Favorite drinking vessels I've loved and lost

Plus mention of comfort zones, Tom Selleck, and a plea from the early bird's worm

A few notes:

1. Daydronk got bangs a slightly refreshed look. I felt like changing it up and I’m kind of impulsive. But hey, it’s better than me actually going and getting bangs¹.

2. Going forward, new issues of this newsletter will be published weekly. (!)

3. I'm loosening the beverage concept. It was a great entry point for me, but it’s started to feel a bit stifling.

My favorite artists and writers on here are ones that use their newsletters to reflect more on the present moment. I’ve been particularly inspired by comics creators and cartoonists. I feel like comics have opened up a whole new world of storytelling possibilities for me (and I have so many stories I want to tell, I could barf). Basically, I’m over here going “Oooh, I wanna play too!”

Some stuff I’ve been exploring lately that I’d love to share on here include auto-bio and diary comics, single panel cartoons, newspaper blackout poems, poetry comics, doodling in my sketchbook – they all get my creative juices flowing (which, blessedly, is a tagline that still totally works with the whole “DayDronk” thing).

So I’m leaning into that: just making the f*ing work I want to make and not thinking so much about it!!!! 😊

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And now, a mini-comic about beloved fallen drinking vessels:

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Other stuff I want to share with you

Some morning coffee sketchbook pages from the past week:

Many long arms wrapped around a body. “I thought I was protecting myself. But even protection can be a form of entrapment.”

A worm, still in bed underground, yelling up to the Early Bird, “5 more minutes, Carl!”

A recent newspaper blackout poem:

Making these are one of my new favorite ways to unwind away from my phone.

Sunday Tales

1.
Hang in there, heart
Everything's gone, so
start something new
for the sake of
Tom Selleck, dogs
and rock music
Consider it a heroic act
to continue living here
Now, even more
than before

2.
Without humor
man would be difficult
to capture

3.
Something like royalty
this family
Born in
a grave
close to
a shrine

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One more thing

SAW hosts Friday Night Comics workshops (among a ton of other helpful classes and events) and I was finally free to attend this past week, which rocked because the guest host was Dana Jeri Maier who I’ve been a fan of for a long time.

Dana helped us explore in and around our comfort zone – the idea being that, sure, any kind of growth is generally achieved when we step beyond our comfort zones, but it doesn’t always have to be all or nothing.

As my comfort zone map shows, I am very comfortable with snacking, making lists, and drawing wonky people and flower doodles, but I’m much less comfortable with math, public speaking, and drawing likenesses or cars.

After making our maps, we had a few prompt options to explore, and I chose to draw a mix of items from both my comfort and scary zones. Although I guess I kind of cheated, because I only drew the concept of public speaking, to an audience of my comfort zone best pals with smiling faces (snacks, wonky people, flowers, etc). But I DID raise my hand to share what I drew, which totally counts as public speaking. So it balances out.

Hope you enjoyed the first iteration of Daydronk 2.0! (I’m not really calling it that.) Would love to hear what you think.

‘Til next week!

1. Should I get bangs?