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In celebration of Goblin Week, let's revisit this rainbow of color-themed goblins I risograph printed for Goblin Week 2023.

(prints for sale here)

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HEY, THIRTEENTH GOBLIN WEEK IS NOW

YOU CAN DRAW GOBLINS THIS WEEK

HASHTAG #GOBLINWEEK

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International customers! Please order by the end of the day today for cheaper international shipping!

(In UTC maybe by 6 AM Jan 18th ish?)

I've got some more shop updates for you!

First, restocks! I am actively making zines all day and adding more stock to the Basilisk, Werewolf's Lament, Ship's Cat, and Fossils listings. Don't worry if any of these listings look low stock because more is coming. I am making so many zines.

Second, international shipping updates! For customers outside of the US, I just learned later this month my shipping service is raising prices so I will need to raise international shipping rates by $1-$2 USD. Please order by end of day 1/17/25 to get lower international shipping rates!

I deeply appreciate all my international customers and do everything I can to bring you the cheapest international shipping I can find, and even then I'm well aware prices are steep and that sucks. If you're interested in small items like individual stickers or foldy comics I can ship those internationally for only $2 USD in an untracked stamped envelope.

Thank you for reading and now I return...to the zine grind.

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Werewolf ingredients (shop)

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I've got some more shop updates for you!

First, restocks! I am actively making zines all day and adding more stock to the Basilisk, Werewolf's Lament, Ship's Cat, and Fossils listings. Don't worry if any of these listings look low stock because more is coming. I am making so many zines.

Second, international shipping updates! For customers outside of the US, I just learned later this month my shipping service is raising prices so I will need to raise international shipping rates by $1-$2 USD. Please order by end of day 1/17/25 to get lower international shipping rates!

I deeply appreciate all my international customers and do everything I can to bring you the cheapest international shipping I can find, and even then I'm well aware prices are steep and that sucks. If you're interested in small items like individual stickers or foldy comics I can ship those internationally for only $2 USD in an untracked stamped envelope.

Thank you for reading and now I return...to the zine grind.

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For part of the last week Basilisk was out of stock due to selling out of my assembled copies and not having the right equipment to put the unassembled copies together...but after getting a new paper cutter Basilisk is back babey!!!

Buy it from my Ko-fi shop! Make me assemble more! Basilisk can not be stopped!

Also back? US bound shipping to Canada!!

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Art of 2024 retrospective! Here’s every comic and other artwork I made that had a physical and/or digital release in 2024; plus the crowdfunding and conventions I participated in!

2024 was a whirlwind year, I didn't get much of a break but I accomplished SO MUCH. Here are the highlights:

Experimented more with risograph printing including specialty papers, stickers, and automated cutting machine integration.

Exhibited at TCAF: my first international show!

Continued to work with Iron Circus Comics on anthologies--2024 saw the print edition of Failure to Launch come out and the crowdfund for Perfect Crime Party.

Participated in ShortBox Comics Fair! What an incredible experience: getting to meet fellow exhibitors from all around the world, debuting my first longform comic The Maker of Grave-Goods, seeing all the reactions to it from both people new-to-my-work and longtime friends and fans, and smashing all my personal sales records.

Basilisk came out fall 2023, but it still deserves a spot on this list. In 2024 I completed printing a monster 600+ copy edition of Basilisk, it became my convention bestseller, and this December you all on Tumblr made it go viral. To pull back the curtain a bit: this December I've made 1/3 of my lifetime-to-date sales on Ko-fi and exceeded the net sales record I just set with The Maker of Grave-Goods (SBCF reigns supreme on gross...no shipping!)

Thank you so much. My heart is so full, especially the reception for The Maker of Grave-Goods and Basilisk. Both those comics are especially dear to me: they represent passion projects, me perusing my artistic vision without compromise, the kind of comics I truly want to make, and the kind of comics I've been told have little commercial potential and can't be taken seriously.

Thank you for supporting them, thank you for loving them, thank you for buying them in such quantity that I have the financial freedom going into 2025 to focus on making more art and comics to share with you!

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Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Physical copies available here (also digital here). To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.

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The Duality of Cat (Holiday Edition): Latke politely learning about her heritage by reading the copy of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins I got for free with my sufganiyot (???) VS. her sister Matzo refusing to even acknowledge the menorah.

From me and my cats; Happy Hanukkat, or Merry Catsmas, or if you’re not celebrating anything today we hope you have a pleasant and cat-centric Wednesday.

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Took my beaft stickers to The Met Cloisters to meet their real medieval counterparts.

Artworks Featured:

Basilisk panel from Arch with Beasts, French c. 1150-75

Panther door mount, French early 11th century

Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon, German c. 1200

Siren detail from Dragon fresco, Spanish after 1200

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, French/South Netherlandish 1495-1505

(stickers for sale in my shop if you want a beaft to take to the museum)

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Before I go on vacation, I present my list of my top books for 2024.

COMICS:

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

Bunt! by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert

Ukazu and Rupert are a powerhouse team, and as an art school adjunct, this already funny GN is even funnier (albeit in a way that necessitates a skull emoji in the educator groupchat)

Tiffany’s Griffon by Magnolia Porter Siddell & Maddi Gonzalez

Phobos and Deimos by J Dalton

Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui

It's a tough task to reach a satisfying conclusion to a series that was as strong as Dungeon, but I think Kui accomplished it!

Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda

King in Limbo by Ai Tanaka

Over the last year I've been drawn towards comic series that work with a retro, fixed-width inking style, and King especially informed some recent experiments of mine.

