This next series is a single story that I started years ago, intending to print it as a small book. It’s taken me a long time to finally finish it – the writing of it dates to around the very first diary comics. However it seems now like this is the right place for it, since it’s autobiographical, a kind of longer form diary comic, and I’m impatient to share it.

Although, scanning this page in particular has really made concrete my belief that I need to replace my scanner with something that better reproduces color – there are subtle shades of violet and green in this image which have all just completely faded to blue in the process of scanning it. Unfortunately it looks like it will cost me at least $2000 to buy a good graphic arts scanner… so if you’ve ever thought you might want to visit my store someday and buy like a hundred copies of my second Strawberry Ghost book, or art prints for all your friends and family, now would be a good time…