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Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too . . .in Print!

2012-03-04T13:21:00.000-08:00

So, the webcomic I've been illustrating since the summer, Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too has a kickstarter! It's at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/362780512/jesus-loves-lesbians-too-in-print and the lovely writer, Maria Burnham and I are trying to raise money to print physical copies of our comic for the MoCCA festival at the end of April.

We're already half way to our goal and incredibly thankful of everyone who has already donated. But if you haven't seen it, check it out if you have a chance! We seriously appreciate any and all donations, and spread the word!

More RAIN commissions

2012-02-27T20:22:00.001-08:00

These are my last batch of RAIN commissions, besides the last pesky person who hasn't given us a topic yet. Pretty exciting! I had a lot of fun with these ones.

The ninja on a bike was my choice, and I think it was a pretty good one.

I worked on this one while listening to my boyfriend play Dungeons & Dragons over skype. Such a fun mindset!

This one is "love and desire", which I was avoiding, but really enjoyed working on.

And this one is a vision of timelessness. No joke. I was having trouble working on it in watercolor, so I stated layering over the original. Everything but the kitchen sink ended up on this one including parts of my old socks, the bottom of a candle, and a spring. So much fun!

Definitely check out more about the RAIN Anthology project at http://www.789studio.com/ there are some sweet artist interviews that are worth reading. And the final book should be printed by April, so stay tuned!

Some RAIN commissions!!

2012-02-18T10:19:00.000-08:00

Here are some of my commissions I'm doing for the RAIN anthology, http://www.789studio.com/. A super cool comics and illustration anthology coming out in March!

This one was a wild card, so warrior with fun hair it is!

Someone requested Boston Terriors! I tried to draw some generic dogs, I originally wanted to do a whole bunch of them wearing party hats, but I ended up drawing the 2 dogs I'm always drawing in the webcomic I do, jesusloveslesbianstoo.com

And someone wanted a Hawaiian themed commission, so here's mine. This one is of Queen Liliuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii, overthrown in a bloodless coup before Hawaii was annexed.

Forget-me-not page 1

2012-01-02T20:21:00.000-08:00

Forget-Me-Not is finisheddd!!! Very exciting! To see the rest of the story, stay tuned, we're working on raising money to have the anthology published by April! The Rain Anthology has a site you can follow up on everyone's progress and interviews and whatnot here http://www.789studio.com/ if you are so inclined!

And you can check out our kickstarter here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/789studio/rain-a-collection-of-comics-and-illustrations If you have the resources to donate something, we would really appreciate it! And just passing along the information is also greatly appreciated :)

Also, happy secular New Year everybody! Hope the first two days o 2012 have been pleasant ones.

Forget-me-not Pencils!

2011-12-16T17:29:00.000-08:00

This is, (hopefully), my final comic for the RAIN anthology I'm working on! It's written by the lovely Kelsey Donald, and drawn by yours truly. 7 pages of brainwashing aliens and a break-up-quasi-love story. Stay tuned :)

The Life and Times of Maurice Freidman

2011-11-13T14:01:00.000-08:00

The story of my Great Uncle, Maurice, pieced together with the help of my Dad. It was for a class assignment a year ago, recently fished it out of my hard drive and edited it for my Uncle Allen.

It's one of my messier comics, it suits Maurice, but I wish it was a bit cleaner. I also inked it with a broken lettering nib, which was the last time I used one.

97 Orchard St

2011-11-10T10:33:00.000-08:00

I got to stand outside at work on Tuesday next to the balloons and try to direct passerbys to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The morning was a bit slow, so I fished this envelope out of the recycling and drew what was across the street from me, 97 Orchard St.

The 99% Barbie

2011-10-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Matel, if you're reading this, just remember where the idea came from.

Pencils for the Rain Anthology

2011-09-16T10:19:00.000-07:00

The 8 page story doesn't have a title yet, but these are the first two pages for an Anthology called Rain I'm participating in with some friends. I am also apparently not sick of North African fo-Moroccan reference yet. Stay tuned!

