Here is my zine, Portraits, which you can buy it at my Etsy shop.
I sold this zine at DC Zine Fest yesterday with BigZom, Zia, and of course KELI ANAYA; he is a guru of wheat paste. I really like the word ‘wheat paste’. For me, it conjures an image of fields of delicious and curiously sticky grains waving in cool summer breezes. I would also like to work with wheat paste one day, if only so that I can say the word ‘wheat paste’ over and over and over again.
I nabbed several cool zines at Zine Fest, and now (in addition to wanting to work in wheat paste) I wanna make more zines! I will never be a riot grrrl, but I’ll always be a fan of folded pieces of paper.
This is a portrait of my friend JACK dressed up as a member of Newsies with Paris Hilton in the background. It’s going to be part of my upcoming portraits zine, which will debut at the DC Zine Fest at the end of the month.
In the zine, the question of WHY EXACTLY Jack is dressed up as a member of Newsies and is saluting Paris Hilton’s back will all be explained. I will be sitting at a half-table as part of the “Booger Mtn” collective. Zia and BigZom and anybody who else wants to join (holla at me!) will be there. I will try to drink lots of Red Bull beforehand so that I will appear animated and friendly instead of morose and sleepy.
In life/drawing news, I am busy working on a lot of drawings right now for several projects. I hope to reward myself with rapidograph pens after I’m done, if it doesn’t seem too expensive. Also, I am still agonizing over the sunglasses I broke a couple of weeks ago. I go through about 2-3 pairs of sunglasses because I am a cheapww**(a and am careless to boot, but the sight of an injured pair of sunglasses still hurts.
