HEY! Not sure if you've heard, but October is SLICE month!!! 🍕🍕🍕 Oct. 17 - SLICE Opening Night @ The Sheldon Ballroom, 6–10 p.m. Oct. 18 - EXPO DAY @ The Sheldon, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public! 🍕🍕🍕 Check the schedule: slicexpo.org/slice-2025

I am still looking for work! I have 9 years of editorial experience, particularly in comics and proofreading. If your comic needs a proofreader or developmental editor, I'm your guy!

Gonna be at LITTLE GHOSTS FEST next weekend!! So I'm working on a new lil zine....

We here at SLICE hate getting sick at conventions! The following are our policies related to masking and COVID mitigation at SLICE 2025. www.slicexpo.org/slice-2025/#... Thank you to @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social for their Masking Initiative and Resources guide, which was crucial to our planning!

We cracked through 30% this morning with 30 HOURS left! Let’s go Bluesky, weirder shit has already happened this year alone 🙏🏼🤣💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

We are so thrilled to announce that SLICE has received a $20,000 organizational grant from the Regional Arts Commission @stlouisarts this year! This is a transformational sum for our little nonprofit. Thank you, RAC, for supporting SLICE!

Early buzz for Game of Code is on the book's listing now! Thank you everyone for your kind words!✨ Comes out March 2026!👾🎮

We're very proud to be publishing TESTAMENT, the debut graphic novel by @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social. The Kickstarter campaign launches tomorrow as part of our "Limited Color Palette Duo" alongside our complete edition of Faster! Get notified! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Recreating tarot cards is endlessly entertaining. Had so much fun doing this for one of my besties and her cat.

I made a comic for Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary Issue! Thanks to guest editor @qianawhitted.bsky.social for asking me and 4 other Black cartoonists to create pieces about AI. Read them here! shenandoah.netlify.app/74-1-2/off-s...

📣 Calling all artists, writers, poets, cartoonists, zinesters, printmakers, and indie publishers of every stripe! 📣 Vendor applications are now open for SLICE 2025, taking place October 18 at The Sheldon. Apply now through July 15. We can't wait to see your work! Apply: www.slicexpo.org/apply

Hello, Bluesky! Last month I was laid off from my day job, which means I am available for editing work! I am open to full-time, part-time, and/or freelance opportunities. Read on for my freelance rates, and learn more about me and my work at katvendetti.com!

Look sharp, applications to table at SLICE 2025 are opening this weekend! Apply June 1–July 15 at slicexpo.org. Stay tuned for the application link and our application FAQs. The 3rd annual St. Louis Independent Comics Expo (SLICE) will take place on October 18, 2025 at The Sheldon in St. Louis, MO.

That's me! 😊 I love being part of SLICE's organizing team! We have an amazing community here!

Hello! 👋 We wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves—we're your SLICE 2025 organizer team. 🎨 by @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social

A lil reflection on trying to do it all and be it all

IT'S ANNOUNCED! I was the character artist on this game and it feels so good to have it announced and ready to play later today! I'll pop links up when it's out!

I just really love my cat ok

Dead City is officially available for checkout at the Toronto Public library! After 10 years I am so proud of the work @jpawlik.com and I did to bring this to life and am thrilled to see other people enjoying it.

We will see a great many things… yes, I do believe we will. “Going Up” is a new comic drawn by J. Marshall Smith and written by myself. You can read all of it below, or—if you wish to show your support—buy a high-res .pdf on Gumroad for a price of your choosing. 5987842792553.gumroad.com/l/GoingUp

TODAY’S THE DAY! My first full-length comic book, #ARCHAIC, is out today at your local comic book store and on Comixology Unlimited! If the phrase “action-adventure murder mystery on a controlling magical island” sings to you, go get your copy! comicsahoy.com/comics/archa...

Hello, comics folks! The 2024 Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grants are officially open! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is essential stuff.For those of us who are not gonna be organizers in the traditional sense.There are many strategies listed here that are ways to build communities that are robust, connected, & capable of protection/action that are also sources of pleasure & joy(undersung political resources).

