The building that housed the theater used to be a Christian Science church, built around 1916. Over the years, it had housed a Christian Science Church, a community center, offices, and a soup kitc...
2022-10-12 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Whew! It's good to be back. September included a week-long visit from my parents and the children's theater moving out of its home of 30 years, so I was away from my draw...
2022-10-07 01:27:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm not throwing Barry under the bus for writing some SuperButch panels with weird perspective that kicked my butt (I totally am), but the SuperButch page is still halfway done. O...
2022-09-02 02:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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I don't know if you're familiar with Falsettos, but it's an 80s/90s gay Jewish musical for musical-lovers, and our advanced theater teens did an unbelievable job with their perfor...
2022-07-27 01:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Guess what, my coworker at the theater comes back from maternity leave this week! I'm really looking forward to splitting the work week with her again, instead of squeezing in dra...
2022-07-04 01:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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One contradiction of "watercolor journal comics" is that they sometimes take long enough that by the time I'm ready to post them, the thing happened a month or two ago.
This...
2022-06-24 05:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
Here's the Issue Six Cover!
I was a little intimidated about doing the Jackie Ormes sketch using old-school nib pens, especially while trying to imitate a cartoonist who was...
2022-06-13 00:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post
One more post from the theater. This was by far the largest hand-lettering job I've ever done!
Our master carpenter Paul let me pick out a few fonts for signage in the set. Here's a sheet wit...
2022-05-14 19:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
I admit it. I ran out of time. I won’t get this cover done before I go out of town. ::sigh:: It felt kind of freeing to say it.
Since this is a “Jackie Ormes ...
2022-05-14 06:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons,
We did it! We pulled off the Costume Sale. It took everyone several hours to move all the costumes out from storage onto the floor:
2022-05-10 20:56:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons,
It's my second-to-last week of costume sale + set painting + box office + taking the occasional phone call about summer camps! I'm handling it very well.
2022-04-30 05:04:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi patrons!
This month has been a doozy. I wish I was unveiling a shiny new SuperButch Issue 6 cover, but I'm in a cycle of "This week is unusually busy, but next week maybe isn't." Also, COV...
2022-04-23 18:24:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
I'm organizing a costume sale for the theater, now that we've reorganized and culled a bit. So if you're in Portland, keep May 7-8 open! I'll let you know when we have details. We...
2022-03-29 17:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons,
This page wraps up Issue 6! (I guess you're ok with cliffhangers if you're reading SuperButch a page at a time, but if not...Blame Barry.)
I started this page by drawing fou...
2022-03-17 04:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
When I want to draw but don't feel like cartooning, I'll go through my Camera Uploads for a building to draw. This first postcard is a 2022-03-07 18:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Here's a look at how this page came to completion.
The original script says:
PANEL 1
A shot of Turtle’s face as he yanks/brush... 2022-03-01 20:07:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Everyone give Barry a hand for the expressive lettering! I thought he was just going to throw a word balloon around a generic "MMPH" until I opened the file this morning. Love it!...
2022-02-09 17:36:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons!
This page has a LOT of faces. I had to draw 8 different Captain Turtles doing essentially the same thing. Sometimes it's a challenge to keep a "talking head" page like this visual...
2022-02-01 05:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
When we started making SuperButch I thought it would be a peek into the past when things were worse, instead of being relevant to current events. :(
Barry's so good at writi...
2022-01-22 02:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons!
Here's a fun game: Can you spot the differences between the final panel of this page, and the firehouse scene on page 167? (Answers below)
2022-01-14 21:28:09 +0000 UTC
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Hi patrons!
The children's theater is still closed (except for classes), so I'm leaning into where it says "et cetera" and "as needed" in my job description. Earlier this month I helped reloc...
2021-12-31 01:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is what the page is going to look like in print (Yes, Barry wrote two double-page spreads in a row):
2021-12-21 22:04:45 +0000 UTC
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Happy December, everybody!
That first postcard is from the Showers Pass Warehouse Sale, an annual chance to acquire rain gear that's been discounted from "LOL" to "worthwhile splurge."
...
2021-12-01 21:27:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! I'm about to leave town for Thanksgiving, so please expect a lot more behind-the-scenes information with the next page.
...omigosh, I love Barry's lettering and word balloon...
Hi patrons! I can't even express how satisfying it is for me to see this page in person, so I hope you feel the same way!
This is what the ink wash looks like by itself:
2021-11-13 04:48:14 +0000 UTC
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I finally figured out how to arrange a store, a church, a swing set, a bench, a Benson Bubbler, a gazebo, three protagonists, a cookout, and a double dutch game into a two-page sp...
2021-11-05 18:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Oh boy, this was one of those pages that surely shouldn't take long to draw. And yet. :-/
The Jansson building was inspired by this Volvo dealership I saw whi...
2021-10-12 01:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! The children's theater just finished our second week of Fall classes, so there's been plenty of inspiration for newsletter cartoons:
2021-10-06 02:51:35 +0000 UTC
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I just got done with two weeks of working extra hours at the children's theater, covering for a coworker's well-deserved break. I was mostly still working from home. But theater c...
2021-09-20 18:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
Do you like this format for sharing a bunch of postcards, or do you prefer them embedded in a long post, with a little intro for each one? These seemed pretty self-explanatory. Su...
2021-09-07 18:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post