📒 Comics Cave Continues 📒

A cartoon panel of two people standing on a beach, one with long wavy hair and wearing a stripy orange shirt shaking the other person who has short brown hair and wearing a baggy red button up shirt. The person in the orange top is saying “Ahh, nonsesne, you’re great at drawing!

I’m crawling out from my comics hermit cave to share a panel from a recently finished page of my upcoming graphic novel, Oh Brother.

The deadlines have been crunchy, so I’ve going to head back to the cave now. But I’m hoping to pop in over the next few weeks and share a few snippets of the book when I can. I’m excited about how the colours are looking and can’t wait to share more with you all!

💖 Edith 💖

A sticker of a cute pink, one eyed, fluffy monster with six arms and cool green boots holding a yellow blanket over themselves. The sticker is sitting on a background of a orange woollen blanket.

New sticker alert 2! I’ll be at @zinawarriorprintfest tomorrow (12 Oct, 11-4pm, @mod_museum) hocking my comics, badges and ✨new stickers✨. Thanks as always to @radstickers for turning my sticker dreams into sticker realities.

This is my last event for the year before I hunker down and smash out the last stage of my book, so come say 👋 (and I can even show you a little preview of chapter 1 of Oh Brother)!

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Cartoon Gina leaning sideways on the kitchen bench asking “What should I do now?”

I’m deep in the inking of the book at the moment (although I had to colour a few pages to make sure I’d set my files up correctly - which is where this panel comes from). It’s exciting to finally get to the stage of the book where I can start really seeing the final work coming together.

But because my deadlines are really tight, I’m going to be pretty absent from the world (both online and in real life) for the next four months. However, I will be sending out a few newsletters over that time with updates and sneak peeks at pages I’ve been working on. So make sure you sign up to my newsletter to keep to keep up to date with my book-based shenanigans.

✏️Pencils Complete✏️

A blue line drawing of a slice of Vegemite toast on a plate and a bite taken out of the corner of it. ‘The End’ is written in the Vegemite.

In very exciting news, I’ve just finished and sent in the pencils for the final chapter of my graphic novel, Oh Brother! This is by no means the end of the hard work (I’ve still got take on final edits and then ink & colour the book!) but it’s a huge step along the way to finishing and publishing my first graphic novel.

Because the book deadlines are super tight, I’m not going to be able to post too much here for next few months. So if you want to keep up to date with what I’m up to (and see more sneak peeks of the book), sign up to my newsletter (link in bio). I send out a little update at the end of each month with some behind the scenes looks at my work and links to any upcoming events I’m doing (pssst, I’m sending out my next newsletter tomorrow).

Alright, I’m going to go nap for a bit now so I’m refreshed and ready to start inking next week! 💪

⭐️ Meet Agatha ⭐️

A blue monster with a triangle head, 3 eyes, 3 noses and 3 mouths. She is wearing a pink button up shirt tucked into yellow pants with a belt. She looks distressed by all the mess around her. She has three arms and three spiky tails holding cleaning equipment.

Hello Friends! This is Agatha. Agatha likes things to be just so. She very much believes in “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Agatha can sometimes get very stressed when things are messy and her friends don’t put things away where they should go but she also loves making things for friends. (Those who know me might see some resemblance between me at Agatha).

Agatha is another monster in Edith’s universe.

⭐️ Meet Edith ⭐️

A happy pink fluffy monster sitting in their bedroom under a tent made of patchwork blankets. The monster has big earmuffs on and rubbing a blanket on their face. They are surrounded by lots of lights and warm colours.

I know a lot of you already know Edith (who is the star of their very own eponymous mini-comic that you can read at my online clubhouse a.k.a website). Edith’s character is inspired by some of my own sensory needs (loves blankets and the quiet) and doesn’t always cope when they can’t get these things.

Edith came about as part of a monster workshop I ran a few years ago now (along with a few other monster pals I’ll be sharing here soon). I fell in love with them straight away and they’ve never left me. I keep doodling Edith in my sketchbooks and coming up with new stories for them (I’m hoping to eventually make a longer comic with Edith and their pals at some point).

🧠 Brains, am I right? 🧠

A borderless, un-pencilled, comic drawn in thick black pen on pink paper. The comic is of my brain and me talking. The brain is saying “You always make the wrong decisions! You are selfish! You are useless! You should work harder.” I grab the brain out of my head and say “Hey. It’s okay. You don’t have to be perfect. You are allowed to rest. Your productivity is not your worth.”

A little comic I noodled out of my noodle a few weeks back. I kept tossing up whether I should redraw it and make it a cleaner, tighter comic. At the moment I’ve decided not to.

Sending love and strength to all those who also struggle with confusing their productivity with their worth.