Sara Ryan

Hey all: If you would like to read and/or purchase my latest minicomic, Flytrap Episode Four: Performance Anxiety, illustrated by Sarah Burrini, you can totally do that thing! All you gotta do is scroll — or, as I once overheard someone explaining, “stroll” — down to the bottom of the page linked in the previous [...]

Love silences us? I wish I had the faintest notion what this tableau signifies. Thoughts? In 3-D! Rusted metal whatnots.

Thanks to Videorama‘s “rent three, get one free” policy, we picked up, on a whim, The Order of Myths. The Order of Myths, in Mobile, Alabama, is the oldest of the mystic societies that build Carnival floats and give masquerade balls during Mardi Gras. But the title also evokes the myths that the city tells [...]

The short version: it was super fun. Thanks to everyone who came to the readings in Corvallis and Newport! Here are a couple of photos from the Corvallis event. I look more like I’m giving testimony before Congress than reading from my work in the first one, but in the second, from the Q & [...]

Ah, Stumptown. As always, I am delighted that you are in my town. Here’s me and Steve on Sunday, thanks to Joshin Yamada, con photographer extraordinaire: Also visible, from left: Kip Manley, Taran Jack Manley’s leg (in stroller), Dylan Meconis, Alden McConnell’s head (slightly above table height), and Carla Speed McNeil. Most amusing moment of [...]

Hey, so today is Thursday and Stumptown is Saturday and Sunday, and, as I have mentioned, right after that I am getting in my car and embarking on the Oregon Book Awards tour to Corvallis and Newport. I hope my brakes hold out. They’ve been squeaky for weeks and I keep thinking I’ll make some [...]

I checked out this book, with that cover (other versions of the cover just look wrong), so many times from the library. Like a lot of kids, I was fascinated by ancient Egypt — or rather, by the version of ancient Egypt that you tend to get in elementary school, focused mainly on mummies, pyramids, [...]

I spent most of the weekend — the weekend that was, among other things, an interlude to catch my breath between the convention bookends of Emerald City and Stumptown — offline, catching up on laundry and other neglected household maintenance, and, more enjoyably, seeing some friends I hadn’t had the chance to spend time with [...]

If you happen to follow my Flickr stream, or if you read this on sararyan.com and occasionally click one of the “Recent Photos” on the right-hand sidebar (which, yes, come from the very same Flickr stream), you will know that I am far more apt to take pictures of landscape, street art, and objects on [...]

Katie Lane is the mastermind behind Work Made For Hire, a blog about effective negotiation that makes the business side of being a freelance “creative” way less scary. Her background includes, but is not limited to, both the law and the theater. I’m a huge fan of Work Made For Hire, so I wanted to [...]