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In the absence of new comics, I give you rain­bows. I think this dress would be a good look on me. <3

My mom is copy­ing old recipes and she found this on the back of some­thing for bran muffins. I was quite the polite child. And look at the hand­writ­ing! I can’t even write in cur­sive this well now…

I really can’t believe I:

• did these in 2006
• for­got
• ever let myself get so dis­con­nected from the basic tools of being a designer (my brain, a pen, and paper. even tho these were actu­ally my brain, my wacom tablet, and illustrator.)

(the words are reeeally tiny in this one, oops. click it to see a big­ger version.)

I haven’t been dream­ing a lot, so instead I made a pic­ture of a camera:

Um so even though I just turned 32 and am prob­a­bly tech­ni­cally too old, I totally love to read Tavi at style rookie and her new project, Rookie, a sort of Sassy-esque* online mag for teenagers.The Octo­ber issue had a DIY sec­tion on how to bitch­face, and I decided to try it out for myself. Here are my results.

The Una­mused

Note that I am not sure my glasses are com­pat­i­ble with bitch­face. Also I couldn’t stop laugh­ing on this pose. I appar­ently have trou­ble keep­ing a straight/bored face.

Lit­tle Miss Muriel Kitty gave it a try, too.

The Repulsed

I sort of just look angry. Also, I have trou­ble with inde­pen­dent con­trol over my eye­brows. This one was def­i­nitely the most chal­leng­ing. I’m also not sure I have mas­tered the smize.

The “Is Any­one Else Hear­ing This”

I pretty much rocked this one.

The “Really??”

Some Bitch­face With Hands Poses

I do think the hands add some believ­abil­ity for those of us who don’t have a lot of facial control.

This next oh-so-attractive photo was inspired by my first cre­ative direc­tor Kent, who used to make this face in meetings.

Welp, that’s about it! I rate myself a 6.4 at bitch­face. I’d bet­ter keep practicing.

*It should be noted that I was never a Sassy reader. I’m not sure why — maybe I was a wee bit young? I did read Sev­en­teen which was mostly deplorable but occa­sion­ally had arti­cles about Drew Bar­ry­more, who I was obsessed with.

I found this draw­ing of Mr. Kitty on my pie pad tonight.

Well, really it was last week that I had 3 spills…

This is my most per­sonal comic yet. It was this time last year when we lost Mr. Kitty to lym­phoma & kid­ney dis­ease. Octo­ber 17, I think. I don’t even care if half of this is drawn one way and half the other — we really miss him and it was super hard to draw about it but also very mean­ing­ful to try.