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EXCITING NEWS: I have two new book contracts, with Random House Children's Books! See my announcement.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON RIGHT NOW:
I'm illustrating NAKED!, a new Michael Ian Black picture book (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Summer/2014). For my other book projects (including future), see my Books section.
Downloadable I'M BORED Press Info PDF : Includes quotes from The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Globe & Mail, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews blog, School Library Journal, 7 Impossible Things and more.
Written by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers (Sept/2012)
I'M BORED: Scrapbook/Blog | Facebook | Goodreads
Buy at Indiebound | Amazon | B&N | Powell's
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NEWS: I signed TWO book contracts with Simon & Schuster Books For Young readers! Details here.
Visit Inkygirl.com, my illustrated guide for those who write and draw for young people. For info about my writing, drawing and other projects, see DebbieOhi.com.
Writer comics by Debbie Ridpath Ohi are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
More details: Comic Use Policy
Welcome to Inkygirl: An illustrated guide for those who write and draw for young people, which includes my Writer's Guide To Twitter, interviews, my MicroBookReviews, writing/publishing industry surveys, Writing & Illustrating a Picture Book For Simon & Schuster BFYR post series and 250, 500, 1000 Words/Day Writing Challenge. Also see my Inkygirl archives, Category archives, and comics for writers (including Will Write For Chocolate).
I tweet about the craft and business of writing at @inkyelbows. If you're interested in my art or other projects, please do visit DebbieOhi.com. Thanks for visiting! -- Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Above and below: samples of the book-friendly cartoons by Tom Gault, whose YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK is being published later this year by Drawn & Quarterly. I have to buy this book!
See more samples of his comics in BookPatrol as well as Tom's Tumblr blog.
I'm posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation:
As I gradually catalog my writing comics in prep for a book compilation, I'm posting them here in Inkygirl:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM | Post a Comment | Email Article | Share Article | Permalink Was fascinated by Robert Lee Brewer's description of rondeaus today, so decided to step up to the challenge and posted two. Here they are:
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I HOLD MY BREATH
I hold my breath as I check mail
Wait for the cruel words to impale
my fragile writer soul so low:
it shudders, rails against the blow.
Yet I will triumph, I'll prevail!
I start again, revise & quail
as my poor baby soon sets sail
into the ether, tidal flow -
I hold my breath.
An answer comes: they like my tale
but want some changes ("do prevail!")
so back to editing below
and next month I will let it go...
and hold my breath.
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OH RONDEAU WOE
Oh rondeau woe afflicts me now
as angst and sweat drip from my brow
and once again I wonder why
self-torture so appeals to my
twisted need to figure how.
Because this form does not allow
straying from the path, I vow
to master it before I die
Oh rondeau woe.
I grit my teeth and on I plow
trying to find rhymes somehow,
but my syllables go awry
I curse the French then start to cry
so to this form I do bid ciao...
Oh rondeau woe.
