Finding Dee

FINDING DEE is a weekly webcomic devoted to the semi-autobiographical misadventures of a middle-aged cartoonist trying to make it in comics while navigating the ins and outs of coming out as a transgender woman. Also, trying to find a place to pee. New Strips post every Monday. Hope you enjoy. :)

[deebrisbyfish]

Poe eating the cat's food is a fairly NEW thing. But at this point, he's pretty blind and stopped eating his OWN food, so we're just kinda happy he's eating ANYTHING! lol That said, the idea occurred to me to finally do an homage to my old boss, and I had a LOT of fun with it.

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[deebrisbyfish]

If you're in the Pittsburgh area, you can find me at the 3 RIVERS COMICON all weekend at table B3! I've got books, original art, AND will be taking commissions, drawing sketch cards and sketch covers, and having fun! Hope to see you there! THIS strip is based on what happened last year at the ALA Conference in Philly. I was doing caricatures all weekend, and almost EVERY single person had dark hair. lol

[deebrisbyfish]

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[deebrisbyfish]

Today's strip features a cameo by fellow Giant Girl Adventures artist and friend, Ed Smith! He's also a PATREON backer, and his reward tier was to appear in the STRIP! (Hope you dig, Ed!) This strip is sort of a compilation of a LOT of conversations I've had with artists over the years, and is highly streamlined, of course. CAN I ink with a crowquill pen: yes. Do I LIKE to: NO. That scratching sound is HORRIBLE to me! lol And since I will be at 3 RIVERS COMICON in Pittsburgh this weekend, making drawings and selling books, it seemed like a good week to do a "Dee at a convention" strip.

[deebrisbyfish]

I am very much a cartoonist from the school of "every panel has a punchline" writing. This is largely a side effect of making (mostly) weekly strips for so long. So, if this were a strip that ran more days a week, this would likely have been broken up into a few separate gags over a few days, with each panel's punchline being THE punchline of its own strip. That said, the strip is still generally weekly until more folks start backing it on Patreon, so I like to get all the possible gags in. lol

[deebrisbyfish]

If you have pets, this dance is likely VERY familiar to you. If you have THREE cats and a puppers who ALL are very needy for attention, this is a certainty for you. As for the final... step... Poe is OLD and has accidents. Accidents we ALWAYS have to watch out for upon coming home. ;)

[deebrisbyfish]

I know that a lot of folks can't STAND writing with phonetically written accents, but I kinda love them. ANNNND, these are MY novels, so they have their fair share of them. That said, it IS a functional auditory crime to listen to me read these books out loud, so don't expect audiobooks any time soon. lol You can check them out at havenwolf.com

[deebrisbyfish]

I have been in a LOT of public restrooms designed by, what I can only assume, are MONSTERS. Demons that delight in knowing how much of a pain in the arse their layout will be. I hate them all. This will NOT be the only look into that hatred. lol

[deebrisbyfish]

The "fun" part of writing this strip is that my little "news alert" could very easily be true by the time this runs. Ugh.

[deebrisbyfish]

So, yeah. This 16-panel beast was an idea that I had as a way to chronicle what was pretty much ALL of the month of April for me, as I regularly checked and rechecked my email, waiting for the National Cartoonists Society to announce who the nominees were this year. At the end, I GOT the nomination in my category, which is STILL mind-blowing to me, but for a solid MONTH I was in a fairly deep pit of anxiety that I HAD to chronicle in the comic. :) And in spite of how dense this strip is, it was a LOT of fun to draw and only still took about 2 and a half hours to ink and color.

[deebrisbyfish]

Sometimes, an idea doesn't really work for a full-on, Finding Dee strip. As such, this format is kinda perfect for weird, random ideas I get. lol

[deebrisbyfish]

I... I don't really have anything to ADD to this strip, except to confirm that yes... this happened. (MAYbe more than once. Poor Mewsikeen.)

[deebrisbyfish]

Finding Dee brings holiday shopping chaos, new outdoor kitty adventures, pet rivalries, artistic gripes, LGBTQ laughs & a whole lot more humor & heart.

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[deebrisbyfish]

A narrated timelapse video of my recent goof masu-up of Pinky and the Brain with The Transformers the Movie! With the Orson Wells connection, this seemed like such a fun idea to draw that I just HAD to do it! And you can see NEW narrated timelapse videos of strips weekly at patreon.com/bigpondcomics

[deebrisbyfish]

Almost every morning, I need to negotiate with a cat... usually Mewsikeen... for my lap to do things like read emails or have coffee. Thankfully, I use a LOT of creamer, and my coffee is usually not all THAT hot, because this has happened more than a couple of times. lol

[deebrisbyfish]

This was a strip that originally WASN'T written as a part of this story, but I realized after finishing the mini-arc... that it was the most important piece, and it was missing. It was the part of the story that elaborates on the WHY of my injury. And while I know most of these sorts of things are FAR from being exclusive experiences, or in any way trans-specific, they are a part of my messed-up makeup that leads me to still push myself farther than I should, more often than not. As such, I drew this one up quickly to fill in the narrative gap.

[deebrisbyfish]

My arm is pretty much recovered now, but I STILL sit like that to work on the strip quite often. If I do a little too much work all in one sitting, it will act up a smidge, so the pillow fort remains. lol