The Trickster

I've been reading about the history of the portrayal of the cat in art.  (I recommend the book.  I got it for under 10 dollars from a discount retailer at a street festival, and it's full of great images.)  It's highlighted quite an ambivalence in our relationship with the species.  Naturally (being the way I am), I identified a kinship between the cat and Loki -- the trickster of the Norse gods, whom Marvel has done quite a fabulous job of making en vogue right now.  (I was falling in love with Loki before he had a bandwagon...Just sayin'.)  I entered this piece in Mightyfine's "Marvel Villains" T-shirt design contest, but for whatever reason, it didn't pass the approval of Marvel's licensors.  Maybe they thought the font license would be a problem.  (I made sure it was free for commercial use.)  Maybe they don't like anthropomorphisms.  That wasn't against the rules...but Oh Well.  Here's the piece and the T-shirt mock-up; I still enjoy it even though it'll never be printed on a T-shirt.

Kitties

Did this portrait of our cats about a year ago.  Ink & watercolor.  Shadow (M), above, belongs to my boyfriend.  Dar (F), below, is mine.  She was not yet fully grown at the time.

Marco and Marty guest comic

This is my guest comic (2/22 in the Daily Illini) for the highly-recommended Marco and Marty by Billy Fore (who was also kind enough to give me the final kick I needed in order to stake out my own tiny space in the artblogosphere).

Tah-dah!  1/1634086th of a dream come true...a comic strip published for one day in a college newspaper. :]

What I did today (AKA "Placeholder" First Post)

Because it was for a TOP SECRET roundtable conference, I cannot reveal the full deliverable of my first success with InDesign yaay.  So the Snoopy drawing (not actually out of context -- long story) that I did for the poster will have to stand alone.  Bonus points if you know what it is that he is drafting.