This was the morning that J. and I caught the boat from Copper Harbor across Lake Superior (six hours!) to our summer destination, Isle Royale. This was in 1990, the summer that Hibble and Pibble moved out to Eugene, Oregon, and the summer before I moved to Seattle. I worked as a cook in […]

     Here’s another short excerpt from my book, Existential Fish (2011), in which Jen and her younger brother, Jimmy, happen to meet up at a high school keg party. The book is a collection of short stories involving the several teenagers. Some of the stories are only a few pages long, others longer, and some […]

Vegetables with rice for dinner tonight. Right hand swollen again, so everything left handed for  a week to heal. Watercolors help ease the pain.

      These are the two opening pages of my second graphic novel, Diary of a Manic-Depressive, 1997.       As with my first graphic novel, I had no idea what sort of project I’d begun, or how much time I would end up devoting to it. Whereas my first graphic novel was a somewhat goofy science fiction sort […]

     On May 27, 1992, I left Seattle after my first year living there. I decided I wanted a vacation, a time to myself, and a time to explore…. I had no plans or immediate destination, just a mixed tape I’d made for myself for driving in the car: My “Leaving Seattle mix”, a sad […]

     This is from my 1993 book, Double Tall Latte, Please. This is the Puget Sound, the body of water separating Seattle from the Olympic peninsula, and which opens out to the Pacific Ocean further north. The Sound is alive with boat traffic, especially in the summer months. Besides the hourly ferries that carry  tourists and commuters to […]

     This is the cozy camp J. and I made for ourselves in the Hoh rainforest (Olympic National Park, west of Seattle on the Olympic peninsula).  This was one of our many backpacking excursions, (many of them in the Hoh), probably in 1996, but drawn in 1998. The raccoons were there, as was the six-pack […]

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