Presenting my thesis project, Native Thumbs! Click ‘more’ to see a bunch of photos of the entire project!

Native Thumbs is a collection of mini-comics that I completed during my final year at CCS. I constructed boxes out of the backs of sketchbooks (donated by my awesome classmates) and then created a lid using sturdy cover-stock. When you open the box, you find an assortment of mini-comics! The bottom of the lid has the “Cable of Tontents,” which is arranged by the size of the mini-comic:

First up is the teeny-mini, “Stars,” which you can read in its entirety here.

Standing a few inches taller is my sketchbook/collage-mini that we’ll type out as “eeee” or “lllll.” I’ll post about how I made this in the future, it was lots of fun.

More Man’s Walkin’, my collection of color one-page comic strips, most of which have appeared online:

Coming in at #4 is Colita de Rana! I’m shopping this Children’s Book around at the moment, but here are some sneaky peakies…


I also included the second issue of my personal anthology, Polite Fiction, most of which you can read online:

Next up, First Flower! Which appears in the anthology, Future, but for my thesis, I drew each cover by hand…

Here they all are, spread out:

And finally, a tear-sheet of my comic, The Cannibal, originally appearing in Caboose:



I strangely had a great time creating these boxes! I’m so happy with the final product, and I’m glad I’m a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, 2010!