mar.05.10
Tex-ass!!
Hey y'all, come visit me and Randy Milholland of S*P fame at Staple! this Saturday from 11-7 at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, Texas!
I'll have the GWS books, button packs, and prints, and Randy will be selling stuff and telling you to shut up about a) Candy and b) how we should totally get married.
So come out for the day/afternoon/evening (there's an after-party!) and say hello!
PS. After that, I'll be doing a signing at Zues Comics in Dallas on Wednesday! See the event schedule to the right for details!

feb.15.10
Albany this Friday!
So Jess Fink of Chester 5000 fame (NSFW!) has done some fabulous work getting us a reservation at Zero Gravity for LASER TAG this Friday night in Albany!
From 7:00 to whenever (it closes at midnight) we'll be SHOOTING LASERS AT EACH OTHER for the reduced rate of $5 per game, and selling stuff in between! I'll have all four GWS books ($20 per or $35 for two; free personalization!) and Jess will be bringing stuff too!
To save on the party price we will NOT have refreshments, so please feed yourselves beforehand!
Can't wait to see y'all there and ZAP YOU WITH EFFING LASERS!!

feb.01.10

Rochester and Albany!

On my 2010 WTF Am I Doing This Far North In February Tour I'll be stopping by both Rochester and Albany in upstate NY on my way elswhere. If you can make it then I would love to meet you!

As per usual, we'll be holding a meet-and-greet at Boulder Coffee in Rochester (on Genesee), and that will take place sometime the night of Wednesday, Feb. 10th (times TBA!). I'll have books and other goodies to sell, but I'll also bring a sketchbook and you should do the same! Assuming it's empty, we'll be in front of the comfy fireplace downstairs.

In Albany, I'm seriously considering laser tag. Seriously guys, LASER TAG!! And maybe a signing afterwards? I'm still ironing out the details and should have all the phonecalls made by tomorrow.

Whatever I decide to do, I'll be there with the most phenomenal ink-washer in the world, Jess Fink, whose comic Chester 5000 is NSFW but is basically the most beautiful *ahem* robot porn? *cough* you will ever, ever see. No joke, UHMAZING.

I'll keep you updated here!

jan.25.10

Do you like fan art?

Because I sure effing do.

And if you know Lar deSouza, you know that his fan art is a prize! In case you missed him awhile back stream, Lar created the most amazing GWS fanart ever in front of a live audience. <3 (Click on the link for the hi-res version!)

jan.20.10

February signing tour!

Hey guys! I'm starting to nail down dates & times for my northeast signing tour in February. Here's a map of where I'll be.

Anyplace else you'd like me to visit? I'm looking for venues that will allow me to sell my books & draw for people. Drinks & snacks are a plus, noisy & crowded are a dealbreaker.

Lar's trying to win the Shorty Award for art, so if you're on Twitter and you haven't voted for him yet, make haste!

jan.20.10 DRUNK POST

Everything your mom said was true.

Everyone who makes fun of you is just jealous of you.

The best way to get rid of a bully is to ignore him.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

Eat your vegetables or no dessert.

Okay, so my mom only said the last two, but they're all true.

On the other hand, she also said that "the crust is good for you," but that's obviously not OH MY GOD SHE WAS RIGHT

Love,
drunk danielle

jan.19.10

Probably the most important post I'll make all year.

Yeesh, sorry I've been so quiet, y'all! I have one very important bit I want to share with you, so I hope you'll read on. I don't often get serious here, but this is something that means a lot to me.

If you already know what human trafficking is and want to help the victims of it, scroll down and click one of the images to donate.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please read on.

I'm often hesistant to do work for charities. Not because I don't want to help, but because there are so many out there, so many people suffering, and I never know which ones need the most help, or how much I'm capable of helping them, or if the charity is even doing the right thing for its chosen victims.

This one is different.

About a month ago, Lora Innes of the (beautiful!) webcomic The Dreamer contacted a ton of talented artists regarding a problem more people need to know about: human trafficking.

I used to obsessively follow news articles detailing the unthinkable things that adults are STILL doing to young children, because I couldn't grasp that it was actually happening. It is, guys, and it's happening daily, right now. Kids are being picked up and sold, mostly into forced prostitution, and it's not just some third-world problem. It happens everywhere.

I finally stopped reading the news because it would strike too hard, too many times every week, and I felt like I couldn't do anything to help.

Lora has made it easy to help. She's compiled drawings by 87 cartoonists of their female characters into one enormous, striking image that, when you donate via the Comic Creator's Alliance website, you can download as a wallpaper.

All donations are sent to Love146 and Gracehaven, two charities Lora chose which are working toward both the prevention of trafficking, and the aftercare of those who have been victims of it.

What really struck me about Gracehaven (which is in Ohio, because YES, it happens in freaking OHIO) and Love146 was the efforts they're making to help restore the lives of the young women who have been rescued from slavery. I was especially impressed by this video, which forgoes the typical gut-reaction tactics so many charities use, and instead focuses on what they want to do to help.

If nothing else, donate to get the wallpaper - when I say that it's striking, I'm being tame. Every artists' work in this hi-res collaboration is of such high quality I was nervous to add Hazel and Jamie to it! Both images below will redirect you to the same donation page, so just click on either one.

Remember to hit the "update total" button when you type in how much you'd like to donate, and then "Return to Donations Coordinator" once the transaction is complete to access the wallpaper.

You can read more here, and check out an article by change.org about the CCA's efforts here.

Oh, and check here for a full list of all of the creators and characters involved. There's art in here by Lar deSouza of Least I Could Do, Randy Milholland of Something*Positive, and arah Ellerton of The Phoenix Requiem, just to name a few!

Thanks in advance for your help. The characters in GWS are reflections of the normal, healthy sexual exploration that we as non-victims have the privilege of enjoying in our adult lives. To help even one child avoid the trauma of sexual slavery is to support healthy attitudes toward sex and love everywhere.

jan.18.10

Blog post tomorrow!

Does this count as a blog post? BLOG POST COMING TOMORROW!