Letter for Lucy
Lucy Knisley, a graduate of CCS and one of my favorite contemporary cartoonists, hasn’t been posting any webcomics in recent weeks, and the internet is a worse place for it. However, given the circumstances of her summer, the decision to take some time off is pretty fucking understandable. Dear Lucy: reading your comics brings me great joy. I can hardly wait to see what you’ll create in the years to come! I hope that this time off is giving you the rest and strength you need.
In less serious summer news, City Pages recently announced the four movies and bands that will be playing on Tuesday nights in Loring Park this August! The line-up is right here. It looks pretty dang great, so mark it on your calendars.
Also mark on your calendars that Friday, August 6 is the opening reception for this year’s Lutefisk Sushi anthology! It’s at Altered Esthetics in Nordeast. Come to see original work from my minicomic (“The Grass is Greener in Grinnell”), as well as incredible work by many, many other Minnesotan cartoonists. For details/to RSVP, go here.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Oh jeez this is so nice it just breaks my heart! Thank you so much! Fortunately, it looks like I’m sticking around Chicago for a bit longer, so I’ll still be here in the midwest, and hopefully I’ll be able to come up for conventions in Minneapolis again (we should definitely drink some tea together). At this point, even moving six blocks is a lot to handle for me. Another city is beyond the scope of reality. I’m so glad you like my comics and miss them! It makes me much happier to know that they’ll be waiting for me when I’m ready to work again…. And can find any paper or anything…
Seriously nice of you to make this. Love it!
September 1st, 2010 at 11:42 am
Lucy!! I am so flattered that you liked this little comic!
I heard that you were at SpringCon (or Microcon? they keep changing the name) last spring. Alas, I was still at college in Massachusetts. I hope that you stick around Chicago at least long enough for see you at a Midwest convention. I think I may be “settled” (ugh, the connotations around that word!) here for good now…maybe moving and travel are, at least sometimes, overrated? There’s something to be said for growing roots, and not running away.
But I suppose rootlessness and running away are exactly what youth is for, and maybe we’d all better get it all out of our systems before we have babies.
Do what you want to do! Be happy! And make comics about it!
Sincerely,
Athena