Kathy MacLeod

2012-03-03T00:00:00.002-08:00

2012-03-02T10:54:00.002-08:00

2012-02-26T05:35:00.003-08:00

Diary, February 24

2012-02-24T10:03:00.002-08:00

Diary, February 23

2012-02-24T06:52:00.000-08:00

Diary, February 22

2012-02-23T02:32:00.002-08:00

Diary, February 21

2012-02-22T01:35:00.002-08:00

Diary comics, February 17-20

2012-02-21T08:05:00.004-08:00

Some doodlings

2012-02-21T06:26:00.005-08:00

So over the past year, I've been doing more of these long-form comic stories that are generally more introspective, more thought-out, and I'm trying to be more serious and convey an actual "message", maybe. I don't know. I know that in the beginning I was drawing these short little strips about funny things that happened or funny things that were said, or a funny thought that I had. Of course I still record these little gems religiously, but I find myself shooting for something bigger with each new comic - a bigger picture, a richer world. But one consequence of that is I've been getting too serious about comics, and every time I draw it has to have a Purpose. I don't really sketch for fun so much anymore. I used to. I'm going to try to do that more.

Every Thursday night I go to this pub trivia quiz where we get lots of paper and pencils and we sit at a table and whisper answers to each other, and write them down, and second-guess ourselves, and have lots of fun. I think it's my favorite ritual of the week. And I find myself doodling there a lot, usually when there's a "sports" round and I zone out and leave the task to the boys. I realized the other week after a particularly intense doodling session (it was a particularly intense "sports" round) that it was the most fun I'd had drawing in a long time. Just pure and simple enjoyment - no worrying about whether it was "good" and whether people were going to like it, whether people were going to click "Like" on it.

This week I'm keeping a daily comic diary just to get back into the practice of drawing comics for fun and not agonizing too hard over them. I'll put those up soon.

(These are our rivals, the aptly-named Douchebags. I drew this to intimidate them but it didn't really work.)

2012-02-10T03:04:00.000-08:00

2012-02-06T10:43:00.000-08:00

2012-01-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-06T09:31:00.000-08:00

2011-12-27T11:24:00.000-08:00

A couple of things:
- I should give credit to a book I read this year that I enjoyed but later decided I didn't actually LIKE all that much, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. A mother refers to her son as her "designated understander" or something like that.
- That ideal state of mind where I'm in the oak tree? Extremely rare. Usually it's somewhere in the middle.

2011-12-17T01:36:00.001-08:00

From the diary of Kathy MacLeod, age 11 on Prezi

2011-12-08T01:44:00.000-08:00

Before you read this comic, open this link in another window or tab. Wait for your cue to go and look at it. That's all.

2011-12-04T02:39:00.000-08:00

The easy things

2011-12-02T00:16:00.000-08:00

2011-11-19T00:18:00.000-08:00

2011-11-18T11:11:00.000-08:00

A day with the Daniels fam.

2011-11-16T08:27:00.000-08:00

You may remember Mark and Sopita from this comic.

Dreamstagram

2011-10-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

(S.M.O. #2 is coming up soon, I swear.)

S.M.O.s

2011-10-21T10:39:00.000-07:00

This is the first part of an ongoing comic essay of sorts.

Coming up next: R.E.M.!

2011-10-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

Airports are cold

2011-10-12T10:35:00.000-07:00

2011-10-08T08:52:00.000-07:00

Aer's triumphant return

2011-10-07T10:54:00.001-07:00

It's been a while. There are lots of things in my head that I want to draw comics about but I haven't been able to put them to paper. There are lots of reasons/excuses for my comics absence but really I've just been kind of scared.

I've been sitting on one half-finished comic story for over six weeks now, and I don't want to finish it really, but I feel like I can't move on until I do? I don't know. Partly because I don't know how to end it, but also because I don't really care - it's boring and dumb and about the same neurotic stuff as always. Maybe it's because I'm scared to move on to the bigger things I want to write/draw about, the uncharted places. Who knows.

