Some Raw Dailies for your Friday! (Patreon)

I've been reading Julia Wertz's Impossible People, which of course is just totally excellent, and she's so honest in it, it's contagious. So I'm venting a bit this week. I'm even letting you in on some hot Farmers Market gossip (don't tell my honey guys I have nicknames for them).

These first two are pretty saccharine, though; my parents came to visit for a night and I love them a lot.

I mostly fought with my dad when I was a teen, and barely talked to him in college, and I think that's why we get along so well now. If you have a bratty teen, may you also be blessed with a better relationship in their adulthood.

Locals, don't snitch on me.

Ryan and I BOTH missed out on appreciating that sweet sweet free hour of sleep on Sunday morning, because we were too busy thinking it was supposed to happen on Monday morning. At least I just felt groggy and confused all day; Ryan went to work an hour early by mistake!

This is one of those things you're not supposed to talk about, I guess, but I'm going to talk about it anyway:

If you bought a GWS book from anywhere other than me in the last 5 years, I haven't received anything for it. Well, now that my publisher is finally dealing with the unexplained error, I guess I'm about to receive a lot of cents for it. Just in time for my car, mattress, and laptop to politely request retirement! Like Amanda said, I suppose: GIMME.

On to more fun topics...

I feel like an idiot. But, the public needs cats doing yoga.

The reason I don't make political cartoons is that I don't usually understand what's going on. Like I have a Typical Citizen's grasp of it, but I don't feel like I can comment without really researching the topic; political cartoons can have an insane amount of power over the masses.

I've stopped feeling bad about it; it's not my forte and I wouldn't be any good at commenting on it. What I'm good at is sharing experiences from people in situations & subcultures you might not understand, in a way that you might understand better.

Coincidentally, the person on the other side of the phone was my friend Josie, who's the first friend I ever had to transition long after I became friends with them. She desperately wants me to write comics about the trans experience, and I desperately want to make a whole book interviewing her. Let me be good at what I'm good at, and make some small difference in the world that way.

And on that note, here are some silly yoga cats I made the other day (they'll be available this weekend at the Over The Mountain Studio Tour!):

Here's what happened last night while i was cleaning for the aforementioned Studio Tour:

The PAINS I WENT TO to find whatever dead thing was stinking up the air, you'd think I'd never experienced a cat taking a dump in a litter box before.

Well, anyway, no dead animals for the studio tour! I'm going to finish packing things to sell tomorrow. If you're thinking about going on the tour, you can read more about it here at our website, or you can peruse the other artists' work via the Instagram account I've been uploading our photos to all week!

Hope to see some of y'all out here this weekend!