Tuesday comic(s)

Custom Fonts & Dealing With My Crumbling Skeleton

Here’s a nonsensical little comic. I’m using this little template to draw my pages and also made some fun easy fonts with Fontself on ipad (not sponsored, just heard about it and it works for my very basic self who is not a graphic designer). Both of these things together are really making the pages look halfway professional even though I’m still trying not to think too hard about how good they actually are.

[update: received this very helpful tip from a fellow cartoonist. Thank you hive mind!]

CURRENT OBSESSIONS:

1. After a back spasm took me out all weekend, I am back to religiously following the routines in this book (BUY THE BOOK):

Doing my little exercises and stretches for stationery drawing AND for running now takes up a gooood chunk of every day. But it’s all just part and parcel of getting to live this great little life baby, maintaining the flesh prison is important and necessary! I want to be physically functional more than I dislike exercise homework.

2. A totally frivolous indulgence I acquired this week is a mug warmer so that my tea is hot the very last sip (honestly feels like witchcraft):

3. My contribution to the royal photoshop discourse (the New Yorker didn’t go for it)

Don’t let the levity and finger-pointing distract you from the fact that generating fake photos to fool the public is very bad and that more people in power are definitely going to try it!

[EDIT] - I’ve done a new version of this cartoon because I realized too late that it breaks the cardinal rule of homage by not following the composition of the original cartoon. Here is the original by Peter Steiner, plus two more recent homages by Kaamran Hafeez and Jeremy Nguyen:

Anyway, here’s my homage-accurate update. For shame!

xo Zoe