Julia Kaye

Busy busy busy!

Pressed for time this week, not much time for a writeup!

Friendships and jobs and healing, what could be betta than this??

I will say though, it's a magical moment when you get to introduce two people you've talked at LENGTH about to each other. It's like two celebrities meeting.

Trying to stay positive on the job-front despite that being the second job I nearly had and then l...

Out Loud 2025 Live Comic Reading

Did a comics reading over the weekend, shoutout to my bud Raye Rodriguez for filming.

It was a ton of fun! Because I can't handle watching vids of myself I can't say whether it's worth the watch or not, but people at the event seemed to enjoy themselves. :)

I'll probably upload a clip or two to social media at some point, but y'all get the full set.

Another week over, another year older

I think it was around the time I turned 30 I stopped mentioning my age online. Existing within such a youth-obsessed culture, I think I became embarrassed about it? If someone looked me up online they could easily figure it out, but I wanted it to be a little ambiguous. Also maybe add a dash of feeling like I lost most of my early 30s to the beginning years of the pandemic? Lost a few years to...

*taps mic* is this thing on?

Aaaaand I'm back. Hi! Still recovering a bit, but feeling so much more alive again.

Forgot I somehow made a comic last week about a trip to the flea market—I feel like I'm supposed to have things all figured out in regard to dysphoria by this point, but the feelings are still there to be worked through. It's all complex and layered and maybe it'll always be there to some extent...

Apologies for this week

Hi all! Afraid I don't have anything to show for this week.

I was unexpectedly impacted by a lifelong medical condition I have—99% of the time it's something entirely under control, but then it somehow went and sucker-punched me outta nowhere. That's life I guess!

The best course of action was to just let myself take the week to rest. Thankfully I'm coming out of it now and nearly...

Manifesting Mode: Locked IN

I remembered this past holiday weekend just how important it is to occasionally take time off and to actually allow yourself to do as little as possible. I absolutely COLLAPSED and MAN that did me wonders.

It's just so difficult when an entire week's worth of chores and errands need to somehow all get squeezed into a 2 day weekend. And then if you want to socialize even a little bit?? Th...

Whoops! Late post due to a date last night

I swear that when I got back into making dailies I thought they were going to be a bit more lighthearted, but hey, we all experience ups 'n downs in life. Gotta go through the downs to get back up on top, I figure!

Over the last year I've really been trying to actively work through instinctive oversized reactions when they crop up and honestly? It's nice to see growth in that are...

Crashed out but still we move forward

It's been a WEEK, but I guess that's to be expected after getting the rug pulled out from under me.

The way I see it, this is me at the lowest point in my current character arc. The Ordeal point of the heroes journey, if you will. What I'm sayin' is that I'm scrappy as hell and going to find a way forward. >:)

Ok that's all! See y'all next week. <3

Wow!! What a rollercoaster

A one day convention immediately following the most intense first-week imaginable, a single day off to recuperate, and then back into the fray! Only to get the boot after working in overdrive to learn the ins and outs of the job?? An insane whirlwind.

Honestly, despite being desperate for money right now, I know that I dodged a bullet. From day 1 at that job I kept hearing whispers about ...

Workin' Gal

A lil spa time, a minor very belated addendum to It Was So Warm as I finally cut a last tie I'd been putting off, and gettin' down to business!!

Making comics while trying to navigate learning a totally new type of work, while also prepping for a convention this weekend ran me pretty ragged this week. Honestly I think without the constant job training next week and one less convention to ...

Ups n Downs n All Arounds

Whatta wild week.

Even though I'd gone through a breakup a little over a year ago, I'd forgotten the physicality of emotionally detaching from another person. Glad to say this one's been a thousand times easier. It's wild how much better it can be when both people choose to move through the ending with respect and maturity.

Things continue to be awful in the US for trans people and ...

Oh! Surprise old comic.

Stumbled onto a comic I made a couple months ago about a cute moment with the boy I'd been dating that I'd completely forgot about.

It'd be weird to post publicly being that we had to end things, but it's still a cute moment of playfully ribbing each other, so I guess on to Patreon it goes before I forget it exists again.

#Relatable

You know that very relatable experience when you date someone and you're both completely convinced, due to a wild miscommunication, that the other person only wants to keep it casual so you both pretend to be totally cool and chill about the whole thing despite being very into each other and only find out that's what happened when it abruptly had to end due to the other person's life completely...

Week 2!

Hi all! Starting to feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things. Man, I really missed drawin' comics.

Also I stand by what I said about LARPers despite the experience.

Anyway, off I fly to Staple!, an indie con in Austin, Texas. Come swing by n say hi if you're in the area! :)

First week: Done!

Ayyyy made it through the first week! Got that ball ROLLING. Thanks everyone for coming along for the ride. 💜

From here on out they'll be posted weekly on Fridays. :)

Normally I'll be posting my dailies on Fridays BUT

It feels weird to only have 2 comics up on here so here's a few more!

I'm still adjusting to: making comics on a regular basis again and getting into the rhythms of it. Spending at most an hour on each has been a ride trying to speed things up, figuring out the right shorthand.

Also there's something a lil funny about having posted that comic about a cute date with Boy a few days po...

Casual Dating~

Here's a comic about a date from a month or so back. Honestly one of my favorite dates to memory—we were FULLY locked in the entire evening. So much so that I had to cut out some plot twists to *just barely* capture the essence of it.

I wish I had space to fit in Chloe's arc where, after years of being with her useless husband, she slipped into cheating on him with her (happily married)...

Soft Launch

Soft launching n making a post on day 2 of getting back into making comics to get the ball rolling with this thing!

Still shaking off the rust making journal comics. Even though I've been drawing comics over a decade now, it's been SO many years since I was in the practice of making daily (or near-daily) strips in my sketchbook. The last time was back in 2019, making the comics that becam...