It’s basically fall?

Hello, friends! I have finished the Secret Project and crawled out of my deadline pit. It’s a wonderful place to be - fresh air, sleep! - but it is also always a bit of a jolt. My brain doesn’t pull out of crunch mode right away. It doesn’t understand that the emergency is gone! Let me relax, brain!!

On the bright side, I am using that excess energy to catch up on the things I said I would do when I had a minute. So we are here, migrating from Mailchimp to Buttondown. Hopefully the newsletter experience is basically the same on your end! From here, it is (1) more affordable and (2) not yelling at me about five different AI integrations or whatever, so if it works out, that would be a definite plus.

I am also working on a minicomic for the first time in years! I’ll be posting works-in-progress on Patreon, although it - like my other minicomics - will be free to read when it’s finished. What I’m realizing right now is that I’ve gotten comfortable with my longform process, so I’m excited to play around and see what surprises come up.

Yours in comics,

Gale

Upcoming Events

Big Red Books Children’s Day
September 21st
Nyack, NY

Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival
September 27th
Chappaqua, NY

New York Comic Con
October 10th (times TBD)
New York, NY

Lately…

I’m reading…

Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin

I’ve been on a Le Guin essay kick recently, as I started with Words Are My Matter and barreled right into this book. Highly recommended, especially if you work with young readers and/or make stories for them. I’ll be chewing on it for a while.

Also, we read Catwings Return to the child last night and now he is intent on roleplaying a little black kitten. “You don’t know that I have wings but then you see them and you say oh it has wings! And I say ‘hate!’ but then you give me food and I say ‘mee mee mee!’”

In closing…

SEVEN HOURS LEFT TO SUPPORT A GORGEOUS PROJECT FROM SHING YIN KHOR!!!