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….!!!
…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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It’s wild to see that a whole year has passed since our book The Do-Over was released! We got to table with it at 2 shows last year, and even participate on a panel with other incredible middle-grade authors 😎👉👉 but by far the best part is knowing that there are real kids out there who have read our book and enjoyed it!! that’s the main goal!!
Right now I’m coloring the sequel to The Do-Over, which should be done this year and released sometime in 2025…? Books take a long time! I’ll let you know as soon as we have more info on that!