so it's come to this..

I know I mentioned it a long time ago, but I finally have the comic zine I did with Ramsey, Kettner and Liz Prince up in my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/shop/leslieperrine

Ramsey: www.everydaypants.com

Liz: www.lizprincepower.com

Both of them along with Kettner also have comics up at the awesome website www.ifyoumakeit.com

In other news, I just turned 29 2 days ago! Ready for a great year.

It's finally starting to be warm out.

Time for bike rides, movies in the park, friend visits, coffee on patios and swimming at the lake!

Here's a peek at a new project I've just begun working on:

October! Aaaah!

This is possibly the busiest October OF MY LIFE. Which means a lot to talk about!

Tomorrow a whole slew of us Chicago kids are heading up to Madison to table for the Madison Zine Fest it should be a good time. If anyone knows any great Madison hotspots--let me know!

Then next weekend Ramsey and I head out to Philly for the Philly Zine Fest

I'm mostly just excited about being on the East Coast for a bit and meeting a bunch of zine kids I haven't met before.

In preparation for these two events I've been working on something totally new...a mini-comic! And it's not even just drawings of myself over and over! It's been fun to try to make a story move without a narrator. Seems totally backwards from being a writer. Here's a sample page:

The weekend after next I head to Michigan for my brother/sister-in-law's baby shower. I made the invitations for it:

Such a fun project to have. I forgot how much I love just doing the tedious work of the same thing over and over (I made 20 of them) when it's not the same two books I spend hours making over and over.

Then the weekend of the 23rd I will be doing a reading at The Moving Castle House. I will post a flier (when I make it).

And lastly, what should I be for Halloween?!

Here's another long lost summer comic about feeling out of touch with Chicago...

I'm back!

I've been away so long! I've had a lot of summer adventures and then my computer died and my scanner stopped working. This is the main reason I haven't been able to upload stuff lately. But I finally found the right driver online and now I can sort of scan things again in a round about way. Hooray!

Things are in full swing in my studio this fall.

I'm starting a new project to hopefully have done for the Madison Zine Fest, which I'll be tabling at October 2nd.

Also, on a whim, I'm flying to Philadelphia with Ramsey (who just put out List #14 --and it's awesome!) to table at the Philly Zine Fest October 11th.

Very excited about all of this!

I'll be updating a lot more regularly in the coming weeks since I have a lot of backed up work to upload onto here.

Here's one of the long lost comics of the summer:

making things happen

Tour with Paul is over. I was really surprised at what a warm response my readings got at our shows. Lots of people came up and said how nice it was to see someone reading at a show. This made me feel really great.

The biggest show we had was in Grand Rapids, our old stomping grounds, where over 100 people showed up to watch and I read into a microphone on a stage.

I am lucky enough to be friends with such talented people and to let them welcome me into their lives. Paul works really hard to have the kind of crowds he does at house shows so it was pretty incredible to get to read in front of such large groups.

In other news my friend James Payne asked me to do a drawing for an anthology the amazing Anne Elizabeth Moore was putting together for the Chicago Zine Fest.

It's a really neat zine about women's representation in the comic book world. I was honored to be asked to do it. Here's the beautiful cover by the ultra talented Sara Drake:

I was lucky enough to share the middle spread with Ramsey Beyer. Here is our page:

For now, I have to work on getting things together. I have several whale books to make from tour since I ran out and had to start a mailing list for them. I also want to start another large project now that my last book is done.

It's nice to have everything you feel you should be doing reaffirmed in just 12 days.

I started an etsy shop with all my goodies available there.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/leslieperrine

it's not funny

Well, as I've been saying, in preparation for the Milwaukee Zine Fest Matt, Ramsey and I compiled our comics together and made a zine with them all in it. I like the way it turned out a lot and we called it "it's not funny" since they're comics but aren't really comedic.

This is what is turned out like:

let me know if you would like one, we've been charging $4 for them. They are 40 pages long!

The zine fest was a lot of fun (although I was sick), and actually quite successful. We as a table sold a lot of zines. This was the first time I really tried to sell any of my things and people bought them which was very very exciting. We are trying to plan a zine fest for Chicago now, since for some reason one doesn't exist here.

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!!!