I might put it up in its unfinished state and put it out of its misery and let's never talk about it again etc.

Until then I will try to work through my fear by forcing myself to draw about the little things until I'm ready to tackle the big ones.

Oh, and the strip on the right might need some context.

2011-09-23T12:27:00.001-07:00

Here's another short one. I have a couple of long-form comic stories on the back burner, but my next piece for Bangkok Poetry has been taking up most of my time. I'll be presenting the final installment of my "Post-Rapture" story. I don't think I ever posted installment #3 from last month - it's here. The event is this coming Thursday the 29th, at Opposite.

How's it going? (pt. 2)

2011-09-13T06:04:00.001-07:00

You may remember Neil from this exchange.

How's it going? (pt. 1)

2011-09-13T06:02:00.000-07:00

2011-09-09T07:21:00.001-07:00

Risk-taking

2011-09-08T09:01:00.000-07:00

18+

2011-09-06T09:18:00.001-07:00

Sopita's World

2011-09-01T03:25:00.000-07:00

August fifteenths

2011-08-27T10:35:00.000-07:00

2011-08-20T11:59:00.000-07:00

2011-08-18T13:16:00.000-07:00

Kathy's first hater

2011-08-09T07:38:00.000-07:00

A Philadelphia story, pt. 1

2011-07-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

2011-07-29T06:43:00.001-07:00

A bad feeling.

2011-07-20T08:33:00.000-07:00

Slumber Party

2011-07-20T00:44:00.000-07:00

Jerry's Artarama

2011-07-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

What being sad is like for me

2011-07-12T14:10:00.001-07:00

2011-07-09T10:15:00.000-07:00

2011-07-03T09:14:00.001-07:00

Nerves

2011-07-01T08:49:00.000-07:00

Post-Rapture, pt. 2

2011-06-30T12:54:00.001-07:00

Part 1 can be found here.

Post-Rapture II on Prezi

Hi Robert

2011-06-21T00:47:00.000-07:00

Is it really?

2011-06-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

2011-06-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

2011-06-17T02:15:00.000-07:00

I made this comic for Bangkok Burger Blog as a small token of gratitude. It was fun! Maybe I should quit these "personal", "intimate" "diary comics" and just make comics for businesses in exchange for free stuff.

2011-06-14T01:49:00.000-07:00

PAIN

2011-06-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

Last night's storm

2011-06-05T11:00:00.001-07:00

2011-06-03T12:50:00.000-07:00

Book Club - Jazz

2011-06-02T12:23:00.000-07:00

Visions of Johann

2011-06-02T00:25:00.000-07:00

Dasha-isms

2011-05-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

Post-Rapture

2011-05-24T22:57:00.000-07:00

I presented this piece at Bangkok Poetry last week. It's the beginning of a much longer story, so stay tuned!

Post-Rapture on Prezi

Something boring

2011-05-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

Three bad dreams

2011-05-18T09:52:00.000-07:00

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VD Brunch

2011-05-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

Sneak preview...

2011-05-14T08:25:00.000-07:00

...of my upcoming piece for Bangkok Poetry, which is this Thursday at WTF! I'm really excited because I'll be telling my story using Prezi which, in case you don't know, is like Powerpoint but SUPER FUN. Also more stressful. But more stressful = more rewarding, I hope. Slightly more cinematic terrain. Sort of a baby step towards animation. Someday...

Anyway. Please come to Bangkok Poetry this Thursday at WTF around 8:00 PM!
If you feel inclined to wear a wolf costume to show your support, please do.

And the wheels will stay unseen.

2011-05-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

Two works of prose by Katherine MacLeod, age 7.

Week in Review

2011-05-08T10:42:00.001-07:00

The Mezzanine

2011-05-07T22:05:00.000-07:00

Continued after the jump.

Smells like America

2011-05-01T07:00:00.001-07:00

Here's a comic I made for Classy Hands a few months ago. I could probably fill a whole book with my childhood exploits in America (and another book with my adult ones... wait, I've done that already). Let's add that to my long list of "stories I'll tell and put in a book at some vague point in the future").

