pirates and monsters {storytell}
Another happy Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to y'all! Before we jump into your revisted comic for today, I want to show you what I made...


The Tortuga Rum necklace.

I have to re-do some of the threadwork, but it's not that bad for my first necklace all by myself! I used these awesome skull beads that I found on etsy and which lend themselves to all sorts of piratey and voodooesque jewelery. I need more tutoring from Sue before I can really make anything astounding, but I had fun with this. It's up on the shop if you want to check it out!


This was my first environmentally conscious strip, and also my first Berkeley Breathed-style poem-toon, so it stands out as one that I enjoyed very much. Plus, I like bagging on Donald Trump, always. Enjoy (again)!


Greetings from another world!

  • Sep. 1st, 2009 at 9:43 PM
attack of the saucer men {stress}
Hey y'all! Since it's already Wednesday for most of you I'll just go ahead and say that by tomorrow (Thursday) I'll be twenty-four! Good gravy, I'm old.

Either way, we're having a cookout with steaks and campfire mac'n'chee and good tunes and in true Hobbit style I got presents for my family. I think it'll be grand. Lots of love to you all too!

The online store is really taking off, thanks to Sue and her wicked cool hats and her rabid followers, and some exciting things are helping spread our craftiness across the globe. I finally finished the order of Skelebuddies for Krystal, whose comic shop in Kentucky wants a crop of them and some of Sue's felt donuts to sell there. Sue has been contacted by a shopkeeper in Stockholm, Sweden who has ordered a whole heap of her handknit hats to sell over there. Our shop got a note from someone from the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina who requested submissions from us for an exhibit they're doing on toys made by artists (all my other artist toymakers out there are invited to join in the fun!). Just today I got a note from someone who is part of a big Day of the Dead festival put on each year in Indianapolis who said that they want my Skelebuddies for the festival marketplace.

I've been listening to that Dolly Parton song "9 to 5" with all the gleeful abandon of a gal whose life might one day really take off. ;)



On a similar note, read my comic! And tell everyone you know.

Once again, this week we feature extra-special, extra-awesome guest art from The Boyfriend! When I told him what I wanted to do for this week and asked his advice on how to go about it, it occurred to me that he'd be better at it than I would. He set right to drawing the first three panels and left the fourth to me. Enjoy!




For more of The Boyfriend's fabulous work (including his recent Star Trek Meets Planet of the Apes series which is so rad) go here!

More stuff online!

  • Aug. 31st, 2009 at 10:17 PM
tako {cool mystery}
Check out our new stuff! We got gourds and hats and shrunken heads and baby owls! All the good stuff in life.


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You and me and the devil makes three

  • Jul. 28th, 2009 at 10:23 PM
trouble {devil dance}
Oh man, these are crafty days. Let's see if I can get it all...

I've been making my new Cabezas keychains for the Domestic Voodoo Shop, but waaay cooler is that a bunch of Sue's incredible hats are now up on the shop, each one better than the last.

I finally finished my large load of commissions and will post pictures soon. I loved doing those paintings, but now that it's over, it's a big load off my mind. I've also been experimenting with modeling clay and making fun little creatures which I will post up here very soon.

What's more, I've been looking into crafts with gourds, which looks like a huge boatload of fun. Of course, in researching materials and stuff for these gourd related projects, you run into things that make you re-think the whole sushi... a series of gourd-lover buttons with phrases like "Gourd is my Copilot" and "In Gourd We Trust" and "Ask me about gourds -- I DARE YOU" and, my personal favorite and most disturbing, "Do it with a gourd". Seeing this stuff makes me think maybe I shouldn't get into gourd crafts, or I may wind up four hundred pounds and frizzy haired with a pair of those lawn ornaments in the shape of fat rosy-cheeked children giggling at each other.

But whatever. I'll have fun with these anyway.


On to the cartoon! I love these ones that represent me as dumb as I truly am...



While in the middle of inking this, I was called away to do something and The Boyfriend sat at my desk and looked at the toon. Only after I got back and had inked half a panel did I realize -- snorting and giggling -- that in the space in the hood of the demon at the front door, he'd sketched a crazy face with cross eyes and a huge overbite. It seemed a shame to eventually erase it, and part of me wishes I'd just kept it in there.


POP SURVEY: If you read this cartoon with your morning coffee/tea/toast/whatnot, comment and tell me about your breakfast!

All sorts of randomage... cookies...

  • Jul. 7th, 2009 at 9:26 PM
krishna and radha proposal {romance}
Hey all! I'm finally back. Thanks for waiting so nicely.

New stuff up on Lily's and my etsy shop! Some of her marvelous hats, and a few brand new geisha dolls and Skelebuddies! Help two broke-arse gals and check it out.
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Another silly bit of fluff, but please, for the love of mike, watch this, and prepare to feel so good. A marvelous video...



All right, kangaroos, your comic is finally here. Sorry I couldn't post it last week but I hope you'll dig it anyway. Enjoy!