WANGIE is back! (For real this time ( Read more... )

It turns out my giant quarter-page illustration was in LAST week's issue of The New Yorker. At least someone has a digital copy of the page uploaded to Facebook:


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1. Realized I had to revamp my site when I noticed art directors had to take screen captures of the drawings of mine that they wanted to reference. Whuuuhuhups. Here's the unfinished site using Indexhibit--I have yet to put up Flower Mecha (since the e-rights have reverted back to me) and all my other mini-comics ( Read more... )

"There's something no one seems to notice.. if you dress so fashion forward like you do, you're obviously not going to attract any guys whatsoever... men would much rather go for the basic skinny jeans and strappy top kind of girl... and please... you can be fashion forward and avant grade and NOT look like you're old ... and can't you be more ( Read more... )

1. The whole fashion editors vs bloggers thing upsets me. I'm tremendously fond of Tavi and Susie because they're not afraid to be weird and off-putting, to treat fashion as essentially nerdy cosplay. Still, the charge against them by fashion editors is that they're "beginners" or inexperienced. Zee, creative director of Elle: "What I was trying to ( Read more... )

1. So I'm obsessed with Meg McCarron's new short story WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!. The story is kind of breathless and hot and sticky, sexually powerful and ambivalent, a little queasy, uncomfortable, scary. I'm probably biased since it's all wrapped up in my own concerns--female desire, sex, girls' friendships, terror ( Read more... )

1. I loved Meghan McCarron's The Magician's House in Strange Horizons--it's probably my favorite story in the archive. It's not the most flawless one, I suppose, but it feels honest to me. Really honest, potent, subtly erotic. It actually reminded me of... well, it's funny--I think she captures that same thrilling feeling of desire as the scene in ( Read more... )

I made a file with choice Unicode characters harvested from various Japanese-style emoticons and miscellaneous character tables. Now you too can build your own emoticons/facemarks ( Read more... )

WANGIE is updated (actually, it's been updating like clockwork every Sunday, with the occasional shoe post, as promised)! And, and, and I am dying here, but Susie Bubble herself retweeted it! As did Tomer Hanuka!! I COULD JUST DIE. IN FACT, I CAN FEEL MY THROAT CLOSING UP ( Read more... )