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Patreon Livestream! 🎥
Hey folks! I'm streaming on Picarto!. Come on along, the water's fine! (APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR TALKING ABOUT JEEVES AND WOOSTER.) I'll be drawing blog header pictures for the last Check, Please! comics. 👍Right here: On Picarto. (I'll post a link to the recording later!)EDIT: Here's the recording!
Happy March! 🌼
And so the chaos begins! This is how my calendar for the month of March looks like.My top priorities 1. Attending conferences and conventions2. WATERING MY SANSEVIERIAI’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, the Texas Library Association’s Annual meeting in Houston, and TeenBookCon. (And also a wedding, and also my friends want to go to New Orleans, but I’m already visiting friends in A...
#OMG: Minor Character Illustration!
With Check, Please! ending, I thought it’d be fun to draw some of the more minor characters from the comic. I wonder how these characters will look like with my 2020 drawing abilities?? Who should I tackle first?
4.21 - Last Dance 💥
Howdy, readers! Comic 4.21 is up for patrons! The full comic will be shared next week on checkpleasecomic.com.And here we are, at the finals. Bitty's last game, his last dance! He's really getting throttled out on the ice, but is doing his best to put up a good fight....But how much fight does our boy have in him?Are these fair hits? How should Bitty retaliate? WHAT could Jack, Suzanne, an...
Thumbnails, Preparation, Superhero Drabbles
Thumb-nailing Comics Project Freetail. This is the project that is a collaboration with a "larger comic company." It's still touch and go! 😩 Working with publishers and companies has been very different from making Check, Please! and throwing it up online. With this story, I'm going back and forth with editors to develop a character and I'm currently waiting on story approva...
Livestream! (Blog Headers?)
Hey folks! I'll be streaming over on Picarto. (This stream will be recorded. Check back on this post on Patreon for a link to the recorded stream.) 🎥 Right over here on Picarto! See ya there!Edit: You can watch the stream here!
Signing Copies of Sticks & Scones✒️
Hey folks! Even though it's not first come, first serve, I wanted patrons to get access first! I'm signing copies of CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS & SCONES when I'm back at home in Houston. I'll try my best to get as many doodles in there before my wrist implodes!! 🖋️
Getting Ahead on Blog Posts
Hey folks! Over the last week I've been knee-deep in thumbnails for project Yesenia. Nevertheless, I managed to draw some blog headers for future comics. Here's a link to the livestream where I drew these.Above (header image of this post): the blog header for comic 4.20. Holster is a dedicated subscriber to the Daily and reads it every day. If he says he hates it it's because he's ...
Livestream!
Hey folks! I'll be streaming for an hour or so over on PICARTO. This stream will be recorded. I'm working on blog post headers, I guess? Come on by and hangout in the chat as I wax poetic on Bertie Wooster probably.Right here. 👋Edit: ⭐ Here's the video from the stream! ⭐
February, Again ✏️ (Livestreaming & More)
Reader, I must inform you that it is February.Yes. I don't know how it happened either. But here we are, shuffling bleary-eyed into the dawn of yet another month in the year. For Check, Please! this is the quiet before the storms of March and April, which is when promotion for CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS & SCONES ramps up to 9 bazillion miles per hour.What's Going On- Comic 4.20 Update??? 😯-...
4.20 - Spotlight on Eric Richard Bittle
Hello, my dear readers! Comic 4.20 is up for patrons. The full comic will be shared on checkpleasecomic.com next week.- Eric Bittle is ready to kick everyone's entire ass.- You know what? I've never felt like a writer, but here I am, writing fictional interviews that will be followed-up with cheeky blog posts. Maybe I am a very minor wordsmith. - If you're saying to yourself, "hey!...
Process: Adjusting A Stay (J&W fanart)
What ho and all that! If you didn't know, I'm a big fan of Jeeves & Wooster, a series of humorous stories and novels by P.G. Wodehouse. I live for Bertie getting in the soup, Jeeves extracting him from said soup, and for man and gentleman's gentleman soldiering forth to the next misadventure with a tally-ho.Here's a step-by-step breakdown of an illustration I did recently!1. Roughs...
Progress Report: Whatcha Up To?
Writing New Projects Check, Please! stuff SCAD Mentorship A shirtless picture of Star Titan, potentially NSFW, gird your loinssketching environments for YeseniaWriting New ProjectsI've spent the first days of this new year doing a lot of outlining for projects I cannot disclose! Let's call them Project Freetail and Project Yesenia. Project Freetail is a collaboration with a larger comic c...
Livestream! ERB Pre-Game Playlist
Hey guys! Today, I'm attempting to tackle roughs for an Eric Bittle Pre-Game Poster I'm designing. You can follow along on the process over here on Picarto.See ya there!
First Livestream of 2020
Right here on Picarto. I'll be drawing something fun, I hope.picarto.tv/ngozidraws/ngoziworkThanks!
4.18 - Playoffs
Comic 4.18 is up for patrons! The full comic will be shared on checkpleasecomic.com next week. This comic is where I grab the reader and yank them into act 3 of year four, which is Bitty and SMH having to prove themselves...IN FRONT OF A NATION. It's a hockey comic! Here's the the hockey!! It's back. NCAA Frozen Four! Wowee! Remember Whiskey? He still has a story line. For the most par...
January 2020 NEWSLETTER!
