Hi. I Missed You.
It’s been a while since I’ve newslettered, but I’m back at it and trying a new platform. Here’s the skinny on what you can expect to see.
I moved my newsletter over to Substack! Here’s why.
After several months of not enjoying the process of creating and sending out a newsletter (and therefore actively avoiding it), I’ve gradually discovered Substack’s platform and have enjoyed it as a reader. I like the old-school bloggy feel of it combined with newer-school functionality. I also like the idea of my newsletters being more than an email that gets sent out into the ether. Here on Substack, they have a home. New people who find it can go through the archives before they subscribe. And here there’s no social media doom scrolling required to encounter my posts. If you subscribe, you get an email. Simple as that.
The format of my newsletter will change a little. It will be less of a recap on completed projects and more of a behind-the-scenes look at what I’m currently working on and thinking about. Honestly, I’m still kind of figuring out what this newsletter will look and feel like, so I encourage you to bear with me for a couple and see if you like it. If it’s not for you, no worries. Please feel free to unsubscribe anytime.
What’s new?
I’m working on more comics lately, or comic-formatted illustration + text type things, and it’s feeling really right. So, that’s my intended focus for my work and this newsletter for the next couple months. Here are some ideas I’m exploring right now.
Heavy
I made this comic after feeling really helpless after I got some bad health news for a family member. Sometimes things just… suck. And there’s no great thing to say about it. But saying everything’s going to be ok doesn’t help either. So, that’s what this comic is about… admitting when things feel heavy.
Unfortunately, this feels topical on a bigger scale right now with all the horrible national and global news. Sometimes it’s all too… heavy. Remember you can turn off the news and take a break. Talk to the people you love. Give them an extra hug whenever you can.
Phone poems
A lot of my ideas start as a phone poems. (If you also type random phone poems to yourself in your notes app, please tell me in the comments!) I use the word poem extremely lightly. Essentially these are non-prose words that could fall into the category of poem, song lyrics, random thoughts, etc. Here’s one I’m fleshing out:
The comic I’m working on won’t literally look like this, but I want to create something that captures the feeling that the people you care about are always with you — even when you aren’t physically together. That somehow little bits of the people you love become a part of you. More that soon!
In the meantime, if you’d like to see more behind the scenes of what I’m trying to make, please subscribe! It’s free.