Had to make a counterpart to my chanty booty. So here’s a motel with a booty.

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW ✨ introducing ‘Little Forager’ mini zine featuring the Thimbleberry — fun little handmade mini zine series about native plants that you can find and forage in the PNW. Available this Saturday at BwPCon! 11a-7p at Books with Pictures

Oh boy, I did my first radio interview! And thankfully, it’s about Seeded as part of their Earth Day 🌎 coverage! Tune in to KABOO 90.7fm tonight here in Portland or listen on their website at kaboo.fm #earthday #comics #graphicnovel

Track #2 weekly page updates now rolling out on my Patreon!

let me be clear: FUCK ICE feel free to use/print this wherever you want - consider a donation to the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition if you do pircoregon.org/donate

Drew a mudling for a Patreon supporter! Meet Chalky!

I’m down to my last box of the first edition of Seeded Track #1! Only 32 left if you haven’t gotten one.

Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.

Portland has a new museum, but its founders want it to be more than the new Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts to do more than pay tribute to comic arts. They envision it also as a community center and teaching museum.

For thousands of years, humans have harnessed microbes to ferment beer and bread. But ecologist Rob Dunn asks: Who’s really in charge of this relationship? buff.ly/BZyFzN6

Autumn is here ! 🍁🍂 #pokemon

And here's Lucy Bellwood with some INCREDIBLY useful advice for comics writers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXO1... @lubellwoo.bsky.social

A few weeks back, I got the Special Prerelease Edition of the Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest. You can find one of my comics in this anthology :) and my first* anthology I must add!

A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

PORTLAND: This Wednesday, Aug 27, Books With Pals at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social Special guest Rachel Lee Thai Nyeholt @seededstories.bsky.social and her new book SEEDED. 5:30 - 6:30 PM bookswithpictures.com/books-with-pals #pdxcomics

Underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi quietly support life on Earth, but scientists say they're often overlooked. A new digital atlas puts the spotlight on these hidden ecosystems and where they need more protection. 🌍🍄 buff.ly/mnehGPg

Seeded is now available at Cosmic Monkey Comics!

Missed this months BwP’s Books with Pals. But still read and just finished reading Ducks by Kate Beaton. It’s wild, seeing a part of the Northh we don’t see or hear about… Le sigh…

Came across Gertie the Bookmobile during Sunday Parkways! You can find Seeded Track 1 in their cool new zine stand!

Still getting use to posting here on BlueSky… Some updates: Seeded Track #1 is available online (through links on bio) and at Books with Pictures here in Portland! ✨💚🌿 Yay!

This is more than a decade old, but here's a reminder that it still exists and is still beautiful. And maybe you need to play it right now and just turn off everything else.

Behind a week but some northwest native trees drawings for #treeoftheweek and #whyaretreessohardtodraw. And of course to practice some #treeillustrations

Hey everyone! Big* news! (Well, big like pine cone size). My debut comic, Seeded is available for pre-order! It’s a tale about a Seed elf who just wants to make the next big tree. For kids 8-12 (and fun grown-ups). Coming this month. More info on seededstories.com Link in bio.

Found a panther in the wild last weekend. Amanita pantheria?? Quick drawing today. #mushroomdrawing #mushroom

Camped by the Metolius river this past week. Surrounded by Ponderosa pines. Here are some early morning sketches.

One Big Family! Read more cartoons! #PoliCartoon Help us make more! patreon.com/barry

The Portland City Council moved Thursday to reject a Portland General Electric transmission upgrade project in Forest Park that would require the utility to clearcut more than 370 trees on about 5 acres in the park.

Just saw a group of school children booing a passing Tesla, and it wasn’t even a cyber truck

Panicked SocSec staffers: “If bad actors have access to this database, they could essentially erase people and destroy their lives.” The Trump Administration: “Wait, really?” wapo.st/3RKSQQt

It's #NationalLibraryWeek! And there ARE easy things you can do to help the world be better. #1, right now, GET A LIBRARY CARD. Even if you don't think you'll use it. Check out LIBBY and HOOPLA that let you borrow ebooks, audiobooks and magazines!! You don't even have to go into the library...

last year i went looking for a mutual fund that specifically does not invest in AI related stocks for this very reason, i couldn;t find any.

Am I Ugly? by A Cybertruck

Redflowering currant here to say we made it to spring!

Sorry everyone, turns out it's too hard to go to Mars. Instead we're bringing Mars to you. It's gonna be desolate and shitty here now

Please do not feed squirrels peanuts. It breaks my heart that one of my young patients accidentally ingested one that came into their backyard from a squirrel and got very sick.

New seeds! #growlocal

Banana prices are up 30%.

I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

Last October, we took a trip to the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, for a daylong exploration of lichen—the fuzzy growths often found on trees, roofs, and gravestones. Two experts joined us to discuss the fascinating world of lichen and their role in a changing climate.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

The new animated series “Common Side Effects” is a mycology thriller—a fictional story about a rogue mushroom researcher who finds a ‘shroom that can heal any injury or disease. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi. ✍️ @emmalgometz.bsky.social

Meet Rachael, That’s with an “a”. She’s my Mary Sue character. Unlike me, she can digest alcohol and she tells it like it is (giving the bird left and right, but mainly to the right). She’s amazing, super skilled in all areas that count, kinda. #marysue #comic

Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the year of the sneaky snake 🐍🎋

These are my top four. #comicdna