Sketchbook: Surf Yoga, Whale Moon, Island of Monsters

A random page from my 2016 sketchbook. Never stop drawing. Onward, we go. 2017, let's see what you got.

Update: Upworthy and TABI LABO

Honored to have my cartoons featured on Upworthy and TABI LABO this month!

Wishing you all peace, love, and solace this season.  I'll be back with new cartoons in the new year. 

Grateful to you for reading and relating.

Update: Visiting Home for the Holidays

Taking a daily cartooning break for the holidays to recharge. Back in the new year.

Thanks so much for reading the comics.

Life On Earth

We should ask the dinosaurs for advice.

Maybe We Overcomplicate Things In This Life

If you need a little love today -

I Don't Know If This Is War Yet

I am so sorry. #Aleppo

Every Cactus Has A Personality

It's amazing we coexist in the world.

For When You Have to Call Upon Strength

Be Strong Monday

Annoying Either Way

I just realized that I'm being annoying either way. Self-awareness = life's work

History is Watching

Does history remember or forget??

Superpower By Proxy

You can't even hurt my feelings ;)

Comedy Equals

Comedy equals tragedy plus time. Plus my love life. ;)

Equal Parts Hope

- for every heartbreak.

Connie on Ko-fi

[Color pencil illustration comic of a cartoon girl with a bun pouring a pitcher of universe into a larger pitcher, against a backdrop lushly rendered purples and golden yellows. Text caption: "I like to think that for every heartbreak in the universe...there exists equal parts hope." Comic page titled "Equal Parks Hope" in bold ink script. Original illustration by Connie Sun, cartoonconnie, from 2016.]

What's For Dinner?

I don't know what's for dinner or the long-term side effects of operating in a global economy, dependent on fossil fuels.

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." (x)

May We Have This Level of Compassion

This is everybody.

With or Without Warning

Go make something with it.

Full Cycle Fashion

Why, why do history and fashion keep repeating??

Self-Care Weekend

Hope you are rested and repaired :)

Water Is Life

Mni Wiconi. #StandingRockSyllabus

Humanity is Chaos

- but you still gotta eat, right? May your hearts and stomachs be full, wherever you are.

Wish Hugs

Sometimes I wish hugs could last forever.

Friends Who Fill In the Gaps

Thank you.

In Uncertain Times

In uncertain times, AKA, life:

I wish you safe.

Far Away, Friday

Sometimes, Friday. Sometimes.

Text Message Pep Talks

My long-suffering friends...

Well Beyond Reproach, Humanity

I mean, we're human - you can't judge us, right?

New Series: Animal Climbing Beta #1 and 2

In case you missed it, I'm a new artist in residence at Brooklyn Boulders and, for the next 4 months, I'll be working on a fun cartoon series on animals and climbing friendships. 

Here are the first 2 series installments: Animal Climbing Beta (#1) and Underrated Animal Climbers (#2). 

If you have cartoon ideas, animal suggestions, or stories about climbing friendships, find me @cartoonconnie on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook, or say hi in person if you climb in NYC!

Shout out to Kevin R., Lorenzo, and Kevin W. for their ideas on the first 2 in the series!

Unique Human Abilities

Researcher Brene Brown says that one of the reasons we blame is to offset pain.

Modern Political Discourse

It's loud, but are you listening?

Got Your Back

#kidlitsafetypins

Dig Deep, Friends

Compassion; courage.

I Don't Know, Sea Turtle

Let's take better care of each other.

Familiar Battleground

All too familiar.

Weird Truths

The only thing worse than voting is not voting. ;)

Keep the Needle Moving Forward

"You vote it."- Maya Angelou

One Hopeful Thing

Overheard on the subway. Marking time, navigating life together ;)

#relationshipgoals

Everybody on the Subway

What if everybody had a hard day?

Ya know?

You Can Never Have Too Much Sweater

Sweater weather, sweater weather, swetah wetha ;)

NYC Moment

When you hear a subway rendition of "Crazy" and question everything.

The Things Friends Say

Penguin tough love for single people ;)

Essential Emojis

Happy birthday to the one/only Sree Sreenivasan! Thanks for your heart, generosity, and essential #sreetips on life :)

One Step at a Time Flirt

Do you mean in the larger sense of humanity?? ;)

New Project: Cartoonist in Residence at Brooklyn Boulders

Super excited to be a new cartoonist in residence at Brooklyn Boulders! For the next 4 months, I’ll be drawing a series of comic strips on animals and climbing beta! Here's the first one. Stay tuned for future installments!

Big thank you to Cyrena Lee and BKB for the awesome oppty and fellow climber Lakshmi Menon for her excellent photog skills.

Announcement Excerpt:

"The community at Brooklyn Boulders has come to mean a lot to me in a short span of time...One of the unexpected gifts of climbing has been the people I have met, who have generously shared wisdom, kindness, and beta with me. 

On good and bad days, I can always count on climbing as a safe space where I can leave stress and anxiety to the side, off my mind...I didn’t know when I started climbing how much I would feel uplifted by this community, both on and off the wall. 

I hope you enjoy the cartoons. They are dedicated to YOU: everyone who “climbs” in every sense — reaches high, learns to fall, gets back up again, and finally sends."