Becky Hawkins

Family time and travel-limbo

This was an actual text exchange with my sister, cartoonified with permission in my best imitation of Dykes to Watch Out Fo...

HELLO (how tf is January almost over)

Hi Patrons,

This cartoon went in the theater's e-newsletter. It's the most personal newsletter cartoon I've done, and much longer than usual, but I couldn't think of anything else to write ab...

Postcard roundup

This is an intersection on my commute home. I took a photo at a red light in July and finally got around to drawing it. The theater is surrounded by much different buildings than the old location. ...

November/December at the childen's theater

Hi patrons,

This first postcard took me two tries to lay out. This was my first attempt. (Excuse the poor picture quality; this is what I texted to Barry asking if it worked.)

2023-12-11 05:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post

SuperButch Book 1, Page 184

Happy Long Weekend of Eating Leftovers to those who celebrate! This year I'm thankful for getting going on this comic again.

Panel 1 was brought to you by the You Are Good podcast episode abo...

Joining the 21st Century

This is the first political cartoon I did entirely in Clip Studio Paint! It went up on Barry's Patreon...

The Halloween Ball

Welp, my day job is super cute lately. The October "Halloween Ball" was interactive and the audience was encouraged to show up in costume. This sometimes meant full-family Mario or Star Wars costum...

I Thought We Were Done with Moving Vans...

Moving has certainly been a theme of the past year! The children's theater spent last August/September moving out of the old building, then we worked out of storage units and satellite locations fo...

Summer sketches and postcards

True story, the theater was right between a parking lot and WasabiCon last weekend, so the people-watching was unmatched! Naomi helped me pick out which cosplayers to draw since I'm not as familiar...

Theater and theater-adjacent watercolors

Here's the source for panel 4 if you're curious. 2023-07-19 00:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Bike Camping!

These days, when I'm not at the children's theater (or recovering from summer camp chaos), I'm in full ...

Theater cartoons

I keep going back and forth between "I don't have enough postcards to warrant a whole Patreon post," "I'm too busy to post," and "oops I haven't posted in a couple weeks, so here's a bunch of postc...

VanCAF 2023

Hi patrons!

I’m home from the Vancouver Comic Arts Fest, which feels like it warrants a Patreon post.

Naomi and I drove to Canada on Thursday...

2023-05-26 03:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Behind the scenes on p180-181

I promised some details about this double-page spread!

Barry got the idea from a cartoonist named 2023-05-15 02:11:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1, Page 183

Hi patrons,

This page was brought to you by reference photos, old shoes, and Barry's copy of How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way.

Let's just say I wasn't happy with my first couple of pas...

Abbott Elementary sketches

Is everyone caught up on Abbott Elementary? HOW ABOUT THAT SEASON 2 FINALE?! That show is my current happy place.

I started drawing these over the past couple of months when I need a no-press...

Book 1, Page 182

Hi patrons!

It's not a superhero comic without a chase scene through an alley, right? (Right? I'm not as familiar with superhero comics.)

I had some fortunate timing while I was working...

Book 1, Page 180-181

Hi patrons!

There will be a couple of word balloons on this spread, but I wanted to post this as soon as the art was done, cause I'm excited.

This took more than one audiobook's worth o...

Postcards from the theater

Hi patrons,

In just over a month, the children's theater will open a show in its new location! It's starting to look done...

2023-03-15 18:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Sketchbook Dump

Hi patrons,

While I work on a double-page SuperButch spread (and try not to lose entire days finding cool but off-topic p...

Book 1, Page 179

Drawing a multi-panel physical gag felt new to me.

Does it count as slapstick when everyone narr...

January Postcards

Naomi called it.

Anyway, Hi there! I just realized I haven't shown you these postcards yet. I've ...

Holiday Travel Sketchbook

Hi patrons,

Happy New Year! I hope you had some holiday fun. I basically fulfilled my promise not to work (minus one newsletter cartoon for the theater). But I ended up doing a lot more sketc...

Book 1, Page 178

Barry is one of those valuable script writers who aids in the search for reference photos! He included 2022-12-22 05:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1, Page 177

Barry and I had an "oh shit" moment on the previous page. Remember when Captain Turtle was trying to start the motor on his shell backpack? The script originally had a caption about Captain Turtle ...

Wizard School and misty bike rides

True story from Wizard School, cartooned with the parent's permission! The theater's Fall Break Camp involved a lot of role playing--the campers decorated their own magic wands and solved a mystery...

Postcards: construction, stress dreams, and A League of their Own

Hi patrons!

The new venue for the children's theater is still under construction. Apparently the construction crew is tickled by the unique job!

One awkward thing about doing journal co...

Book 1, Page 176

Hi patrons!

2022-11-19 22:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1, Page 175

Hi patrons,

Fun fact: Lillian was hopping onto public transit next to cute children up to 5 years before Eddie Valiant became famous for it in 2022-10-26 18:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post

a teeny follow-up

Remember this postcard from a few months ago, when I did some set painting?

2022-10-18 06:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post