Becky Hawkins

Book 1, Page 199

Here's the original script for this page:

A full page splash panel shows the car driving along and everyone in the car. I’m imagining that we’re looking at it from the front, and slightly elevated, so we can see the people in the back seat too. Lillian’s captions are place...

2024-12-06 23:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1, Page 198

Just as we started the beach episode of SuperButch, the podcast 99% Invisible did an episode about an unofficial gay beach in New York: Jacob Riis beach! That beach was overshadowed—or sheltered ...

An Abbott Elementary AU and end-of-summer postcards

This post comprises of watercolors that I started weeks or months ago, but I always had something more pressing to work on. I finally made the time to finish them during a cafe-session at Refuge with Barry. Yay!

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Book 1, page 196-197

The beach-trip issue commences!

Please enjoy this view without the inset panels:

This is the sixth double-page spread in SuperButch. It takes up two 11x14 sheets of paper with some over...

Buildings and goofballs

Hi patrons!

Here are some things I've been up to in between jury duty, drawing political cartoons for Barry, and being on hold with Unemployment. The watercolor is from a photo I took of Walnut St in Pittsburgh. I hate that natural light makes everything SO BEAUTIFUL several hours before I ...

Travel toons (Seattle/Pittsburgh/DC)

Dough Zone was delicious. So was Momosan, which we hit on the way back.

There are zero nonstop flights from Portlan...

Page 196-197 Preview

Hi patrons,

I'm about to fly east for a family visit. (First time in Pittsburgh since 2019!) I was trying to finish this spread first, but unemployment knocked me off-schedule. This post was all ready to go, so I'm giving you a preview and a peek behind the scenes!

This is the sketchb...

Sounds like we're all in the right place

I started this cartoon towards the beginning of summer camp and finished it just in time for the beginning of fall classes. Have I mentioned that drawing multiple panels and picking contemporary hair/outfits adds exponential drawing time to a Becky-comic?

I have some big news: It turns out ...

Postcards: Strong Songs and Girls5Eva

Strong Songs is the musical deep dive I didn't know I needed! It feels so good listening to someone get super enthusiastic about ...

Summer postcards (overheard at the theater)

The box office is right at the top of these stairs, so I overhear complaints/comments about the stairs every day. This one cracked me up, though. I hope the diaper bag, lunch box, and dry cleaning bags communicate that Mommy has, in fact, been running around all day.

2024-08-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Issue 7 Cover Reveal!

My progress chart said to finish the cover "by 6/10?" and I made it!

This left us four days for Barry to finish lettering the issue, lay out the book, and make a PDF, and for me to buy printer pap...

Book 1, Page 195

You read that right: issue eight is going to be a beach episode! A Pacific Northwest beach, so It’s going to have more trees than I have ever drawn.

Barry listed a few ideas for panel 2 in the script:

Panel 2

1988 colors, about two-thirds of the page.

Theyâ€...

2024-08-05 03:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Book 1, Page 194

Suspense!!

It was my idea for Lillian to accidentally make her beer explode onto Kansas' lap. As always, I dig deep into life experiences to inform my art.

Mona's face in panel 4 makes me laugh. She's disappointed but sooo unsurprised. I worked on pages 191-195 at the same time, ...

Book 1, Page 193

Hi patrons!

Let’s give Barry a round of applause for the swoopy radio lettering. Even if it covered up some laboriously drawn hands wiping a beer glass in panel 2, per his script 😛

I took this jacket out of retirement to pose for Ruth and Lillian in this scene. I think I got it ...

Book 1, Page 192

I thought of the "second beer" gag while I was drawing page 183, in which Lillian face-plants in the alley. Here's my conversation with Barry:

As you can see, Barry developed the idea a bit. When ...

Book 1, Page 191

Please, someone zoom in to appreciate the era-appropriate buffalo head nickel and mercury dimes that are hinted at in panel 1! Barry thoughtfully looked up the cost of beer in 1941 (about 28 cents) and wrote "one of Lillian’s hands, putting two quarters and a dime on the bar" in the script. The...

Spring turns to summer at the children's theater

There was a memorable snail in A Year With Frog and Toad, so I saw a bunch of snail-walking from the box office.

This next incident was relayed to me by the house manager, pictured on the left. Once again I got to play with contrasting lighting situations (lobby vs theater)! I also...

Book 1, Page 190

This page has seven new faces that we haven't seen before and won't see again in this issue.

For some of the women, I started by drawing one aspect of Lillian's appearance (face shape, hair, etc) that might catch Captain Turtle's eye, then drew their other features to be definitely not<...