Welcome back! I have to be a typical animator/comic artist and just say that the past month, work got busy, which is a good thing, no, a GREAT thing considering everything. Not only that, but everything else happened, good and bad, and I’m moving next week! So the busy continues, but it’s all good. And I got you some comics. 

If you need to be caught up, Dee and Bunny Boy weren’t getting along, they both had some adventures on their own, and then they sort of got along again, and then roses fell from the sky, and things got awkward. It’s now a week later, and we start the chapter by talking with a few of the minor cast characters. I always wish Bunny Boy’s sister could get some more air time, so here’s a little chat with her and her girlfriend. 

Oh, and if you’re in Santa Cruz this month, I have a couple pieces (including a page from Weird Fishes) in a cool group show at Cafe Pergolesi. On Saturday, July 11th we’re having a kick-off party around 8pm!

Here’s me, trying to get all fine art on you. Check this painting out at Perg’s during July!

 
APE was great! The Weird Fishes VS. Outstanding Comics booth went off very well, we had great neighbors and met a lot of neat people. I’m always a bit surprised when being in a giant room of friends I never see except for once a year, artists I admire like crazy, people who I’d never expect to know who I am, animation pros who’re happy to look at my stuff, and a generally huge amount of positive people who love comics! I got to meet Dame Darcy and buy a hand-painted eye sleeping mask from her, meet Meredith Gran who recognized me immediately, get visited by the fine folks from Ghostbot, have Michael Manning and Barron Storey visit our booth at the same time, get uplifting feedback from Allen Spiegel, trade t-shirts with Tristan Crane, hear that my comic print is lookin’ good at Jennifer’s office at SLG, and I saw so many faces and friends I couldn’t even recollect them all.  

The book almost sold out, I have leftover spray painted tshirts that I’ll be putting up on Etsy later this week, and some cute button packs that’ll be available to order shortly. 

For the next couple weeks I’ll be working to finish a very special comic for Dark Horse’s Myspace Presents that’ll appear online by the end of the year, so Weird Fishes is going on hiatus for a little while. Some good feedback I heard at APE was to keep my stories contained, so the next chapter is going to be something that can be enjoyed on it’s own, but for regular readers it’ll continue on from where we left off.  

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my booth this weekend! And if you live in the US, do not disappoint the world today by being a lazy douche.

Love, Jamaica

This post is brought to you by CUTENESS. We adopted kittens a week ago, and so far they’ve been the most adorable contributions to the apartment. And, like any decent cats, they manage to either be on your lap or on your art at all times. Above, Aeris helps me ink a page of my comic. 

And I’ve been painting: