Random event I remembered, but I was invited to a yearly cartoonist holiday event in Brooklyn once, years ago. It had snowed the day before, so streets were still icy & I had on snow boots with heavy treads. Got to the house & I said, oh yeah I should take off my shoes, right? -->

Gowa-juss

Finally I can bite Kirby's face off

I genuinely really enjoy how I can sometimes hear random taiko practice from somewhere near my house (there's a Buddhist temple across the street from me, maybe there?)

Ugh OF COURSE my old nabe in Brooklyn heavily voted Cuomo, I just freaking knew it -_- Always adamant to vote in the old dinosaurs

It is evening in New York and I sincerely hope all the racists there are crying themselves to sleep lol

I just learned that "vasectomy" in Japanese is "pipecut" (パイプカット) and please pick me up off the floor I am dead.

I made a video about Kyoto + overtourism + fears about rise of anti-foreigner sentiment here youtu.be/qfKExauzIoE?...

OK... Does anyone have *practical* advice on where to buy a larger kimono in the Kansai region or online that isn't just garbage? Autoblocks:

I think the music and sounds here are what throw me off the most? I went to a library around closing time and 15 minutes before, they started playing, I don't know how to describe it other than "get the fuck out" music. Started soft and got louder as it got nearer to closing. Freaking incredible.

I'm thankful every day that art is always there to turn to. It has saved my mind and my heart more times than I can count.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Just like, ran into a festival in Kyoto, as one does.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

On this date, October 14, 1980, the very first issue of Big Comic Spirits is published with the first chapter of Maison Ikkoku.

日本語は下 The group show at HRD Fine Art, Kyoto, opens on Saturday! I will have a brand new piece there, that will be in a totally different direction than my other work. More info about the show are in the other slides. If you're in Kyoto, please visit!

彼らは停戦を発表しました。私は祈るタイプではありませんが、こればかりは祈っています。 場所に関係なく、すべてのパレスチナ人がこの2年間で何らかの劇的な変化を経験したように感じます。 彼らのおかげで、私はまったく別の人間になりました。感情がぐちゃぐちゃですが、幸せです。

I want to record the bizarre Japan muzak situation, but I now have an Asian phone that makes SO MUCH NOISE every time I wanna take a pic or film something. The whole store will know what I'm doing 💀 Bonus: every time I mention the muzak to a JPN person, they have no clue what I'm talking about lol

For people who are afraid to give to Gaza fundraisers directly (no judgement, I know civil servants in the U.S. for example can get into trouble for it) you can always hire/support the many people who donate all the time theintercept.com/2025/10/02/g...

AMERICAN TAXPAYERS are UNWITTINGLY about to spend MORE MONEY that they have not been asked to a FOREIGN COUNTRY to spread their HASBARA PROPAGANDA

Oof. Gibbons packing a punch that shouldn't land as hard as it does now.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Oh, you know, just me being unsatisfied with any blank space in my artwork and covering every square inch with something colorful.❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤍 -- ああ、そうですね。私の作品に空白があることに満足できず、キャンバスの隅々まで何かしら色鮮やかなもので埋めてしまう、ということです。❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤍

academy award contending tiktok

Do I know anyone who has Wikipedia page creating privileges? I had a wiki page that was taken down apparently because the creator was deleted. I can't create my own page--can I ask someone to repost it? It's on the wayback machine/It's in other languages and can be copy-pasted, I think!

Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry." buff.ly/VCY9EP0

Palestine demo today in Kyoto. 今日京都にパレスチナのデモ

No one has ever said that signing up for an email list is going to get you sent to the gulag. It's like these people cannot argue in good faith so they're shadowboxing with people they've invented in their head. Also, worth reading this entire thread.

Student walked in crying - a man swung at her in the subway spewing hate. She wears a hijab. Class gathered around her. A student stepped out, I thought to take a call, but she returned with a gift of boba tea. I am filled with sadness & fear & love for these students. @CUNY proud.

i was on the ground today with our team and @mulchy.bsky.social and @djbyrnes1.bsky.social. being in a situation where feds are unafraid to shoot pepper balls and tear gas at protestors AND elected officials AND the media… we are in truly scary times. and it’s only the beginning.

Figured I should share the progress so far before I get into fully coloring this beast of an illustration. It's worth it for c4. || #art #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #lineart #dnd #dndart #crowva ||

Who's surprised about this? I'm not.

In Japan, everything is points. EVERYTHING. IS. POINTS.

Whatever, hey look, I'm in a gallery here in Japan next month:

I'm trying to parse out why taking down my Wiki page is making me so angry (cuz it really is). I think it feels like the final American f-you. I've always skirted around being treated like a "real" artist but keep having it taken away. So many almost-famouses. I'm fed up.

They took down my Wikipedia page. WTF, why?

I simultaneously feel FOMO about not doing the indy comic circuit in the US anymore, while also feeling a huge crush of anxiety when I just hear about it from fellow artists. It scarred me bad.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

My brand-new work will be up in a group show next month at HRD Fine Art in Kyoto! The title of the piece is "Thaqafa Bunka." It's my first fabric collage. -- こんにちは。来月、京都の HRD Fine Art にて開催されるグループ展に、私の新作を出展いたします。 作品のタイトルは「Thaqafa Bunka」です。今回が初めてのファブリックコラージュであり、とても楽しみにしております。

I tried to play the shamisen today and this is the face I made lolololol

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Iman urgently needs funds to survive. I talk regularly to Iman. She is a real person. She is an extremely lovely human being who just wants her kids to live. Please learn more at bit.ly/help4iman

日本語は下 Cover reveal of my newest comic, LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS, out 2026/3/17! Middle school is hard enough without a legendary creature suddenly appearing in your neighborhood and asking you for skateboarding lessons.

I'm deeply mourning this beautiful little life.

Neckbeard review

Japan really loves LINE and I just said F it and subscribed to the premium "use a bunch of stickers" plan because I feel like I need that little bit of joy in my life rn to post a suggestive mushroom drawing.

Not counting English, I halfway learned three other languages, and conjugation freaking destroys me in every one of em