The Secret History of Women in Comics Panel

2011-09-12T15:49:00.000-07:00

A sketch I did during the The Secret History of Women in Comics panel last weekend at SPX.

Website!

2011-09-06T06:23:00.000-07:00

My website is officially up! If y’all want to check it out, it’s at http://www.maggiesiegelberele.com/ Very exciting! Thank you in advance if you check it out :)

The site was made by the wonderful Eric H, (cartoonist, web designer, and creator of ChickenBot http://mrchickenbot.com/ ). Eric is looking to do a few more portfolio/web sites to build up his portfolio, if anyone is interested, I can definitely get you in touch with him.

Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too

2011-08-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

http://jesusloveslesbianstoo.com/

Check out the memoir webcomic I have been illustrating! The comic is the main reason I haven't been updating as much, but pretty worth it from my end. It has been a lot of fun to work on and it updates twice a month. Stay tuned :)

Jirel Meets Magic pencils

2011-08-10T20:22:00.000-07:00

I'm working on an excerpt of Jirel Meets Magic by Catherine L. Moore. Jirel Meets Magic is a Sword & Sorcery story that graced the American pulp magazines of the 1930s, and features awesome female characters who have never gotten a decent visual representation. Until now hopefully. These are some penciled pages of my adaption.

My best apartment huntin' story

2011-08-02T10:25:00.000-07:00

Concepts

2011-08-02T10:11:00.000-07:00

So I've been scrapping ideas for an anthology like theres no tomorrow, my current idea is to do a buddy story with two petty criminals from the same country that Novice took place in. I thought I wanted to do something modern, and then these ladies reminded me how much fun I had with historical reference and costumes.

Then again, these characters may never see the light of day again, who knows? In any event, due to the rough paper of my current sketchbook, I've been doing a lot of fast and furious drawings with various ball point pens. It's kind of crude, but fun and I'm not tired of it yet.

Manolin

2011-07-15T09:15:00.000-07:00

I'm packing to move and moving bursting open files of art as a result. I came across this Manolin illustration, back from the Old Man and the Sea project in the winter. Pen, ink, and brush on bristol.

Sketches

2011-06-07T19:28:00.000-07:00

I've probably been walking by this for the last two years and not seeing it, it's pretty incredible. If anyone is walking or biking on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, keep your eyes peeled.

But before I saw the car garden, I drew Monica playing ukulele and sitting on the couch in Maryland.

Novice is getting colored

2011-05-07T13:41:00.000-07:00

I'm using a very limited color palette and this how it's looking as of now! It's really interesting to use color as a storytelling element instead of a 'these are the colors these things are' mindset, I'm liking it.

Novice pages

2011-05-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

Two of my favorite pages from Novice, these two were in the Open Studio show last night.

What the nib holding industry doesn't want you to know...

2011-04-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68wqQKm18rY&feature=player_embedded

Check it out! My roommate put together an infomercial for her internship with Matt Madden and Jessica Abel, I helped her out with it. Inking secrets revealed! A must see ---especially if you're a nib user.

ZAD cover-v1

2011-04-28T13:06:00.000-07:00

Here's the 90% done version of the Zombie Ass Zombie Dinosaurs cover!

It's 17.5 x 8.5" watercolored and touched up in photoshop. I need to puzzle together another scan or two to patch up the bottom left hand corner, but I think it turned out pretty well.

ZAD in color

2011-04-15T13:30:00.000-07:00

This is the only Zombie Ass Dinosaurs page I've colored. Hopefully more coming soon...in the future!

ZAD cover-color study

2011-04-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

Soon to be a large water color illustration for a future book cover.

Amtgard in two pages

2011-04-06T07:05:00.000-07:00

An assignment for my Underground Comics class, we needed to pick a subculture and do a two page comic about it. It was a colorful and educational critique, let me tell you. I've been playing Amtgard since I was 15, I wanted to do a dumpster diving comic, but this felt more natural.

MoCCA!

2011-03-28T21:17:00.000-07:00

MoCCA is fast approaching! Heres some more info if y'all aren't familiar with it http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival

I'll be at a table with these fine folk http://mrchickenbot.com/ and http://julianrowe.blogspot.com/, if anyone happens to be at the fest, drop by and say hi and check out our comics! Doo ittt!

