Coming Home

Here's a comic that comprises over half of Boredom Pays 8 and works as a thematic end point for where Boredom Pays had been going for the past couple of issues.

As it stands right now I'm retiring Boredom Pays for the foreseeable because I simply have nothing more at the moment to say on the themes that the book was known for. That, really, is quite a good thing. I'm in a really positive mental space and am stoked to be focusing my attention on some weird, straight up fiction projects.

Love love

Customer Appreciation

Written on a particularly bad day at work

Dumb, shitty thoughts

Thirty

Today is the last day of my twenties. It feels kind of unremarkable.

On sex and drugs

"Misery"

So, despite having told basically everybody that I was giving up Boredom Pays for the time being, I’ve been working on a new issue for the past couple of weeks that I’m planning on putting out at the end of next month. What can I say? I need to make these comics! This one’s gonna have, as you can likely tell by this here silly thing, a bit of a lighter tone to it, too. Thank Christ, right? What can I say, life’s good right now.

Also, Kirstyn(featured above) is way cuter than I’m capable of drawing. SIGH. What do you do?

Love and tenderness,

Jason <3 p="">

Ariel (fuck you)

Well, here’s a bitter comic about an ex partner that treated me like shit.

Never Ends

Phobias

Maintenance #2

Clarity (take 2)

Maintenance #1 - “Clarity" (take 2)

Clarity

Carrie

Carrie. After the novel by Stephen King.

Super Funnies #1: Dying alone

Boredom Pays - Issue 7 - Now available for purchase!

This issue is mostly about losing the feeling of home, or belonging and trying to find it again. Lots about dysphoria, depression and just feeling weird basically. All written during a particularly down period this past winter it's pretty emotionally raw and, I think, some of the more affecting comics I've done to date. Printed on copy paper with a heavy weight card stock cover (in color!) at about 5.5" x 7.25" for $6 plus $1 shipping.

Respect yourself!

Based on a facebook status update I made a couple of months ago after somebody I really cared about was pretty awful to me. For a self care zine call for submissions going around: http://selfcarezine.tumblr.com/post/48959834055/submissions.

Those Darn Neighbors

Please Love Me

Loosely inspired by the song Graceland by Paul Simon.

After much procrastination I finally decided to put the final touches on Boredom Pays 7 last night. It’s the last issue I’m going to do for the foreseeable future so it feels somewhat substantial to finally say “done” to a  series I’ve been working on for the past four years.

It feels somewhat right.

Sadness for Numbness

Sadness for Numbness

This is the last comic for the seventh issue of Boredom Pays (debuting at TCAF!). It’s a little out of context here, as it has been designed as a double page spread and fits in between various short comics that (hopefully, intentionally) string together a larger narrative when read in their intended sequence.

This is also the last autobio strip I’m going to be doing for a while. I know I’ve said that before, but I really feel like I’ve gotten much of what I needed to out of my system with this last issue of Boredom Pays. I’m really proud of it, I think it at least sort of touches on what I was going for.

It’s time to move onto something different

Paralysis

I wrote this back in December on my way home from a Groke show (check em' out - http://groke.bandcamp.com/ - they're awesome!) my pal Evy set up. Not really feeling much of this lately. Been much more comfortable in the communities I interact with in the past couple of months. Feeling "at home", even. As much as I'm able to, anyway. Feels weird to still be drawing stories about.

Dysphoria - Part 4

Boredom Pays Issue seven to debut at TCAF!

So, exciting news, I'm going to be tabling at TCAF again this year. This time around I'm going to be in the small press area, which is great! Mostly filled with local folks who are all very much worth checking out.

So, with that exciting news out of the way, I might as well announce that Boredom Pays issue seven will debut at TCAF! I've been working pretty non stop on it for the past month and I'm really excited with how it's coming together. I think with both the design and content of this issue it's bound to be the best thing I've put out to date.

Stoked on everything right now <3 p="">

Dysphoria - Part 3

Goodbyes

This is a strip I drew a couple of years ago when I was entering a long distance relationship with my former partner, Lisa. Somehow, it never ended up in an issue of Boredom Pays (it was drawn between issues 2 & 3) but I’ve always really liked it. So, since it fits in with the rest of the contents of issue 7 I thought I would re-draw it and put it in.

For curiosity’s sake, here’s the original: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSq2xWnsm6VfzH1GC_aKDLxmLKYyH2tLTNn-hpMdiG9YzwCkiOu7FH30VPAX9WD53TsdXkKmwlWuMu3WBJejIP-aHKB9pJJNFOxwviM97YkP25jRmtmiLrEzq5qoNMF9GWnkg/s1600/goodbyes.jpg

Dysphoria Part 2

Dysphoria Part 2 (of 4, I think)

Dysphoria

Idle Thoughts - Basements

Idle thoughts - Dreams

Idle Thoughts - Nice to meet you

Idle Thoughts - Secrets

Omissions

For Lisa