Lisa Gates - Insightful Ink

08/13/2026

Comics as a way of thinking

This week I completed a scrappy little project that I've been building at the margins of everything else - an 8-page comic memoir following a Jon Claytor prompt. The prompt asks us to think about objects that have defined different eras of our lives and speak with their (the objects') voices. My results are a bit of a variation on the original prompt, but that's part of the joy of creating things like this - we never really know where it's going to take us....

This week I completed a scrappy little project that I’ve been building at the margins of everything else – an 8-page comic memoir following a Jon Claytor prompt. The prompt asks us to t…

08/12/2026

An update on what's happening over here - a 3 minute read.

I’ve gone back to school again. The program is a post-grad Art Therapy diploma, which is extending my knowledge and the kinds of work I’ll be able to do. We started at the end of June a…

08/12/2026

Thanks to Jon Claytor for the prompt, I’ve been playing with a cheap sketchbook and the idea that I could fit a memoir-of-sorts into 8 pages. I’m not able to crop properly due to Instagram’s love of square images, so forgive the scrappy sketchbook nature of the post. I’ll add the image descriptions in the comments tomorrow. I’ve been at this for way too long already tonight.

05/02/2026

What an absolute blast! with drawing all manner of sentient worms. We had so much fun! Huge thanks to and the inimitable Tom Hart (in his perfectly coordinated scarf).