A New Year Resolution

 Happy 2016 to everyone!  Life has been marching on for me in Philadelphia.  Trying to find my bearings and settle into a new place.  I was lucky enough to take a trip back to Chicago in November which helped me feel a little more grounded.  It was also a couple weeks before my BFF Teresa celebrated the first birthday of her little dude.  I had been working on a book for him since before he was born called "Baa Baa Bennick" which I finished up for the trip.  Here are a few pics of what it turned out like:

 Right before I left for Chicago I found out I had  been accepted to table at a holiday craft fair in Philly called Go West! Fest.  I had never done a craft fair before so I tried to make some new things that would be "giftable" for the fair.  I made some postcard packs and small paintings.  It was fun to sell artwork at the fair, which other than prints, I've never done before!  Some of these that didn't sell are now up on my etsy page if you're interested.  And of course you can always email me if there's something specific you want drawn.  Here's a peek at a few of the new things I made:

I hope everyone is starting the new year off right.  My resolution this year is to just keep making things.  It's so easy to focus on money and problems but really we have to do what makes us happy and what brings satisfaction into our lives.  For me it's drawing and writing stories and characters.
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to look at my little pictures. Hearts.

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In West Philadelphia

I can't believe I haven't updated since November!  I've had some huge life changes including moving halfway across the country to Philadelphia.  Moving in support of a partner's career is always a hard move, especially as a woman I don't want to give up any of myself to be a supportive partner.  At the same time, I want to be with Andrew and I couldn't imagine being in Chicago without him.  So here I am.  A die hard Midwesterner on the East Coast.
I made a comic about moving and feeling weird:

We're actually doing pretty well though and settling in.  It helps to have friends here and be meeting new people. Everything is just so different, it's hard to wrap my brain around and also have time to process other big life things.
What else has happened in the past ten months?
I wrote a new comic!  It's a small accordion-style fold out comic about my family history.  It's called "Creatures of Love" after the Talking Heads song and is full of odd creatures all done in watercolor.

Which is available both on my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/237161033/creatures-of-love
And at my amazing distributor Radiator Comics: https://www.radiatorcomics.com/creator/leslie-perrine/ 
 I am going to be posting things a lot more on the internet now that I'm not working full time. So hopefully I keep up with stuff here.
Love from the city of brotherly love.  

Some New Things

The Chicago Zine Fest is over. It was a pretty amazing weekend and made me really feel like part of something in Chicago. It was wonderful to see so many talented people able to get together in one place and share what they love doing. It was very inspiring. Here's the little daily comic I drew about it:

In other news, I'm going on a little mini-tour with my good friend Paul Baribeau. This is our tentative schedule:

03/27 Chicago

03/38 Grand Rapids, MI

03/30 Cleveland, OH

03/31 Columbus, OH

04/01 Bloomington, IN

04/03 Louisville, KY

04/05 Milwaukee, WI

If we're coming your way, please come say hi to me, I'll be at the table with my books, and maybe doing a reading here and there. Should be a lot of fun. I'm very excited to leave and city and hang out with Paul for awhile.

Here's the flier for the show at my house that I made:

Thanks everyone who came to the zine fest and supported us! It really meant a lot!!

So, last year on New Year's Eve I did a one night zine about the past year. I didn't have time to do it on New Year's Eve this year, but I did decide to do a year in review zine again. It was nice to force myself a lot of what had happened over the past year--good and bad. Sometimes it's just easy to let time keep passing without really looking at what you've gained and lost from it. This zine "Where are you now?" is a look at just that what I accomplished, learned, lost, miss and had in 2009. If you would like an actual copy of it, please let me know and I we can work something out.

places i would rather be

awhile ago i made these drawings of places i would rather be. i'm going to start them up again. here are two of them..

this weekend

today i'm not doing as much work as i should, since i can hardly move my muscles from getting doored again on my bike...booo.

this is a look at the past week

jellyfish comic

this weekend i've spent a lot of time going back through older drawings so i'll be posting a lot of drawings this week! here's one of them.

drawrings

so, i have been trying to work on my drawing skills by drawing something new kind of like a comic everyday or every few days. i'll post more every so often. here's one from last week:

a new project

as week two comes to a close of my life as a profession writer, i have begun a new project that i'm more excited about than anything i have been lately.  

my friend ramsey and i have decided to venture into the world of the graphic novel.

this is ramsey:

she's awesome.

this is her website:

www.everydaypants.com

i'm really excited!!!

goodbye for now squirrel

this is day one of my life as a professional writer--i have mornings to write now everyday, which is very exciting. here's a project i just finished (none of the pages are actually crooked..):

a hello to start

hello, my name is leslie perrine.  i've been meaning to make a website for awhile now but don't understand the land of internet...so alas, i have ended up with a blog to chronicle my writings.  

please, feel free to comment and let me know what you think.  

or email me at disappearingground@yahoo.com and say hello.

thanks.

love

leslie