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Elephant Town Chapter 13 (pages 1 & 2)

but wHERE DO YOU PUT THE BOOBS??Hey, I just posted Chapter 12 on the Elephant Town website (which means we're all caught up!!) and I'm really happy with the display of the double-page singing frogs scene, so I'm linking it here for you. :)It's hard for a huge spread like this to have the same impact online as in a book - especially on Patreon, where everything is resized to be the same width - but I think the idea gets across on the site. (Maybe a little trickier vertically, like on a phone?) Thanks to Kevin at Hiveworks for wok...

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 23 + 24)

I hope you'll agree that Miranda's face is a pretty realistic/appropriate reaction to Baby's First Cat Puke.(I JUST NOW realized how far away from the chair Stromboli hurked. Good form, Stromboli!)Thanks for being so patient on this update! If you're a patron you already know this, but I was busy making a cake and a card and wrapping presents and just generally hanging out with Luke for his birthday over the weekend, which is a federal holiday as far as I know, so I hope you all had a good Luke's Birthday as well.This is the...

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 21 & 22)

There she is. :)Chapter 10 was just added to the website, in case you're following along & re-reading over there!(And thanks to all the $5+ patrons who reassured me that absolutely no one would have noticed the effed-up background. ;)

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 18-20)

Because if you can't text a person's phone number, what on EARTH else would you do with it??(Okay, I'm projecting: I loathe a phone call.)I have no idea if any of my Shepherdstown folks here remember the use of the word "crucial" in town in the early aughts, but I remember so many things being "croosh" back then. Maybe you can't make "fetch" happen, but "croosh" sure did.(Attention: Cat. <3)Personally I admire Nicole's dedication to Stromboli's new name.OH! PS! Chapter 9 is up on the ET we...

Chapter 12 (pages 16 & 17)

One of Nicole's greatest traits is naming things. (Inspired by Luke's attempt to make a stromboli from scratch earlier this week.) (Also apparently Stromboli is uppercase?? And maybe not everyone uses that word?? I never heard it until I started dating this Pennsylvania boy, so, if you don't know what it is, hereletmegooglethatforyou.)I spent a lot of the week catching up post-vacation and finally implementing a comment section on the Elephant Town site! So now if you wanna go revisit Early Miranda*(Chapter 8 just went up), you can ...

Chapter 7's up on elephant.town!

Hey gang! I'm home from California and needed a little rest-up last night, so I waited til this morning to load the latest chapter on the Elephant Town website. Chapter 7 is a nice palate cleanser after Chapter 6!!There are no new pages for Chapter 12 today, because I took an actual for-real vacation with my family last week. But I'm going to share a bunch of stuff with patrons this week to make up for it a little. :) There Will Be Garden Pics.Here's a little how it started/how it's going teaser for you:I came home to an absolut...

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 14 & 15)

Imagine Miranda's delight in being asked a question that's best answered with a "sh." (They come back shortly after you stfu.)Finger snaps to Annie K for guessing that the tweeps were coming from spring peepers! They're one of my favorite things that come out in spring.Oh! Hey! Chapter 6 is up on the Elephant Town website today!We also set up a proper landing page, so now when you go to elephant.town, it won't jump you straight to the last page of a chapter (too confusing + risk of spoilers). Instead, you'll have the...

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 12-13)

I've had this page in mind for years. One of my favorite discoveries in this town.Thanks for all the well wishes last week! I was really happy that I felt well enough a few days ago to practice drawing this one outside & on-site. If you're in town, I bet you recognize this site... and maybe the sound as well. (Points if you can guess what that sound is before Miranda explains it to us! ;) I didn't know about these until just a few years ago...)Chapter 5 just posted to the Elephant Town website if you're looking to revisit Kris a...

Elephant Town Chapter 4 is up on the website!

