Tatiana Gill’s Blog of Wax

Hey if you’re on Facebook and you want to be my fan, “like” me, or just see more comix, my artist page is here. I’ve posted a bunch of my old comics and illo work on there too.

marc ruygrok: typographic sculptures

I’m pretty sure this guy lives near Kate Beaton and hangs out with her a lot. I love him and his rad cartoons haha. What joy!

Lots of strips: http://threewordphrase.com/

Ryan’s Website! http://www.ryanpequin.com/

Ryan’s Twitter! http://twitter.com/ryanpequin

Ryan’s Lj! http://ryanpeq.livejournal.com/

Oh no not another iPad Post, you say, to which I reply, yes, this news is too great to respect my self imposed ban on iPad.

 I saw one this morning and it’s one of the greatest comic platforms I’ve ever seen. Super sharpest full resolution blast in your face color are you kidding me? BOOM! I am so excited to make iPad comics, and I hope you will too. Lets show these mainstreamers how it’s DONE, indy comickers! Raise your pens and lets go Scott McCloud on their assets!

Yesterday on the bus to work, I overheard a conversation between a young lady (maybe 20ish, with punk style) and two much older women. The young one asked the difference between knitting and crocheting, which one had two needles, which one had one. An older woman replied that knitting uses two needles while crocheting uses a hook. The young woman then objected to the very concept, who can just sit there for hours? Who has that kind of patience? The old ladies smiled. Then the girl contemplated how she plays guitar, which takes hours of patience, but at least she gets instant gratification of hearing her song right away. Then it was her stop and she left.

That started me thinking about the instant gratification of knitting. The soothing repetition and patterns. The feeling of nice wool running past my fingers. The feeling I’m a part of something greater than myself, a herstorical loom of skill that’s been woven for hundreds or thousands of years.

And then beyond, is appreciating the gratification that I did not learn to enjoy as a young person, but only in my 30s have I even begun to appreciate. The amazing feeling of creating something that DOES take time, that does take skill and discipline and patience, is so much more infinitely gratifiying than something you can make on the spot with little effort.

Yes, I like getting older. I’m looking forward to my 40s and we’ll talk then about my 50s

I just surfed up this amazing performance. Tremble in textile awe!

”Mater Matrix Mother and Medium” is process-based temporary public art project created by installation artist Mandy Greer. It combines community action, site-embedded installation and a performance produced in collaboration between myself, dancer Zoe Scofield and composer Morgan Henderson, Summer 2009 at Camp Long in Seattle, Wa.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandygreer/

Well they say the suffering artist is a myth…but I’ve been having a hard time recently and it’s coming out in some new artistic directions, which I love.

Here’s a self portrait of a newly-sober alchoholic (been almost a year now).

And here’s the start of a new series, bus comics! Scrawled out sloppy comics where I draw whatever I’m thinking on the bus.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/132424.Tatiana_Gill

I took a walk around my neighborhood, Capitol Hill, yesterday, and took these pix of spring and the dawning of a new day. I couldn’t be more thrilled about the new direction America is headed.

WOW, this girl is my hero.