Let's talk about how Diskette makes money and stays true to our values and our artists in this capitalist hellscape.

There's a couple things I want y'all to do when you see allegations on the internet provided from one perspective: 1) Were good faith opportunities taken advantage of before going public? 2) What is there to gain from going public?

I agree! There's interesting questions here. A lot of nonfiction comics are works of synthesis that can reach a popular audience. How do we best center original research and the people who do it? And where in a comic does that attribution belong?

can confirm Tillie talked about the importance of Cleves' amazing original research multiple times during our public conversation. In the first paragraph of Tillie's process page on her site, she says it would be impossible to overstate the importance of her work & untangles what was used where.

this strip came to me seconds before falling asleep in the free association thought globe of death and i was somehow able to retrieve it in the morning

Every guest booked for Ezra Klein should be forced to sit with Chotiner instead while Ezra takes notes.

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Comics friends! If you are eligible to vote in the Eisners please consider casting a ballot for me and Shay in the Best Comics Related Book category 💕

just heard from @atherton.bsky.social about the latest runaway surveillance blimp. You can read about some others in a mini comic I made in 2017, online here: dannott.com/portfolio/sp...

@dan-nott.bsky.social oh hey www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/p...

This was, ultimately, the point of substack: throw money at reactionary bloggers, claim that this is a new media and not just fissioning off the clicky bits from legacy publications, then let the price of media giants drop enough for all the worst people to buy them up and install their media pets.

a good minicomic is a like good sandwich. same size, same price, same amount of time to consume, and it kind of looks like a sandwich

I think a lot about this ages-ago gonzo @carolinehaskins.bsky.social essay on AirPods and how it is still right www.vice.com/en/article/a...

And the reason why I keep banging on about it is because the politics we get if more of us understand this technological shift and its implications is a hell of a lot better than what we get if we think that we have to protect ourselves from privation and suffering, even if it means dooming others.

My level of optimism or pessimism about whether any particular group of humans will get their act together and actually do it varies by the day. But that it’s now physically and technologically possible to transition to renewables and to use that energy to close materials loops isn’t in doubt.

*taps mic* a moment of recognition for parsifal press: their books are beautifully but economically designed. they scale their growing business judiciously so they can do right by themselves and their artists. they are absolutely delightful as individuals. www.parsifal-press.com/products

Do you know about my most recent book, Support Craft? It was nominated for the Cartoonist Studio Prize and flattered by Thomas Campbell as “one of the biggest surprises I’ve come across in comics in quite some time.” You can get it here, at Parsifal Press. www.parsifal-press.com/product/supp...

Swore to God I had already ordered this but then I checked my emails and I hadn't??? Anyway, this is comin' my way now and if you're smart you'll make it so it comes your way too!

🎈 It’s here! We’re thrilled to unveil the official 2025 Quechee Balloon Festival poster — illustrated by Eisner-nominated graphic artist @darylseitchik.bsky.social (whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker) and Vermont Book Award winner @dan-nott.bsky.social #VermontArtists

Much to think about

bday watercolor painting for @cuylerkeating.bsky.social

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I added a dozen new drawings (~ one second) to my glacial pace animation this winter. At this rate I'll probably be done with it in like 5 years and it will around 12 seconds long

Graphic Novel Review: Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott #GraphicMedicine librarycomic.com/graphic-nove...

Left or right, what strikes me is just the total male domination of this chart.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

go get em!

im happy I'm in SF for this!

hiked up to Mount Sutro open space preserve in the center of SF

will be in the bay area next week visiting fam but spending as much time as possible in forests

How do you illustrate the importance and possibility of back-channel diplomacy beneath superpower tensions? @dan-nott.bsky.social knows! and nailed it for this story in the International Policy Journal launch internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Dan rules and his art is so good, especially and incredibly at making the complexity of the world clear and comprehensible. Really excited for this book and what folk urge him to research.

I'm currently researching a new book that was just announced. Looking at waste and recycling along with materials and supply chains to visualize the life cycle of objects. send me your questions and favorite rabbit holes!

i coordinate a reading program like this at my local elementary school. it does make a big difference and everyone gets something out of it

happy vday! here’s a valentine’s missy comic i made for the new yorker A Valentine for My Fifth-Grade Crush www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

man i am just straight up not interested in people who will be perfectly okay in the next couple years moaning in public over and over and over again that we’re all cooked and doing nothing else. fuck off man! some of us have things to live for

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

scan of a julie doucet drawing for Seattle’s alt weekly in 1994

there's generations of people who grew up with the understanding of politics as rules, when it's functionally and entirely about power. The power shapes the rules when contested and overrides them when not.

been teaching kids art for about 9 years now and this is one of my all time favorite pieces

for people who have recently switched platforms, im curious what you’re thinking about doing differently

i’ve actually had a bluesky account for like a year but i was only following @atherton.bsky.social and @alymay.bsky.social which was actually great too

wow every minute i spend on this app instagram feels less and less usable

hourlies

A post I wrote this past summer on the prints of Wanda Gag, some recent art I made, books and ideas I've been inspired by: dannott.com/2024/07/06/m...