Here’s what I’ve made in the last 2 months. Before that a quick preview of news for the next 2 months: I’m doing a residency at the SVA Risolab this summer… which means I’m taking a break from tabling for a bit which means I’ll open my online store again soon, stay tuned. Also have always been meaning to write a little more in these newsletters and so finally wrote up some thoughts about getting asked “are you making any new comics” at the end.
Another 3 month update because I forgot… thanks to everyone who signed up for this newsletter these past few months, and sorry if you didn’t and I just entered someone’s email in wrong :’)
hello! been doing a lot of riso printing these past 2 months, and appreciating what i can of the start of autumn here.
i’ve been trying to redistribute part of the profits every time i table - it’s not a lot because tabling is a large part of my income at the moment, but something i want to do regularly. if you’d like to join me and need a place to start, here’s some lists of fundraising efforts:
hello again! still pretty quiet on my end. thank so much to everyone who stopped by my june events (also thanks to everyone who signed up for this newsletter, and sorry if i typed in an address incorrectly and you’re getting this by mistake… hope it’s not too annoying.)
have been busy with deadlines and then spent a solid few weeks working on the print version of my new year comic - here’s the fancy new title page. + also a title, skinning, taken from one translation of hexagram 49 革 (which is variously also named molting, transformation, reform, and revolution).
hello! just an update to say that my riso print subscription tier is open on my patreon @ 15 USD / month! get a mini print (~6x4in - 5x7in) mailed to you every month. more detailed info is in this post.
including a preview of the 1st print (in bisque, sunflower, bright red, + blue ink) for april! in the future prints will be made during the month they're paid for but wanted to have something to announce this. sign up by march 31 to get this print - it'll ship out in april.
i've really enjoyed starting to work more with riso, and freelance has been really rough, so this is a way to maybe give me a little more room to play around with printmaking! this will also be a way for me to be more experimental with my art - prints might be more abstract like this piece, or otherwise not in my typical full illustration style (and maybe sometimes not even a drawing? who knows).
hello! something quick to let you know that i designed some red packets as part of the washi station's lunar new year collection, out now. decided to do a carp to double dip on zodiac independent new year fish puns so you can use these whenever + the myth of carp that manage to leap up waterfalls becoming dragons for something year of the dragon appropriate. you can also use code FORMYTHS to get 10% off your washi station order (with or without my designs).
this was supposed to be the december recap email but the only thing i worked on was my annual new year's comic so here it is.
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also up on my site if the formatting ends up weird on here. i usually put my year end/new year comics together from bits of writing i've collected in my notes over the year, and they're usually very abstractly about time/ death/ cycles/ change/ renewal which conveniently are both themes i'm interested in and topical for a so-called new year.
hello! i've put some leftover 2024 calendar riso prints up on my store. US shipping only this time, will be up until dec 14 or until they run out (there's less than 10 left so sorry if you end up seeing this too late). all orders will be shipped by dec 15 which is technically before the USPS holiday cutoff but i can't guarantee delivery by any specific date :') thanks for looking!
Had a bunch of surprise expenses this month oops so running a surprise store opening with some stickers + postcards (+ limited zine copies)! Go to shop.formyths.com for all your tiger and tiger adjacent needs. I'll be announcing this publicly in a couple days, and it'll be open until end of day July 31 (midnight EST).
Because I have neither space for shipping supplies nor ways to print shipping labels, I am only selling stuff I can send via stamp mail. Which means cheaper shipping overall but no tracking and a higher chance something happens to the envelope - if you don't want to risk that, I'm thinking of doing another round post cons/fairs either later this year or early next year.
There is a limited amount of Shapeshifter zines (basically leftovers from this round of assembly) - there will be more of them though so don't worry if they do sell out. Aside from the year of the rabbit prints everything just has limited stock because I want to save inventory for tabling if I need it.
still not a lot going on but here's your regular update (+ some tabling news).
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strange dreams - an companion illo for FAR DISTANT, available as an 8x10in offset print! you'll be able to get these up wherever bulgilhan press is tabling, and i'll also be selling copies in person.
somewhat belated because i wanted to wait for the crowdfunding campaign to launch and then my computer died last week :') but my new comic FAR DISTANT with Bulgilhan Press has finally been announced! it's about someone at a remote transmitter station having strange dreams, and is very self indulgent and vibes based. excited to see this in print finally!
i have been deep in comics limbo and have done very little else besides that and client work these past 2 months! so this will be a short one.
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my piece for "reverse heist", part of everest pipkin's world ending game! i think this is a really neat project and you should check it out if you can.
happy new year! i will refrain from implying anything about how 2022 is going to go but thanks for sticking around another year. here's what i did the last 2 months of 2021:
hello! an irregular update to let you know that my (very small) shop is open - i'll be posting about it publicly very soon but sending this out slightly earlier. i'm planning to keep everything open until november 5, though i do have limited stock of items & am not going to be ordering more red envelopes.
cannot think of a fun opener for this so hello & here's what i've been up to:
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the spirit world by train! did a spirited away poster for andy's "wish you were here!" travel poster artbook. physical copies are sold out but you can still get digital copies here.
hello! thanks for being interested as i try to figure out ways to share updates/ art outside of social media! right now this will be pretty simple and probably just the pieces i've made/ shared in the past month(s) + any other projects or events happening. honestly i don't have a lot going on anyway.
(also, i've tried to make sure everything works but let me know if anything displays weirdly!)
