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New Opportunity to Get my Work!
Comix Accountability Club, an awesome group of cartoonists I’m part of, will be tabling at Small Press Expo at table C2! I won’t be there, but my art will be, in a few different forms: you can buy my recent comic All You Can Feel and the CAC fall quarterly (for which I illustrated the cover), and see a preview of an anthology that includes a short comic of mine. 👀 I also, of course, recommend that you look at and/or buy everything on the table in general, because in addition to being awesome these guys are all wildly talented!

My Upcoming Tabling Events
(subscribing to this newsletter means you get to hear about the events I’m doing as soon as I know about them, sometimes months in advance!) 
9/19 Gaymer Fest, Cambridge, MA (see Gaymerfest.com for info, but keep in mind that tickets are now SOLD OUT)
9/20 Brighton Bazaar at Harvard Allstonway ERC, Boston, MA
9/26 Providence Indie Comics Creator Con, Warwick, RI (see https://ic3.art/ for tickets)
10/03 Somerville Zine Fest, Somerville, MA
10/04 Brighton Bazaar: Big Gig Fall, Boston, MA
10/17 Watertown Zine Fest, Watertown, MA
10/18 Brighton Bazaar, Boston, MA
11/07-11/08 Brighton Bazaar Elks Lodge Season Finale, Boston, MA
11/14 Nonfiction Comics Festival, Burlington, VT

New Art
My short piece “OCD Comic” was recently published by Solstice literary magazine, and you can read it right here. It was published as a finalist in their summer 2026 literary contest, which is very cool and only the second time a comic of mine has won any sort of award (and now I actually feel mostly comfortable calling myself an “award winning cartoonist” because my imposter syndrome was like, only one award means it could have just been a fluke).

“OCD Comic” came about because I wanted to make a short comic to submit to literary magazines and such, since that’s a form I hadn’t really explored before as a cartoonist. And I’d just been diagnosed with OCD, and I tend to make work about stuff that’s currently on my mind. It’s a stigmatized enough diagnosis that I was actually not going to tell anyone outside of my close circle about this . . . unless someone picked up the comic to publish, of course, which is what happened. That’s one good thing about making personal work like this, it’s a vehicle to share and connect with people in ways you otherwise might not. Oh, and, “OCD Comic” is not available in any sort of printed edition yet, but I’m planning on debuting a physical version of it at Nonfiction Comics Festival this fall!

My new minicomic All You Can Feel is also now out in the world! You can read the first bit on my website if you’d like. Slow Comics, another cartoonist, filmed a video of my table at Flamecon that got some attention on social media (hello to everyone here who found me through that!👋), which has given All You Can Feel’s debut more reach than I expected it to have. It’s been really special that so many people have been excited about this comic! I’m really proud of it and also I’m sorry if you can relate to it, haha

And of course, Catch of the Day, the picture book the author Dina Hardt commissioned me to illustrate, is still available for preorder. And the Boston Compass is about to publish the second installment of my 6-part series “Former Friends, Current Acquaintances,” which you can read more about in the previous edition of this newsletter.

Other Thoughts
This time last month I wasn’t sure what I was going to work on next, but now the tables have turned, yay! I had a few different people reach out to me about commissions recently (all people I’ve worked with before who’d like to commission me again, which is always an awesome feeling). And one of those commissions might be a poster featuring some little guys you may recognize from some of my previous work 🐀 . . . I’m really excited about it!!

I am still planning on revising the script for my graphic novel pitch before I continue querying agents and finishing that new minizine to debut at ic3 in September. And hopefully also putting together a new zine to debut in October as well, because I really didn’t expect to get in to both the Somerville and Watertown zine fests, so I want to do something special!

Also: as I mentioned earlier, I’ve been getting ✨attention✨ on social media. Like, I had ~1,100 Instagram followers a month ago and now I have almost 3,000. So I should probably talk about that experience. Overall, this has been extremely extremely cool. Also, it feels deeply on brand for me to gain all these followers from a video someone else took and posted of me at an in-person event, because I’m so not a social media girly.😆 I try, but I’ve always gained more followers from meeting people in person or word of mouth than tHe AlGoRiThM. Which has made this whole experience feel especially magical!

For the record, Anil, who’s behind Slow Comics, is a super respectful professional who makes sure everyone he posts fully understands what he’s doing and is all right with it, down to the fact that there’s a very real chance the video will blow up and they’ll be flooded with inquiries. He had a longer conversation with me after filming and double-checked that I was okay with him posting the video. He also made sure I was okay with him captioning it “POV: Only buying from Vendors with No Customers at a Comic Con,” which he explained was because a previous video he posted with that caption got a lot of traction. I did think for a second about the caption and ultimately concluded that, like, having customers at your table literally every single minute of an 8 hour long event is a completely unrealistic expectation and my knee-jerk desire to want to perform perfection in that way is probably not healthy. So I said, “sure, you can totally use that caption,” and now a lot of very cool and supportive people have seen my art, including some of you!🩵

Between the magical launch for All You Can Feel and putting “OCD Comic” out into the world, I guess if this edition of my newsletter had a thesis it would be: being vulnerable is good sometimes, actually.

Thanks for being here!

—Ellie