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Quiet Zoomies (comic #807)
Posted on December 19, 2025 by liz

Every month I try to make it to Jessica Abel’s Simplify to Amplify Round Table. It’s a great free coaching call she does to help creative folks achieve their goals AND have happy, balanced lives. I’ve done free and paid courses with her and have always gotten something useful and unexpected out of it. The December call helped me remember stuff from my Creative Focus Toolkit, but more importantly it reminded me that art is a thing I turn up to do. It’s part of who I am as a person. 

I’ve been working pretty hard on Ngombor, because I am my father’s daughter and I don’t do things by halves. Ngombor Community Development Alliance was formed to create an empowered and prosperous community in Nebbi, in Northwest Uganda, and is a fantastic permaculture model farm, IT skills hub, and social community. It builds on a 20 year friendship between Vincent Ulargiw and my dad and is a testament to how friendship, empowerment, and sticking around are powerful things. 

Friendship really is magic and can create a continuity of support that doesn’t depend on what job or posting I have. It is a lovely thing to be able to help a community, to be a bit of extended family to amazing community builders in Uganda. It’s nice to be able to draw on my experience in the non-profit sector, draw on all the stories I’ve heard from my various aunties and uncles who create change, but sometimes it does mean I forget myself creatively. As you can see, even now I get distracted talking about Ngombor. Where was I?

Right. After the coaching call, I thought yes, drawing is part of who I am, even if my agent never buys my book, even if I’m doing my career all the wrong way and upside down. So I sat down to draw something social and joyful and this emerged. I scribbled the first draft in ballpoint pen in dim lighting and I just love the expression that comes with that.

Thanks to all my patrons and a special big extra thanks to Kate Webb, Erik Owomoyela, Stuart Barrow, Jesse the K, Brian Fies, Jay Hedtke and Xander Odell. 

Ngombor has a fundraiser that ends on the 15th if you want to chip in and help awesome people do awesome things.

Good things,

Liz

 

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Boot: zzz...

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Bunson: zoomies...zoomies...quiet zoomies...

Boot: zzz...

Nice smile

Posted on May 19, 2014 by liz
I’ve been at the Nebula Awards this weekend. I try to sketch people during panels. Sketching people can make me very uncomfortable (we know the human face so well that we can easily tell when minute proportions are off) especially when it’s people I admire. Regardless of how unhappy I am with the sketches I feel like time spent drawing 3-d humans is never time wasted. It helps me develop my craft and it helps me pay attention to the panel. I really wanted to capture Chip/Samuel R. Delany’s wonderful smile. His smile has a way of lighting up a room. I’m moderately pleased with this 5 minute sketch. I almost showed it to him, but I chickened out. 20140519-113857.jpg

Dear Readers

Posted on March 9, 2014 by liz
Thank you for being here. It makes me smile. Most of us want to live a life of meaning and knowing I can make people smile or make their day a little better or share a moment is very special to me. It’s really cool you dropped by. Thanks and love. L

Second mini!

Posted on February 10, 2014 by liz
A second mini comic has been created! It will have its debut at Boskone (on Friday I posted some to a friend to distribute there) and other locales TBA. Please let me know if you would like to be a fabulous Things distributor at a convention near you (with enough time to send media mail, phew first class mail gets spendy!) There will be a third mini-comic available this year as well, if you want to get your hands on that one you’ll have to ask Ye Olde Dragon’s Hoard Games and Collectibles…. But not just yet. I still have to finalize a few bits and draw the cover! Exciting in print times for the Things ^_^

Would you like to be a super Things volunteer?

Posted on January 21, 2014 by liz
There’s lots of stuff that needs to be done when it comes to having a webcomic. Sometimes it gets a little overwhelming as a one woman operation. One thing that is a simple job and I should just be able to do is to write transcripts for each of the comics. That makes the comic more accessible for anyone vision impaired, has English as a language they struggle with or doesn’t like reading my handwriting. It should also create more written content that might help the Things show up on search engines. For some reason trying to do transcripts is really distracting in a way that makes it hard for me to draw comics! I would love a volunteer to write them up (the first 20 or so comics have transcripts if you want to see samples). You can either write it up in plain text and I’ll add or enter it straight into WordPress. Let me know if that tickles your fancy, as either a big one off project or a little bit here and there as you can manage it. For this you will get my love and appreciation, I’ll post you Things mini-comics (and possibly shrinky-dinks if I can make something pretty enough) and other yay you are a life saver stuff (TBA). If you want to commit to it on a regular basis I’ll create a special support staff page so we can appreciate your awesomeness sufficiently. If this interests you please email [email protected] and we can chat. Thank you!

Sketches

Posted on January 20, 2014 by liz
These are the kinds of things I draw when I’m trying to come up with an idea and I liked some of the expressions so much I wanted to share them with you.