Oh! And I've got my copy of "My Evolution" up in the little studio library, too. (Not visible in this photo, but I promise it's there. I just cycle through what's visible up front over the course of the month.)

My studio space in downtown Ojai has been a refuge during this last year of graphic novel-making, niche freelancing, community building, and, above all, caregiving. I'm doing a livestream tour at noon today if any of you digital friends wanna come say hello. www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

Before I go: take a minute to breathe in real deep and picture yourself sitting in this driftwood shack at Rincon Point. Someone's hung a little rock from a hole left by a piddock clam. It's swaying in the breeze. There's an osprey overhead. You can see a seal in the surf. Soon you'll go swimming.

Seconding this with fervor. The Carol Tyler exhibit they’ve got up right now is truly extraordinary.

Night shift 🌕

Whoops they were right this rules actually

BECOME A CARTOONIST, THEY SAID.

IT'LL BE FUN, THEY SAID.

We also added an extra design variant and then made it into merch because why publish a book if you can't make rad stuff to go along with it? www.automaticnoodle.website/shop

If you're a process nerd and want to see what went into making this design from start to finish, I've got a couple Patreon posts about exactly that!

Pt. 1: www.patreon.com/posts/noodli...
Pt. 2: www.patreon.com/posts/noodli...

QUEER WHALES! EMANCIPATION NARRATIVES! SCURVY! I’m infiltrating the International @melville-society.bsky.social Conference this week to bring you the latest and greatest in illustrated academics. (Full versions to come when I’m no longer sleeping aboard a Danish sail training vessel from 1882.)