courage, dear heart

"He understands 20-year-old girls perfectly... just through characters who happen to be 40-year-old men."

I made a 5-page comic called “dir.”, about two young women bonding over their favorite film director. You can download it for free on ko-fi.

The two of them set off on a summer adventure—just

so excited and proud to show you my finished hand bound copy of the wake up dead man script!

this has been such a passion project over the past few weeks and i'm really happy with the end result. this is the first time i've worked with wood as a front cover and i'm absolutely obsessed with it!!! the endpapers i chose are church rafter vibes~ in the front and mathematical logical thinking vibes~ in the back.

as with anything handmade, there are some imperfections, but i'm learning to embrace those hahaaa

you'll also find some photos of many many (but not all) steps of this project's whole printing and bookbinding process.

Vieja sabrosa.

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“