Issue 32: NIF IS HERE!!! Events, Comics, + More!
NIF NIF NIF NIF NIF-- and a website update!!
Art by Mariah-Rose Marie | Letters by Becca Carey
Hello hello, friends and good folk, and happy May Day to you all!
I hope you’re having a wonderful week where you are! The weather here has been lovely and a very nice mood boost with all the sunshine and fresh cool spring air.
WEBSITE UPDATE!
I’m very happy to share that my website is back up and running— and with a brand new look!! I’m especially pleased with the new Comics Portfolio layout and the About Page. I’m also super excited about my new Friends Page! It’s still in-progress— I have several emails on backlog that I need to get to in order to finish up more of it lol. But isn’t it fun? 😃
The Shop is closed for the time being— I ran into an issue with the eCommerce and editing plugins I use on the site— they don’t like each other very much lol.
I’m hoping to get that back up and running again soon; I’d really like to offer some prints in there of my newer works soon. In the meantime, you can access my digital comics in my itch.io shop!
I invite you to take a look around the new site and let me know what you think! Oh! And I almost forgot to mention— I’ve created a new page for newsletter downloads: Newsletter Pals! You can enter using the password Jinkies! to get coloring pages of my work to download for free as a thank you for being a subscriber 😉
NIF 2025 IS LIVE!
There’s something strangely freeing about being so chaotically busy with a group of friends who are also all equally chaotically busy as you all work on the same project to bring it to life.
It really forces you to let go of control because you simply can’t control it all, and knowing that I’m working with folks all feeling the same way somehow makes me feel cozy inside, like when I would go to a friend’s house after school as a teen to build sets for our upcoming play.
Sure, it’s extra work and you’re not getting paid to do it, but it’s FUN and you do it with people you love, so it’s GREAT!
Just like making any kind of art, organizing NIF with so many other folks has been an absolute joy, and I’m so, SO glad it’s finally here so we can share everything with you!
The first official Nib + Ink Fest is officially LIVE!!! I’m SO excited to present all our hard work from the last 10 or so months!!
We have over 70 comics from contributors around the world available now in the NIF Marketplace all throughout May, over two dozen free events over the next five weekends, including multiple portfolio reviews happening throughout the month, our fundraising collection of over 50 micro comics Oops All Comics! Zine, a free comics Sampler with preview pages from 25 ongoing webcomics, NIF interviews, and more!
MY NIB + INK FEST COMICS!
You can pick up a copy of my Comics + Art Collection #1 in the NIF Marketplace— it features my works from November 2022 to October 2023 and includes a wide array of experimental topics and styles, from slice of life to autobio to fantasy comics, as well as plenty of fat-, queer-, and disabled-positive illustrations that you all know me for!
Remember the preview for this comic from a while back? Well, here it is in all its glory! You can now get a copy of it and about 50 other comics in our Oops All Comics! fundraiser zine! It’s only available until 11:59 PM ET on May 31, so pick yours up in the NIF shop today!
GET A COPY OF OOPS ALL COMICS! ZINE —>
MAY EVENTS + ONGOINGS
I have an event called Beginning to End: A Creative Process Conversation coming up on May 24! I can’t tell you how excited I am for this!! I’ll be sharing more details about it as we get closer, but for now, save the date! 💖
I’ll also be running the NIF orientation during tonight’s Opening Ceremony at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET! So if you’re curious about NIF, but don’t really know what it’s about or how to participate, join the NIF Committee and me tonight on YouTube, and I’ll walk ya through it 😉
And I should also say, last night, I got a small preview of what Mariah-Rose Marie’s keynote speech will be like today, and y’all— please wish me luck, because I WILL be crying, it’s so good, and I go up to do the orientation right after they finish 😂 So if you come by tonight and I look all red-eyed, you’ll know why lol
We’ll also be hosting the MiniComic Awards Ceremony right after at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. If you like or are interested in trying out mini comics, this is the place to be for some great recommendations!
CHECK OUT DETAILS FOR ALL THE NIF EVENTS —>
RECENT READS + FAVORITES
I am VERY pleased to say that the Recent Reads page is back up again!! You can now check out Recent Reads 2025 from this year (and Recent Reads 2024) with all their links and everything!
And here are some of my favorite things from the past few weeks:
Eating: Strawberry mochi ice cream
Using: My watercolors and colored pencils! Art Huddle has been great for playing with traditional art again
Doing: Hand-stitching the binding on the baby quilts I made for my friend’s twin babies!
How about you? What have been some of your favorite things lately?
Hope this week is kind to you 💖 Thanks for reading!