Hey Folks!The new year is HERE. It's almost hard to believe, but I'm somehow writing this from 2020. This is the year Check, Please!: Sticks & Scones comes out, and the year I start on many new projects. Very excited to keep you in the loop.Livestreams. ARE BACK. On Picarto. I want to do the them on the first Saturday of each month. (Though, warning, traveling for book bromo might make thi...
Day & Weekes #3 - The Duel
It's an episode of dueling and diversions: first, Captain Thomas Day keeps his word and participates in a mock-duel with Dr. Richard Weekes. You might call the match a toss-up. And then, finally--we get some chess."...for Tom, chess was not a battle, nor a duel--it was a dance. And it was a dance that left one with endless knowledge of his partner--Just as so much crucial knowledge could b...
Chirpbook Progress (Long Post 😅)
Hello patrons! 👋👋👋 I wave to you from that mysterious, lonely, atemporal land that exists under all rocks. This is where I have been living since November and while I was toiling away at the CHIRPBOOK. Which is done, mostly. I'm doing my best to proofread this evening so that we can get the book sent off to the printer before the 23rd or 24th.This is the casing for the softcover versi...
December Newsletter! ❄️
Chirpbook. IT'S DONE......I'VE FINISHED IT!! 😭 2019. Thank you! 🙏 2020? ????....❓A short and sweet update!The Chirpbook. It's done. It's done. Can you believe it? One final BURST of Check, Please!-specific creative energy before 2020. I'm excited to share the comics and illustrations I've been crafting over the last two months!2019. Did you know that this December ...
Hockey Shit With Ransom & Holster: "Hockey Speak"
I come bearing gifts, and it's not even Christmas! Hockey Shit With Ransom & Holster is up for patrons, and the full comic will be shared on checkpleasecomic.com next week.Do you think you can explain the phenomenon of hockey speak? What would happen to someone like Jack if they were asked to be more expressive? Is this problem endemic to the NHL??? IS THIS JUST A JOCK THING??
Chirpbooking🐤
Hey folks! I'm trudging along, running the Chirpbook Kickstarter (here!) as well as creating the last pieces of content for the book. I'm illustrating and illustrating! It's been difficult to find the energy to draw lately, so whenever I discover a precious pocket of inspiration, I try to capitalize on it. Don't worry, I'm taking it slow.BUT, here's a look at some of the pi...
4.17 - Senior Thesis
Comic 4.17 is up for patrons! The full comic will be shared on checkpleasecomic.com next week. People on Twitter are claiming they've procrastinated (or are procrastinating) more than Bitty!! I do not believe this!! Please, get a gaggle of hockey players to intervene on your behalf! Can you guess who made Bitty's Bake Ban Poster? Should a pie count as a draft? (YES.)
4.16 - Christmas in Madison III
Comic 4.16 is up for patrons! The full comic will be posted on checkpleasecomic.com THIS WEEK.This comic is a short little one, and it's mostly Jack and Bitty being a couple and talking about their future. The future!! It's coming up! This is the last comic of Bitty's fall semester! Kudos to Bitty for willingly wanting to discuss life after graduation (even though he pivoted hard) and ...
November Newsletter 🍁🍂🍃
November 2019 Ngozi Newsletter Contents! Holidays - taking time off 🎄 Feelings - Things Are Different KICKSTARTER! - Chirpbook 🐤 Updates - 2? 🥧 Day & Weekes - ⛵First Off, HOLIDAYS! I will virtually disappear during the week of Thanksgiving and also for two weeks in December. Totally fine if you'd like to lower your patronage now and perhaps renew in 2020. To repeat: There will be li...
October Livestream!
Hey folks. I'll be livestreaming over on PICARTO! Wooo, I'll be working on the blog post header for 4.15 (read: speanding 30 minutes trying to think of a funny bit of dialogue) and also creating CHIRPBOOK illustrations. ⭐See ya there.
Micropod #9 - Day & Weekes 2
Truworthy Cook is the lieutenant of the Calypso, and he doesn't much approve of Dr. Richard Weekes or Weekes' strange scientific gathering. And as a deadly Spanish frigate keeps a close eye on the Calypso, tension between Weekes and Day mounts...and bursts.Next Up: An actual sword fight and the actual beginnings of friendship.
SCAD & Livestream on the 27th
I'm finally back from Savannah, and DONE with all of my travels for October. :^)!!!LivestreamI'll be livestreaming on the 27th @ noon!SCADSCAD Day 1: I spent my first day at SCAD doing class visits, grabbing meals with professors, and giving a presentation in the evening! It was a jam packed day but I got the opportunity to talk to SO many students so it was super fulfilling. Pictured belo...
Patreon Content Sharing
Okay guys, I learned today that someone was sharing exclusive content from this Patreon.Just a reminder that this is not okay. This case wasn't an accident. This person clearly explained that they knew I didn't want the content shared but disregarded my wishes.I always appreciate people looking out for me and my content, so thank you to anyone who ever sees this and lets me know. I'm t...
NYCC 2019 & Q/A
October continues to be a wild month, and NYCC definitely contributed to the craziness, but in the best way. My keynote speech went well!! Some were even moved to stand up during the applause. I am convinced that librarians and educators have the best energy, enthusiasm, and #vibes than any other group of humans. Check, Please! won the Harvey award for Best Digital Comic. 😭🙏 I got to congra...
