After School

 Today's comic features my 13 year old, Nathan. It's tricky to present a person adequately in comic form. I probably draw and portray myself the most accurately with my Hub being a close second. However, I started feeling a little inadequate today when I was informed by other members of my family that: 

"You just can't capture the awesome that is Nathan in a comic."

While that may be true, I think I'll keep trying.

What, the Fork?

The Hub and I just spent four amazing days here:

On the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. It was idyllic, the weather was perfect and the moon romanced us every night! Like this:

Our trip was not without it's crazy moments. Like this lesson on "Fork Physics" that the Hub gave me one morning at breakfast. He gives breakfast lectures on electronics, philosophy and music techno gear too. I enjoyed this one about "capillary action" the most though. (And sorry for the overlooked misspelling. I'll have to go back and correct that one of these days.)

Cleaning Up Around Here

Hi There! Whew, it's been awhile since I've posted so it feels good to be back. Even though I haven't had much of a presence here of late, I've still been drawing, creating and learning some new software. It's been an awesome time of learning so that's been incredibly satisfying. I'll tell you more about that in the future. For now, I give to you my autobiographical comic "Brain Fog" which will chronicle my adventures with motherhood, wifehood (wifehood???), ADHD and Autism, and life as it comes. There will most likely be some conversations with my confidante and advisor "Lampy". (I just call him that, he doesn't really have a name because, well, he's a lamp and as such his character is just a figment of my imagination.) He's not the brightest bulb in the pack and he definitely gets on my nerves, but he's always thought provoking. 

Well, thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll come back to read more comics... I am working on pulling together some sort of schedule for posting. I've gone back to work now too so I will have to do a bit of time management gymnastics. I can't tell you how happy I am to be here!

Til next time, 
Robin

New Mini Comic Coming Soon!

I will have a new mini comic out very soon called: Childhood Regrets!

Here's a preview!

I'll keep you updated!

Eggsactly

For the Mindzai Uninitiated: Lamp is my nemesis. He represents the little voice inside my head that tries to sabotage everything I do. I like to fantasize little scenarios where I get the better of him... Think of these "Lamp Comics" as my public psycho-therapy. Enjoy and thank God you're not as neurotic as me!

What's For Breakfast

More Annoying Things My Brother Did When We Were Kids

Hmmmm, there seems to be a theme in this one...

Annoying Things My Brother Did When We Were Kids

Just for fun, here's a comic I did  when I was first starting to draw comics... maybe a year ago or so. My brother still likes to do some of these things. I won't say which ones.

Taking Our Time (featuring K.C. the DOG)

I'm loving having a dog in the house! It somehow forces you to lay back and take some time to, well, you know, smell the flowers. (or pee on them in K.C.'s case) Really relaxing!

Also, I spent a ton of time making and illustrating a book for a friend of mine. I scanned the entire book, but didn't have time to save them. You know what's coming right? So when I came back to save them, photoshop crashed and I lost everything...I know... wah, get over it. I think my friend can scan it for me (she lives in Amsterdam!) so maybe all will not be lost. In the meantime I have some photos and will try to post soon.

To top it off something ate my new hydrangea bush in my yard.

Bad Doggie Mama

I guess deep down I must be a cat person. But I really do love dogs too and K.C. is an awesome dog! I hope I didn't do permanent damage to her psyche by accidentally calling her "kitty".

I got some cool, cool stuff in the mail from Sam Spina, and M.C. and Jen over at Buttersword.com. I'm planning a blog post dedicated to them in the near future, but I"m also working on a baby shower gift (a book of original Robin Art) for someone that has to be done by Friday! Eek, I'm not close to being done... sound familiar??? In the meantime, check out their awesome comics and show them some love! 

Love you guys and thanks for reading my comics!!!

Robin

Poo is Here!

There's a little dude over at Mythfits-Comic.blogspot.com that I kind of fell in love with a few weeks ago. Imagine my joy when I found out I could have this little guy for my very own??? Today's comic is a little tribute to my newest buddy, "Poo" and his creator, Justin Winslow of Mythfits comic!

To see a truly fine rendering of the cutest little pile of poo you'll ever see, click here!

A Mythfits Super Fan has created a sweet little Poo Doll that will be available soon on Justin's site. I jumped on the bandwagon early and received my own Poo Doll just a couple of days ago and I LOVE IT!

Behold!

And Poo on Birthday Cake!

He's the cutest!

Thanks to Dessy Tab  of Zpiderdzigh for creating the Poo Doll. Check out her site for other cute little creatures. 

Thanks Justin and Dessy!!!

Faux Pearls of Wisdom

Today's comic is about a subject very close to me, autism. I don't talk about it a lot out of respect for the members of my family who live with the challenges every day. I never thought I would have to deal with those challenges as a parent and there are many times I struggle with it, but there are also some really cool things that happen because of it! Thankfully, our family has a huge sense of humor and that's how we get through our days!

Anyway, I have actually met people who have told me these things (and other crazy things) about Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder and how I should parent. Lamp affords me the opportunity to respond without restraint.

But hey! Enough with the serious stuff... it's just that the comic makes better sense if you know!

Blubbering is Okay

He's A Really Bad Egg

This morning at breakfast...

Things Better Left Unseen

An Unexpected Return

Lamp returns today... if you didn't see his departure, check this out first: Obedience, Back and Forth, and It'll Come Back Around. 


I'm doing a lot of experimenting with my drawing lately and just decided to post whatever I come up with hoping that seeing the changes and (hopefully) good development will be interesting. 


Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by! 

Humour de la Macabre

More experimentation with black and white... the process is painstaking, but the result is nice.

Manscaping

The Hub is so not the macho, chainsawing type which made his comment all the more hilarious. After a short while, the chainsaw went back to the hardware store and things returned to normal. Relatively.

Wiki Revelations

I used to think about this a lot when I was a kid and was reminded the other day when I was reading something on Wikipedia... 

It never hurts to be reminded that you're not the center of the universe.

A Budding Frost