I just realized that I didn't post last month's Ramsay strip - so here it is. Last month's newsletter (which was a particularly fun read, by the way) tipped its proverbial hat to the dogs and dog-walkers of our neighbourhood, so the comic strip ended up with a doggy theme as well. However, my real dog days were spent in Bridgeland, of which more after the comic strip... read on!
In this month's Ramsay newsletter comic, a nod to a couple of other local storytellers - neither of whom I've actually met in real life, by the way - Jeremy Klaszus and Amy Jo Espetveidt. Check them out - they write great stuff about the things that are going on in Calgary! And then make sure you take a look at this month's Ramsay Community Association newsletter, which is where this comic strip appears. The newsletter is full (as ever) of stories about what's going on in my neighbourhood, Ramsay. Enjoy! Here is Jeremy Klaszus's Bridgeland story, and here is Amy Jo Espetveidt's twitter feed, full of renovation updates! I just realized that I didn't post last month's Ramsay strip - so here it is. Last month's newsletter (which was a particularly fun read, by the way) tipped its proverbial hat to the dogs and dog-walkers of our neighbourhood, so the comic strip ended up with a doggy theme as well. However, my real dog days were spent in Bridgeland, of which more after the comic strip... read on! Re-reading that comic strip made me want to put up some Bridgeland comics for a change. I used to write and post some online comics back when I lived in Bridgeland, in a little house just off 1st Avenue SE that has since been demolished. Here are a few bits and pieces from that old comic strip. You can see more of that little online comics series here. Here's a picture of my dog looking out at that old mama rabbit in my front yard. And right across the street from that yard you can see the parking lot of the Bridgeland 7-11. Since we're on the subject, I might as well add another picture in here, too - a picture I drew at this year's Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. One of the people who came to visit me at my table in Artist Alley was Dan, who worked at that 7-11 back when I went there seemingly every day (to the point that my boyfriend - now husband - said to me, "I could save you $200 a month if you'd just let me buy you your chocolate and grapefruit juice from the grocery store, instead of getting it from the 7-11 every time!"). Well, artists need chocolate and grapefruit juice, and money management has never been my strong suit. However, I'm proud to say that, twelve years after recklessly throwing away my money on so many individually packaged juice bottles and chocolate bars, I now buy that kind of thing at Superstore (sometimes) and, more importantly, I'm currently taking a business class - the Women's Venture Accelerator program offered by awesome local non-profit Momentum. I'm looking forward to blogging about that soon, too. Anyway, I am supposed to be doing my homework for the class right this minute instead of writing this blog. So that is all for now!!
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“If Breitkreuz and Foong [founders of the Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo] represent the Type-A side of Calgary's self-publishing community, Hester may be the community's right brain.” – Tom Babin, FFWD Magazine
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