More high school drams

Pages 4 - 6 of the high school story.

Gurtie

Sketch for a new mini I'm working on.

COC: new installment

So I've left the "Seventeen" story line alone this past week, and have jumped ahead to high school. I got kind of sick of all this holy-shit-I'm-stuck-in-my-head for now, and have temporarily moved onto more action. I've done about 9 pages of this section of the coming out storyline, all of which is done without any interior monologue or narration. Doing it completely from the third-person has been a lot different than how it was to actually live this experience, which involved a LOT of back-thinking (why am I acting this way? what am I thinking? what is going on? who do I think I am?) and a lot of worry (what if she hates me? what if I hate myself? what if I am completely clueless and awkward?).

Here are three of these nine pages. I'm sorry if it's a bit hard to read the text in the images, but if you click on it you should get an enlarged version that should be clearer.

Old article I found

I was trawling the internets the other day, which means I was googling myself, "Katie Omberg," which is always a fun thing. I found this old review that Rob of Panel Patter did of my work from SPX last fall. Check it out here.

COC installment 5

After much anticiption, here is the fifth section of the Coming Out Comic. And yes, we are still in Safeway. And yes, we are still reading Seventeen.

So I work this dumb security job at an art museum in DC. The one benefit of it is that you are surrounded by interesting things to look at. The downside is that, after looking at them for 7 hours a day, they aren't that interesting anymore. Here's a drawing I did of a grandfather clock that's on the old side of the museum. I did it on the back of a receipt, which is why the image looks a bit bogus.

"Seventeen," why?!

Oh man. So, for those of you who have been following the COC storyline, "seventeen" magazine is something which all 4th grader girls hold in the highest esteem. Well, at least they did 10 years ago.

Anyways, I found this really disheartening story on a transphobic article they published in Oct. 2009. Click here to read about the article.

Also, here is a link to the latest section of the COC, in which "Seventeen" plays a pivitol role in my life. IN. MY. LIFE. people.


Here is a link to Pam's House Blend, which has a PDF of the original article.