Read the whole comic on The New Yorker. The anxieties of 2020 in one wailing bundle!
Sustainable Art Foundation Award
This award will help support the Middle Grade Graphic adventure I’m currently working on as well as a memoir.
The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports writers an artists with children.
From the 2020 award announcement: “Chosen from a field of nearly 1,800 applicants, these twenty artists and writers come from eighteen U.S. cities, Costa Rica, and Turkey; they are parenting thirty-four children. The world closed down while we were reviewing their portfolios, but their creativity opened the world back up to us. We are now all the more eager for the day when we can return to bookstores, galleries, museums, libraries and all the other vibrant spaces where art happens. We hope you will seek out their work.”
I applied for this award many times over the years, gave up for a while, and early this year applied again. Grant applications are a way to describe and focus my projects for myself—as well as a jury. Most of my applications have not been successful—it’s amazing when they are. I’m so grateful for this support, especially now.
In Seven Days Quaranzine
Seven Days VT editor Dan Bowles compiled stories, poems, photos and comics responding to our Covid-19 world for the May 6 issue Quaranzine. I was glad to exorcize some of my anxiety about school-at-home in this comic. SOME of my anxiety.
A Child's Garland of Problems in The New Yorker
I wore out my fingers counting syllables for this series of true-to-life haiku.
New Book: Reign of Crumbs
I'm excited to announce a new book: Reign of Crumbs, published by Kilgore Books. You can read and hear all about it on the Kilgore Kickstarter, along with the other books in Kilgore's Spring line-up. Supporting the Kickstarter will help get all these books published--don't wait!
Reign of Crumbs is 76 pages of brush pen drawings about my family over the course of year's worth of kids' antics and bedtime conversations. Several of these cartoons have appeared on Muthamagazine.com
