As promised: The origin story and preliminary sketches

I was having a very bad day. No details are needed, really, other than the fact that I was very much in an emotional pit. Earlier in the day, though, I had been quite chipper, and was discussing things I could do for Comic Con this year with one of my roommates who also happens to be my coworker. The previous year's Con left me inspired to draw pinups, so I was thinking of different sorts of ideas for that. And then something rained on my parade. While I was sulking in the car on the way home, the aformentioned roommate tried to cheer me up, and suggested I channel my upset into drawing... Why didn't I draw some angry pinup girls? she asked. She even coined "Pissed Off Pinups". At that point a bell rang or a lightbulb went on or something. Suddenly, I didn't feel quite so bad. And what was going to be a couple of prints I might have tried to sell on a friend's table turned into a much larger project, which is going to be the book. And who was that roommate? Aeire, writer of Punch an' Pie, and arist, among other things. Thanks, Aeire.

And the first five links to the right (Chris Sanders, Dean Yeagle, Kristen McCabe, Scott Tolleson, And Gary Ham) are some of the people who inpired me to start drawing pinups at Con '06. The last (GirlsDrawinGirls) is a group whose table I ran across this year, and their stuff was great.

And here are a few of the very first rough sketches:

I do not endorse the kicking of pidgeons, for that is a very mean thing to do. I do, however, endorse the kicking of cartoon pidgeons.


That's the original devil girl sketch. I was going to put a halo and a harp in the flames, but I thought it would have been a bit much in the end. As for biting the head off of a teddy bear, I've yet to get that pose right... but rest assured I will, and it will involve a men's button down pajama shirt. Perhaps with stripes.