What if I made my own New Yorker?
the second mail club zine went out to subscribers this week!
Dear reader,
Are you in the Sneaky Art Mail Club yet? I am making zines every month and mailing them out to paying subscribers. If you are already a paying subscriber and would like to get them, send me an email with your address. Free readers, grab this offer to join the club.
🖼️ The next open-studio is on 31 July - new art, zines, block-prints, and more. Sign up to RSVP.
✍🏼 This August, I am doing two workshops in Edmonds (WA, USA). Learn to draw tiny people and/or build a spiral of attention.
💻 The Sketchy Anthropologist shared with me a wonderful way to keep a journal in the form of their new Domestika course on Creative Ethnography.
The SneakyArt Post is a newsletter of secretly drawn art of the world. I share pages from my sketchbook and good ideas from the journey to be an artist and writer.
Summer’s people are not like winter’s crowd. They linger and luxuriate. They lie down and live it up. They languish… They have arrived, and they have nowhere else they would rather be. They live around other people of summer, together or in alone-liness. They are reaping winter’s reward at this sun-starved edge of the world.
Last weekend, I was a speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival. I met incredible people, ate very good food, and Make (Sneaky) Art sold out at the pop-up bookstore.
Canada lost to Morocco this week, and the skill deficit was glaringly obvious. This is the end of our World Cup journey, but Canadians are quite proud of what this little team has achieved.
I will be in Edmonds (WA, USA) this weekend for Sketcher Fest. Are you planning to be there as well? Drop a comment if so. I am bringing lots of sketchbooks, and many linocut stamps for visitors to my table.
Making this Month’s Zine
When I was getting ready for my workshop in New York this May, someone reached out encouraging me to apply to the New Yorker with my art. But I did not do it. A broken thing of myself that I carry, with all its incongruous pieces that no longer fit, is a strange fear of rejection. I do not need it. I do not care for it. But it is there, and it affects me sometimes.
Reader, what broken things of yourself do you carry around?
I started the Mail Club for two reasons:
❤️ to make my work (words and drawings) into a physical product
❤️ to share real, tangible things with the people who support my work
In the paywalled section below, I share the process of putting together this zine.
📫 Making the Zine of June
Cover: As the editor of my own magazine, I took vicious pleasure in rejecting the initial ideas by my cover designer (also me).
