Turtle Soup: Father's Day

This comic was my dad's Father's Day card last year. (The last panel/message were interior, with the four-panel strip on the front.)



(Someday I'll learn to draw children.) When I was nine or so, I was really struggling with schoolwork . . . I'd just switched to my third elementary school, where I had "real" grades for the first time (not like at the hippy-run private school I'd just left). My dad had "For Allie" engraved on this pendant from one of his MA programs, and gave it to me like some kind of good luck charm.

And yeah, he really did that thing with the magazine, too. My friends always think he's so serious and reserved . . .

Turtle Soup: In-Joke Nostalgia

I drew this strip as a gift for my best friend; it recalls a history of pop culture-based in-jokes (but they're often related to fairly obscure pieces of pop culture). It's pretty incomprehensible to most people who aren't us, so I won't be including it in the Turtle Soup minicomic . . . but it means a lot to me, and I'm also pretty proud of a lot of the technical stuff in it. :)

In panel order, this strip refers (often vaguely) to: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, The Sentinel, Due South (seasons 3 & 4), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, and "I'm Not Okay" by My Chemical Romance.

Turtle Soup: Heroine

As I said to A.L.: "ten years, and I still can't draw David Bowie."

In spite of being rather lower in technical quality than a lot of my other strips (in my opinion), this is far and away the most popular thing I have ever posted to an online gallery site (deviantART, in this case). I hope it's because many of the people who "faved" it actually got what I was saying? (Far too many of them were clearly just "Team Jareth," but oh well.)

Turtle Soup: Indie Comics

One more today, I think.



I originally gave this strip to my friend sae to use as a guest strip for her webcomic, The Littlest Elle. sae is one of my oldest and closest artist friends (and awesome just in general); her strip is equal parts adorable and wry, and I recommend it!