Black Ink Bird

Hey there, folks! Time for a spiffy new journal update – YAY!

One week ago today I attended the Olympia Comics Festival in Washington, which was super fun! I was sharing a table with Mische Litvak, who is a writer/comicker/painter extraordinaire as well as the folks from the Eye Candy Animation Festival that took place immediately after the Comics Fest. Sales didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but I did notice a marked improvement over sales at conventions focused on anime and manga. I’m slowly finding my niche!

I also got to meet some interesting folk. :) The first was Chelsea, who is the amazing lady that runs both the Comics Fest each year as well as Danger Room Comics in Downtown Oly. I also got to talk to fellow deviant :devSavannahHorrocks: (small world!), Lisa Eisenberg, and Sarah Oleksyk – all very sweet, cool ladies! While there I also ran into Chris Baldwin (one of the very first web-comickers!) and my old pal Rick Perry from the Never Knows/Heavy Manufacturing Concern.

Furthermore, Mische and I landed a spot in a mini coverage video of the event, courtesy of Blissful Remembrances. Our segment begins at 3:15. Check it out, YouTubers! :D

In other news, I now have a college degree! HURRAY FOR ME! I am super educated and fancy now.

So where’s my monocle?

PS: The Illustration page is super fancy now! You should all take a gander, if you please. :3

I was gonna make the last part say “Thinking Aloud,” but for god’s sake this is the internet: the only thing aloud about these thoughts are the typing noises!

First thing’s first: I’m gonna be tabling at the Olympia Comics Festival in WA this Saturday, June 5th! I’ll be sharing a big-ass table with the incomparable Mische Litvak and the fine folks putting on the Eye Candy Animation Festival (to take place immediately after the comics festival). For anybody who wants to check it out, it’s at the Olympia Center downtown and it’s going on from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM. There’s also gonna be a stage show from 6 – 8 PM for $5 at the Capitol Theatre, so don’t flee the fray too quickly. ;)

So yeah – comics, stage shows, and animation from 11:30 AM – 9:00 PM. THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT?!

I’m gonna be selling copies of Blackbirds Issue #1, my minis Blackbirds: Sarah’s Day and Queer, decorative buttons, full-color art prints, and on-the-spot commissions. I’ll also be handing out free samplers of my webcomic Race Drag and my one-shot-in-progress A Colorful Character.

Why, yes, I did just refer to Blackbirds as “Issue #1″ because I have officially decided to continue the story. Issue #2 is in its pre-production stage as we speak. :)

More pressingly, however, I have to finish my creative project for class. It’s my very last undergraduate assignment ever before I receive my BA – ain’t that neat?! I’m making it a poem that personifies the most salient aspects of my sociopolitical identity and shows how they interact to form the person that I am today. It’s all very relevant to one of the major aspects of psychology program, which is the only real requirement for the project aside from it being creative. Right now I’m thinking the identities I’ll play with are my race, gender, class, language, sexual, regional, and ethnic identities. I’d like to portray as my race as a set of twins since I am biracial. Anyway, this was the thinking/typing aloud/online/what-have-you part. Short as it was, it got my brain meat sloshing around in a smooth, yet appetizingly chunky rhythm.

What is up with that metaphor, y’all?

Peace out for now! Gotta save them metaphors for the poetry!

Alright, so first Arizona comes up with a bill that allows police to apprehend brown people on mere suspicion of being illegal immigrants. Now there’s another bill banning ethnic studies courses from public schools in the state of Arizona. Los Angeles is now boycotting Arizona business – I don’t mean the people of Los Angeles (although they may be as well), I mean the city council of Los Angeles. Arizona is making decisions so heinous that other government entities are taking the time to protest. What in the fuck is going on here?!

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15073653

Check out the Illustrations page again – it’s jam packed with art now! Just click on the thumbnails to see each whole piece on Deviant Art.

Things with the Fruity layout design didn’t work out (seeing as I’m not a web designer), so I’ve decided on the current layout to keep things light, simple, and – well, pink! It feels nice to have things organized again.