Comic Panel 1: Inside the Princess Pups castle, Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup are wearing safety goggles and lab coats. Fluff Pup is in the middle of carefully adding one liquid to another in science lab beakers. TeaCup Pup is using her magic wand to keep a Science-Ish book floating up where Fluff Pup can read it Comic Panel 2: Closer image of Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup; they’ve moved their science stuff onto a countertop.The glass beaker of liquid has some purple colored swirls coming out of it and floating above it. It's bubbling a lot! Fluff Pup is concentrating as she writes notes on a clipboard. TeaCup Pup sits on the other side with a pencil and open book, watching the liquid closely. Comic Panel 3: The swirl cloud disappears and the large bubbles stop, as the liquid settles itself into a lime green color. Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup celebrate and have a word balloon showing a strong checkmark and happy faces to showcase that their science was a success! Right behind TeaCup Pup, Scruffy Pup is peeping her head up on the table with her tongue flopping out. She looks at the liquid with a soda can and a question-mark image above her head.

Comic Panel 4: Scruffy Pup has swooped up between Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup to quickly grab the science liquid and starts to drink it! She has a word balloon with a soda can and heart above her head as she’s convinced this is soda! Fluff Pup cringes and looks startled as TeaCup Pup furiously waves her arms back and forth with an exclamatory word balloon with a crossed out image of a soda can, trying to warn her friend it’s NOT soda!

Comic Panel 5: A large, blocky BOOF! Sound effect takes up much of the space as the same purple swirls from earlier in the comic descend around Scruffy Pup. She now has a frog head, but still has her fluffy-floppy dog ears. Her tongue sticks out of her frog mouth with a bit of the green liquid on it and she has a puzzled look on her now-frog face.

Science (Not Soda): Part One

The pups get into Science Stuff, but probably should have told Scruffy Pup what they were doing before she jumped to her own conclusions!...

 

Batty and Spooky Coloring Pages!

This month’s coloring pages are fit for Spooky Season! First we have Teacup Pup donning some sweet bat wings to fit in with the new bat friends she made recently! Teacup Pup knows she can’t fly like her bat friends but she can pretend with those sweet, sweet wings…

Teacup Pup with her new batty pals!

This month’s other free coloring page is Pug Pup dressed to impress in her homemade spider costume! She made it herself and she is very proud of it. 🙂

Pug Pup already has a bucket of candy to go with her costume!

You’ll find these Halloweenie coloring pages along with other Halloweenie coloring pages over here!

Corgi Pup Coloring is Afoot!

This month, without actually intending it, there’s a happy accident of Corgi Pup being the Main Focus of new colors pages! She discovered some dinosaur bones in a recent comic, which was the inspiration for one of this month’s coloring pages. While TeaCup Pup is helping with the dig, it seems that Scruffy Pup is falling into old habits of chomping on fossil bones…

Image that links to the full size coloring page of Corgi Pup digging up a T-Rex skull. TeaCup Pup is helping with the dig. In the background, Scruffy Pup is chomping on a large fossil bone sticking out the ground.
Each pup got a fun hat to wear while on the dino dig!
The cover of When Dinosaurs Wrestled the Earth

If you’re a big dinosaur fan, this summer we released When Dinosaurs Wrestled The Earth’s second printing, which is a super fun coloring book featuring dinosaur wrestlers! The line art is by my best friend, partner, and husband James Hornsby. I had a lot of fun coloring the front and back cover art for the book. Each page features some cheeky tidbit about a particular dinosaur and their wrestling gimmick. When I noticed we were running low on our original print run, I decided to reformat the book so that each image is on a single page, which reduces bleed-through from markers. You can buy a copy here.

This month’s second coloring page that also features Corgi Pup is surfing themed! Corgi Pup seems unsure of her decision to be on a surf board (I don’t blame her – I’ve never surfed and wouldn’t know what to do!). Scruffy Pup, meanwhile, seems to know what she’s doing?

Corgi Pup looking nervous as she surfs on a large wave in the ocean. On a separate wave in the background, Scruffy Pup balances on her head while surfing. A bird flying overhead looks alarmed.
Corgi Pup is unsure of these sweet waves.

I hope you enjoy coloring this month’s pages! You can download even more coloring pages over in the coloring pages section!

Coloring pages and GeekCraft Wrap-up!

It’s time for a brand-new coloring page and this month we have Pug Pup and TeaCup Pup digging into the cookie jar! While TeaCup Pup is small enough to fit into a cookie jar, Pug Pup is happy to hang out nearby said cookie jar and just keep pluckin’ cookies from the jar with a paw.

Pug Pup and TeaCup Pup enjoy some quality cookie time!

Also, as promised earlier this month, I have a free downloadable coloring page from Princess Pups Coloring Party that I released earlier this month! This coloring page is of the cover art for the still-pretty-dang-new Princess Pups Coloring Party coloring and activity book! I added it as the first page for the new coloring book as I was really happy with how it turned out. The Pups love to color!

The Princess Pups enjoy coloring in multiple medias!

If you haven’t had a chance to pick up a copy of the new book. you can order it on Amazon or buy a copy from me in person if you find me at an event. Like a lot of swell people did when I was a vendor at GeekCraft Expo last week, which is a super cool show for buying handmade geeky things.

The booth setup for MegaGiganto, our small biz for making comics and swell fun things.

Besides selling comics and coloring books with me and my husband’s artwork, I’ve been slowly designing and crocheting plush versions of Princess Pups and sold a TeaCup Pup to a super happy customer. I also crochet DINOSAUR WRESTLERS which were happily picked up by a lot of dinosaur fans.

A basket of crochet Princess Pups await homes near the DIY wrestling ring full of crochet dino wreslters

I pre-registered for the 2023 GeekCraft Expo as well. So if you weren’t in the St. Louis area for this year’s GeekCraft Expo, you can find me next year 🙂

“Laser Ponies: 2nd Edition” nominated for Best Family Game!

Last year, I illustrated the cover and lots of interior drawings for “Laser Ponies: 2nd Edition”. Laser Ponies is a tabletop RPG where you play as magical, happy ponies who have tons of adventures…and also can shoot lasers out of their eyes.

Doing artwork for this new edition was super fun, and now it’s been nominated for an Ennie award for Best Family Game!

If you enjoy reading Princess Pups and enjoy Table Top games, you’ll probably really enjoy Laser Ponies! It has background on the ponies, their powers, sample ponies so new players can start playing quickly, and advice for adjusting the game for younger players.

You can buy a copy of Laser Ponies as either a PDF or a lovely softcover print edition over on DriveThruRPG! And if you’ve enjoyed the game, voting for the Ennies is open now until July 24th!

A Laser Pony giving a fish peeping out of the river a flower
A happy Laser Pony giving a fish peeping out of the river a flower