Jackie Ormes returns! This cartoonist was known for drawing glamorous fashion as well as political/social commentary. So when she appears in SuperButch, I want to do her wardrobe justice.
Her...
2021-09-03 17:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I'm back. As promised, here are the illustrations I did for Emotional Labor: Why a Woman's Work is Never Done and What To Do ...
2021-08-28 22:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! I'm writing this from my partner's parents' house, where we're taking an honest-to-gosh break for a couple weeks. Thanks for your patience this summer. We're still looking for a rental ...
2021-08-07 18:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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Summer camp is back at the children's theater, which means I don't have to draw any more Zoom meetings! The first week of camp provided enough inspiration for a month's worth of n...
2021-07-11 19:15:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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This page led to some fun research. In this video from 1943, entitled "Basic Typing Methods," t...
2021-06-13 22:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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The end is in sight for the next SuperButch page! Remind me not to draw several different layout options for each panel of a 9-panel page. It does terrible things to my schedule. ...
2021-06-07 22:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Barry and I got a very stressed-out email last week saying "I borrowed my friend's signed copy of SuperButch Issue One, and...well, my housemate has a dog. Can I get a replacement copy?!" Of course...
2021-05-25 01:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
"Oh good," I thought. "It's an 80s transcript page! That shouldn't take too long to draw..." And then I went through six different page layouts. ::shrug::
Here are the layouts I tried:
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2021-05-01 17:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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I got my first vaccine dose at the Oregon Convention Center, the usual site of Rose City Comic Con. In many respects, the experience of looking for the right entryway, walking thr...
2021-04-19 01:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Ta-daa!
The Photoshop file for this page has about 20 layers of sketched chairs, tables, and figures. This was one of those pages where I just scoot everything around til it looks right. In t...
2021-04-06 18:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This postcard was originally titled "Stay-at-Home: Week 48," but it took me awhile to get to it. By week 54, it was deemed "not the right vibe" for the theater e-newsletter. The weather is sunnier....
2021-03-25 04:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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The book Shoulder Angel is holding is Station Eleven , and the comics on top of the bookshelf are 2021-03-20 22:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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Finally got the chance to draw the exterior of Moira's! It's based on the historical Mona's 440...
2021-03-05 02:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Confession: Barry finished lettering this page yesterday, and I didn't post it to Patreon right away because I was distracted by the new vacuum cleaner that had arrived in the mai...
2021-02-25 17:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here are some different layouts I tried for this page. (Of course, as soon as I don't have to figure out how to fit 10 people in each panel, I want to explore all the pag...
2021-02-11 23:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Whew, it feels good to get to a new panel layout. [Barry's script actually says "We finally (finally!) change angles" for panel 2.]
2021-02-02 04:33:30 +0000 UTC
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Talon and Perry Winkle host a series called How Do You Do. They interview students, ...
2021-01-28 05:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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If I find out what brand of noise-canceling cotton balls Lillian is using, I'll definitely post a link for you here. XD
I imagine that New Year's Eve is no longer on anyone'...
2021-01-19 17:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I love how Barry set up this scene in the previous pages!
I chuckled to myself when I first read the script, but I knew it would be a challenge to fit Lillian, a waitress, a dancing couple or...
2021-01-08 02:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Page 150: That is a nice, round number. Thanks for helping Barry and me reach it!
2020-12-28 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're almost to page 150--woohoo! ...and I just realized that Lillian's necktie was black last week, and now it's white. I'll go fix that.
Special thanks goes to Barry's niece Sydney for this...
2020-12-24 17:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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My coworker Talon has been filming a series called "How Do You Do" for the children'...
2020-12-24 06:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Moira's, home of Turtle City's greatest Male Impersonators!
It was based on Mona's 440 in San Francisco:
2020-12-14 20:59:40 +0000 UTC
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Please give a hand to Barry for the lettering and singsong word balloons!
It feels great to have this page done. A significant portion of the time spent on this page involve...
2020-12-07 19:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm trying a process where I pencil several pages at once, then move on to the pen-and-ink phase. So SuperButch will be updating again starting this week! The plan is to have a fe...
2020-11-29 17:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm still on a quest to balance drawing SuperButch with living up to the ideals of a conscientious lesbian cartoon character à la "Dykes to Watch Out For." I spent a few blocks o...
2020-11-20 04:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here are some changes this page went through before I could break out the pens and ink wash:
2020-11-08 01:50:49 +0000 UTC
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In addition to the new page, here are some postcards from the children's theater!
Online dance classes:
2020-10-30 22:57:20 +0000 UTC
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You may remember that SuperButch picked up the Prism Award for Best Webcomic last year:
2020-10-17 17:17:54 +0000 UTC
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Jumping backwards in time a bit, here's some funny background about the end of Issue 5. According to the original script, Lillian went directly home from the Rabbit Hole (no chang...
2020-10-10 23:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post