It’s that time of the year again!! ✨ Work has been especially exhausting this summer, so I was really grateful that Hourly Comic Day fell on a Saturday this time. HOWEVER, I also decided to try adding watercolor washes because IDK I LIKE MAKING THINGS DIFFICULT….!!!
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Happy holidays! 2024 is almost over, but I wasn’t gonna let the year end without my ✨ yearly planner post!! ✨
This is my third year in a row using the Hobonichi Weeks (here’s my posts for 2022 and 2023). There’s no big changes in how I used it compared to previous years, but there’s always little tweaks to the system as I find what works best for my needs 🙂
…About a month ago I sent in the final pages for the sequel to The Do-Over. I still have to finish the cover and some final details, but we’re mostly done with book work!! 🎉 Time to…do something else? catch up with things? rest…??
In that context, me and my friend Gaby decided to go to a local Tamagotchi fan meetup! When I told Rodrigo about it, he said “what if you make a zine to bring to the meetup?”, and I was like…what IF I make a zine to bring to the meetup?? And so, in a little under a week, I came up with this one-page zine about my Tamagotchi collection:
Did you know it’s been 18 years since Pluto stopped being a planet?
This is a little comic I made for Planetario USACH* explaining why Pluto is no longer a planet—going from the definition of planet, to the history of new planets being discovered, and finally the IAU’s 2006 definition of planet and the creation of “dwarf planets” as a separate category.
(*this is why the comic is in Spanish…I still wanted to document this here, though!)
I’ve been thinking a lot about science and comics lately…for a long time I’ve been doing both things separately, keeping my distance between my two jobs, but I want to move more into the intersection of both things. It feels more like playing to my strengths, right? Anyway, I had a great time working on this and I’m looking forward to making more science comics in the future! ✨
It’s been over a year since my first demons comic, but here they are again—now with ✨journaling feelings✨! I want to write about it more in depth when I (finally) get to do that daily journal review, but this sums it up pretty well.
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