Some Weeks Are Like This

Trying to figure it out.

No Way Of Knowing

Meditating or procrastinating?
Waste of time or living the dream?
To lunch or not to lunch?

Just-for-fun journal comic. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3fZ9lXA9ao

Clouds Accumulating & Friendly Intervention (Two Comics)

Two new comics about feeling overwhelmed.

Thanks to my friend Aatish for listening to me vent and accurately observing that I should chill out :)

Hidden Track (Recolored)

A cartoon from 2014 that I recently recolored. For that voice that comes from who knows where ;)

View on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B3UrDjKA6OD

Shy With Dogs

These are based on real dogs at the climbing gym I go to and drawn from memory. I think I do this with people too. I'm social, but I have a very careful approach.

You can read this as separate panels on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3KR1tFA9nu

Learning To Swim As An Adult

I can swim now, but it wasn't easy :)

Thank you for reading and supporting and sharing your own stories with me.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3CioG5gx45

Self-Care Swim

New journal comic about the relief that comes after swimming. Personally significant because I just learned to swim this summer. (See my comic for The Lily earlier this year.)

Even In Darkness, There Is Light

Or we make our own.

New journal comic strip, just for fun.

Sketch: Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Summit

History is watching us.

Photo reference via Reuters.

Fewer Birds In The Sky

"It’s as if all birds are canaries, and the entire world their coal mine." - Ed Yong for The Atlantic.

A haunting line that I've been thinking about a lot. New journal comic inspired by the article.

Link: The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America

Comic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ph0eWAAms

Extinction Is A Bummer

A cartoon about the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth.

Thanks to my good friend Aatish Bhatia for his editorial help on this one! 

Predicting The Future

"In time, you too will regret fanny packs."

The New Yorker: A Monstera's Memoir

A new webcomic for The New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-monsteras-memoir

Sketchbook: Mid-Autumn Full Moon

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival from New York.

Mooncake Friends

Want to split a mooncake with me? Happy Mid-Autumn Festival :)

View on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B2VL1kxgkTy

The Ravages of Time

Pre- and post-heartbreak self. Gonna need new headshot photos. 

Event: Brooklyn Book Festival on September 22

I'm honored to be moderating a comics panel with these amazing cartoonists at the upcoming Brooklyn Book Festival this year!

Event information: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/anxious-in-public-serious-and-or-hilarious-comics-about-real-life-tough-stuff/

I'll be conversation with Catana Chetwynd (Little Moments of Love), Adam Ellis (Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously), and Lucy Knisley (Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos), all debuting their latest books. Join if you can!

Sketchbook: Live from New York

Just living my best life ;)

Just for fun digital drawing https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Iqjl8gNd8

Elephant, Tacit Criticism

Maybe I live too much in my own head. New journal comic about deciphering tacit communication. 

View on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B2FVKdjgxeS

Excess Thoughts

What it looks like when I overthink things. New elephant journal comic.

Sketchbook: Goats in the City

A herd of goats were brought to the city for a few months as an NYC Parks "goatham" initiative to clear out weeds. I visited them so much, I almost memorized all their names.

They were 25 to start and these are the final 4 who haven't gone back to the farm. The remaining goats will return upstate this week. They were the highlight of my summer. :)

Marking the Occasion

New York City is an amazing, never-easy, ego-crushing, mettle-testing place to live. I just passed my 12-year anniversary of moving here. 

I guess I wouldn't trade it. That's the kind of trademark ambivalence New Yorkers have -- a feeling like you survived the day, the week, and the last 12 years of your life. 

I'll probably make popcorn and watch Netflix later to celebrate. Cheers.