Good thing you can't get arrested for OD-ing on candy and chocolate covered peanuts...

Comic!

Anxiety Fun Times OR I think I've gotten better on bailing on everyone I care about, but this is Dr. A's take...OR What's with the hat, Lael?

Notes:

Thanks to Dr. A. for the idea and a design consult!

And wouldn't you know it? Right before I started drawing something snapped in my wrist! :-p Not having good luck lately with physically being able to draw! But, I enjoyed playing around and experimenting today!

--LJE

And on Saturday I wore real shoes on a night out for the first time since early October! Progress! OR Lael, why did you draw me like Frylock? Sorry, it was an accident!

Comic!

In an effort to be noncontroversial I didn't draw the hilarious and stereotypical dichotomy between home boys and yuppie hikers all trying too hard...

Comic! Next week's comic will be posted on Monday instead of Sunday!

Having some fun!

A little fun to start the new year and to reacquaint myself with my tablet. This image is based on a photo taken of a friend and her sister in Halloween costumes. Hoping to get a bunch of writing done in the coming weeks, but enjoy some solid color for now!

--LJE

Well, I did have a longer residency...Anyways, enjoy a comic collaboration, featuring the comic debut of Jess D.!!!

Happy New Year, Everybody!

--LJE

Have a Holly Jolly moment of Re-imagining Art Forms...

Howdy, readers! No regular comic this week (holiday activities plus the bandaged thumb), but enjoy a sneak peak at the next postcard I'm working on for my etsy store.

But, first, I just want to share a really cool work of art I came across this week at my new job. Check out Triptyque (Triptych) by Georges Vantongerloo. Look at the rest of the "Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925" exhibition site, too. There are some amazing works and a book, too! I'm not an expert on modernism in the slightest, so a triptych in this style seemed amazing. However, according to this page on the Centre Pompidou's site written by Noémie Giard, 

Triptychs are nevertheless common among De Stijl artists, who see them as a way of combining instant perception and the time element associated with a story. The structure and arrangement also alters the way in which the work and the wall – and the way in which the viewer and the work – interact...'Despite the variety of interpretations, triptychs remain for De Stijl the instrument that hovers between art and architecture, and between identity and repetition; the one that denotes the limits of transfer, a threshold that shuffles the identity-related conceptions of painting. Ultimately, it appears as the way of articulating the material and spiritual worlds, the realm of reality and a new form of representation.' (Frédéric Migayrou, De Stijl path exhibition curator, “Dossier 5. Triptyques”, De Stijl Catalogue, p.98.)

Ok, on to the postcard! This work is unfinished, but it's my take on a detail from folio 26 v of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

I'll hopefully finish this piece in the new year, but in the meantime here's a little reminder of what my other postcards look like:

Is there a manuscript image you'd like to see me adapt? Please, let me know for my next set of 4!

Happy Holidays,
Lael

I'm not so good at identifying objects, so I guess it's good that the words “written in stone” are also written in stone...

Check out my etsy shop where the coupon code 2014Holidays (guess I'm really excited about the New Year?) will get you 20% off from now until the end of the year! Postcards ship immediately! 

Also, wow, things just keep trying to prevent me from drawing! This weekend I cut my right thumb pretty badly and can't really use it, so we'll see how next week goes...

Instead of a “share” button, there should be a “WTF” button...

Hiatus News: Looks like my tech problems are close to solved, but my back is still iffy. I'll try to keep updating regularly...we'll see how it goes! Thanks for your support, everyone! 

Don't forget! Some medieval-y postcards would be awesome as holiday gifts! Check out my etsy shop where the coupon code 2014Holidays (guess I'm really excited about the New Year?) will get you 20% off from now until the end of the year! 

My Question Is: Why does this company think I'm rich?

Hiatus News: This week I have a short comic that I hand-lettered--wow, that's been years! With any luck I'll be able to at least keep that up or some sketches, but we shall see! Thanks for your support!

Don't forget! Some medieval-y postcards would be awesome as holiday gifts! Check out my etsy shop where the coupon code 2014Holidays (guess I'm really excited about the New Year?) will get you 20% off from now until the end of the year! 

--Lael