We're about to leave for the reading at the Central Library tonight! We have to get downtown in time for a couple whiskey shots before we go on. Wish us luck!

So far this month I've been featured in two of my favorite art/sex blogs: Sex in Art and Filthy Gorgeous Things.

Rob Clough of sequart.com reviewed my comic book(s), Ariadne auf Naxos, on his blog High-Low, and had some really insightful things to say. I especially liked this part (spelling errors aside):

There's an obsession with nomenclature and language that pervades this comic, especially the ways in which focusing in on picayune details obscures real meaning. Grforer expresses this idea with deadpan wackiness, with dialogue a bit reminiscent of Mat Brinkman's MULTI-FORCE: slang and curses spoken by supernatural characters....This comic is as much about the creation of the comic as it is a narrative, as Grforer never lets the reader forget that the comic is being drawn and that she is drawing it, even as strange things happen to her. The drawings have the crackling energy of sketchbook spontaneity but with a wit that provides a solid support structure.

Ariadne auf Naxos was written mostly during TBA last year, when I volunteered as a gallery sitter. (When you are reading it, try to imagine that you can hear Tamy Ben-Tor's Gewalt, faint but distinct, played every eleven minutes for many hours at a time.) Though I wasn't able to volunteer this year, I have started working on a third book. Brodie and I will be performing my comics at the Portland Public Library in October, about which more soon.

This evening I dropped off my work for this months' show at Zhu Lin Gallery. I'm especially excited about several brand-new large drawings on Japanese Masa paper that I did over the last couple of weeks.



The show opens this Friday, August 7, from 6 to 9 PM. There's a writeup at The Hungry Eyeball.

We spent all weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium, pushing copies of my brand-new comic book, Ariadne auf Naxos, which was published by Teenage Dinosaur last week. A couple of people said the comic was "gross" and "too freaky," and one guy asked me whether I was aware that the carrots in my comic were "erotic."

If you didn't make it to the Symposium, you can still get your copies of the comics at my Etsy store.

This week I'll be pouring my energy into preparing for a show at Zhu Lin Gallery in August. The show is called "Three Muses", and will feature figure drawings and paintings by Lindsay de Armond, Elena Cronin and me. It opens on Friday, August 7.

Today we're hanging a show curated by Sean Christensen ABT, titled "Beastmasters of the Universe," at Guapo Comics and Coffee in Portland. It opens on Saturday, May 30.

Each artist was supposed to draw their favorite beast or creature. I made two pieces for this show, an incubus and a banshee, but I'm most excited to see the Vortex Jam Comics collaborative drawing of several Wolverines we did a couple of weeks ago, which Sean promised to color. My Wolverine is weeping as blood oozes from his freshly-snikted claws. Of course.

I was interviewed by two rad art blogs this week.

The Tools Artists Use explored the technical end of my work, including what kind of paper and pens I use, and what sort of lead I put in my mechanical pencils.

Privelidge House wanted to know about my creative process. With Caitlin, I discussed my influences, why I make art, and the things in my work I'm most insecure about.

My Etsy site has been updated with three new drawings for sale, and a new banner at the top.

I'll be at Floating World Comics today signing and selling books alongside Theo Ellsworth between 12PM and 3PM in honor of Free Comics Day. Come by and get your free copy of Bird Hurdler, in which our work appears.