Who else will be at SPX this weekend?! I’ll be at K-13 with these delicious morsels! @monicacomics.bsky.social @jamienoguchi.bsky.social I’m also opening 5 slots a day to draw lil 4x6” portraits for $40 each, so come find me early to sign up for one!

It’s SPX time agaiiiin!! I’ll be safely nestled next to best pals @dcorsetto.bsky.social & @jamienoguchi.bsky.social and will have the most cryptid and comic merch I can cram on my half table. I love the ritual of going back to my home state every fall for this amazing show. Come visit this weekend!

Luke got a pup!! He’s a Xolo named Quetza. So far the cats have been wide-eyed and fluff-tailed, but unbothered, so obviously he’s my favorite dog already.

I keep sharing photos on IG because it’s fast and easy and I can share more than 4 at a time. Here’s a garden dump for you, my Bluesky people. First, today’s (goth) sunflowers:

Fourteen lovely cartoonists are staying in Shepherdstown this weekend for a comics-making retreat that I helped coordinate! 🥰 We all went out for ice cream last night. They’re working on comics now a few blocks away while I prep food for them. It’s real cute.

Tiny painting takin a lot of time, tbh. Whose idea was it to make leaves SEPARATE.

Started a lil mini painting of Fennel & the garden. I don’t know if I’ve got the watercolor chops to do either one justice, just look at these beauties!

For those wondering how to be a human right now, you’re not alone, and your comrades are 1) Karla, and 2) a well-known Jewish teenager with her eyes on the prize(s).

UM I just found THESE?! 🤤(That’s me drooling bc they’re pretty. Don’t eat the zinnias.)

More garden gifts from today. The first dahlia popped!! Sugar snap peas are in full chaos mode!! Look at this pretty purple basil!!

First bouquet of the year! Luke’s a peachy-pink fan, so this one’s his. 🧡🩷🤍 <— there’s no peach heart, gotta mix ‘em.

Presumably concerned that I might feel left out of the cool Mall Managers Club, she quickly noted that I was in charge of a Spencer’s. Monica & I will from here on out be addressed as Hot Topic & Spencer’s, please.

We’re here all weekend and we’re surrounded by a bunch of great artists! Chris Schweizer, Bill Amend, Jim Rugg, @dharbin.bsky.social, Natalie Andrewson, Keef Knight, nestled in the middle of Indie Island!

I’ll be at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC this weekend next to @monicacomics.bsky.social!! Kicking off Friday with a panel at 4 with Craig Thompson, and wrapping up with @dharbin.bsky.social Jim Rug Natalie Andrewson & Drew Weing on Sunday at 3 where we’ll be nerding out on PENNNNNSSS.

My garden blew up while I was in Toronto. Look at this anise hyssop, it’s taller than me?!

I bought a rainbow of envelopes to ship these pride stickers in, then realized that no single customer will realize it! So here’s a photo. You can still order these btw! 10 for $10 so you have enough to pass around/slap on public property: dcorsetto.bigcartel.com/product/lgbt...

We had a cute tiny webcomics panel last weekend at TCAF!

My girl Monica’s got regionally-appropriate stickers for our North Carolina show coming up in a week!! Who’s gonna be at Heroes Con in Charlotte with us?!

I’m home from TCAF! Thanks to everyone who sought me out there! Look at how missed I was by these two (Ollie just missed my post-egg plates).

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

I’ve got TWO GWS books left for TCAF! I’ll be at my table today from 12-5, come get ‘em if ya want ‘em! (Back of the hockey rink!)

Driving to Toronto a day early is the smartest move I’ve ever made for TCAF. Driving 9 hours and waking up early the next morning to set up for a con is not a 44-year-old thing to do! I’ll be at TCAF tomorrow & Sunday, but until then I’ll just be out enjoying this Canadian summer day. 😎

This morning we drove to Bozeman Pride for @zoandbehold.bsky.social to speak, then went down to Yellowstone and saw incredible sights. Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted. Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)

Sugar snap pea status: maybe I need a taller trellis?!

Finally got a rental car and made it to North Carolina! On the way I saw a dead bald eagle smeared in the center lane. Cutting a little close to the bone there, Highway 81. Anyway I’ll be at Firestorm Books in Asheville from 3-6 today, come say hi! firestorm.coop/events/3362-...

FRIGGIN STOKED to have these stickers just in time for my signing at Firestorm Books in Asheville this weekend! firestorm.coop/events/3362-... They’ll be up in the shop when I get back home! ✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈✨

Made something new just in time for Pride… ✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

I’m just making up weird shit in the garden, every day. This is gonna be a short skinny bed to pop sugar snap peas into!

Y’all my girl Julia is making lil autobio comics on Patreon in case you like, needed a reason to sub to her page.

The catnip plant grew back and the local stoners are aware.

The culprit.

RIP to the 2023 version of my garden, which was constructed a) to keep my housemate’s dog out and b) because it tuns out weaving bamboo wattle fences is fun and addicting.

Looking forward to sharing this belated daily about Adam’s dog Izzy next Friday 😏 (I post them for all my paying members on Patreon, $2/month: www.patreon.com/dcorsetto )

When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world. The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all. It truly is healing to me. Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana

Who’s (still) got two thumbs and survived bringing Ollie & Fennel in for vaccine updates at the same time today?? (They were champs, they always charm the vets.)

Little wip paintings I’ve been making while in the Land of Plants, aka Southern California. I’ll post ’em to my Patreon Friday. :)

Is there a set of words that indicate sexual attraction, but omits the subject’s gender? For example, a word that would be applicable to both a man who’s attracted to women, and a woman who’s attracted to women? And a bi/pansexual person whose attraction includes women?

A friend of mine replaced my phone wallpaper as a prank, and I can’t find the soothing plant photo I’d been using for years. 😩 So I went through some Elephant Town pages to see if any panels would make a decent background. Of course all the ones I set aside were Miranda pages. 🧡

I found soooo much old artwork. I think I peaked in 2nd grade.

My property manager responds to my texts promptly but his vocabulary eludes me.

The Great Garage Purge of 2025, before & after! It’s not completely finished, but you can walk around GWS Compendium Island in the middle, and there are way fewer mouse turds.

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Old comic/evergreen topic! 1/3…

Important update:

Part of my 20th selfemployoversary celebration involved letting myself spend the afternoon outdoors since it was so nice out. I got carried away with some old bricks and this ABSURD “fire pit” (aka slowly widening trashy-looking litter box). Back at it today, wish me luck!

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my self employment! And yet, here I am, wearing pants like a chump. 🥳

Packing up a recent book order! If you wanna buy the GWS compendium (all 2008 strips plus some bonus strips that weren’t in original run), I’ll include a GWS coloring+activity book plus a random print in every order placed today! dcorsetto.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

During one of these recent too-much-bad-news-too-little-time days, I picked up seeds for Sunzilla, a sunflower that grows 12-16 feet high. This is how I deal with stress, anyone else?

The best valentine I have ever received.