Completely forgot to mention in the last post: Chapter 4 (our introduction to Miranda, incidentally) is up on the website! If you were following here on Patreon when this chapter came out, you may notice a few small color shifts. I was really just getting my feet on the ground during this chapter, and I felt it deserved a few updates. If you catch 'em, I'll be impressed. ;)

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 10-11)

Nicole's not one to be left alone.I was finally able to stand today! Long enough to finish these!I've been very good about staying in my house this whole time, but today I finally let myself take ONE short walk. It was to see the end of the sunset (a tall order in our town, perched on an eastward-sloped hill). I wrote it off as "research" so I could justify it to my boss.

And a good covid to you.

It's been a week! At least I'm upright (supported by cushions, but) and hyped to draw dumb little comics over the photo of my covid test today.Unfortunately finishing tomorrow's pages will require standing up (and many more hours) so if you don't see new pages tomorrow, hang in there, they'll come when I'm able to finish them. Thanks in advance for your patience!I haven't been this sick since 2007, but I've got a lot of nice friends taking care of me, including this attentive nurse.(I hope I accurately expressed ...

Chapter 12, pages 7-9

Nicole take your face off that door it is FILTHY.Thanks for your patience with these three pages! Boum and I were joking the other day that a cartoonist's free time is based on how many backgrounds they have to draw, except that it's not a joke it is a completely valid unit of measuring time. This past week the amount of free time I had was "one-page-takes-place-in-a-convenience-store."These are also up a bit late because I found a nestling and young one-armed praying mantis today, so I've been tending to those two (I think ...

Chapter 12 update coming, but Chapter 3 is up on the site!

I've still got about 2 hours to go on today's update, so I'm going to crash and finish it in the morning, but Chapter 3 is up on the Elephant Town website if you wanna revisit it!It's the one with Berto and Meighan and chicken cacciatore, which is the meal one of you clever patrons came up with for them. There's some other stuff that happens, too. ;) Enjoy!(You can start reading from the first chapter here!)

Elephant Town Chapter Two

Chapter Two is up on the website if you wanna re-read it painlessly and in order!I had such a lousy night of sleep last night that I decided not to head home today like I'd planned (which freed me up to have a goodbye lunch with Dan Berry, so I ain't complaining too much). So I'm at a little motel in Niagara that has internet, bless, tapping this out to you. I plan on sleeping like a sandbag tonight... !

Monday Elephant Town update

We love a smiling Miranda. :)Happy Sunday! Due to a couple of weird circumstances, my Monday update is a little different than usual; I planned to only bring my iPad to Toronto this week, so I knew I wouldn’t have my pens/paper to make complete pages for you this time, but we were unexpectedly locked out of the studio this weekend, which is where my laptop (Photoshop!) is, so I have an even jankier update for you: the digital pencils for pages 7 & 8, and a sneak peek at page 8:Hopefully you’ll enjoy seeing these magically become 3-4 finishe...

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 5 & 6)

Nicole! can't do anything! quietly!!In case you missed it, the first chapter is up on the **nEW PRetTy wEBsITE** for Elephant Town! I'll be posting the next chapter every Monday until we're caught up, then I'll just post whole chapters after they're completed. You'll still get to read the comic early here. :)

Website is UP!! Chapter 1 is (finally) complete!

It feels SO! GOOD!! to finally share this website! Here's a link to the very beginning, if you'd like to start from page one (technically, page zero)!I'm officially announcing the website tomorrow, but feel free to share widely today if you'd like; with the drowning out of messages on social media these days, I could use your amplification! You can send people to https://elephant.town, or just recommend my Twitter or Instagram pages.I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was working to interpret the clunky GIF at the end of Chapter ...

Elephant Town (Chapter 12, pages 3 & 4)

There's a lot of sighing in this book.

Elephant Town Chapter 12 (pages 1-2)

Good news! We still have Cat. :3I love making Miranda's pages. I'm happy to add more soft cozy golden glowy shit to this world.Oh and if you wanna catch up on the last Miranda chapter, here are some links! Chapter 8 pages 1-4 Chapter 8 pages 5-7 Chapter 8 pages 8-9 Chapter 8 pages 10-11 Chapter 8 pages 12-13 Chapter 8 pages 14-16 Chapter 8 pages 17-18 Chapter 8 pages 19-20 Chapter 8 pages 21-22 Chapter 8 pages 23-24 Chapter 8 pages 25-26 Chapter 8 pages 27-28 Chapter 8 pages 29-30 Chapter 8 page 31

A dozen little things!

