Excerpt from the pencils for the fourth story in my upcoming anthology, The Crossroads At Midnight. This was a fun one to work on! I love me a good southern spooky tale.
I'm currently working on the pencils for the fifth and final story, then it's just a couple months of marathon inking and I'll have a big beautiful boo...
2019-11-27 15:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
More from my upcoming collection of short horror comics! Apologies for the image quality for some of these pages, I'm just taking pics with my phone since they're too big for my scanner.
I've had this story on the backburner for years, and I'm so excited to finally be working on it. It's probably my favorite in the book...
2019-11-20 17:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks!!
I apologize for how long it's been since my last update. I've been hard at work fulfilling the JSPH Vol 2 kickstarter and, of course, working on The Crossroads At Midnight, my book of short horror comics (due to be published by Iron Circus next year). It's about 360 pages, so it's been demanding nearly 100% ...
2019-11-13 20:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoo!! The kickstarter has funded and surpassed the first stretch goal-- now we're workin on hitting as many stretch goals as we can in the last 48 hours. We've already got a guest comic by Amy Falcone ...
2019-07-22 17:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, everybody!
Only THREE DAYS REMAIN to back the kickstarter for Volume 2 of Junior Scientist Power Hour. The project has funded, but now we're creepin up on some really sweet stretch goals, su...
2019-07-20 20:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Please, you mustn't get me started on my plants, I will show you ten thousand pictures and discuss them each at length
ALSO DID YOU KNOW, there is a Kickstarter happening right now for JSPH: Volume 2...
2019-07-02 15:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
WHOO there's a Kickstarter goin on for Junior Scientist Power Hour: Volume 2, a collection of almost all the comics since April of 2015, including Junior Paleontologist Power Hour, the ...
2019-06-24 18:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!! Apologies for how long it's been since my last post-- I've been hard at work on various projects, such as The Crossroads At Midnight, my upcoming book of short horror comics. Last week I finished the pencils for the first story, which you can download below. I'm so excited to be able to make a book like this, all the st...
2019-06-17 18:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, folks!
Just alerting you wonderful people to my Kickstarter to make little plush opossum buddies (and some sweet lil enamel pins). Y'all know I have a deep interest in these beautiful beasts, and if ...
2019-03-13 19:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A big chunk of journos for you this lovely March~
I'll be updating Wednesday's house again this month and it's all I can think about. I love to provide for my animals!! And I've been watching nonstop vivarium building youtubes, the kinds where they play soothing lo-fi hip hop beats to chill/study over the footage. Those...
2019-03-05 00:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a pretty hectic February, so instead of your usual Paleo Pals post, here's a short preview of one of the South America sections in the upcoming third installment of Earth before Us! This book is absolutely jam-packed with wildlife. If you'd like to pre-order, you can do so here: 2019-02-27 17:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Australia is very unique in that for basically the entire Cenozoic, reptiles were the dominant predators. The biggest a mammalian predator ever got was about the size of a large dog (Thylacoleo).
Quinkana was the longest-lived of these giant reptilian predators. It was a croc that walked around on land and eventually re...
2019-01-30 19:59:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Our kitchen is being renovated and we had to be out of the house for a few days, so instead of sticking around and sleeping on my sister's couch, my boyf decided we should go on a.... "vacation?!" So we went to NYC!
I got to hang with people I rarely ever see and I picked up a fun lil illness from them, but that's all r...
2019-01-28 17:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Cenozoic Australia is always very interesting to learn about. It was a semi-isolated continent, which means the life there was able to evolve in very different directions than the life on other continents, resulting in some very unique critters. It's the only continent where marsupials, rather than placental mammals, became t...
2018-12-31 18:37:02 +0000 UTC View Post
PHEW, I'm finally back to my usual routine of working on comics that aren't exclusively about ancient beasts. So here are some little comics for y'all, my ever patient friends.
And jokes aside, I am currently working on a big ol 22-page The Last Halloween update, so expect that in the new year. I am so excited to be abl...
