Life is so exciting!

My fellowship as Writer-in-Residence with the Associates of the Boston Public Library is wrapping up as of June 1st and I’m currently looking toward the future. I have a few job prospects but also a new personal project as potential summer occupations, so we’ll see where life leads me. I’ve also been invited to Halifax, Nova Scotia to make comics for two weeks in June with the Roberts Street Social Centre. I can barely contain myself with excitement!

One week from today, on Sunday, May 20th, I’ll be at the Maine Comic Arts Festival in Portland, ME. If you’re in the area, stop by for free postcards and Avengers doodles!

Then, after a short intermission, Under the Apple Tree will begin updates again on Monday, May 21st, and we are quickly approaching the homestretch. There are only a couple pages before the last chapter begins and we reach the thrilling conclusion.

I’ve been updating my tumblr quite regularly with sketches and pictures of my cat, so if you’re interested in this sorts of things, follow me!

I’ve been reading Bloody Jack, a cross-dressing swash-buckling adventure series by LA Meyer, and it is good. Really good. In my top five all-time favorites, even.

In the second book, after pretending to be a boy and joining the English navy, Jacky Faber’s sent to a girls’ school in Boston to learn how to be a lady. She meets Amy, and they have an adorable friendship. It’s my favorite book so far, mostly because there’s some really fun Boston history snuck in between bouts of mischief.

I’ve been doing 30 minute warm-up doodles before working on pages for my graphic novel Under the Apple Tree (which has a Facebook page now, by the way), and decided to draw Amy and Jacky today.

And here’s another past warm-up doodle, Rue from Hunger Games (who’s excited about that movie? Me! Click for larger version):