FAKE NEWZ!?!? NEW--> Prairie Pothole up NOW at my #Patreon page. www.patreon.com/posts/158686... Thank you for your attention to this matter President John A. Porcellino #comics #comix #zines #altcomics #johnporcellino #prairiepothole #kingcatcomics

"This is a gang, and I'm in it"

We've launched a crowdfunding campaign to support The New York Working Cartoon Library! Please donate and share! We are asking for a lot so as to build a space for comics that will, we hope, do a lot in return for a community of artists and readers in this city and beyond. gofund.me/57505be66

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

When music wasn’t in the cloud.

Inked thirteen pages for the new King-Cat today. It'll be out this summer, along with reprints of issues 80 and 82! Now would be a great time to get a subscription or join my Patreon!!! Hint hint spitandahalf.com patreon.com/johnporcellino #comics #zines #johnporcellino #kingcat #comix

I jokingly mentioned ChatGTP to my Gen Z students awhile back and was surprised and delighted to hear the explosion of hatred that erupted instantly and unanimously from them.

IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN~~ Someone has signed up to receive the exclusive benefits and cultural cachet of membership in the Honor Roll of the Chariots of Fire King-Cat Fan Club. C'est encroyable. You too can, too. patreon.com/johnporcellino Thank you, Chris! #yes #wow #hooray #please #altcomics

WAREHOUSE FINDS! ONE COPY EACH! Josh SIMMONS: Ghouls no 4 - $4 Noah VAN SCIVER: Art for Art's Sake (1st ed) - $10 Noah VAN SCIVER: Joseph Smith/Mormons - $30 HT WEBSTER: The Timid Soul (ed. NVS) - $10 spitandahalf.com #comix #altcomics #spitandahalf #zines #comics

Making Comics Out of Life at Beloit College has completed its third revolution around the sun. Thanks everyone! (Drawing by Betty the TA.) #makingcomicsoutoflife #beloitcollege

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Check out Ben Tanzer's This Podcast Will Change Your Life! I was on with my Rough Draft collaborator @kdc.bsky.social & we talked to Ben about writing as roadmapping, creative legacy, and other fun topics. www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...

Day Two of @cakechicago had been so busy I've only had a chance to post about it now! Come on by! Today till five pm. Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago 60630 #comics #zines #comix #altcomics #spitandahalf

Yes! CAKE is today from 11-6, tomorrow 11-5... Come get a stack of the World's Best Comix! Spit and a Half, table no. 802 Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago 60630 #comics #zines #comix #altcomics #spitandahalf @cakechicago

#BandcampFriday! Spit and a Half Music has: Aggro noise, sweet gentle indie pop, Aussie rock n roll, lullabies and ballads, demented surf music, suburban garage punk, and more. CHEAP! spitandahalf.bandcamp.com All proceeds go to the Silly Bears Tribal Dog Food and Medicine Pantry Fund... TY!

TONNES of new books up now at www.spitandahalf.com !!! See below-- 1/?

AMEN

IT'S TRUE! We'll be @cakechicago this weekend, table 802, with lots of cool new distro stuff and a few surprises!!! Come on by! 1/2 #comics #comix #altcomics #chicago #spitandahalf

A monk asked Chao-chou, "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?" Chao-chou said, "The oak tree in the courtyard." #gatelessgate

Physical copies of my books ‘Goat & Sheep by the Well’ and ‘Driven by Lemons (2nd Edition)’ are now available on @johnporcellino.bsky.social ’s Spit and a Half online store - www.spitandahalf.com/product-tag/...

Our May 30 workshop is fully enrolled, but if you'd like to be added to the waiting list, or to be notified of future events, please write comix.wksp AT gmail DOT com and let us know! Thanks, everyone!! JP & LB

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 24,1962

BROWNS: 602 HENDERSON ST, BROWNS IL 62818-9998

Yes, it's the new PRAIRIE POTHOLE, available EXCLOOSIVELY (for now*) at www.patreon.com/posts/156207... Your $upport helps fund the Silly Bears Tribal Dog Food and Medicine Pantry and associated projects. THANK YOU! :) 1/2 #comics #zines #johnporcellino #altcomics #prairiepothole

Last time this workshop happened, I thought to myself "Dang, learning comics from two of the best to ever do it? That would be incredible." Well, this time around I realized that nothing was really stopping me from doing it, so I enrolled. Wow!!

ANNOUNCING! COMIX LAB with JOHN P. and LYNDA B.!!! ONE-DAY COMICS WORKSHOP with John Porcellino and Lynda Barry Saturday May 30, 2026 10 am to 4 pm Madison, Wisconsin (Exact class location revealed upon enrollment) No Experience, No Problem! This class is for anyone and everyone! 1/3 -->

Today! Till 4:30! MILWAUKEE ZINE FEST! Central Library, downtown MKE. FREE!!! #spitandahalf #johnporcellino #kingcat #zines #comix #altcomics

Hey everyone, see you tomorrow 4/18 at Milwaukee Zine Fest! Central Library, downtown MKE, 10:30 - 4:30!

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

It’s been fascinating to watch this AP story circulate through the web this week and horse-shoe back to the local press. I broke the story about the effort to digitally preserve Aadam’s collection 15 months ago. Glad more folks are digging through his recordings!

Le paquet de @johnporcellino.bsky.social from spit and a half : une bonne façon de commencer le week end (Noah van sciver inside)

We're not supposed to be a country where any one man gets to levy random tariffs, decide whether and how to spend our money, tear down the People's House, bomb the shit out of boats & countries, choose which laws to follow; & determine who gets to vote. It's time to Make America America Again.

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

I wrote about the first song on the first Replacements album over on my #Patreon page. As little as $3 a month helps me buy all these dogs their food. Thanks! www.patreon.com/posts/154842... #thereplacements #johnporcellino #dogfood #batfood #kingcat #comics #altcomics #comix #zines

IOWA CITY! Come on down to the ICE Cream Fest @ Public Space One for more amazing small press comix, zines, poetry, prints, etc etc that you can shake the proverbial stick at. Today till five pm Central Time, the only time that matters. #zines #comics #iowacity #comix #midwestisbest #spitandahalf

TODAY! Iowa City. Come get yr zines! #comics #zines #comix #altcomics #spitandahalf #iowacity

Through the Keyhole.

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!

EVEN MORE NEW STUFF to rock open this beautiful spring morning: Kevin Huizenga, Amanda Baeza, Ingrida Picakune, OLD TYME KUŠ Anthology on Music with rare full color John Porcellino comic (from 2010, Limited Quantities). spitandahalf.com #comix #comic #altcomics #spitandahalf #zines

Catching up with recent issues of Bubbles Zine, plus great books by Anand, Cameron Arthur, Maruo Suehiro, and Fukui Eiichi. Online now at Spit and a Half Distro... Visit spitandahalf.com for these and LOTS more! #bubbles #comix #altcomics #manga #comics #zines #spitandahalf

Happy birthday to Grant Hart... he would have been 65 today. Thanks for saving my life.

It's the latest installment of PRAIRIE POTHOLE, my online comic strip found EXCLOOSIVELY (for now!*) on my #Patreon. Check it out? *The Collected Prairie Pothole Volume Two out soonish from Uncivilized Books! www.patreon.com/posts/153208... #comics #comix #zines #johnporcellino #prairiepothole

Chicago wind gauge

I don't want this anymore.

I put this movie on my watch list when I saw this post over a year ago. Now I have watched it and it does not disappoint. #JustWatched

Some commissioned artwork from 2008!