i'll trade you some doodles for some noodles.

hi guysss! so i did this comic a while ago, while taking ivan brunetti’s cartooning class at columbia. (which i suggest taking, if you are a current student there. i suggest taking ANY class with ivan. he is THE BOMB DIGGITY and will improve your work. i guarantee it.)

anywho, so ivan contacted me about putting some of my work in Columbia Magazine, and this is the strip he asked for, along with my famously depressing “I heard a knock at the door…” comic (which you can find in an earlier blog entry or on my website.

this one was originally done in just black and white. as you can see, i added some color.

i know the text is hard to read on this one, so i typed out the text from each panel (find it below the image). enjoy! (also, click to see the image larger on my flickr… but you may still need to read the text here.

First Row:
1. my grandma like sto sit by the front window… all day.
2. she reads local filipino newspapers and pop culture mags from the philippines.
3. she makes daily phone calls to the philippines, also by the window.
4. sometimes she falls asleep and my aunt has to move her to wake her to move her to the bed.

Second Row:
1. the back “sun room” was built a few years ago when the house was renovated.
2. at family parties, me and my cousins play monopoly in this room.
3. on the corner table are statues of virgin mary and some other saint. they hold prayers in here, too, like on death anniversaries.
4. there’s a display case in the sun room with easter egg collectibles and christmas cards from the white house. oh, and christmas ornaments, too.

Third Row:
1. in the kitchen there’s a fish tank with three huge gold fish.
2. one morning, my cousin woke to find only two.
3. the third fish has somehow found its way onto the floor.
4. he was still alive so they dropped him back in the tank.

Fourth Row:
1. in the backyard, my aunt and uncle keep a beautiful garden.
2. my uncle smokes in the yard.
3. one time he farted.
4. the neighbor next door thought it was her dog, monty.

Fifth Row:
1. my grandma kept her sewing machine in the basement when i was little.
2. she kept her box of sequins and beads under her sewing table.
3. white, purple, shiny, sparkly…
4. i loved playing with the fabrics and ribbons and sequins.

Sixth Row:
1. there’s this drawer thing in the living room.
2. when i was little and used to live there, i would hide in the bigger compartments. i would try to scare my mom.
3. the top drawer has my uncle’s marlboro points, scissors, pens, and other random things like that.
4. in the other drawers, my aunt keeps her stash of wrapping paper, ribbons, gift bags, etc. there’s always a birthday or something.