When Tina Pratt and I were in art school, we had this CRAZY idea to start a comic book club, the “Shoujo Phonebook”, where we self-published our members’ comics. Our first year was incredibly difficult. But through fundraisers, Smash Bros. tournaments, and tons of community service grants, we were able to raise enough to print 100 copies containing about 100 pages of our comics.
After each year, our club kept growing and we kept printing our anthology. Now, the renamed “Comic Phonebook” is ready to print it’s 10th edition and the current officers were kind to ask Tina and I to contribute an illustration for their publication.
There are two mascots for our club: a penguin and a puffin. I decided to draw a penguin to commemorate the milestone. She’s riding a velociraptor because…well, who doesn’t want to ride one?
