From the archives: my admittedly dark Family Day comic

I'm always a wee bit nervous about sharing my darker/quirkier work, but I'm trying very hard this year to post stuff I enjoy doing even if I know it won't get a lot of Likes or comments.

This, for example, is a dark comic I did years ago when I first found out about Family Day (which *today*, by the way, at least in parts of Canada). I mean, shouldn't every day be Family Day? I'm less cynical about it now, and know it's a holiday to be taken in the same spirit as Father's Day and Mother's Day etc. This comic was inspired by both Family Day and one of my favourite Ray Bradbury short stories, "All Summer In A Day."

I've always been drawn to the horror genre, though don't get as much time to read it these days. I wrote a snailmail fan letter to Stephen King many years ago (before he got super-popular) and he wrote back with a hand-typed letter that even had liquid papered corrections.

Hoping someday to work on a book with darker undertones, though I know it's a tricky thing in a picture book. Middle grade or YA, perhaps?

I'm a comic character in someone else's comic!

Thanks to Debs and Errol for featuring me in their latest webcomic! Check out the full size version here, or click on the image to the left.

Speaking of DebsandErrol, they're giving free mini-concerts on Google+ this Saturday! Here are the details.

A bio I want to use sometime

Working on an illustrator bio for the back jacket flap of I'M BORED (author: Michael Ian Black, coming out from Simon & Schuster in 2012). When I mentioned this on Facebook recently, my astrophysicist friend Bruce Macintosh (who knows about my longtime love-hate relationship with squirrels) helpfully suggested this text:

"Deborah Ohi was born in 1837 in an underground city founded by a tribe of lost Japanese-Welsh seafarers on the site that now holds Toronto. She was raised from birth to be the champion of her people in their struggle against the Great Squirrel Queen, but lost most of her memories in 1972 in a mysterious asparagus accident and hence has no idea why squirrels continue to infiltrate her walls, or why nuts glow in her presence. She is a talented illustrator, and can metabolize several kinds of bark. She lives in Toronto with her husband Jeff. "

Which inspired today's Daily Doodle. :-)

To keep up my other Daily Doodles, please do visit the main DebbieOhi.com page.

Favourite Inkygirl & Will Write For Chocolate comics?

Hey all, I'm about to send off a book proposal for a compilation of my writer comics, and I'm trying to decide what comics to include as samples. If you have any favourite Inkygirl or Will Write For Chocolate comics, please do let me know...thanks!