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Keeping Time Page 56

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesAaaand there's Margot!!I am extremely pleased with her design. I'm trying to capture that whole "MySpace scene kid aspiring to be a Suicide Girl who seamlessly transformed into a lookbook dot nu/blogger dot com hip girl" vibe of 2008-2009. Which is why Margot of course has a gen 1 iPhone here (and her glasses don't have any lenses in them).This Margot is named after Margot & the Nuc...

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI was trying to think up a caption for this post when I noticed Denver is missing his T-SHIRT LOGO. I'll. Fix it. Eventually.If there's one thing Denver's got going for him is he's generally not afraid to face his issues directly. Hence, you know. The state of his face. I wonder if Margot knows how he ended up with that eye... 😌

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI am very pleased with how (most) of this page turned out. Dear Reader, please know it was a struggle, but I overcame

Keeping Time Animated Header

The Keeping Time site is slowly coming together, although not quiiiite as I planned. I'm in the middle of doing some overhauls myself (sob, pray for me and my limited understanding of php coding), but I did stay true to my word of not drawing anything this weekend to avoid burnout. Instead I shook off the cobwebs of my AfterEffects knowledge to make an animated header for the Keeping Time site. (This.. somehow feels like I didn't do the a...

(18+ denver x margot)

Speaking of Margot.... 😌 (this is only gonna make sense if you're up to date with the latest pagehehe!)Denver has a knack for attracting very, very bossy bottoms. It might be his superpower.

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesYou know things are serious when Tomásis serious. :(

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI just really, really love this page and am SO pleased with how it came out. Denver and Tomás's apartment is very much based on the first house I lived in with my partner and a bunch of roommates (back when our roomie's tattooist boyfriend worked out of our living room, haha). From the shopping cart that was brought home one day to the randomly acquired street signs and the milk crate TV stand...

Keeping Time Page 51

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesBATCH OF PAGES DONE! We're back to our regular Monday-Friday posting schedule (with the exception of this page being late because I didn't finish lettering them until like, 11:54pm last night, haha.)The Now/Then captions are going to be changing appearance (something I'm gonna have to go and edit in older pages for the public launch) because I had a 'forehead smackduh, that's so obv...

Keeping Time Page 50

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesGASP. You get a page update on schedule even though I JUST said I was gonna be late?!Unfortunately there's still gonna be some late pages eventually, very likely within the next week or two, but I realized today that if I took a break from coloring this batch of pages to letter this one, I could get you this page on time, so. That's what I did!You'll probably get another page on Monday, but...

May Newsletter

Did... did I forget to do an April newsletter?That's so weird, I could've SWORN I did one, but I guess it slipped my mind. In fairness, there was a lotgoing on in April. Let's recap!Released a one-page autobio comic for When I Was Young! (You canread it here!)Got to the band pages (my favorites) in Chapter 2of Keeping Timeand most importantly, KEEPING TIME WENT LIVE!It's been an incredible first three weeks.Over 2,000 people have ...

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesBirthday update!! Happy birthday to me! AND it's the page where we're finally getting to the heart of the story....!👀Unfortunately, this is also the last completed page I have done at the moment. Between dadcation last month and freelance work, I've fallen a little behind with the next batch of pages. I'm almost through inking them, though, so anticipate having them done within a wee...

Keeping Time Page 48

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pagesthe page in which Denver finishes his sentence

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI'm so happy we're finally at the pages of the band, because I cannot overstate how much I love Stef and Tomás. I love writing them, I love drawing them, I love everything about em. My unbothered (Tomás) and terminally bothered (Stef) sons!!!

Keeping Time Page 46

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesIhave been extremely self-conscious with lettering thus far, but I'm finally starting to loosen up a bit. For some reason, I find writing out sound effects super embarrassing?? I do not think the concept of SFX as something embarrassing at all (in fact, I LOVE them! love studying them from other cultures! love it all!!), yet writing it and lettering it myself makes me feel like a 6 year old pretend...

Keeping Time Interview with Comic Book Yeti

Okay I swear this is the last update from me today, but look! Ya boi was finally cool enough to get interviewed by the amazing folks over at Comic Book Yeti!(Not gonna lie, this has always been a little bucket list item for me as an indie comics creator, haha!) Andrew Irvin, a Chicago native, and I talked all things inspiration, Chicago, time period, music, and how being from isolated Pacific island communities impacts your view on the world. it ...

Launch Gift by Amélie

That sound you hear is ME screaming about this surprise comic Amélie drew as a gift to celebrate Keeping Time's launch!! YOU GUYS. LOOK AT IT. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!Amélie drew them in my favorite outfits of theirs, but made the incredibly correct decision to let Daniel have his shirt unbuttoned!! (He's absolutely going to rock this look in the comic as he, quite literally, loosens up.) Look at Denver's skateboard design peeking o...

Keeping Time is LIVE to the public!