I've been doing a lot at once these past two weeks, and none of them are completely done, but they're close! Here's a list, I like lists.The End of Chapter 1The main thing that's been keeping me from finalizing the Elephant Town website has been interpreting the original final animated GIF pages in Chapter 1 (the ones in the gallery format) into static panels.The GIF was an experiment and I quickly realized that I'm not a good enough animator to do full animations in ET (fact #2, I'm using PHOTOSHOP to animate). I like a...

WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM FOR: GARDEN

I'm spending last week and this week on SECRET THINGS (patrons, you'll see soon!), so for this Monday's update, I give you: GARDEN.It's hard to believe I only got into gardening LAST year, because now I feel like my entire life is GARDEN LIFE, unfortunately for Luke, who gets hourly updates on my green bean seedlings.But I'm actually not going to share my vegetable garden with you yet, because it's still in progress, and I've spent the last two months focusing on THIS:My neighbors were trashing an old privacy fence, ...

Elephant Town Chapter 11 (pages 12-15)

Ah, THERE'S the youth.That's the end of chapter 11! I'll be working on extracurricular Elephant Town stuff for the next week or two, and we'll get into Miranda's next chapter after that. If you're a patron, you'll see updates along the way. :)

Elephant Town Chapter 11 (pages 9-11)

It has to be said: this romper has **POCKETTTTTTTS**I know I said this would be up later tonight, but I woke up early this morning and got right to work: pencils, inks, colors, all before 2 pm. It's a Monday miracle.I've started using an old-school clock radio to get me out of bed in the morning, and leaving my phone and its charger downstairs in the living room. My phone inexplicably died a week ago for about three days and then came back (an homage to Easter??), and I liked it a LOT, so I'm trying to roll some of those lost-phone ...

Elephant Town updating tonight!

We celebrated my best bud Ryan's birthday with a proper sushi-and-pinball party today, Sunday, which is always my publishing day. So instead of skipping it for work, I set a goal to finish two pages before we left, finish the third one Monday, and post everything Monday night.Thanks for your patience! We had a great time, here we are in front of the pinball machines like we're posing for a high school club photo (Ryan is the tall one in the back):I played a lot of Skee-Ball and was very bad at it.

Elephant Town Chapter 11, page 8

(Not to ruin the lovey moment, but: this is one of those pages that I spent all week drawing and redrawing, only not know how to color it in the end. I'll almost certainly recolor this at some point, but for now, finished is better than perfect!)

Elephant Town Chapter 11 (pages 5-7)

I like 'em, they're cute. <3(Thanks for waiting a day for these!)

Easter Delay - Elephant Town tomorrow!

I spent the weekend preparing for and executing a bomb-ass Easter gathering with my family, wherein I spent several hours working toward the pinnacle of my deviled egg-making career.To be fair, I made these Peeps eggs by request of my mom a few years back, and I've had to one-up them every year since.Black peppercorn eyes, carrot beaks, and... licorice eyebrows? Real eyebrows? Who's to know.This year I dyed my hardboiled eggs overnight, which I thought would be a cinch, but of course I made it complicated by creating five different natu...

Elephant Town Chapter 11 (pages 3+4)

I stressed so much about drawing that third panel, but it wasn't that bad! Given, I probably pared down the actual contents of the Lost Dog by about 99%.The opossum was fun. >:)Thanks to everyone in the $3+ tier who voted TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO for our cafe visitor (geez how long have I been working on this book with y'all?!):I decided to make it a little cameo of A 100% Shepherdstown Person, my old photo professor Benita Keller. She's the only one I knew personally who was fatally affected by covid; she died last fall. It's i...

Elephant Town Chapter 11 (pages 1-2)

Props to all the former Maria's workers who filled me in on kitchen details so this would feel like, y'know, a kitchen.I'd say "never again" to drawing shelves of to-go boxes and bags of onions, but... well, next week's pages. *falls to the floor*