Being poor for the rest of my life is fine because instant noodles is my 3rd favorite food. Extra glutamates, please!

The hallway show returns

The Hallway Show is back! Check it out HERE. Thanks, internet, for making it all possible. This is gonna be great.

Make a Danny, tape it up.

FALL

October is the fun fall month and now November is here to be cold and full of yard waste.

Here's some sharks I made.

Last week I took a solo tour of the west coast, to which I have never been in adult memory. It was super great! I was gone for 9 days and went to San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. Those are places I am thinking about moving to. I basically just wandered around and pretended I lived there. Also I was a business woman a little bit. By which I mean I went to APE and tons of book stores and bought a lot of really cool looking crap. I said to each city, OK city I am ready to fall in love with you so show me what you got.

This is San Francisco. I'm in a forest.

Puget Sound, how do you even exist.

OK so this wasn't the #1 best thing about Portland, but look at how great their fire hydrants are.

I made this portfolio and dropped it off at Chronicle Books headquarters for their design fellowship (which I want so bad it hurts my heart) when I was in San Francisco.


I really have to restrain myself from writing desperately clingy notes to Chronicle telling it how good we would be together.

BABY I CAN LOVE ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US.

volcano care instructions

Put a baby in it.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

This past Saturday I was doing some dallying in Cass Corridor at the annual Dally in the Alley festival, and I randomly met the graphics editor for a big time Detroit newspaper. It's a small town. I asked him for some advice about finding work in the field, and he goes: "There's nothing. Learn video editing."

WAH WAH.

Some good news is my book Inertia: A Zombie Story is now available at Leopold's Books, a super cool new bookstore that just opened in Detroit, on the first floor of the Park Shelton, next to Paris Crepes. The store is really small, but it's all indie comics and small press stuff, and McSweeney's and other books with nice pictures in them, and hiply designed covers. They're looking for local books and zines to sell on consignment, so spread the word.

I don't really have any cool new drawings. Just more lions. BUT. A coworker recently turned me onto the new Sharpie Pen, which was a terrific surprise. They don't bleed like the old Sharpie finetip, and they don't catch on the paper like a Micron tends to. I'm going to go buy 80 of them. And then jab them in my eye.

I went to the Secretary of State today to register my NEW CAR. Well, "new" is a relative term. It's been sitting in the driveway all weekend without plates, taunting me. I'm so excited to drive it. My new tentative 5 year plan is to move into the car's cargo area and become a nomad. All I need is a hotplate that can plug into the cigarette lighter. DREAM LIFE.

Here are some sketchbook strangers. It was big time napsville at the S.o.S.

It was his best hat.

COME ON DOWN

Last night our power went out at about 10:30 pm. At the time I was about 30 minutes into a really good drawing groove that I had been struggling to get into all day. I had drunk about 80 cups of tea in preparation for drawing all night, I had This American Life playing on my computer, and the house was finally quiet. And then the power went out! Crud, right? So I packed up my pencils and lassoed Joe and we went to Ram's Horn, where we split a burger and fries and I drew this lady.


Ram's Horn is always a good idea.

Somerset bags!

The Somerset bags with my design are now out! They are a reusable shopping bag, and are available at Living Green Design at Somerset Mall, next to Saks 5th Avenue. They're $15, and 10 of those dollars goes to CCS or something.




Cool!

I'm trying this thing with my computer where I save things in folders with descriptive file names, instead of just all on my desktop with names like "thissucks83djh88." It's working pretty good, but it's not meshing very well with my old system. It's going to take a while to integrate them.

Here's a lion. I've been drawing lions a lot.

This beast is a destroyer of worlds.

David Weidman

I just ordered this book like, 2 days ago, and it came in the mail this morning. FAST DELIVERY!


This guy's great! I'm really inspired. I love the combination of shapes and lines and bold and delicate. The book is really nice too, the paper is glossy but not too glossy, and a perfect weight.

Here are some scans! I got pretty excitable as soon as I cracked it open.

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