Dana Jeri Maier exhibit at the Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

UPDATE: Audio and photos online at https://archive.org/details/dana-jeri-maier-exhibit-at-the-goodwin-house-baileys-crossroads

Dana has an exhibit there, Mostly Cartoons: Cats, Turtles. and Other Characters and is giving a talk about her career to residents.

She started talking about being an illustrator who then started using word balloons and drifted into cartoons about the art world. She debuted her self-published book Worried Well at SPX and then followed it with Skipping to the Fun Part.

Emily Flake got her to pitch to the New Yorker. shown with Lianna Finck.

She was by accepted by the New Yorker online. 

This was her breakthrough that led to an agent and her book Skip to the Fun Parts. 

Now she's drawing turtles, cats, and buildings. 

Here are originals in the gallery.

 

 

the captions are usually written on separately

 

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Small Press Expo 2026, day two in photos

 It was very busy at 12:30 when I arrived, but had calmed down a lot by 4:30. Captions and resizing coming soon.

Sofia Warren and Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Gemma Correll

Gemma Correll and her staff

Bob Sikoryak

Bob Sikoryak

SAW booth with Tom Hart, 

Dana Jeri Maier

Dana Jeri Maier and Tom Hart

Rafer Roberts

Carla Speed McNeil

MK Reed

Amy Chu

Gina Gagliano

Amy Chu

Johnny Damm

Hannah Templer