Mika's birthday - the invite

2011-05-01T06:56:00.000-07:00

Mika's birthday

2011-04-29T04:26:00.001-07:00

Belated Songkran comic

2011-04-28T13:29:00.000-07:00

I made this a couple of weeks ago, and it's woefully outdated and irrelevant by now. I kind of just forgot to post it.

The Imperfectionists

2011-04-22T02:50:00.000-07:00

2011-04-20T22:33:00.000-07:00

Fortune teller

2011-04-19T03:27:00.000-07:00

My week in comics, continued.

2011-04-11T11:44:00.000-07:00

A couple more quickies. I'm overdue for another epic comic story. Soon.

My weekend

2011-04-10T09:22:00.000-07:00

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A couple of quickies

2011-04-07T13:36:00.000-07:00

Coloring is fun!

2011-04-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

Perfection

2011-04-03T09:57:00.000-07:00

Adventures in Photoshop coloring, part 2.
This one doesn't seem quite finished to me, story-wise, but that's okay...
What games did YOU play in the car as children?

2011-04-03T05:43:00.000-07:00

This is one of two comics I made for Classy Hands. They ended up going for for the other one, which should be up on their website soon.

Pink elephant

2011-04-03T05:18:00.001-07:00

I've been experimenting with coloring my comics on Photoshop.
I'm secretly from Finland.

G.E.K.V.A.P.T.

2011-04-01T12:34:00.000-07:00

I read a slightly abridged version of this at Bangkok Poetry last night.

Continued after the jump.

2011-04-01T02:23:00.000-07:00

Continued after the jump.

Creative constipation

2011-03-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

Some random sketches

2011-03-22T12:02:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I wish I were more fluent in the human form and gray tones and all that Drawing 101 stuff. I don't practice nearly enough. Every once in a while I like to copy fashion editorials, usually while watching some addictive television show.

Supermoon

2011-03-21T09:59:00.000-07:00

I have to give credit to the lovely and talented Julia Wertz for planting the seed for this comic when she posted this facebook update a while back:

"I thought the first thing EVERYONE did when they got home was take off their pants and bra. No? I was just told it wasn't a universal thing"

When I read it I was thrilled to know that I was Not Alone, and I was also thrilled to see that her post had received nine "likes" and twenty-six comments from people expressing their agreement! This is why I was so confident about the whole issue. Well, I guess I can confirm that it is, in fact, not a universal thing. How sad. Check out Julia's comics everyone!

The list

2011-03-18T10:10:00.000-07:00

Continued after the jump.

2011-03-14T05:45:00.001-07:00

An interactive version under the cut, made by my awesome friend Jordan Fish! (Check out other awesome and interactive things he's done here.)

Dear... Neil...

2011-03-11T04:09:00.001-08:00

Another animal dream

2011-03-11T04:03:00.000-08:00

Freedom

2011-03-10T09:15:00.000-08:00

Party people

2011-03-08T04:10:00.000-08:00

It hurts

2011-03-05T04:40:00.000-08:00

Top three fantasies

2011-02-26T10:15:00.000-08:00

One is too many

2011-02-26T08:03:00.000-08:00

Bad words

2011-02-24T01:39:00.000-08:00

Hipstamatic

2011-02-23T10:48:00.001-08:00

Part 2, after the jump:

The cliff

2011-02-20T04:36:00.000-08:00

I realized (or rather, was told) that the earlier version of this comic didn't make a lot of sense. At least, it wasn't clear what exactly they were fucking with me about - was the cliff not real, or was the cliff real and I HAD seen it, I just thought I had made it up in my dream, etc. So I made a few edits in an attempt at greater clarity (there's no cliff, why would there be). But then I was told by somebody else that they appreciated the subtlety of the earlier version. Now I'm all going back and forth, even though the real point here, I think, is "There are only two people out there who have any opinion at all about this comic."

So here's the new version, and the old version is under the cut, and if you're reading this, please let me know which you prefer.

Here's the old version.

Dream Pun

2011-02-19T07:08:00.000-08:00