Wet season

Also, as someone with hEDS and chronic neck pain that did eventually improve, I'm rooting for you to get some answers and relief! Best of luck with it.

Wow thank you!!! I remember reading Everblue over a decade ago. I've been a fan of your work for a long time and was so happy to see your art pop up here! Your work is gorgeous.

The way I write stories feels so much like drawing comics, layer by layer by layer. Thumbnails to pencils to inks to flats to color to final. Logline to summary to outline to draft to dialogue to prose. There's such a lot of trusting what it'll turn into eventually so I'll keep putting pen to page.

After about a hundred passes through my webcomic script to get the shape of the story right, it's finally time to give the dialogue some personality and let out the breath I didn't know I was holding over whether the characters in my head would ever make it to the page.

My roommate and I host a Critical Role watch party every Thursday, and we've been joking for months that there'll be a TPK on my birthday. Considering how last episode ended, I'm nervous that it'll actually happen. 😂

It's my birthday! I stayed up late doodling my webcomic characters, and first thing after I woke up I went to sit at Barnes & Noble and doodle them some more.

I've had my fun calling it "the webcomic I'll never make" but apparently I was lying. 💕 Its real title is Two of Swords!

No release date yet, and I'm not gonna rush it, but I hope I'll be brave enough to post it someday. Fortunately, I think spending time with these characters is making me braver.

It's very funny to become a brand new Kingdom Hearts fan in 2026 and then have everybody be so excited about the death of (an unrelated) Sora.

Thank you, posting art online is way scarier than publishing whole-ass books for some reason. 😂

👀 Sword lesbians in a world where magic is the source of color!

I've had my fun calling it "the webcomic I'll never make" but apparently I was lying. 💕 Its real title is Two of Swords!

No release date yet, and I'm not gonna rush it, but I hope I'll be brave enough to post it someday. Fortunately, I think spending time with these characters is making me braver.

For no reason at all, what about sharing some trans friendly MG/YA books for #TransRightsReadathon, hmm? Or for any time of the year, really!

- Splinter & Ash, by Marieke Nijkamp;
- The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang;
- Scarlet Morning, by N.D. Stevenson;
- This Is Our Rainbow (anthology);

Hahaha that's another great way to look at it, honestly! I feel like for most people you can look back at their childhood art and see hints of the same hand at work—I love that.

I must innately feel like more visual distinction from my old art style would imply more *progress*. But maybe it just means my old style already had a lot to love about it. 💛 Gotta be kind to our past artist-selves too.

Why should I want my art style to become unrecognizable compared to how it used to be? Why would I want to take all the me out of the art?

Sometimes I look at how I'm drawing characters and think "Nooo, these still look too much like how I'd draw characters in high school," but now... I wonder if high-school Tori would be really jazzed about that.

The secret to good anatomy as an artist? Muscle memory

For some reason putting my OC doodles in panels makes me draw better, comics have gotten into my bones!!

Drawing smooches is a very important step in making sure that a character design is working. 💞

Indu and Dariya dressed in traditional clothes holding the Lunar Boy cover

Aminah and Noah hold up Indu as he waves a large trans flag behind him

There's a really cool graphic novel you could be reading for Trans Rights Readathon

#Booksky

Have you guys heard of having OCs? It's pretty great.

"No book, no teacher, no curriculum, no class, no idea can be exactly right for everyone. Rather than fearing any point of view that differs from our own, we can choose to help our kids become resilient and respectful critical thinkers." @shannonhale.bsky.social

Some video games have really shaped my preferences in stories and made me think differently about life. (I talked a lot about Kingdom Hearts in therapy today!) :P
my9games.com

Today is the first anniversary of DragonForged: Sword of the Champion’s release! Here’s a sneak peek at storyboards from the sequel

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

This describes so well what drew me to comics when I was a kid!! They took all my focus to read in a way that felt rewarding. How cool.

Book cover: The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe, translated from Italian by Jack Zipes. Cover illustration is a colorful, textural depiction of a child in white cloak walking past a giant’s foot; snakes, fish, a rabbit, and dragons lurk nearby. Eerie but friendly at the same time.

Chapter header from The Grammar of Fantasy: 38. The Child Who Reads Comics Illustration of a child hidden behind a large comic book with simplified shapes, eyes, and a mouth for panels.

Excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy: books, new inventions are often added to the basic sounds, and these, too, must be deciphered. The entire course of the story must be reconstructed in the imagination, combining the signals provided by the captions, dialogue, and onomatopoeia with those given by the drawings and color, so that the many loose threads of the plot can be mentally tied together into a single, continuous thread. And it is the reader who makes sense of everything: the personality of the characters, who are not described, but shown in action; the relationships between them, which result from the plot and its developments; even the action itself, which is revealed to the reader only through jumps and fragments. For a child of six or seven years, comic books seem to me sufficiently demanding work, rich with logical and imaginative operations, regardless of the value and content of the comic book, which is not at issue here. When reading a comic, the imagination of the child does not passively assist; rather, it is urged to take a position, to analyze and synthesize, to classify and decide. There is no room here for absentminded daydreams, not while the mind is engaged in such complex attention and the imagination is called upon to fulfill its most noble functions. To venture to say that up to a certain point, the child's principal interest in comic books is not determined by their content, but is tied directly to the form and substance of the comics themselves, as a means of expression. The child wants to master the technique of the comic strip. That's it. She reads comic books in 238

Continued excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy. order to learn how to read comic books, to understand their rules and conventions. She enjoys the efforts of her own imagination, more than the adventures of the characters. She plays with her own mind, not with the story. It may well be high-handed to separate things so clearly in this way. But the effort of distinguishing between them is worth it if the distinction helps us not to underestimate the child, and the underlying seriousness and moral engagement that she brings to everything she does. Everything else about comics has already been said, for better or for worse, and I won't bother you by repeating it.

did not expect this chapter! I especially love:

“When reading a comic, the imagination of the child does not passively assist; rather, it is urged to take a position, to analyze and synthesize, to classify and decide.”

(and also the eternal nature of “comics ? for kids ????” discourse lmao)

pollera dancers with swords... is this anything

I’ll be at ECCC this week, table D-04! Hope to see you thereee