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July 2026 reads

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I never use the monthly spreads in my journal (something something about object permanence), so last month I tried filling it with the books I read during July! It’s mostly going through our TCAF haul…I still got a lot left to read haha….here’s the books if you’re wondering, and/or looking for some new comics to read:

1. “In Real Life” by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
2. “Testament” by J. Marshall Smith
3. “It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken” by Seth
4. “Absolute Martian Manhunter Vol. 1” by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez
5. “Blind Alley: Five Years On” by Adam de Souza
6-7. “Augustine” by Tas Mukanik and Winter Jay Kiakas
8. “The Wind Beneath The Aspens Ch.1” by Hal
9. “Internal Affairs: Tense Anniversary” by Patrick Crotty, Mel Tow, Michael Furler
10. “Moving Pictures” by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen

The veredict: comics rule actually 👍

Painting some trees

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This morning was my first time attending a ✨ botanical sketching meetup! ✨

It’s a local group that meets once a month in different parks to draw/paint some nature. I’ve been wanting to paint outside more AND I’ve been wanting to share with other artists, so this was a win-win situation! Plus, there’s something about “go paint around the park and we’ll meet back in an hour to show what we did” that really forces you to focus lmao…..

I got to draw and paint 3 different trees in an hour, which was…surprisingly faster than I expected? Like, what do you mean I can draw and paint a tree with watercolors in about 20 minutes? That’s not even too long! And it’s fun! I should be painting more often!!

Illustrating a short story for Asteroid Day

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June 30th is Asteroid Day! ☄️

The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) just published the second edition of their book of short stories for Asteroid Day, where they publish the winners of their yearly writing contest, and pair them with “astro-illustrators”, people with an Astronomy background who also make art…I’m surprisingly not alone in that category!

The first edition of the book came out in 2021 and I couldn’t participate because I was too busy working on The Do-Over, so I’m glad I got the chance to join in for the second edition! I haven’t done illustration work in aaaaaages, so I really struggled with this in the beginning, but I’m pretty happy with the end result.

You can download a digital edition of the book (in Spanish) for free over here!

Avatars 2014–2022

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I was looking through my hard drive the other day and thought it’d be fun to collect all my “yellow” avatars! I’ve been consistently using a variation of the same avatar since 2014, mostly to keep myself easily recognizable.

That last one is a variant that I made specifically for joining new social media platforms (Hive, Threads, Bluesky…et cetera…) because I’m 30 and very tired, haha 💦