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Crossroads Preview-Our Lake Monster
Excerpt from the pencils for the fourth story in my upcoming anthology, The Crossroads At Midnight. This was a fun one to work on! I love me a good southern spooky tale.I'm currently working on the pencils for the fifth and final story, then it's just a couple months of marathon inking and I'll have a big b...
Excerpt from Crossroads: The Strange Boy From The Sea
More from my upcoming collection of short horror comics! Apologies for the image quality for some of these pages, I'm just taking pics with my phone since they're too big for my scanner.I've had this story on the backburner for years, and I'm so excited to finally be working on it. It's probably my ...
Preview of Crossroads story #2
Hey folks!!I apologize for how long it's been since my last update. I've been hard at work fulfilling the JSPH Vol 2 kickstarter and, of course, working on The Crossroads At Midnight, my book of short horror comics (due to be published by Iron Circus next year). It's about 360 pages, so it's been demand...
Big Ol Eating Disorder Comic!!
SORRY FOR THE EMOTIONAL COMIC!This is my half of a new zine that will be debuting in Bethesda at Small Press Expo next month, and will be available to buy on my TopatoCo store in not too long. The other half was created by the incredible Sarah Winifred Searle, and also discusses mental health and eating disorders. It&#...
JSPH: Volume 2 LAST 48 HOURS
Whoo!! The kickstarter has funded and surpassed the first stretch goal-- now we're workin on hitting as many stretch goals as we can in the last 48 hours. We've already got a guest comic by Amy Falcone on the way, let's see if we can't get to the Spoons pin too! Here's a list of all the stretch goal...
JSPH: Vol 2 Kickstarter LAST THREE DAYS
Heyo, everybody!Only THREE DAYS REMAIN to back the kickstarter for Volume 2 of Junior Scientist Power Hour. The project has funded, but now we're creepin up on some really sweet stretch goals, such as a guest comic by famed DnD player Amy Falcone and a SPOONS PIN-->Twitter voted for the first one, but since they al...
A Few Journos
Please, you mustn't get me started on my plants, I will show you ten thousand pictures and discuss them each at lengthALSO DID YOU KNOW, there is a Kickstarter happening right now for JSPH: Volume 2? We passed $19k yesterday, and original art tier slots are being snatched up left and right! Thanks to everybody who&...
Journos! Plus JSPH BOOK 2 KICKSTARTER
WHOO there's a Kickstarter goin on for Junior Scientist Power Hour: Volume 2, a collection of almost all the comics since April of 2015, including Junior Paleontologist Power Hour, the two mini comic/journos collections, four years of hourly comic day strips, and hopefully some very special guest comics.There's...
SECRET SNEAK PEEK: The Crossroads At Midnight
Hey!! Apologies for how long it's been since my last post-- I've been hard at work on various projects, such as The Crossroads At Midnight, my upcoming book of short horror comics. Last week I finished the pencils for the first story, which you can download below. I'm so excited to be able to make a book li...
Opossum Plush Kickstarter Goin On Right Now!
Heya, folks!Just alerting you wonderful people to my Kickstarter to make little plush opossum buddies (and some sweet lil enamel pins). Y'all know I have a deep interest in these beautiful beasts, and if I can't tame a wild one without it being full of maggots, it's time I made myself the next best thing-- ...
Journos!!
A big chunk of journos for you this lovely March~I'll be updating Wednesday's house again this month and it's all I can think about. I love to provide for my animals!! And I've been watching nonstop vivarium building youtubes, the kinds where they play soothing lo-fi hip hop beats to chill/study over th...
Mammal Takeover 4-page preview
I've had a pretty hectic February, so instead of your usual Paleo Pals post, here's a short preview of one of the South America sections in the upcoming third installment of Earth before Us! This book is absolutely jam-packed with wildlife. If you'd like to pre-order, you can do so here: https://www.amazon....
Reptiles of Cenozoic Australia
Australia is very unique in that for basically the entire Cenozoic, reptiles were the dominant predators. The biggest a mammalian predator ever got was about the size of a large dog (Thylacoleo).Quinkana was the longest-lived of these giant reptilian predators. It was a croc that walked around on land and eventually re...
A Brief Visit To NYC
Our kitchen is being renovated and we had to be out of the house for a few days, so instead of sticking around and sleeping on my sister's couch, my boyf decided we should go on a.... "vacation?!" So we went to NYC!I got to hang with people I rarely ever see and I picked up a fun lil illness from them, but ...