LOL well this launch went about as badly as it could have, because my Newsletter mailer jumped the gun and started sending out the 'we're live!!' launch notification email before I was. You know. Actually live. I had to scramble and get everything up and running because traffic was already arriving, and it was very chaotic and slapdash, but on the bright side, uh, I guess the comic is live way ahead of schedule.So!! Here it is, the of...

Keeping Time Page 45

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI AM BACK HOME, my dad-cation was fun but also exhausting and Vegas gave me all over body hives which I've never experienced before, and I rate it a 0/10, do not recommend having your body be allergic to a whole place.I don't have much to say here about this page, because Keeping Time's public launch is TOMORROW. I feel nervous and underprepared, so. You know. The usual.😌Pray for me frie...

Keeping Time Page 44

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesThe drink Elena makes is an Old Fashioned with a twist, a recipe my sister, who also happens to be a trans woman and a bartender, made. She likes to use Brugal (the Dominican rum Elena is using here), or Kaniche for it! I'm not much of a drinker, so we'll just have to take all of my sister's fans at their word that this is amazing.For everyone who wants to follow along and make the drink at...

Keeping Time Page 43

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesElena is gonna befriend this pianist even if it's the last thi-- okay, well, not if it's the LAST thing she does, but like. She's gonna do it. Just wait and see!!

Keeping Time Page 42

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesQ: How much winter outerwear does Daniel own?A: An unnecessary amount, winter fashion is his favorite seasonA small announcement: I'll be scheduling next week's posts, so you'll still get your comic updates like usual on Monday and Friday! But I'm going to be out of town, spending a week with my dad (the one time a year I see him), so I'm not sure I'll have much time to respond ...

(18+) maneater

hehehe an extra treat for you all, because I'm gonna be out of town all next week and won't be able to work on anything!Daniel derives sexual satisfaction from feeling desired, and has the handy talent of being able to orgasm multiple times in a single session. Denver derives sexual satisfaction from pleasuring his partners, so if he comes at all during sex (he doesn't expect it!), he's a one and done sort of guy. This means he us...

When I Was Young...

For you lovely patrons, here's a first look at the one-page autobio comic I did for the When I Was Young charity anthology! The WIWY anthology more than hit its $25,000 goal, and I couldn't be more stoked. All profits from that anthology are going to The Trevor Project, so it was a total honor to be able to participate in it.I talked about it on BlueSky a bit, but it was absolutely wild to be able to dig up and dust off the Ragnarok Onlin...

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll Pages"That's it from me," they said, fully forgetting they had a bunch of shit to say about this chapter title page lolololUHH right so.The band's rehearsal studio is based on Crybaby here in Seattle, which is really fun and romantic in a 'busted down, well loved trash heap' sort of way. An underground basement with a ton of tiny, barely-soundproofed rooms where bands all rehearse!I ...

Keeping Time Page 40

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesHappy Eclipse Day!! Y'all get TWO PAGES today because one of them is a splash page!I personally think Stef steals the show on this page but I may be biased towards my ace son. (Stef is a different sort of ace than I am, which is fun to explore!!) Poor Stef. Denver and Tomás are slowly shaving years off of his life with their shenanigans.Also I love that this page captured the spirit of its thumbna...

[18+] doodle page

daniel spends a lot of their early relationship training denver out of all denver's old hetero habits. unclear whether or not this is "I can fix him" or "I can make him worse" behavior (knowing them, IT'S LIKELY BOTH AT THE SAME TIME)

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesI've been looking forward to this page for SO LONGSome notes about the band---Denver's currently wearing a 1970s Led Zeppelin tour shirt. He was not alive during that tour.-Tomás is wearing a Mighty Might Bosstones shirt. If it were up to Tomás, Tennyson would be a ska band. Unfortunately for Tomás, he doesn't know a single trumpet player.-Stef is wearing a Mehshuggah shirt and rocking s...

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First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesFINALLY, AT LASTWe get to spend time with my other sons!!!! I fucking love Tomás and Stef and I hope you all will, too.

Last Day to support Comics Charity Anthology "When I Was Young"!

IIiiiiii totally forgot to mention this here, but I'm contributing a short, autobiographical one-page comic to the LGBTQIA+ comics anthology "When I Was Young..."!A 100+ page comic anthology featuring short stories of inspiration, advice, and triumph. All profits will be donated to The Trevor Project to benefit LGBTQIA+ youth.Money from funding will pay for creative costs and production. All profits will be donated to the Trevor Proje...

Keeping Time Page 37

First Page| Previous Page| Next PageAll PagesA dialogue light page, but we'll be back on Monday so you don't have to wait too long for more!For the curious, the song Daniel auditions with is "Heroes" by David Bowie! In the future, I'm absolutely going to pay to use song lyrics in Keeping Time, but I don't have an unlimited budget, so I'm gonna be picky with it. 😌