Cookbook-ing

In May, my wife and I funded a Kickstarter with 654 backers for over $50,000 to create a cookbook for our now closed store, Little Red Fox, filled with recipes and slice-of-life, all-age comic strips. It’s called Foxes At Work.

I’ve been through so many experiences that felt like “the hardest thing I’ve ever done” (for example: opening multiple small businesses, raising a kid, helping a spouse through cancer and chronic illness), and writing and drawing this cookbook is right up there. Creativity isn’t something you can white knuckle your way through, unfortunately. Even if I wasn’t good at operating a restaurant or raising a child at first, you get better everyday just by putting your head down and putting in the work. While writing and drawing are skills that you get better at through practice, I’ve found that turning the gears in my brain—specifically that creative flow sweet spot—is a lot more tricky and esoteric. Coffee helps! Lots of coffee! And thankfully, I am slowly finding my way. I’ll have several comic strips to share in the coming months as we go through a few rounds of edits and fine tune our silly cast of anthropomorphic baristas, cooks and customers.

More soon!