Ancient Mammals of Australia
Cenozoic Australia is always very interesting to learn about. It was a semi-isolated continent, which means the life there was able to evolve in very different directions than the life on other continents, resulting in some very unique critters. It's the only continent where marsupials, rather than placental mammal...
Holiday journos!!
PHEW, I'm finally back to my usual routine of working on comics that aren't exclusively about ancient beasts. So here are some little comics for y'all, my ever patient friends.And jokes aside, I am currently working on a big ol 22-page The Last Halloween update, so expect that in the new year. I am so excit...
No Sleep Illustration Process Pics
Do y'all know I sometimes do illustrations for the No Sleep Podcast now? I'm pretty jazzed about it. I felt my design for this one was pretty ambitious for my level of skill, and I'm pleased with how it turned out!And I'm sure y'all have been wondering why I haven't been posting much of anything...
Some journos
Whew!! I'm back in action. I had a whirlwind couple of months there between moving, a few cons, that whole foot sledgehammer thing, and working on book 3 in the Earth Before Us series. But I feel like I'm finally settled back in and can start updating once more <3 Thank you all for being so kind and patient and...
Unfinished journos~
Heya! I've finally faced the fact that I'm probably not going to finish all the comics I'd written from my big month of traveling, so instead here are the unfinished comics I've had sitting on my desk for... like two months, haha. It makes sense that I couldn't finish them, considering the subject m...
Evolution Of Whales
On my last post I was asked to go over the evolution of aquatic mammals, which is always a fun topic! I was asked to cover whales, pinnipeds (seals and walruses), and sirenians (dugongs and manatees), but when I was drawing I forgot to include sirenians ooops. I'll touch on those at the end anyway, even if there ar...
Journos: My Many Travels
The first big chunk of journal comics from my month of jetsetting! These cover two out of the five towns I visited. The rest of the journal comics will be posted next month!Also here is Bomba during the scary movie night, crushing my friend with his protective love.
Sketchbook chunk~
I am finally back from my many travels! I visited like five towns in one month and now I never want to get on another plane ever again. Too bad I'm doing Heroes Con down in Charlotte in two weeks. The neverending travels of a cartoonist...I've got a wealth of journos to catch up on, and should be posting those ...
Sketchbook chunk!
A little chunk for you today, featuring some sketches from my trip to DC. I would have sketched more but I was with my boyfriend who didn't want to spend 5-10 minutes on each individual exhibit in a huge zoo. How rude.I am very excited for my cute pins!! I can't wait to see the dinosaur one.
A Handful Of Cenozoic Critters
I'm currently in the research/writing stage for the next Earth Before Us, which will be all about the Cenozoic, so this month we've got a whole chunk of Cenozoic beasts. The Cenozoic era stretches from the time of the dinosaurs to present day, and gave rise to all the beautiful animals we now share the world wi...
Journos: Ceiling Pustule 2
Some of you may recall that part of my ceiling fell in last year due to an unpatched hole in the roof that was letting water pool right above my studio. My very sweet landlord patched the ceiling but not the roof, so... rain kept pooling above the studio and the leak is in fact ~much worse~ than it was before. This wee...
Tonight! 9PM eastern! Jackbox!
Just a little reminder that tonight was scheduled as a Jackbox Evening. In case you need a refresher on how to join in, we do these over skype, so you just add me (abby.howard.art) as a friend and I'll send out the call around about 9pm. All you'll need to participate is a device that can connect to the interne...
Jackbox on the 6th??
Hey, everybody!Sorry for being uncommunicative all month, it was a wild time for me with all the traveling and catching-up I had to do. But I'm gonna set dates for the next 3 Jackbox nights, to make sure we get em all in. I've made them all Fridays, but can easily shift it to Saturdays if need be.For the next h...
Sketchbook chunks!
So many museum sketches! I love to go to a museum.I wasn't sure if I should include all those top-secret sketches, but they do look nice, and maybe it will help you all feel like part of a cool club, which you are B)Thank you all for your support!-Abby
Ancient beasts-- Cephalopods edition
Sorry for the long wait for more invertebrates! But finally, here are some amazing and strange cephalopods to brighten your day.Cephalopods are the group that contains modern squids, octopus, and cuttlefish, and they are a very old group, having gotten their start possibly as far back as the Cambrian (the dawn of anima...
Little comics for you
Some comics about going to Atlanta! My publisher sent me down to do a signing and a school visit and it was lovely. Especially since I had a perfect amount of free time to visit the Georgia Aquarium, which is one of the best in the nation and has been on my list of places I need to visit before I die. Now I did it! One...
