The latest Oregon Consumer Justice comic, “Building Digital Safety Skills,” #4 (!) in the series of Consumer Confidence Comics. I care a ton about making digital safety easy and approachable, so this was a project I was really excited to work on. The comic was created in collaboration with another local nonprofit, AGE+; the two organizations wrote the script and I illustrated the comic.

You can read the comic on OCJ’s website in (available in English and Spanish), and order free copies. 2,000 copies of the comic were distributed through preorders alone!

Plus, because I’m late to the post: Last year I worked on Consumer Confidence Comics #3, “Navigating Debt Collection in Court,” created with Oregon Consumer Justice, written by attorneys Kelly Jones and Michael Fuller. As always, working with Michelle Luedtke and the rest of the OCJ team was a delight.

You can see the whole thing on OCJ’s site in English or Spanish, read the supporting articles, and request free copies to distribute in your community (!)

Plus bonus development sketches:

I took a break from posting in 2025, and loved it. 2026 I’m challenging myself to post, like, once a month. I’m doing my best to be inspired by the metaphor of posting as planting a garden, as described by wonderful cartoonist Erika Moen. Each post is burying a seed; reposting is turning the soil. (Erika is much more of a gardener than I am. She plants abundant, lush gardens. Two years ago someone else planted tomatoes at my house and I remembered to water them once a day that summer; this is all of the gardening I have ever done.)

Instead of focusing the cursor, blinking, poised to eat my words and churn them into internet soup, I’m going to imagine my hands in dirt surrounded by things I love, here to watch them grow!

In the spirit of planting a healthy garden, here is something that delighted me this month:

I am terribly late to this game but Listers is a documentary about bird watching. Fully and entirely about bird watching. Also completely worth your time.