Eleanor just started posting a lot of sketches on a new blog: http://beouija.blogspot.com/
There’s a lot of dirty drawings there, so you’ve been warned.
This is supplemental to her main portfolio website, Doing Fine, which is also filled with fantastic art.
I don’t actually endorse Set to Sea as a book suitable for kids, but this is an adorable/hilarious/surprisingly sophisticated take.
And I don’t think I’ve actually plugged the book for a few weeks! My nautical comic, Set to Sea, is out as a handsome little hardback book! You can read the first part of the story here. You can buy a copy from Fantagraphics or from Amazon. I’d appreciate it.
Oy, I have a tough time balancing my life. I’m been running late on this cat comic so I’ve been working on it every waking moment that I’m not at work, and haven’t managed to do anything else for weeks. I’ve got enough cats photos for that now, by the way – thanks to everyone who sent one! Here’s a snippet of pencils – no cat cameos in this, though:
Here’s a pretty fun thing: Steve Wolfhard’s Portrait-dex project – it’s cartoonists rendering themselves in Pokemon style, going through three evolutionary stages. Having had a mild affair with Pokemon back in the day (an Oddish made cameo appearances throughout my old journal comics) I thought I was fairly qualified to contribute one myself! Click on over to see the other stages:
I was interviewed about Set to Sea by Brian Heater of the Daily Crosshatch at SPX; the first part of the interview is online now. This section might be a little dry, it’s some of the technical stuff about the making of the book. I’m still getting a handle on interviewing. Should I repeat things I’ve already said in other interviews if someone asks me the same question? Should I just start throwing out inconsistent, inflammatory opinions to say something new?
Here’s a sketch I did last night trying to get myself warmed up for inking. I sometimes have fantasies of being tapped to do a Dungeon book. Luckily, fantasies don’t have deadlines.
A couple more reviews for the Set to Sea book: Some really kind words from the comic shop Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find’s blog, and a straight up gushy one from the newspaper, The Oregonian!
A couple notes about the Little House shop: Somebody pointed out to me the other day that if you clicked to order Eleanor’s mini, “The Beast Mother,” Paypal was mistakenly listing it as being sold out. I fixed the problem, so order with confidence!
But speaking of sold out: We’re down to our last copy of Eleanor’s “Ox” print, so if you’re interested in that, don’t wait! It was an edition of 35, so that’s it. Elo’s got some new prints that will be going up as soon as I get the chance to make the entry. We are also getting somewhat low on our Bugbear mini, and aren’t going to be reprinting. So, fair warning!
• A couple of Set to Sea reviews came in recently, the 2nd has some nice words for Eleanor, too: One, Two
• Eleanor did all these fantastically cute little drawings for a local organic farm that we both volunteer at. Giant vegetables or tiny farmers?
• Eleanor and our friend David found all this mysterious graffiti by the train tracks under the highway! It looks like somebody spent a lot of time and care on these ephemeral murals, I’m glad Eleanor and David documented it.
