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It's been a while, and I apologize! I was in Chicago and Iowa for about a week, painting a mural at the Figge Art Museum with The Ladydrawers, and then Anne Elizabeth Moore and I went on a field trip to Fairfield, Iowa which was...interesting. Now I'm back and trying to get into the swing of things again, but I have a cold which makes it hard. 

Things have been generally weird and out of sync since my Papa passed away in February. I loved him very much, and he was the inspiration for Freddy's Uncle Sully in my book Freddy Stories. I've lost 3 of my grandparents in the past 2 years, which sucks. That's the only way to really say it. It just really really sucks. I have plans in the next chapter of The Weight to really draw on my relationship with my dad's parents. That seems like the way I've taken to processing, or at least trying to process, this difficult and heartbreaking business of losing people you love. 

There are some good things though, in the form of 2 books: Threadbare, which is a collection of the comics journalism pieces drawn by myself and some other fantastically talented people, and written by Anne Elizabeth Moore. It comes out May 15, and I have some physical copies of it in my possession and they are GAWGEOUS. 

And also, my book Lou is coming out at the same time as Threadbare, from Alternative comics. I also have held copies of this in my hands, and it looks great and I am very proud of it!!

Hope you are all well. 

xo, 

Melissa