Man, this post is the worst. Pizza Island, the studio I shared with five other cartoonists, is shutting down at the end of this month. The explanation we’re giving (lease up, rent going up, members leaving the country) is really just an elaborate ruse to cover up the real, more scandalous reason as to why we’re disbanding.
The studio consisted of, at various times, Sarah Glidden, Lisa Hanwalt, Domitille Collardey, Meredith Gran,Kate Beaton, Deana Sobel, Karen Sneider and myself. We had a great two year run of drawing together, going to conventions and vacations and even getting profiled in places like New York Magazine. We (and I’m sure many others) were always baffled as to why our studio was “news” but it was fun so we just went with it. We didn’t update our collective blog a whole lot, but my favorite posts were “From the Desk Of…” and our trip to Shelter Island. We did a whole lot of stuff together over the last few years, but I credit that being friends more than being studio-mates. So, readers, please continue to follow the Islanders on their individual blogs and watch us all go slowly insane as we work from home this year. And adieu, Pizza Island, it’s been a thing.
This is the only photo in which we’re all together, taken at Dom’s wedding in summer of 2011.
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Sigh. Honestly I never knew pizza island outside of your mentionings and references. Never followed other member’s work/writing. Never visited a Pizza Island event. And yet this makes me sad…..the same way the Wonder Years makes me nostalgic for an era I never lived in.
…and do I get props for misspelling my own name. Sheesh.
I will always remember my visits to the Pizza Island fondly. It was truly the greatest of the isolated dough-based landmasses.
“Sigh. Honestly I never knew pizza island outside of your mentionings and references. Never followed other member’s work/writing. Never visited a Pizza Island event. And yet this makes me sad”
sigh. congrats on the most irritating comment of 2012
Sorry to hear that Pizza Island is closing up shop. It sounds like a place of fun + enjoyable work. ^^;
I mean: enjoyable work, and fun.
Though it’s a bummer you’re all separating your workspace, I’m glad to have been turned onto Pizza Island via Fart Party as it helped me discover new artists I might never have known. And I got a few more hilarious people to follow on Twitter. Good luck to everyone.
This is such very, very sad news. I know it doesn’t mean that you all will stop making comics, or anything, but there was something so very cheering about this big female collective. I’m so sorry to hear it.
This is so sad. I’ve followed Pizza Island for ages and spread it like a demented apostle whenever I could.
Awful news. It was through Pizza Island that I knew your work (and bought DATM) and Meredith Gran’s.
So, what now? Are you leaving New York?
Too bad. I got to know PI through your work and this way I found out about the others . Now I kinda follow their work too so I am glad I found PI and thus got to know some great cartoonists. I know things change and although often change is bad, it also creates opportunities.
R.I.P. P.I. ( haha Rippi – sounds like a name for an asthmatic chihuahua )
I’m staying in New York. The only thing this means is that I’ll go back to working at home which means going about 50% more nuts
“Interpretive dance of the root hogs” huh? How’s that going for ya?
Sorry to hear; hopefully, you guys can put together something else for your creative outlets.
Good luck, Julia! (and members of Pizza Island!)
Damn, I wanted that nickel and dime tour, I was gonna give you guys this statue I got in Greece, and get all your autographs and, and.. oh well, sorry to see it go.
I always wanted to visit the opposite of a sausage fest
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