EXPOZINE and a Review by Hi-Low

Robert Clough reviewed the first part of my comic Long Division on his blog, Hi-Low. Check it out!

Intrigued? Good! Come see me in beautiful Montreal at Expozine. I'll have Long Division parts 1 and 2, my Hearts and Mini Comics screen-prints (see them here) and a new one-page screen-print (soon to be published in the screen-printed anthology Bruiser.)

SPX-citing!

I'm looking forward to tabling at this year's SPX in Bethesda, MD! The first two parts of my book Long Division will be debuting, which I am crazy excited/nervous about. I'll be selling two screenprints and copies of my funny-animal horror comic, Hey! Huge Fez Zombies!

Long Division © 2013 joyana mcdiarmid

hearts and mini comics #1 ©2013 joyana mcdiarmid

hearts and mini comics #2 ©2013 joyana mcdiarmid

ALSO debuting is the queer erotica comics anthology I helped do production on, Queerotica (I have a story in it as well.) It is 108 pages and fully risographed in purple and pink. It will be on my table, which I am sharing with my friend and former classmate, one of the editors of Queerotica, Allie Kleber.

So, you should be excited, too, and come stop by my table!

CCS Secret Santa

My class had a week to create secret santa drawings/comics/holiday cards. I got James Sturm and made him this comic about what would have happened if he and Jason Lutes were friends when they were little.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Christmas, but this was really fun.

CCS Year Two Assignment: Thesis Synopsis Posters

These posters are going to be hung up in the Center for Cartoon Studies gallery soon. The exhibit is for the seniors to display our thesis summaries that will accompany the presentations we are giving the whole school over the next few weeks.

Birthday Zine

For his 23rd birthday, his friends created Mr. Josh Lees, CCS first year, a birthday zine full of illustrations. You can check out his comics, including his ongoing web comic Bello Fortis, at josh-lees.com.

Here is my contribution:

Fan Art!

My friend (and classmate) Ian Richardson did some fan art for my comic Hey! Huge Fez Zombies! that I recently turned in as an assignment.  

Hey! Huge Fez Zombies!  will be posted on my blog on Halloween night, and over at my tumblr it will be updated a page an hour from 3am to 6pm.

My Washington Family

You know how you have friends that feel like your family? They are the people that you choose to be part of your life for as long as you live. These are mine:

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Over there! A Dragon!

I've been working on some presents for my friends back in Washington. Now I just have to mail them off, but I wanted to post at least one of them:

Serenity, Jed and Joyana protect the realm 2012 joyana mcdiarmid

This is what we looked like to each other, everyone else just thought we were waving sticks in the air and tromping through the woods.