Sara Ryan

Specifically, I’ll be on KBOO’s queer youth show The Other Team tonight from 6-7 pm, talking about queer YA & children’s lit along with the fine folks from Bare Bones Press and Productions and Marcus Ewert, author of 10,000 Dresses. I have never been on the radio before! And yes, you can listen online.

I have recently become a fan of the Grilled Cheese Grill. Its sandwiches are delicious, and the mural on the ceiling of its seating area — a schoolbus — is fantastic. See:

The artists are Eatcho and Jason Graham. I’m particularly impressed by how they blended their styles.
Now for a tiny nap, and then to start [...]

I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table.

I took a different route home today. Here are some of the things I saw:

Five unblinking cats, camouflaged by the brown-and-black facade of the house they appeared to be guarding
A man rinsing out a toilet for repurposing as a planter
A miniature Stonehenge in an otherwise unremarkable yard
An angry note addressed to Portland Power, inscribed on [...]

On our way to sell/donate books at the majestic Powell’s warehouse in the northwest industrial district, we saw this:

Any Portlanders familiar with this tiger? My Flytrap characters would’ve scaled the fence and done circus stunts on it.

I don’t tend to dwell on the negative. I said once in an interview that I write toward the world I’d like to see. I have a cynical side, sure, but most often, I assume best intentions. Look for the good. Come on, it’s half full if you squint.
And Casey Parks shares some good things [...]

…over at the also new, nifty Circle into Square: a Portland-based label, online magazine, and local artist community. It’s called Everybody Knows You’re Not From Here. Me and Steve talk about a whole bunch of stuff, including but not limited to comics, prose, and Portland, with our friend Hiram Lucke of The Harvey Girls.

So I was at Powell’s Hawthorne to finally get a copy of Pretty Monsters, and spotted this lovely shelftalker:

Best part: Dot, who made it, was there, and I got to burble thanks at her and sign the stack of books. She said Rules is in their Valentine’s display, too — and I thought, Oh yeah, [...]

It’ll be continued light posting here for a little while as I hunker down and try to use the weather to encourage productivity. Enjoy whatever holidays you celebrate.

Portland, you sure are pretty today. The full moon last night wasn’t bad either, but I was driving when it was at its most grapefruit-like, and so I did not attempt to capture it. Did any of you? (I realize you’re not all in Portland, but I know a bunch of you are…)