I really just wanted to draw my cat in a little outfit

📣 Calling all artists, writers, poets, cartoonists, zinesters, printmakers, and indie publishers of every stripe! 📣 Vendor applications are now open for SLICE 2024, October 26 at The Sheldon. Apply now through July 1. We can't wait to see your work! www.slicexpo.org/apply

Say hi to SLICE at the STL Punk Rock Flea Market! We’ll have a free DIY button- and zine-making station set up for you all day, May 25, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., at the NE corner of Tower Grove Park (Grand & Magnolia). Your jacket has room for one more button... https://www.stlprfm.com

happy dracula going out in his lizard fashion day to you all

https://topazcomics.com/swimon/apply/ Swim On is open for applications! This is a charity zine dedicated to shark preservation & all proceeds go to finfree.org This will be the final zine. After 10 volumes I thought this was a good number to stop on. Let's make it the best one! #zine

May-be we will see you at a SLICE event this month! ✏️✏️✏️ May 1 - APPLICATIONS OPEN! May 4 - Free Comic Book Day! SLICE zine- and button-making activity, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. @ Fantasy Shop Creve Coeur May 18 - LLC Clinic with the VLAA, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. @ High Low (1/2)

Join us on Saturday morning, April 27, for some sketchy fun around Forest Park with professional cartoonist/amateur birder Dan Zettwoch. We'll meet in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum at 9:30 a.m. and walk to where the birds are. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e...

Don't draw & drive! Keep those drawing hands on the wheel until you get to our first Drink & Draw of the season! April 25, 6-8 p.m., at Urban Chestnut in the Grove. All skill levels are welcome. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e...

Been feeling a little stressed lately

Did you hear? SLICE is back! Bust out those sketchbooks because we're doing some drawing. 🌷🌷🌷 April 25 - Drink & Draw @ Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery, 6–8 p.m. April 27 - Feathered Friends Sketchcrawl with Dan Zettwoch @ Forest Park, 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. www.slicexpo.org/eve...

What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition New zine!! This is my (well-informed layperson’s) understanding of what’s going on with COVID right now and how to lower your risk of getting it (again). Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

SLICE is back! We are thrilled to announce that our second annual SLICE Expo will be returning to The Sheldon on October 26, 2024. Stay tuned as we announce our slate of workshops and events throughout the spring and summer, application dates, and more! www.slicexpo.org/202...

My friends Jeff Estrella and @allisonmotoole.bsky.social have a fantastic looking horror comic on kickstarter right now, BALIKBAYAN! Inspired by films like HEREDITARY and THE WAILING! Check it out and help make it happen if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/334...

You don't have to wait for permission or until you're "ready" to do something. Take the plunge and enjoy the journey.

"The Night Battle" painted this big guy (15x30in) for a show about occultism. it's about the benendanti and the malandanti, Friulian stories that were erased through Catholicism. I painted it with the hopes of a bountiful harvest for trans folks in the future, whatever that may look like ✨

Heart Lamarr in "Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater" 1/5 -- Read Heart of the City in color in your local newspaper or on gocomics.com/heartofthecity

My friends were talking about cursed objects and it reminded me of this Thing I made last year. Pls enjoy

The Double

An incredibly important initiative from the Cartoonist Cooperative that helps folks all over connect with family members in need in Palestine!

My big piece for the lupiniii.club Advent Calendar Event, Day 3! The prompt I chose was “shopping” #Lupiniii #Art

a fun little sunny illu for the lupin club forum (lupiniii.club) for their advent calendar event! I am absolutely dying without the sun rn 🥲 #lupiniii

Remember: the Washington Post union is asking us not to read, click, stream or otherwise engage with any Post journalism (which I will not call ‘content’) today so as to support their strike.

The skating rink felt like we were crashing a child's birthday party, but a weird skate is still a good skate!!

The inaugural Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grant is open! This application will close on 12pm EST on January 15th, 2024. 🔗https://comicsadvocacygroup.org

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!! comicsdevices.com An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art. 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

Happy Halloween from Mothman and a USPS Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate Box!! @katvendetti.bsky.social