2018-12-28 16:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Do y'all know I sometimes do illustrations for the No Sleep Podcast now? I'm pretty jazzed about it. I felt my design for this one was pretty ambitious for my level of skill, and I'm pleased with how it turned out!
And I'm sure y'all have been wondering why I haven't been posting much of anything anywhere, and it's because my ...
2018-10-29 15:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew!! I'm back in action. I had a whirlwind couple of months there between moving, a few cons, that whole foot sledgehammer thing, and working on book 3 in the Earth Before Us series. But I feel like I'm finally settled back in and can start updating once more <3 Thank you all for being so kind and patient and supportive in ...
2018-09-28 16:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya! I've finally faced the fact that I'm probably not going to finish all the comics I'd written from my big month of traveling, so instead here are the unfinished comics I've had sitting on my desk for... like two months, haha. It makes sense that I couldn't finish them, considering the subject matter!
Also, apologies for m...
2018-08-06 13:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
On my last post I was asked to go over the evolution of aquatic mammals, which is always a fun topic! I was asked to cover whales, pinnipeds (seals and walruses), and sirenians (dugongs and manatees), but when I was drawing I forgot to include sirenians ooops. I'll touch on those at the end anyway, even if there aren't illustrat...
2018-06-04 13:22:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The first big chunk of journal comics from my month of jetsetting! These cover two out of the five towns I visited. The rest of the journal comics will be posted next month!
Also here is Bomba during the scary movie night, crushing my friend with his protective love.
2018-05-30 16:58:20 +0000 UTC
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I am finally back from my many travels! I visited like five towns in one month and now I never want to get on another plane ever again. Too bad I'm doing Heroes Con down in Charlotte in two weeks. The neverending travels of a cartoonist...
I've got a wealth of journos to catch up on, and should be posting those as well as a pa...
2018-05-29 19:27:14 +0000 UTC View Post
A little chunk for you today, featuring some sketches from my trip to DC. I would have sketched more but I was with my boyfriend who didn't want to spend 5-10 minutes on each individual exhibit in a huge zoo. How rude.
I am very excited for my cute pins!! I can't wait to see the dinosaur one.
2018-05-01 13:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently in the research/writing stage for the next Earth Before Us, which will be all about the Cenozoic, so this month we've got a whole chunk of Cenozoic beasts. The Cenozoic era stretches from the time of the dinosaurs to present day, and gave rise to all the beautiful animals we now share the world with!
First up is ...
2018-04-25 18:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you may recall that part of my ceiling fell in last year due to an unpatched hole in the roof that was letting water pool right above my studio. My very sweet landlord patched the ceiling but not the roof, so... rain kept pooling above the studio and the leak is in fact ~much worse~ than it was before. This week a new wa...
2018-04-18 01:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust a little reminder that tonight was scheduled as a Jackbox Evening. In case you need a refresher on how to join in, we do these over skype, so you just add me (abby.howard.art) as a friend and I'll send out the call around about 9pm. All you'll need to participate is a device that can connect to the internet (people usually ...
2018-04-06 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everybody!
Sorry for being uncommunicative all month, it was a wild time for me with all the traveling and catching-up I had to do. But I'm gonna set dates for the next 3 Jackbox nights, to make sure we get em all in. I've made them all Fridays, but can easily shift it to Saturdays if need be.
For the next hangout, ...
2018-03-28 15:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So many museum sketches! I love to go to a museum.
I wasn't sure if I should include all those top-secret sketches, but they do look nice, and maybe it will help you all feel like part of a cool club, which you are B)
Thank you all for your support!
-Abby
2018-03-26 15:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the long wait for more invertebrates! But finally, here are some amazing and strange cephalopods to brighten your day.
Cephalopods are the group that contains modern squids, octopus, and cuttlefish, and they are a very old group, having gotten their start possibly as far back as the Cambrian (the dawn of animal...
2018-03-23 14:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Some comics about going to Atlanta! My publisher sent me down to do a signing and a school visit and it was lovely. Especially since I had a perfect amount of free time to visit the Georgia Aquarium, which is one of the best in the nation and has been on my list of places I need to visit before I die. Now I did it! One step clos...
2018-03-22 20:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post
