The Embrace Health HPV Campaign is a complete, self-contained program aiming to increase HPV Vaccination rates on college campuses. Hajira Qazi, a fellow graduate student, and I researched and designed this program as a part of our Visual Communications Studio at Carnegie Mellon University. Our client was the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), represented by Abby Wilson, …
For this Time and Motion project, our brief was to explain a design research method or concept. The method I chose is the study of “trace measures”. Perhaps a little over eager for my first-ever Adobe After Effects animation project, I sketched and inked backgrounds by hand, and then used Photoshop brushes to add texture and shading. …
I am pleased to have my comics featured in the sixth issue of a midwestern lifestyle magazine, Driftless. After following the work of Shelly, Leah and Anna (editors), I approached them about creating illustrations for the magazine. I was thrilled when they wanted to print 4 spreads of my comics instead! They chose some of my dating comics, plus the …
On September 17th and 18th I showed my work at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. Above was my set up this year, and to the right, last years’. If you look closely, you’ll see that last year I was selling just two mini-comics plus greeting cards. This year, I had three mini-comics, a four-part …
In just a couple weeks I’ll be tabling at the 5th ever ELCAF. I am thrilled to have been accepted and can’t wait to meet new comics artists and creators! The East London Comics and Arts Fest runs June 10-12th at the Round House Chapel, and admission for the full weekend is 10 pounds. I’ll be …
What would happen if the cost of living on Planet Earth became so high that recent college grads couldn’t afford to live there anymore? They’d pack up their space ships and move to Planet N!#ult0n, of course. My new weekly webcomic, Urbanity Planet, follows the bumblings, ramblings, mistakes and joys of a hapless group of …
Studies show that you can improve sleep-deprived brain chemistry by taking short naps throughout the day. The characters in my new book, Commuter Naps, seem to have figured this out. Released on April 11th, this book of illustrations shows ordinary people on their way to work, some of whom happen to be sleeping. Commuter Naps was printed using …
Last month I had a contest where anyone who signed up for my email newsletter was entered in a drawing… for a drawing! The winner received a free, 6-panel comic drawn by me about a story from their own life. The winner of the March 7th drawing was Lani Comp! Lani is an educator, but her story is …