Art & Comics by Katherine Roy

Just went live! An article in comics on what it’s like to campaign for governor in Vermont, by myself and James Sturm for Slate Magazine. James and I followed Matt Dunne on his last day on the campaign trail on Monday, August 23rd, from 5:30 am until about 9:30pm. All day Tuesday was spent working on compiling the piece: James wrote the story, I did the drawings, and together with Keny Widjaja we completed all the production and color completed by early Wednesday morning (today). I loved doing the work and hope to get to do more projects like it in the future.

James Sturm and I covered one day’s worth of Vermont’s Democratic Gubernatorial Primary campaigning with Matt Dunne as cartoonist reporters for Slate Magazine! Keep an eye out for our final comic to be published on Wednesday on the events of today. Good luck to Matt Dunne and to the other four candidates going head to head tomorrow on the final countdown to election. And remember Vermont: GET OUT AND VOTE IN YOUR PRIMARY!

On the road, a misty beautiful morning on 89 North:

Matt Dunne and Ward, planning our next stop after a diner crawl outside of Burlington, VT around 10:15 am:

James and I in the backseat of the Dunne-mobile, covering the story for Slate:

Many thanks to the Dunne campaign for letting us joining the day’s events!

Sorry for the delay in posts folks– I’ve got some work to do on my site to fix some Comic Press glitches, and need to archive my Hieroglyph story to make way for new work. I also am considering moving my art and illustration work to another site under katherineroy.com, and making this a caterpillar only/ kids only site. Anybody have thoughts on this? Thanks for your patience! I should be up and running with new work by next week.

This weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con, James Sturm and Scott McCloud will be holding a panel discussion called “A Center of Cartoon Studies Conversation: Understanding, Making, and Teaching Comics.” As part of their chat James is planning to show a recent cut of Josh Melrod and Tara Wray’s Cartoon College, a documentary about CCS, and I had the honor of doing the opening titles for this showing of the film! I had never drawn for film titles before, but Josh and Tara were great to work with and bounce ideas off of, and we’re very happy with the end result!! If you can make it, you can find the panel on Friday at 4pm in Room 7AB. Have fun!

For more information about Cartoon College or Josh and Tara, visit their website, their myspace page, or watch the trailer on The Beat!

This week concludes (for now) my preview of Hieroglyph! Thanks for reading everyone! I’ve been getting in some work I’m happy with on the new prologue and chapter 1. I’m very excited to see where this all goes. New work to be posted next week!

Sorry for the delay in posts this week, folks! Our apartment is too warm to use my computer, so I’ve been delinquent this week about checking email and updating my site. I’m busy working away on an independent picture book project, along with my graphic novel and another Caterpillar Tale in the concept stages. White River Junction is lazy in the summer heat, but as beautiful as ever. I hope to get to go swimming sometime this weekend. More soon!

Sorry this is late folks! I’ll post page 17 tomorrow.