this could be the end of wanting
Welcome to the first issue of my newsletter and thank you for following along! I borrowed the title from Phoebe Bridgers, her new album has been on repeat in my home.
I am in the rough draft stages of the next installment in my t4t romance/dramedy series Wallace and Zephyr . They’re going to get married!
My first step in the comics-making process is imagining scenarios, little pieces of story out of sequence, and then connecting them together chronologically with other bits. It feels like working on a jigsaw puzzle. Once I rough out the whole comic (including revisions), I move onto the final art with pencils, inks, and watercolors. I’ve been doing these in an A5 blank hobonichi notebook. I don’t call them thumbnails because I like to work BIG! Even if much of the drawing is loose and details are suggested by a few lines. I’m sticking to a six-panel grid to these so far, but I will be varying up panel sizes in the final art as I see fit.
When I work on these, I enjoy carrying my notebook to different places. I’ve found that being in a library or cafe turns on my brain to think in new ways! I’ve been making comics since I was 13, about 20 years ago. Making comics feels natural, like breathing, like a language. I always want to be learning and growing, but I’m proud of the instincts I’ve developed for panel flow and character drawing.
A particular highlight of this summer was going to FlameCon! I enjoyed the train ride down to stay at my sisters’ apartments and was excited to see fellow comics friends, many of whom I hadn’t seen in a while. I wasn’t tabling but I was on a fun and thought-provoking panel about Queer Adult Comics.
I’d like to give a shout-out to the amazing cartoonists I spent time with that weekend:
Definitely check them all out!
Here’s where I’ll be tabling at for the rest of the year:
-Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD: September 12-13
-Somerville Zine Fest (Massachusetts): October 3
-Nonfiction Comics Fest in Burlington, VT: November 14
And volunteering at MICE (Massachusetts): December 5-6!
If you’re local to these areas or also tabling, I would love to see you there and give you some goodies!
best wishes,
Catalina
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