"I can't remember the first movie I saw there." "For years and years I've been going there," she said. "I'm so Port Townsend basic," reads one of her comics depicting a day spent drinking coffee from Better Living Through Coffee, eating Waterfront Pizza and stopping by William James Bookstore.Īnd going to the Rose Theatre is naturally part of that Port Townsend experience. Spencer doesn't live in Port Townsend – she's based in Brinnon – but she tries to spend as much time in the seaport town as she can, either through work or play. Illustrated in four-part sequences, her Instagram comics reveal in pen and marker strokes things like life updates (she's growing out her bangs), workout routines ("track steps! track stairs! track everything!"), adventures in adulting (doing laundry and dishes) and offer existential musings on life ("What even are ideas?").Īnd scattered throughout are her movie-watching adventures at the Rose Theatre "If you draw something really simply, you can get so much more information across quickly." "I really love comics," said Spencer, who studied art in college. She started by drawing 50 "Unemployment Comics," and when she got a new job, continued creating comics under the title "Hermit Life."Īs of July 13 this year, she has drawn 764 comics, and is on a more than 660-day streak. She had just been laid off a job, and was looking for a way to cheer herself up.Īrt was the answer. Spencer, 30, first started making autobiographical comics in late 2015. "I like the simplicity of (her comics) – and her choice of words," Friedman said.Īnd, of course, he was delighted Spencer loved the downtown movie theater so much – and that he could support her work. Some ideas for comics Spencer came up with, while others were topics proposed by Friedman, such as a recent one involving two cows from Chimacum having a conversation about where their milk would end up. "It's such a huge dream come true," Spencer said. Since then, a new comic illustrating aspects of going to the Rose Theatre and its Starlight Room have appeared every month. Her first comic for the theater, called "Popcorn Toppings," debuted that August. "My favorite theater wants me to do comics for them? How is that a reality?" "I was like, oh my God!" Spencer said of her reaction. Those comics had come to Friedman's attention, and he proposed she create some for the theater itself, to be shown on the screen during the pre-movie ad roll. In the months prior, she had been posting on her Instagram account autobiographical comics about her experiences at her favorite small-town cinema – the Rose Theatre. Spencer recalls the day she received an email from Rose Theatre owner Rocky Friedman – July 16, 2017. The drawing is the latest in a series of monthly black-and-white comics Spencer has illustrated for the Port Townsend movie theater, and through the end of July, can be seen on any of the theater's three screens in the pre-movie ad reel.Īugust will bring a new comic, and also mark Spencer's one-year anniversary of creating art for the silver screen. So, she illustrated a five-panel comic strip.Ĭalled "Pole Position," the comic depicts Spencer pole-vaulting over some disgruntled movie-goers at the Rose Theatre's Starlight Room. KATIE KOWALSKI Spencer has never pole-vaulted into a movie theater.īut she thought the idea of springing over seats a silly one – and a humorous way to represent the too-real struggle of securing that perfect front-row spot.
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