The comics that I’ve done for The New Yorker now in one place! Links to the whole comic under the title.
These Parenting Books are here to help when the laudanum runs out.
Winter is coming: Don’t leave the house wearing matching coat and pants.
This 96-page book is out of print! It was once available at Birdcage Bottom Books Distro. This book is on hold while I revise, edit and expand it in the next few years. Rob Clough reviewed the book at High-Low in August, 2018.
Winner the Society of Illustrators/MoCCA festival Award of Excellence in April 2016.
Alle Ego means “good friend” or ‘other self” in ancient Greek. This is a middle chapter of a book-in progress (although it reads as a stand-alone story) and is a memoir of an art student’s adventures in Greece. This scene is about getting lost in Crete.
This 7-page comic is included in Persephone’s Garden.
I drew it for The Strumpet 5, international anthology of comics by women that came out in September 2017. The theme of the issue is Origin stories, and answering that theme, I made this compressed story about growing up in NW Portland, my mother's Alzheimer's, and the artists and writer who influenced me. Ursula LeGuin, acclaimed author of the Earthsea Books and so many more, lived a few houses away from where I grew up. Her words that originated from a place so close to home have inspired me since I first read her books in the 1980s. Her sense of justice and depth of integrity, her exploration of political and social situations through fiction, her vivid descriptions of place have all affected the way I go about my own work. She died last week on Jan 22, 2018. I wonder, did she walk beyond that low wall in the desolate place she described in The Furthest Shore? What must it be like for someone who has imagined death to so clearly to experience it? For me her memory is as bright as ever, her books are living, there to be read.
I'm grateful to Ellen Lindner, founder of the Strumpet, for the chance to write about Thurman St. We co-edited this issue and came up with the theme together-- there's nothing like an assignment for getting a story onto paper. I hope to expand this comic into a longer one some day--there is a lot more to tell about my parents' careers as artists, this old neighborhood, and the interesting characters that I knew in Portland before I left in 1996.
You won't want to read this story without reading all the rest of the stories in Strumpet--so go ahead and buy the issue.
This short comic uses the complete text of the Homeric Hymn to Dionysos. Composed between the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the so called The Homeric Hymns are epic songs dedicated to various gods, and by tradition (falsely) attributed to Homer, the poet of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Gregory Nagy, professor of Classical Greek Literature at Harvard University, made this translation especially.
I drew this around 2013 as part of my self-training in the medium of comics.
This is a comic companion from 2016 to John Franklin's 800 page Kinyras the Divine Lyre (Harvard University Press, 2016) about the legendary Cypriot lyre-playing Priest King. The complete comic is published on the Appendix.
After a Fulbright grant, I published Archaeology Lives in Cyprus, (Hellenic Bank, 2001) a bilingual collection of paintings of archaeological sites with commentary by excavators. The same year I also published Cartoons of Cyprus, (Mouflon Publications, Nicosia) 70 drawings about Cypriot archaeology.
I spent a few days on the dig, drawing fieldwork in action. This sketch found a home in the Museum in Athirenou.