Violet, Private Eye (Patreon)

This is very exciting. I have a weekly comic strip in the Chicago Reader!! 

It's about a kid named Violet who fights crime. Mostly, she deals with animals. And she and her grandma are obsessed with Columbo. 

I got chills the other day because when I told my dad about the comic, he said that his mom, my Memere, who died a few years ago, loved Columbo. Maybe I knew that and it was somewhere in my subconscious, but either way, it feels right. 

Anyway, I'm the paper, next to John Porcellino (a friend and personal hero of mine) and Mike Centeno. My friend Anne Elizabeth Moore, who I do my non-fiction work with, is now the Editor In Chief of the Reader and she's reintroducing comics into it, which rules. 

I am beyond thrilled--I'm bursting at the seams a little. As a kid, my introduction to comics was the newspaper. I was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Garfield, For Better or Worse...I think in like 4th or 5th grade I even dressed up as a cartoonist for Career Day. I wore an apron and carried a sketchbook and pens and pencils. Maybe I should start wearing an apron. But having a comic strip in a newspaper was always my dream. I'm pinching myself. 

I'm going to check if the Reader will care if I posts the strips on here. If they don't want me to, I will at least post links to the digital issues (it's free) . Here's this weeks': https://issuu.com/chicago_reader/docs/011019-small

xo

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