Author: Brianna

  • Self Portrait

    I’m really loving playing around with ink and washes, despite my previous adherence to technical pens only. My apologies to my friend Danielle, who has been trying to get me on the ink and brush bandwagon for years. The book I’m reading is Milk and Cookies: a Frank Asch Bear Story, by Frank Asch. It…

  • In Defense of Fanfiction (or, The Nerdiest Thing I Have Ever Written)

    There is this Very Popular Book Series that is being turned into what will most likely be an Equally Popular Movie Series. The first of these movies came out yesterday.  I don’t care about these books at all. The little bits that I read I didn’t like very much because I don’t think they were…

  • My favorite comics (as a kid and a teen)

    My friend Angela wrote about her childhood favorite graphic novels on her blog and it reminded me about the kind of stuff I liked to read when I was little. I’m titling this post “My favorite comics” instead of  “my favorite graphic novels” because: a) I like the term “graphic novel” about as much as…

  • Convoluted Metaphor Comics- The Monster, Part 1

  • Monsters

         

  • Your Horoscope for this week

    Virgo: Where did you put your car keys? They are in your hand. Every time you ask, they are in your hand.

  • Some more fixed horoscopes

    Free Will Astrology sometimes has great words to play with. A lot of the time thy also have words I do not find useful. Here is what I did the last month and a half with the words I liked, from the column in the Austin Chronicle. from Free Will Astrology, week of Oct 31st…

  • What is the first story that you never wanted to leave?

    I’ve written about The Little Mermaid before.  I saw it when it came out in theaters. I wore out two VHS tapes rewinding and fast forwarding. (VHS is what we had before DVDs, guys). I daydreamed of having cooking shows with that French chef.  I related to Ariel and wanted to be Ursula: I loved Ariel, I…

  • I fixed the horoscops

    (From Rob Brezsney’s “Free Will Astrology: for Oct 17-23” Page 110 of the Austin Chronicle) Scorpio: Late summer apple tree. A branch. Later, this gravity. Fast the space of him, his omens would be comparable. Sagittarius: Most birds don’t sing. Somewhere that isn’t this mottled tune, this creature deserves you: human, detached, above your own…

  • I made some new friends.

    I made some new friends.

    No, seriously. I made them: The little one is called Chicory and the bigger one doesn’t have a name. I just call her Grumpy Frog Girl. I made Chicory last weekend. She has a wool felt body and dress, a ribbon belt and seashell wings. Both her eyes and hairpiece are made out of beads…