Would-be Novice cover

2011-03-25T18:17:00.000-07:00

I really like it, but it's misleading as a cover and has little to do with the story. So, now it's a captivating promo image, don't you want to read this comic?

Origin Story

2011-03-20T19:26:00.000-07:00

At least it's more exciting than Hawk Girl's origin story. I mean really.

Space for RENT...in Latveria

2011-03-16T20:51:00.000-07:00

So Nick Bertozzi usually has his storytelling class do war stories from recent primary resources, students usually get really good comics out of them. But when I took his class last spring he said he was too depressed to do war stories and instead told us to find the most ridiculous fanfiction we could and adapt it to a four page comic.

I found Space for RENT in Latveria, written by the mysterious Swamp Thing in the crossover musical section of fanfiction.net (I highly recommend checking out that section, I don't think there's anything like it.) With the artistic challenge of RENT meets the Fantastic Four, I figured I'd do this thing the right way, aka the Jack Kirby way. Here's the end result:

It was a really fun class and we may have had one of the best critiques ever in art school history. People from other classes sat in to witness the slew of fanfic comics. And if anyone knows Swamp Thing, I'd appreciate passing this along, I'd really like to show it to them.

2011-03-04T04:59:00.000-08:00

An incredible chain of events came from a homework assignment for my Obstacle Course class. We had an assignment that called for minimal drawing and writing, something akin to a comic remix, in the spirit of Garfield Minus Garfield. I ended up taking panels from the Essential Flash that only had Barry Allen's generic love interest in them, such as:

So I erased the words, and replaced them with dialogue from Allison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For, with this result:

I was pretty happy with it, and then at the critique, my teacher said something along the lines of, "This is really great, I should send it to Allison." And I got a lovely email from her last weekend! This comic has her blessings! I still can't get over how incredible that is! And if it couldn't get better, she put my comic on her blog! Check it out if you want. She included her original page I took the words from in the blog post. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/appropriation

That concludes my fairy tale adventure with back and forth emails with the legendary Allison Bechdel.

A panel from Novice

2011-02-18T20:11:00.000-08:00

Inking Novice is coming along nicely. Enjoy a teaser panel and stay tuned!

My Unborn Children

2011-02-17T17:14:00.000-08:00

Plastic restraint experimental comic for Matt Madden's class. Anxiety is a great pool of inspiration sometimes.

Santiago

2011-02-13T11:40:00.000-08:00

This is my finished Old Man in the Sea character concept! But I'm going more for old shaman woman and the sea, Inuit style. If I have time I'll color my Manolin to go with her.

Bimwili illustration

2011-02-12T20:12:00.000-08:00

Here's my first illustration for my fairy tale theory class! I'm illustrating Bimwili and the Zimwi, a fairy tale from Zimbabwe that scared the crap out of me as a kid. It's about a girl who's kidnapped by a monster and held captive in a drum where she's forced to sing.

Splash page coming soon!

Funny Ramen Dream

2011-01-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

I've been having amusing dreams recently. This one co-starred my sister, Rachael, who stayed completely in character. Because it'll be her birthday in 8 minutes, this wacky dream comic is for her!

2011-01-23T19:52:00.000-08:00

This is a comic from Matt Madden's Obstacle Course. We needed to make a comic based on a word ladder, I started with the words "find" and "lose" and it took me 10 words to connect them. I'm hoping it's readable, the only non-artist who's laid eyes on it thus far said it was weird.

The Three Little Gamers

2011-01-23T19:46:00.000-08:00

I've been doing this web comic since last August, for gamefanboys.com It's on hold at the moment, but it should pick back up in the tear future and y'all should check it out! It's about the lives of three roommates of varying levels of geekdom.

http://www.gamefanboys.com/search/label/Monthly%20Comic

It's also a well loved cartooney outlet for me.

2011-01-23T14:38:00.000-08:00

Hey internet! Going to start blogging up a storm, if you're interested, stay tuned! Sketches and comics coming soon.