It’s the final day of the Depp V. Heard trial and I’ve completely forgotten who I am.
I know people are going to be very upset with me for drawing this because it suggests that Amber Heard’s abuse is a “great reason to ignore your life,” but try to remember that cartoons are comedy and not truth. I do not think that her abuse is entertainment, but the trial itself is one of the most wild spectacles I feel I will ever witness in my life and I truly cannot turn away from it. It should never have been live-streamed (and why is it btw??), and I find myself completely consumed by the lawyer’s voices, the legal jargon, Mr. Depp’s insanely aloof behavior, the line of star witnesses and really questionable “expert witnesses” taking the stand and all the horribly offensive memes. To help digest the unfortunate outcome this trial is having on the #MeToo movement and more, I suggest reading Jessica Bennett’s latest essay in her new newsletter “Wait, really?”
There’s been lots of bad news this week and I also have been working on my book and not quite drawing too much new stuff in my sketchbook, so I’ve combed through some old spring time sketchbooks to find a few lil gems. Like when this hairdresser gave me a middle part.
I’ve honestly become a middle part gal lately (sigh, the new generation is powerful!). But it makes me feel like I’m a girl at a roller rink in 1972 and that’s the kind of emotional support I need to get through the day.
Here’s some more random stuff, like if I ever ran a cult and not knowing what to do after exercising (does anyone else get this or am I just a really really lazy freelancer?)
Surely one day I’ll be able to share all my beauty secrets with the world. Like wearing lipstick to bed, replacing your razors maybe once a year, and picking at your face! I know all the tips and tricks for looking like a hippie queen.
I’ve been trying to think of an avocado toast cartoon gag for awhile but it hasn’t quite come to me yet. Like is there a great avocado toast mountain somewhere out in the wild? Or could one avocado toast in fact feed a thousand starving children?
My parent’s labrador Delta has this truly adorable morning routine, which I witnessed last summer. I wish Margie could have this freedom but she would get run over in Brooklyn and that would be like… really sad? Luckily Margie does have an old lady who gives her an unreal amount of treats every day so I guess we shouldn’t feel too bad for her.
And finally, sometimes the best coping one can do is to sit in silence with your best friend.
p.s. tragically Britney Spears is no longer pregnant
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