kaylee rowena
comic artist, illustrator, & fan of ghosts
Latest posts
weird web october: camera
weird web october: suboptimal
weird web october: solids
weird web october #4: filters
weird web october #3: scramble
weird web october #2: maps
weird web october #2!
weird web october
i'm trying out another month-long website challenge! weird web october is a challenge to make a fun/silly/creative/experimental website every day of october. it started in 2024, but i was too busy last october to join in — honestly i'm also probably too busy this october, but i'm going to try to do at least a handful of entries for it. i'm not putting any pressure on myself to do every single day,…
flamecon 2025 reflections
so i lost track of doing blaugust posts for a bit. it was probably bound to happen at some point; i'll consider it a success if i manage to get at least 15 posts out in august, rather than every single day, but i ended up swamped with preparation for flamecon (which was this past weekend) & then completely exhausted after the con was done, so i missed about a week's worth of posts. whoops! very…
newsletter: 🔥 flamecon is this weekend! 🔥
<~ back to blog ♥ newsletter: 🔥 flamecon is this weekend! 🔥 posted Tuesday August 12 2025 #blaugust / what is blaugust? mirrored from my newsletter — subscribe here via email or rss or follow on my blog via rss ! hello all! it’s been a while since i’ve written anything on my newsletter; i’ve had a very slow summer in some ways (not many conventions) and a very busy summer in other ways (lots of…
hobby log: felt pins
♥ blaugust 10 / hobby log: felt pins posted Sunday August 10 2025 #blaugust / what is blaugust? whoops, i missed a couple days of blaugust. i wanted to keep it going every day all month, but i've had a weird past couple days & didn't want to make another post that was basically nothing — even if this whole thing is an experiment in being less rigid in what i put on my blog, i still don't want to…
new brushes & books
currently... -> it's 10:20pm, and i am sleepy / listening to pinkshift's whole discography on loop / just finished reading the river has roots by amal el-mohtar / working on some last minute prints for flamecon i'm trying not to skip any days for blaugust. the temptation to say "oh, it's okay if i miss today, i don't have much to write about, i'll just write something tomorrow" is extremely strong…
a few things i'm enjoying today
i wrote a rather long & detailed blog entry yesterday, so i'm keeping it short and sweet today, since it's already 11pm and i don't have much interesting to report. currently there's a cat sleeping on my lap with her little face tucked into my arm, which is 100% ideal, and is also making it slightly hard to type without disturbing her. i just finished (like, several minutes ago) reading the river…
blaugust 04: long live the black parade (an mcr infodump)
blaugust 04: long live the black parade posted Monday August 04 2025 #blaugust / what is blaugust? about 80% of my brainspace today has been taken up by thinking about the current my chemical romance tour, so i'm going to talk about that for today's blog post, because it's my website and you can't stop me. for anyone who's completely unfamiliar: my chemical romance is an american rock band that…
lists
it's pretty nice outside; i'm catsitting right now & sitting with the windows open and my best friend's cat on my chest. my blog post for today is a collection of lists — i might update this from time to time in the future, so consider this an ongoing page! inspired by sweetfish.site/lists crotovane.neocities.org/pins evy.garden/lists favorite songs cop car - mitski troy - gawain and the green…
html day
i went to html day in brooklyn today! my impromptu project for the meetup was to make little abstract portraits of the people around me (/patterns on the clothes people were wearing, mostly) in only html/css. i didn't do as many as i'd planned, mostly because i ran over to the pie place next to the park to try key lime pie for the first time midway through the meetup lmao, but here's a couple!…
blaugust 01: blog time!
friday august 01 2025 / #blaugust / what is blaugust? inspired by loren's what if i wrote something every day? , i'm tentatively joining the " blaugust " challenge. i briefly wrote a ton on this blog back in march, and then got overwhelmed with other things & started overthinking the concept of posting on my blog again, despite my goals of it being a very casual, very low-stakes thing. quoting…
weeknotes #6
currently… -> it's hot!!!!! / listening to my friend emma's on repeat playlist / (just finished) reading stars hide your fires by jessica best / working on affairs of the haunt (waiting for feedback on thumbnails) & deck of spirits i made 5 blog posts in march and then vanished for 3 months. whoops! a little catch-up on what i've been up to since then: i've been tabling more local art markets/zine…
upcoming events update!
i've got some events coming up! two local brooklyn ones: may 31 xerox riot zine fest @ til death bushwick, brooklyn, ny june 8 pride makers market @ footlight underground at the windjammer bushwick/ridgewood, brooklyn, ny (and an event-not-coming-up: i've officially cancelled my table at tcaf this year since traveling outside the country is an increasingly stressful prospect. hopefully next year!)…
convention tables
new page! this is mostly for me to link on convention & art fair applications, but for anyone interested in some behind-the-scenes about tabling at events like this, it also includes photos of all of my convention tables since 2017 ! i think it's neat to see how my display has evolved since i started.
shop open!
oc updates!
a couple small changes to my original characters page! i spruced up the styling on the index so it actually gives some info about the characters instead of just being a list of names, added a page for my very first d&d character, a space ghost tiefling named nessie , and made a page for the weird dynamic between 3 of my other ocs , who already have pages of their own that i didn't want to clutter…
link roundup: lists of cons & zine fairs
this page is, honestly, as much for me as it is for you. i always lose track of where to look for various conventions, zine fairs, art book fairs, and etc to apply to table at, so here's a list of lists — places that collect that sort of information! i'm constantly super frustrated at how many conventions only post application info on instagram — i don't check instagram often at all, which means i…
travel worries
i got into TCAF (the toronto comic arts festival) again this year, which is in mid-june, and i've been trying for the past week to puzzle out whether or not i'll be going. this post is sort of an aimless worrying about that question, and doesn't really come to any solid conclusions, but it feels weird not to post about it and i'm trying to do more stream-of-consciousness blogs this year anyways,…
update: in search of a like button
i wouldn't usually make a blog entry update into a whole rss entry, but i want to spread the word of the fantastic tool someone made inspired by my "like button" post! edit march 13 2025: incredibly, the very talented fritzi was inspired by this post to make a like button script using google sheets as the backend! i'm absolutely in awe of how well it works. you can find the code on her site here!…
a super simple portfolio template
want to code your own portfolio site, but not sure where to start? here's a super basic, customizable template you can use. (as a disclaimer: i am not an expert or even a professional at this, i just like coding & i think having a hand-coded website is cool, and i want to help make it easier for people to do that!)
in search of a like button
after finishing thumbnailing a bunch of comic pages today, i wanted to see if i could figure out something that seems like it should be really simple: adding a 'like' button to my blog posts. this is, apparently, the most difficult thing anyone's ever done, coding-wise. i figured it'd be a bit complicated — i don't know all that much about backend coding / databases / etc, since i host my site via…
the year of the blog
the year of the blog 2025.03.06 currently… -> it's an hour after therapy, and i've accidentally let my coffee get cold, which is a tragedy the likes of which no one has ever experienced in history / listening to behind the bastards' episodes on versailles, which are hilarious and highly recommended / reading dracula / working on thumbnails for affairs of the haunt v buckenham has declared 2025 the…
camera - may & june 2024
i'm catching up on old disposable camera stuff — i have about 6 waiting to be developed (whoops!) but i've uploaded some pictures from last summer in toronto ( may 2024 ) & ann arbor ( june 2024 )!
hourly comics day 2025
welcome to my brand new rss feed! to kick things off here, i've posted all my hourly comics day pages from this year. here's a couple of them below, and you can see the rest on my site !