First- Vanessa Davis' Spaniel Rage daily diary strips, starting in May of 2003 and running through to...I don't know when because there isn't an index I could find- but so far I'm near the end of June.

I've had this site bookmarked for a while now, but I never got around to paying anyattention to it until it was brought up during Tom Spurgeon's interview with Alvin Buenaventura of Buenaventura Press as being an artist that he's shocked that hardly anyone is familiar with: "She's published a few mini comics and has been in a couple of comics anthologies. The work so far is diary comics. The layout of the pages is in this loose sketchbook style and boy can she draw. The first issue collects her self-published work and should be out in March. The next issue will be all new work and will follow a few months after."

Speaking of artists that it's shocking that hardly anyone is familiar with, Artist Tom Gauld has posted a years worth of his comic strips for The Guardian- Hunter and Painter,about a stone age artist and his desire to document life as it actually is and not pander to the masses. Quite funny and even a little moving.

Jesse Reklaw has a show of watercolours starting on the 15 running through to the 15 of March in Ithaca New York. The paintings are $35 unframed or $40 framed, which is a steal.

Spanish illustrator and animator Luci Gutiérrez does some beautifully designed and funny illustrations that I like so much that I've added one to my computer desktop at work. I particular like this circus animation. And her website has a funny name, too, which always helps: holeland.com

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