PROSE:

Twins by Bari Wood & Jack Geasland

When I learned Wood was responsible for the book that became Dead Ringers, I knew I had to try it. This is the one that wins my "Oh, shit! Wow!! Okay!!!" award for the year (distinctions previously awarded to Cyteen and Manhunt).

The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

DS9: A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson

Those of you who read my journal comic from last August might recall that I met Robinson at a Trek convention! I'd learned from reading these books that Stitch was considered a white whale among collectors, and now I absolutely understand why. If you're a DS9 fan and you want to try any book from the original run of novels, try this one. By which I mean, try the far easier-to-find audiobook version.

Translation State by Ann Leckie

A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason

Fellow SBCF participant Erin Roseberry had shared this title as an inspiration for their comic, The Maker of Grave-Goods, and I was especially interested in trying a book by a Twin Cities author. What a serendipitous find!

Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

For the third year in a row, a book nominated for the Le Guin Prize makes the list.

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

This is another book I always told myself I'd try someday, and was it ever worth it! I spent some time talking about my experience with this story (and its accompanying materials that fill out the world) in my talk with Evan Dahm on his show.

See you in the new year! I've packed some thick books for a long flight, so I'm starting my 2025 reading pile right away!

Reruns of my previous two lists, 2023, and 2022, below the cut.

2023

COMICS:

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano

Out of Style by Devi Putri Megwati

Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu

The Harrowing of Hell by Evan Dahm

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu

Esteban by Matthieu Bonhomme

I covered my ShortBox reccs back in October, but since then I also picked up Pearl Hunting by Hana Chatani when it came to itch.io and adored it.

PROSE: 

So yes, maybe I'm cheating by including Moby Dick since I'm not all the way finished, but Whale Weekly really did end up being a great tool for getting me to crack open my gorgeous Evan Dahm-illustrated copy I've had for a while.

My favorite book of the year is Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. I genuinely did read it the first week of January, but after having it recommended to me for years, I'm thrilled it didn't disappoint. Maybe I am someone who likes Russian novels after all???

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Such Nice People by Sandra Scoppettone

Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh (I jokingly placed these three in the "READ 👏 FEMALE 👏 AUTHORS 👏" category because they don't have anything in common other than describing some of the most upsetting/bizarre scenarios I've read this year. Cyteen especially! Wowee!!!)

Brother Alive by Zain Khalid

Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

A Different Trek by David K. Seitz, which I mentioned as my vacation book for the Star Trek convention, but it's given me some great suggestions for more books, both fiction and otherwise. Also, I read... 11 more DS9 books this year. 

2022

COMICS:

Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

Vattu by Evan Dahm

The Well by Choo and Jake Wyatt

Wash Day Diaries by Robyn Smith and Jamila Rowser

Some ShortBox Comics Fair entries that are graphic novella length and are really good include Food School by Jade Armstrong and The God of Arepo by Reimena Yee et al.

PROSE:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

edit: oh my god I can't believe I forgot Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Honorable mentions from the pile of DS9 novelizations include Revenant by Alex White (for successfully pulling off a Sara Paretsky-style mystery in space) and Dominion War: Call to Arms by Diane Carey (for absolutely unhinged adjective choices).

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Missed out earlier this week? Basilisk is now back in stock!

I've also added a PDF version as requested.

And I've got my cutting machine churning out more copies of the Series 1 and Series 2 Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Stickers as we speak (post?).

Stay tuned for restocks of Werewolf's Lament, Magical Art Therapy Zine 1 & 2, and more! Thank you for buying out so much of my store's stock this week--I just need some time to replenish!

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Does anyone want to see what the graph of my Pirate Ship usage looks like for this year lmao

Anyways every order in my store from 12/17 and earlier is in possession of the post office! I am crossing my fingers, saying a little prayer, and maybe sacrificing a goat to the darker powers that everything arrives safely to you as quickly as possible.

Also I started putting more Basilisk stock up--I will make a bigger announcement once I count through another box of them, cut some more stickers, put up the requested Basilisk PDF, etc...

Basilisks on their way from me to you!

I think this photo represents like a third of the orders I’ve received since Sunday. I might have panic bought most of the Union Square Staples’ bubble mailer stock.

I am doing everything I can to clear the rest of the shipping queue today, then I am going to do some stock-taking so I can add more copies of Basilisk and other out of stock/low stock items to my store. Thank you for your patience!

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Basilisks on their way from me to you!

I think this photo represents like a third of the orders I’ve received since Sunday. I might have panic bought most of the Union Square Staples’ bubble mailer stock.

I am doing everything I can to clear the rest of the shipping queue today, then I am going to do some stock-taking so I can add more copies of Basilisk and other out of stock/low stock items to my store. Thank you for your patience!

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I have gone on an emergency shipping supplies run and am ready to finish fulfilling the flood of Basilisk orders tonight.

Please be aware that if you order after I put up this post it’s probably not coming for Christmas! I love you, I love the support, but things are in the hands of USPS and Santa Claus himself at this rate.

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HOLIDAY SHIPPING NOTICE: if you want something in my store by Christmas/first night of Hanukkah please get your order in TODAY 12/17/24 by 5 PM EST for your best chance!

Also, please be aware I've received an unexpected deluge of orders for copies of Basilisk--I am doing everything I can to fulfill them as quickly as possible as one extremely grateful person!

If you don't mind waiting until after Christmas to get your packages feel free to order later this week or so--it would give me a chance to update/prepare more stock for items that keep on selling out like the sticker sets, Werewolf's Lament, and Basilisk itself.

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Friends! Mutuals! If we mutually follow each other here on Tumblr (and/or BlueSky/Twitter) I want to mail you a post card for the holidays! Please fill out the linked form with your address!