Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

Had a productive day of rewriting a page, penciling it, realizing it doesn’t work, rewriting and thumbing it out a few different ways, realizing it still doesn’t ring true or inevitable from the prior page, concluding it wasn’t ultimately necessary and cut it. 0 visible progress for a better book.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

Mifepristone is still widely available but if you don't have access to it, safe medical abortion is possible with just Misoprostol! Excerpt from Abortion Pill Zine by myself, @isabellarotman.bsky.social & @marniegalloway.bsky.social on miso. Full zine here: www.silversprocket.net/2024/09/17/a...

Last day to register to vote in the Eisner Awards! You need to work in some fashion in the expanded world of the comics industry, and having previously voted doesn't give you a pass for this one. Applications to vote close today!

Congratulations to CANNON author Lee Lai, the first cartoonist and non-binary author to win Australia's Stella Prize.

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.

This is so heartening, because I’ve seen more of the opposite: I was at a community ceramics open studio last weekend and two moms were asking Claude what they should make out of clay. In their hobby, just for fun, optional, art class. Bums me out every time I think about it.

SOLRAD, the two-time Eisner-nominated literary magazine for comics criticism, is open for submissions. We publish reviews, essays, and interviews — and we pay $100 per piece.

I will pay an editorial cartoonist to create this for The Handbasket. email/msg on signal if interested.

Tomorrow!!! I made chapter illustrations for this brilliant, hilarious book: come help us celebrate!

70% of people in jails are awaiting trial.

We are delighted to announce that applications for our third CAG Mini Grant are live! It's hard to make the comics YOU want to make when the cost of living keeps rising. So this Mini Grant is here to offer a little breathing room: groceries, childcare, whatever you need. forms.gle/J7V7frhTZvH7...

This Saturday, May 9 at City Lit is the Chicago celebration of “The Creature’s Guide to Caring,” written by science journalist & humorist Elizabeth Preston with chapter illustrations by me! Join us hardworking moms on Mother’s Day eve to learn more about caretaking in nature & humanity. ❤️

Happy belated #nationalcartoonistsday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s national cartoonist day, I sure love being a cartoonist

In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. See you in the streets tomorrow!

My 5 year old crawled into bed last night to sleep with me, and woke me up this morning by cupping my cheek saying “your soft is so skin” and then singing “you are my sunshine.”

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

Comics are literally the best art form

CAKE is May 2&3! See you theeeeeere!

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Zine assembly day!

If you get mad at THE PITT for not doing what you wanted THE PITT to do, you should try writing your own shit. I mean it! That's an impulse you can put to use instead of just being an entitled fan acting like art exists to meet your desires.

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

There are currently about a dozen active threats to the continuation of gender affirming care - both for youth *and* adults - nationwide. None likely that would outright ban it, but many that could make it very difficult to access. Let's talk about it. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For one tiny example, listen to this 30-second fragment where each man pops in on a different beat, whirring together intricately like the pistons of an engine or the gears of a music box — then, miraculously, slowing down and gently coming to rest, still in time: music.youtube.com/watch?v=ptbd...

“Connections” in comics is just you make friends when you’re a bunch of unknown dorks and then you all come up together! That’s usually all it is.

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Mark your calendars: May 9 @ City Lit! I made illustrations for this very smart, surprising, and supremely funny book about parenting in the animal kingdom. Come join us!

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

"I had an overwhelming sense of being moved by the moon...it is a real place, and when we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of the Earth it just reminds us how much we have in common - everything we need the Earth provides, and that is in and of itself somewhat of a miracle."

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

That's right

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

draw is work

A lot of praising of moms in the comments, but my point was that moms are not different from other women, or even from men.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk