Behold, the autobiographical comics I’ve been making off and on since 2005. I used to call them my Emo Comics. Some are serious, some are silly. Some of them are about me as a toddler, some of them are about being a parent, but most of them fall somewhere in between. Basically I am extremely awkward and incapable of being happy, but maybe my dumb misfortunes and insecurities will make you chuckle.
Comics published elsewhere:
More coming soon! Watch this space~
Beanie Mania: to be included in issue 1 of Y2(are you o)K, releasing later this year
Junk: featured in the Junk Drawer issue of Wisteria Zine.
Just My Size: A Brassiereography: included in Knicker Draw way back in 2007, archived here for your viewing pleasure.
Print Copies!
Back in ye olde olden days of 2007, I was persuaded to shop my comics around to publishers by a guy I liked. I received a very nice rejection letter from one publisher, and no response from the others. The rejection letter suggested I self-publish, and that is the origin of Hearts & Stars #1. The only problem is that I was too shy at the time to actually distribute this thing, so here we are eighteen years later. Better late than never, right?? 24 pages.
Contents: Handwriting, Memorial Day, Nyquil, and more!
Comics from 2023 and 2024! Art is a little rusty in spots as I am drawing on the regular for the first time in years, but it’s never been good lol. 28 pages. Awkward crushes, social awkwardness, food poisoning, etc.
Contents: Hay Ride, ACAB, The Third Wheel, Hong Kong Buffet
Hearts & Stars #3
Coming soon! More material from 2023 onward. 40 pages of pain.
Contents include: Chambersurg Mall, Hourly Comic Day 2025, Ski Club, Lookout, Oh, Negative.
Hearts & Stars #4
Hopefully coming before the end of 2025! Aiming for about 40 pages.
Tentative contents: Junk, Smells Like, In the Cards, Beanie Mania, Tequila, Nora, OregaNO
Archive
Some old stuff that still holds up, I guess
Thesis Comics
I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing in 2008. My thesis project was a collection of personal essays, half of them done in comic form. I was the first person at my school to make comics as part of the writing program (though two of my classmates did write comic book scripts), and I wound up being far from the last, as my school now offers a graphic novel writing course. Kind of cool.
Anyway, you can click below to read each story:
Roller Skates: A cheesy children’s novel set in the 1890s spurs me to become a librarian.
Senior Pictures: Trials and tribulations of an ugly teenager sitting for their senior pictures, ha ha.
Confirmation: My experience as someone who attended Catholic school, but didn’t really buy into organized religion.
The Mall: About my obsession with old shopping malls.
Shorties: Single-page comics and false starts that didn’t make the final cut. My Laura Ingalls Wilder costume, getting day drunk at the beach with my dad, etc.
Shorties
A whole bunch of single-page comics. The page formatting on Webtoon doesn’t really work for this material, so I’m reproducing them here, too. I made a ton of these, but many of them are too embarrassing to put here.
