Birthday Comic

True story...

I am considering making this my submission for the Durham Comics Project.

While You Were At Work

Sewing Lessons

At the library...

Jam Comic from Durham Comics Project

This was a jam comic from the last Durham Comics Project "Drink & Draw" by myself, Mark, Sam, & Hope. I was particularly happy with how this one came together.

Which reminds me - The Durham Comics Project. I haven't mentioned it on here yet. It's a project that I've started through the library. I will be teaching workshops through out the next year, teaching people of all ages (for some reason people keep thinking this is just for kids - thus far I've only done out reach to adults) how to make comics. Hopefully I will get lots of different people to draw short comics about moments in their lives and collect them. Sort of like NPR's Story Corps. but with comics. If you want to find out more about the project check out the website: durhamcomicsproject.org
And if you're interested - make a comic! I would love love love your comic to be apart of this project.

Kirill Draws

For some reason tonight I decided to draw Kirill, not how comic Kirill looks, but a little closer to real life Kirill.

Summer has arrived...

Christine tells it like it is...

Headaches

Warning: this is a little self-indulgent, but it was necessary at the time. 

 

So, disclaimer, things are much better than they were when I drew this comic about a month ago. My doctor had put me on a crazy anti-seizure medicine in hopes it would help with my migraines. Not only did it not help with the headaches, but I had really bad side-effects. I had trouble thinking and focusing, I would forget words all the time which made it very difficult to hold conversations, I was running into things while walking, I lost weight because I would forget to eat for a whole day, my fingers would tingle all the time like my hands were falling asleep, and I was having panic attacks. I was on this for a little over a month and for that month it became really hard to deal with daily life because now I was not only in pain but I felt like my brain was failing me.
It took so much energy just to get through work that I didn't really have energy for anything else so I mostly stopped hanging out with people because it was too hard to hold a conversation. I didn't go right back to my doctor to be taken off of it because I no longer trusted myself and I thought, maybe this is just what I'm always like. The headache specialist I started seeing this month took me off the medicine right away and things got better fast. Now that I'm seeing this specialist I feel much more hopeful that the headaches will pass with hopefully as few unobtrusive medications as possible.
I wasn't going to post this one originally because it just felt too personal, but I also wasn't really talking to people about what I was going through at the time so I will share now.

Turtle in a Forest Fire

Did I ever mention that I once saved a turtle from a forest fire on my lunch break? Well, I did.

Majka is a Hotdog

It's True!

Exploring Durham

So we didn't get to find a neat abandoned cemetery, but we did get to see parts of Durham that we probably never would have found otherwise. This is also Majka's first full bodied appearance in a comic. The real Majka is even cuter than her snowy white comic self.