Category: Writing

Reflecting on Cans of Beans (2012-2019)

The new cover I drew for Cans of Beans exclusively for Tapas (December 2025)

Cans of Beans was a slice-of-life dramedy webcomic that ran from 2012-2019, about a creepy-by-choice loner werewolf named Carl and his chill surfer-bro roommate Dude. I wrote, drew, and did all of the management of Cans of Beans–a one-woman show.

Aaaand about 2 weeks ago, I accidentally destroyed my own website by updating WordPress using an old version of Comicpress, a theme used by many webcomickers of that era, and now I have no choice but to upload my whole comic onto a mirror while I’m scrambling to fix the original site.

What an excellent way to force myself to revisit my old comic!

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Drafting Complete, Thumbnailing, and Comic Pages

Been a little quiet on this blog and online in general because I’m excited to say: I finished my second draft of La Principessa and now I’m in the middle of a comic-creating flurry.

I’m really glad I tackled my first draft as practically a stream of consciousness, which is how I did my first draft of Cans of Beans as well. I don’t do well with intensive outlines and plotting! It’s on my 2nd draft that I spend some time analyzing what I’m trying to say and what the themes, character arcs, etc. are, and then edit/build towards that. I find writing way more fun that way.

The next step (besides sending out this draft to my marvelous friends for reading) is to start thumbnailing the dang thing, which I’m doing in my trusty Supernote. Chapter 1 of thumbnailing is complete because I’m so dang excited!

Just so you have a little treat of what these comic pages are looking like, here’s a little preview. Ciao!

comic page WIP of a girl dressed as a pirate climbing on some rocks and looking to the horizon