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Philadelphia Artist ~Co-Editor of Dirty Diamonds: an all-girl comic anthology~

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2026 Feb 08 - Hourly Comics Day

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2025 Feb 1 - Hourly Comic Day (featuring the Phoenixville Firebird Festival)

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2024 Feb 01 - Hourly Comic Day also includes bonus material on the pens I used this year!

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2023 Feb 01 - Hourly Comic Day

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2022 Feb 01 - Hourly Comic Day

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2021 Feb 01 - Hourly Comic Day

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2020 Feb 1 - Hourly Comic Day

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2019 Feb 1 - Hourly Comic Day

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Hourly Comic Day - 2018 Feb 1

Always a pleasure to share in the day with everyone! <3

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Hourly Comic Day, 1 Feb 2017

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Studio status update - 2016 dec 15

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Studio Status Update - 2016 Dec 9 Something new is in the works...

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So it looks like we are going to have to put my cat, Ashes, down. She is 21 years old, so fucking ancient for a cat, and was doing alright up until about a day ago when she just stopped being ok. She looks like she is in constant pain and walks very strangely because of said pain. My parents said she barely even moved today.

My parents and I talked about it and we aren’t really sad about it because it is her time. She is 21 years old and lived a long full life. She’s also moved and adapted better than most people will.

Anyways over the past couple years, since I knew her time was going to come to an end soon, I started taking pictures of her to remember her by and here they are.

Let’s start with her out in the atrium looking mildly annoyed.

Here is her sitting next to her favorite spot. The Carolina summers get hot and she needs to remove herself from the sun.

Enjoying some cat nip! 

Being completely adorable in her favorite spot.

Adsorbing the warm and fresh air while she can.

Finally, a picture of her and I.

I just want to add that she was a wonderful cat and every cat I own from here on out will have to live up to the standard that she laid. And boy did she put the bar high!

I love you Ashes, and I will miss you forever.

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Thank you Ashes for being a great kitty. Rest easy ❤️

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Studio status update - Jan 20 2016 I FINALLY finished this commission of my doggie cousin, Walter, for my aunt. We lost Walter in 2015 and I wanted to make sure his mad DJ skills were properly memorialized, so I made him DJ of the year (complete with gold-glitter record!). I like to think Walter & Bowie are hanging out, having a few laughs and resting easy ❤️

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HOURLY COMIC DAY, FEB 1st 2016

Now that mine are up I get to go read everybody else's! My favorite part!!

Wanna see my very first hourly comics day? Circa 2010! 

xoxo

[kellypcomics]

I wrote, penciled, inked, and finished over 124 pages of comics in 2015.

I published 6 books, including the final three-quarters of my first long-form comic series.

I got to publish 50 women’s comics in my biggest anthology to date, and I got to pay them.

I crowd funded over $17,000 to do so.

I sold more books than I’ve ever sold before, by a long shot.

I won my first comics award.

I got to do so many of these achievements with my main conspirator and one of my best and oldest friends, @clairefolkman.

I was on a panel at New York Comic Con with a packed house.

I moderated two panels at comics shows about my deep passions - one at @spx, one at Locust Moon Comics Festival - with a laundry list of amazing creators (Craig Thompson, @anniestoll, Dean Haspiel, @andreatsurumi, to name a few).

I published a comic about being sexually assaulted by a fellow comics creator and former friend.

I got engaged.

I posed on a table at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, surrounded by comics luminaries, as they drank wine and drew me in my elaborate Halloween costume.

I made a point to read as many comics as I possibly could in my free time.

I had my work published multiple times in the newspaper.

I was featured in and interviewed for articles.

I was scouted by a long-running publication and given a wonderfully generous offer.

I spoke at universities and to classrooms.

I got to plan another SPX party.

I got to help plan a comics festival.

I got a promotion.

I was able to spend countless hours with a beer in one hand and a pen in the other, surrounded by an insatiable number of people that I’m so lucky to have met, gotten to know better, and continue to spend inordinate amounts of time with.

I had a great year.

And I get to relish it just a little bit longer! 

Like I’m saying in the photo: Girls make fucking amazing comics, and ALL of you have been fucking amazing, supportive people - for me, for the people I work with, and for this really remarkable community we’ve built. Here’s to continuing to be great, to constant conspiring, and to 2016!

Thanks, guys. <3 

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MAH COMIX-WIFE IS AN UNSTOPPABLE CHAMPION <3 <3

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MONSTERFACEFALLRECAP (from @kellypcomics & @clairefolkman, your editors)!!

Dirty Diamonds was quite busy this autumn, seeing old friends at @micexpo and making new friends at @newyorkcomiccon & @comicartsbrooklyn! So many of our exquisite girls came by to say hi and we could only melt and weep with joy and take their picture every time we saw them… Just look at how amazing they are!!

We’ve had a lot of fun, but now it on to the next thing! Including announcing the theme for issue 7… COMING SOON! ;)