Here’s a recap of some of the things that have been happening recently.

A little ways in the past I was asked to participate in a faculty show with the Great River Arts Institute where I teach comics. Our show is being hosted by the Spheris Gallery in Hanover, New Hampshire. I have a silk screen print of my Loveland Frog from my book up in the main gallery. In addition to our main gallery piece, we were asked to create 2X2 inch pieces to sell to raise money for GRAI. I created 6 tiny watercolor drawings of tiny monsters.

(I asked my parents to buy back the yellow one when we were at the opening because it’s my favorite. Haha.)

A local paper in Hanover did a review of the show. This is what the writer had to say about my tiny monsters:

“It’s hard not to be taken by Megan Baehr’s precise colorful watercolors of cartoonish animals. They have great wit and clarity.” - Alex Hanson, Valley News Staff Writer

HOLY COW! That’s the NICEST thing anyone has ever said about by work. Out of the 110 2X2 pieces that were donated, mine were the only ones that were mentioned.

This combined with a few more encouraging events, I’m feeling more energized and excited about my work than I have in quite awhile. I went though a very hard emotional break down late May/early June that threw me way off balance. Things are finally coming back together and my withered confidence is beginning to bloom again. I’m inspired again.

I’ll probably continue to be a bit elusive through the month of August, but come fall this site is getting worked over and you can expect regular, enthusiastic updates!

Work on this comic is going slowly (as usual), but I’m very pleased with how it’s turning out so far. Here’s a panel that I had fun drawing. I’m still in the penciling stage so I slapped on some photoshop to give it some atmosphere. I’m not sure how the inking will look in the end yet.

Onto the next project! Yippie! It’s a 15 pager about an abandoned subway station that I wrote 3 years ago and have always wanted to draw. I’m trying to get it finished in time for MoCCA! I’ll hopefully be sharing some pages soon. But until then, enjoy this quick sketch of the main characters, Chad and Macy. Brought to you by my awesome space ship pencil I got in a goodie bag when I was a kid and PhotoShop. YES!

And that concludes the preview! Who is Mr. Trouble? How is he going to set Alligator straight? You’ll have to wait for the release of the anthology to find out!!!

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

Page 6! I’m fond of the sequence in the first tier.

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

Page 5!

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

This is one of my favorite pages. I’m really pleased with all the animals and how the colors turned out. It was also the hardest page to draw. I’m told no one can tell from the end result, but I have a REALLY hard time drawing animals.

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

The lettering is a font I made from my own handwriting using High Logic’s Font Creator. I figured out early on that I couldn’t use white-out on my pages due to the nature of the materials and lettering is the one thing I mess up on most. I made the font for a project I did last year and thought “Gosh darn it! Why not USE it?!” It made my life so much easier and it turned out looking pretty good if I say so myself.

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

Page two! I’ll give you some specs on the art…

I used brown ink (Higgins) and watercolors (Winsor & Newton) on natural white, esparto pulp watercolor paper (Schoellershammer). I also used a bit of sepia Micron pen for the panel borders and word balloons which miraculously matched the Higgins ink PERFECTLY.

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!

“How The Alligator Got His Brown Scaly Skin” was written by the lovely Joyce Bear. She is 5/8 Muscogee (Creek) American Indian. She works for her tribe as the manager of the Cultural Preservation Office. She has written several children’s stories, but has never had any of them published. I am ecstatic to have been paired up with her to finally bring one of her stories to life!

This is a preview of the 14 page, full color comic which will be appearing in Trickster, a comics anthology of Native American animal trickster stories. It’s going to be SPECTACULAR!!!