different choices along the way. I can't... and don't want to... explain it any more than that. Here is the original ballpoint pen comic I drew - I'd love to hear your thoughts...

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Granite State Comicon

The perfect end to my birthday week! Lilah and I drooled over the coolest comic related STUFF and original art and costumes and and and.... Lilah and I were both crazy about the work of Christopher Uminga! We had a lot of trouble deciding which prints to get, but Lilah

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And now I... BEGIN AGAIN!

Kickstarter blog... Done! Masters of Applied Cartooning... Done! Moved back to New Hampshire... Done! New Art Studio... Done! I'm going to show you the behind the scenes of the new studio, in just a second, but just in case you don't read the whole post - I'm inviting you to

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Kickin' it on Kickstarter!

So - that went well! The first Kickstarter, for the Quo Vadis - Special Edition - comics went far enough past the goal that I was able to print some extra comics! I picked them up from the printers last week and they look great!! It is very exciting to

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BEGin AGAIN Kickstarter

OK - let's DO this!! We got the first part of the Thesis comics funded, now I just launched the Kickstarter for the second part... It's pretty cool to start right out of the gate as a "Project We Love" - note the heart! I'm also doing this as part

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Meanwhile... Back at School...

I'm getting scarily close to graduation and Thesis deadline. Eeeeeek! On the happy side - I finished one of four comics for that Thesis and just launched a Kickstarter to pay for the printing. This Kickstarter lasts for just seven days, so go take a look right now! (And Thanks!

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Try Your Hand at Cartooning!

I am SO excited to share this with you guys!!! My school, The Center for Cartoon Studies, is offering a FREE Cartooning Workout - by email! So you can try cartooning without having to travel to Vermont. It lasts one week and you can sign up any time. The class

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Quo Vadis Journal (Comic!) Review

The pages are reproduced much larger below and I'll transcribe the comic's text too in case you are visually challenged. ;-) In July, I had this Genius Idea (i.e.: "what was I thinking?!"). I would force myself to draw a Cartoon-A-Day. By using a planner/journal - if I

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Behind the Scenes - "Nesting Instinct"

I admit I have an ulterior motive here. Usually, I would post this kind of behind-the-scenes thing on the Glyphs & Glitches blog. But if you aren't following that blog, or the Comic Blog, I want you to know what you are missing! ;-D If you'd like to see more like

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Cartoon School - Come With Me!

I know it's been very quiet over here in The Belfry for the past year. There's been a lot going on though! I have one more year at The Center for Cartoon Studies and I encourage you to join me for my Senior Year. "Year Two". I just launched my

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Spring Break!

If you are in school, and you get Spring Break, you are supposed to head to the beach, right? I went to the Maine coast! I spent a few days hanging out at my sister's house in Bar Harbor. She's renovating a house nearby to rent as apartments in the

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Treats on a Monday

I collected my Valentines today! Haven't had such fun with Valentine cards since grade school! Although the sentiment is slightly dangerous in the hands of cartoonists. Meanwhile, back in Comic History, we have been learning about the Underground Comix Movement.  This is not a movement that I am particularly fond

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Visiting Artist - John Martz

Our artist today was John Martz, a cartoonist and kids' book illustrator from Canada. One idea I'd like to steal is to find a signature character (his is a robot) and use it as a daily drawing exercise - fill a sketchbook with just that character interacting with the panels

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Homework?

When we got our homework last week, I saw the assignment and joked, "96-pages??!!! I can have a breakdown in only 4 pages!" Silly girl. When will I learn not to brag. The Breakdown is still going... On the positive side, the rough week has inspired some interesting plot twists.

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Characters and a Visiting Artist

I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for

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Visiting Artists and Some Demons

The Visiting Artists today were Melissa Mendes and Chuck Forsman. Both were students at the Center for Cartoon Studies a few years ago, so it was interesting to see how their careers have developed since then. Chuck had an interesting observation "when gravity is pulling me in one direction, I

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Dealing with Scoundrels

I feel like I've been sick for a month. After the strep and the viral infection... or whatever it was... I'm left with this lingering exhaustion (mono?). That feeling like when you are lying in the tub and let the water out. It feels like you are being sucked down

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And That Concludes Semester 1

Whoa! It's done! One of four semesters. Finished. Sigh. Our last class, instead of Visiting Artists, was a Reading Party. What a great way to end the semester and then head off to break. There were tons of yummy cakes and cookies, including some decorate your own cookies. My fireman