comic book school semester 1: art dump, pt. 2

what the heck happened in the past 4 months according to my journal sketchbook

In non-chronological order, here’s an assortment of memorable moments from my first semester at CCS as recorded in various sketchbooks (both traditional and digital) throughout the term.

• hung out with Maia Kobabe

  

  this literally happened but we failed to get a photo so here’s my artistic recreation. Also, thanks for having such a great sense of humor about the whole artist doppelgänger situation, Maia <3

• hosted nine (9!!) CCS Soup Nights in our tiny apartment

  

• snuggled a baby (important)

  

• attended MICE, tabled at TWIST and ZAP! Fest

  

• got a part-time nannying job (the best)

  

• had field trips to: a riso studio, a book arts & letterpress lab, an art museum

  

• dressed as Totoro for the town Halloween parade (a serious affair)

  

  this one is watercolor on cold press paper

• wore a mask to class every day, got covid twice (TWICE!!) anyway

  

• spilled ink all over my desk while feverish and semi-delirious

  

• tried very hard not to pass covid onto my roommate Ollie (Keeper of the Cough Drops); failed

  

  

• cut my own hair in the bathroom four times

  

  

• read 22 graphic novels (holy shit?), accidentally returned one of them to the United States Postal Service instead of to the school library the very first week of school, completely panicked

  

  receipt:

  

  

  and then a very good-humored postal carrier delivered my book to the school’s P.O. box, and I was NOT banned from the school library for eternity

  …and now it’s time for me to REST like an athlete taking an off-season, see you in the New Year with more comics!