Hourly Comics Day 2023

It looks like I never did post my Hourly Comics from last year, but here they are from 2023! I'm mostly active on Instagram these days @cookingupcomics.

Hourly Comics Day 2021

My Hourly Comics from February 1st, 2021. I went back to the sketchbook this year since I work digitally most of the time. This was the 13th year I've participated! You can see the links to all past years comics in my post from 2020.

Pete's Mini Zine Fest this Saturday July 13, 2019

After a few years away from one of my favorite local events, I'll be back at Pete's Mini Zine Fest this Saturday July 13th. It's free to attend! Come buy a drink, some mini comics and zines and hang out with local artists in this indoor/outdoor bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2 pm to 7 pm.

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Saturday July 13th
2pm to 7pm

In addition to my usual auto-bio comics and vegetarian recipe fare, I'll have copies of my extra tiny zine about my childhood cat Bear. It'll be my first time selling it at a fest as it was previously part of Displaced Snail's Pet Zine project.

Hourly Comic Day 2019

Here are my Hourly Comics from last week. Every February 1st, cartoonists record every hour of the day that they're awake. Search the tag #hourlycomicday2019 on Instagram and Twitter to see a wide range of styles and how people spent their day!

Here is last years' post which has links to previous years at the end.

MoCCA Fest April 1 & 2nd

I'm excited to be tabling at MoCCA Fest in NYC this coming weekend. I'll be on the first floor at table C140 with Ellen Lindner.

The latest issue of Urban Nomad (#6!) will be hot off the press at the fest. I will also have the Cooking Up Comics sampler, The Collected Counter Attack!, cat buttons and mini comics. Come check it out, there are a ton of awesome artists and great programming in store.

Here's a peek at the wraparound cover for Urban Nomad #6: Bet you can't guess what this entire issue is about...

MoCCA Fest
Saturday April 1 & Sunday April 2
11 am to 6 pm
$5 entry

Metropolitan West
639 West 46th Street
between 11th and 12th Avenues

Also, if you identify as a woman, please stop by the annual Drink and Draw Like a Lady party at The Productive on Friday March 31st from 7pm-11pm. Here is the Facebook event page if you'd like to RSVP. This years' awesome flyer was made by Kat Fajardo and is once again sponsored in part by Work Made for Hire.

Hope to see you this weekend!

MoCCA Fest 2015 review

MoCCA is still one of my favorite conventions and I was excited to see how a new venue and a new book debut would effect sales. Luckily there was near constant foot traffic on every floor of Center 548 this weekend. Alison Wilgus and I were towards the back of the 4th floor and my sales were only slightly less than last year when we were along one of the main thoroughfares along an outer wall in the armory.

While heading over to the new venue to set up on Friday afternoon, I bumped into Megan Brennan and Rel (School of World, Pencil Pup) at Penn Station and hijacked their cab. We rode up to the 4th floor in the amazing and kind of creepy freight elevator.(It got stuck between floors on my way to the table on Saturday.)

Center 548 was a gorgeous light-filled space for MoCCA. Sadly I heard rumors that the building will not be available next year due to it becoming yet another high priced apartment building. The consensus seemed to be that Center 548 as the venue for MoCCA Fest was a nice change of pace. Everyone I spoke to seemed to enjoy the airy, well lit space despite the narrow stairs and distance from public transportation. It reminded many of us of the Puck Building days of the festival minus the 100 degree temperatures.

What a brilliant idea to paint the event schedule and map right on the wall on the way to the stairs of the venue.

The Drink & Draw Like a Lady party on Friday night was a wonderful success! Here is Clare DeZutti who designed the stickers we had for people who donated and also drew this cool chalk welcome sign.

Following two photos courtesy of Lisa Aurigemma. You can see more of her photos on her Vermilion Ink Flickr.

Possibly the classiest photo of my table mate Alison Wilgus and I.

I didn't take many MoCCA photos, but that means that I was too busy catching up with animation and comics friends and meeting new people! Here are Alison and Drew Brockington who I sat next to at Locust Moon Festival in Philly last fall. They both do comics about cats and space!

The highlight of my weekend was meeting Tomm Moore and his wife Liselott who run the animation studio Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells) based in Kilkenny, Ireland. This was their first MoCCA and it sounded as though they sold out of everything they brought including art prints, original paintings and art books of The Secret of Kells. My awesome husband bought us a print of Pangur Ban to add to the wall of cat art.

I also got to chat a lot with my Irish cartoonist friend Cliodhna Ztoical and compare European comics festivals with those in the US. I met lots of new readers, spoke with several librarians, critics and editors along with tons of other awesome friends, creators and fans.

One of the drawings I did in a copy of The Collected Counter Attack! over the weekend. I met a bunch more cat lovers and some friends from Twitter which is always fun.

There was access to the roof with some tables and chairs set up, so my husband and I ran up there to check it out. It was rather windy on Saturday but the views were great.

Lisa got this photo of me on Sunday as she describes, making the same face as my character on my banner. Best!

I didn't get a chance to walk around the festival on Saturday, so I ran around on Sunday before I went to my table and caught up with a few more people. I didn't have much of a spending budget this year but couldn't leave such a great festival empty handed.

Aside from the long haul from Penn Station and weekend MTA construction messing up the C,E train, I had a fantastic weekend at the new MoCCA space. Taking the High Line on Saturday evening and Sunday morning was a nice alternative way to get to the venue. Everyone seemed in good spirits all weekend, the weather was agreeable and it finally felt like spring in New York. Thanks to everyone who came out to say hi and support what I do.

Hall of Biodiversity

Yesterday I did more sketching at the Museum of Natural History with some animation friends. The following are my favorites from the Hall of Biodiversity. They were done in blue col-erase pencil and ink with watercolor in a Moleskine sketchbook.

Museum of Natural History sketches

I spent yesterday afternoon at the Museum of Natural History with my friend Cynthea. Here are some of my favorite sketches from the day. These were all drawn with a Pentel pocket brush pen and some white colored pencil in a 5x4 inch sketchbook. I also learned a new word at the museum: Pronking!