Alex Heberling

The baby lettuces are here!  These pictures were taken last night, 8 days after planting.  So far, 4 Caesar, 1 Salad Bowl, 3 Simpson, and 4 Little Gem have sprouted, so that’s only 4 bad cells in this planting.  I’m disappointed that more Salad Bowl hasn’t sprouted, so I hope to get a better [...]

I planted my lettuce last night!  Since the seedlings will take 7-10 days to emerge, I wanted to time it so it would more or less fit around the Martini Party next weekend.
I actually picked up a 4th type of lettuce from another Target I visited this week: Little Gem lettuce.  Isn’t the name just [...]

I have a dream… of lettuce.
This all started the other night when I came across an article on dumpster diving.  I first read a particular article on the subject two or three years ago, in which an adult couple decided to go dumpster diving to supplement their store-bought groceries, and they got their spending down [...]

I’ve been making buttons myself for a couple years now, and in the last few months I’ve had the concept for this guide kicking around in my head.  It occurs to me that I didn’t really know anything about buttons when I first started producing them, and taught myself a lot of things that might [...]

2009 was the first year I aggressively kept track of the expenses and income I get from doing my comics.  Until May, I used the Shoe Box Method of accounting, but then at Marcon, I got to sit down with the very talented Patricia McCracken, who did a workshop/panel on Bookkeeping 101 for Artists.  After [...]