Come see me and buy my award-nominated new graphic novel LOW ORBIT (as well as other sundry stickers, comics and prints) at the DICE comics festival!! I’ll be tabling on Saturday with the indefatigable @kevinalvir.bsky.social !!

Come see my panel with @melissaannemendes.bsky.social and @mikecurato.bsky.social moderated by @halschrieve.bsky.social this Sunday!! Credit to @mikecurato.bsky.social for this amazing poster. Discover yourself through comics!!

Last chance for ya’ll to vote for LOW ORBIT to win in the OUTSTANDING ARTIST category of the IGNATZ AWARDS! Link in my bio! Oh and one more thing? Free Palestine!

I just finished this comic by @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social and it was just precious 😭 so rare to see queer tween Muslim representation like this, I loved it sm. Highly recommend #comicrecs

Remember to vote for LOW ORBIT in the OUTSTANDING ARTIST category for the IGNATZ AWARDS! Link in bio!

We all need a little rest and relaxation while the American empire melts into itself like microwaved butter! Don’t forget to vote for my book, LOW ORBIT, to win outstanding artist at the IGNATZ awards! Link in bio.

www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-ballo... CAST YOUR VOTE FOR ME, the ZOHRAN MAMDAMI OF COMICS!! @topshelfcomix.bsky.social

Come one come all to Flamecon this weekend in NYC! Get a signed copy of my book! See @hasanpiker.bsky.social at the protest for Palestine! Buy a Cronut! In this city, you can have it all! @topshelfcomix.bsky.social

Come see me have an author conversation with Lio Min, the author of the brilliant “L.O.V.E. Club” at Yu&Me In Chinatown! We will both be signing our books afterwards!

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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe

I am very happy to say that my review of MUSEUM OF DEGENERATES, by the always-excellent @elivalley.bsky.social, is up at @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Please give it a read, and get the book by one of the most important comics artists we have. www.tcj.com/reviews/muse...

Don’t forget to RSVP to my reading this Wednesday! partiful.com/e/K9CgMH8BmL...

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partiful.com/e/K9CgMH8BmL... sign up to hear me talk to @kevinalvir.bsky.social about Low Orbit at the @nonbinarianbike.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

Some eels, some worms, some baddies, some worsies. #sketches #sketchbook

No shade to the uwu crowd, but if you don’t enjoy drawing schnozes why be a cartoonist 🤔

COMICS BEAT just put up this glowing review of my first graphic novel, Low Orbit, calling it, among other things, a “a stunning debut that’s just as fascinating as adolescence itself, and just as full of hard truths and unexpected kinships,”. shorturl.at/TrEOu

#LowOrbit by @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social is out now! Fifteen-year-old Azar feels stuck. Her only friends are an aging #sci-fi writer & his #nonbinary teen Tristan, fellow misfits in the small-town community. In our bio! #LGBTQIA #OGN #ComingofAge #Malaysian #graphicnovel

Low Orbit Has Landed comicbuzz.com/low-orbit-ha... @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com #LowOrbit #graphicnovel

Don’t be a klutz, like Azar! Be a smartie, like Tristan! Get your copy of my first graphic novel, Low Orbit out from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social , now! It’s about queer lonely teens and sci fi novels and fandom and small towns! #queergraphicnovels #youngadult

Beware the boss radiation! It’ll get you every time!

Guilty pleasure: when my kid is zonked on Tylenol and falls asleep on my arm. Perfecto.

Homer would like to remind you this is the LAST DAY you can get 25% off on your preorder of YOU AND ME ON REPEAT through @barnesandnoble.com!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/you-and-me...

When you’re a queer teen stuck in small town, you get lost in a good book… come on now folks, you freaks know what I mean. Read more in LOW ORBIT, my first graphic novel out at the end of the month! #queeryoungadultfiction #queercomics #bookwithinabook

ATTN Californians! AB 1468 is going to have a hearing on April 30th at 1:30pm, this racist bill is out to remove our academic freedoms as Ethnic Studies educators to keep talking about Palestine. This bill is attacking a discipline taught by majority BIPOC k-12 teachers and university professors.

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

A romp of renfields! A mob of minions! An unkindness of underlings! #herrknock #renfield #vampyr #nosferatu

Queer teens driving around the Vermont wilderness gossiping! What could be a sweeter balm in these evil times? Buy my book LOW ORBIT, out at the end of the month! #queergraphicnovels #youngadultfiction #endthegenocide

Felt so lucky that the folks at @topshelfcomix.bsky.social let me draw this beautiful map for my books interior cover! It’s a fantasy map for my book-within-book, Exiles of Overworld! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761761...

New client alert! I am thrilled to represent Kazimir Lee @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social! Her trans horror graphic novel DEADNAMES is a witty and visceral take on haunted houses, filled with queer culture and authenticity. I’m looking forward to sharing more about it soon!

One of the makers of an Oscar-winning documentary about Palestinian communities in the West Bank was assaulted in the occupied territory, with his whereabouts unknown after he was detained by the Israeli military, his co-director said.

“A moving journey of self-acceptance.” — Kirkus Reviews An atmospheric & profound #coming-of-age #graphicnovel about a #Malaysian-American teen fighting to find herself. Preorder #LowOrbit by @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social here: ow.ly/G8BZ50VlSQg #OGN #LGTBQIA #Browngirls #BookTrailer #NewReads

I really want to believe this is parody at this point

See you tonight Queens!

❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.” Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind. Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...

Wait ur telling me they give unhinged queerdos book deals now, fr fr??

Amazing Top Shelf debuts at #moccaartsfest! Come to #MoCCAFest, March 15 -16, & visit us at booths 140-141. Meet @memoryfuel.bsky.social #Dreamover, W. Bradford Gambles #ShredorDead, @kazimirleecomix.bsky.social #LowOrbit, & Jon Allen #TheWell! Learn more: ow.ly/4giv50VgRQS #moccaartsfest #MoCCA

Meet me at MoCCA at table 140-141 to get your new copy of LOW ORBIT signed! www.moccafest.org

If I had a penny for every time I had to pretend not know some obscure characters name for the sake of my dignity…

Last page/panels of my only (vain) stab at doing "online comics." Old dog, rejecting new trick. ©2010, 2025 Stephen R. Bissette

Just a reminder that I got my book sold! and it's finally coming out this spring!

One of my fave literary conceits: a book within a book. I had so much fun writing a fake science fiction novel for my YA book, Low Orbit!