Kendra Spanjer

We just got done having ten sessions of Artobiography Class (one morning and one afternoon every day this week) at Bailiwick Press. It was loads of fun but I'm totally pooped. It gave me the chance to finish the Bacon Boy comic I started with the kids at Manifest Art Gallery's Summer Playshops on July 21.

We made the cover of the Coloradoan's "Good News" special section today, which is awesome. The cutline under the photos says, "Mothers get together, Local women create cartoon to help kids build vocabularies." We'll chalk that one up to creative license.

Say hello to the funny cartoon kid with the squiggly blond hair and a pint-sized paunch, because you’ll be seeing a lot of him in the years to come.

His name is Aldo Zelnick. The brainchild of author Karla Oceanak and illustrator Kendra Spanjer, both of Fort Collins, Aldo is the star of the forthcoming comic novel for kids 8-13 entitled Artsy-Fartsy.