I opened up for K Records sweethearts Some Velvet Sidewalk tonight and it was glorious!

cool new band just dropped

Gentle Observation 410 - They call this a hat trick. patreon.com/kochalka

I opened up for K Records sweethearts Some Velvet Sidewalk tonight and it was glorious!

Bridge of Sacrifice by Powerplant came out today. I love it so much I listened to it 4 times in a row so far Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5eOAPY... Bandcamp: ppowerplant.bandcamp.com/album/bridge...

Gentle Observation 409 - I knew you'd love my nose ring. More here: patreon.com/kochalka

Oh my God I found a digital copy of one of my comics holy grails It's James Kochalka's graphic (and I mean GRAPHIC) adaptation of The Starr Report Behold: "MONICA'S STORY," available for your downloading pleasure!!!! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kg97j...

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Weird Cat Photos unknown cat outside on porch in light so low it was almost invisible but the iphone camera overcompensated, contrasting with reflections on the window in the door

Isn't "Metroidvania" a really weird genre name? It's like if fantasy books were all called Hobbitduners. #gamedev

Well…we bumped it up to 20 but I really expected y’all could do a bit more haha

My story is in the Sonic On the Go Volume 2 collection too. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799889/

Jello is a real good guy. I wish him a speedy and full recovery! Had dinner with him a couple times when he came through Vermont, and of course he did an amazing job guesting on my song The Mummy's On The Loose: kochalka.bandcamp.com/track/the-mu... boingboing.net/2026/03/09/d...

a comics bookstore this awesome should be thriving! Head on down to Little Deer Comics

Gentle Observation 408 - Eggs are pretty much all they're cracked up to be. More here: patreon.com/kochalka

He looks like he's probably a really nice dad. Which might be even more important than being a great cartoonist...

Intimate Interpretations www.patreon.com/posts/152617... (Also, I love that drawing of my cat Nooko. Stiff and lumpy old man, that cat.)

When the childhood Conan bedroom wall art you drew fifty years ago is still there and no one has painted it over in the half century since #Conan

Gentle Observation 399 - I see your treasures. More here: patreon.com/kochalka

...and weirdly became the mascot of one of the world's most popular mayonnaise brands!!!

Pressing Plaid - new American Elf strip about our Philadelphia adventure: www.patreon.com/posts/152531...

I did collaborations with Dan Deacon, Moby, Willverine, Roost.World, Bit Shifter...and myself, lol...on my Beats, Motherfucker EP. All variations on two songs...Sweet Beats and Sweet Motherfucker. open.spotify.com/album/0RalGH...

MY brain cells can play Doom also www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Alien kids

I painted this commissioned portrait yesterday. She loved it!

I think about how my dad casually made friends with Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, painter K.B. Kitaj, and actor Zero Mostel and I’m kinda amazed. My dad was amazing. If you crossed his path ever, you loved him.

Mexican Institute of Sound hit it out of the park with this one open.spotify.com/track/7uOxzG...

my ol' fren Joshe Henry has a new album out. He only has 12 monthly listeners on Spotify. Surely we can pump that up? open.spotify.com/track/2FY3aU...

gentle observation set 70 just dropped and is AWESOME www.patreon.com/posts/gentle...

I saw a game news post and thought it said PRESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM and for a brief moment thought "oh good, he died"

comics embraced me way before I was technically "ready" because it could tell I had the juice

Next up on the indie spotlight from Wizard 123 were @kochalka.bsky.social and Jim Mahfood, who each definitely had their own unique style that got them noticed by comic book fans and the big two.

Is this cool or is this stupid? Game Boy Jukebox is a replica Game Boy that comes with 45 carts...but it doesn't play games, it only plays music. Each cart plays a different track from Pokemon Red and Blue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyz...

The best sport is Ultimate because mixed-gender games are more fun to watch than single-gender games. Play style is a more interesting mix.

Gentle Observation 395 - 398 more here: www.patreon.com/kochalka/col...

TOEM is on sale for only $3.99 on the Nintendo eshop (80% off). It's a fantastic game! They put it on sale because they just announced that TOEM 2 is coming this summer, which is now my most highly anticipated game of 2026. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

Evening Sky painted w/ www.moss.town

I just invented a shorter way to type “laughing out loud” lau-ou-lou

You may know the restaurant/bar/music venue Nectar’s because that’s where Phish got their start. But the really sad thing about their closing is the loss of their gravy fries. open.spotify.com/track/0QiDK1...

I feel like it should be illegal to sell pets for money. Pets are basically people.

Ooo went up on the Nintendo Switch eshop today. It is absolutely fantastic, you should definitely get it. I loved it so much I beat it in one single sitting: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

With the Fam Bam at Magic Gardens in Philadelphia

Anywhere you go, you’ll find people who are generous and kind and just trying to get by and make a little joy with their time on this earth.

Kochalka Quality in Philadelphia

Gum Shatter street photography, Philadelphia

Shaxian Delicacies is a chain owned by the Chinese government and reportedly has as many as 80000 restaurant locations! They sponsor a massive training facility for this popular regional cuisine. So…weird! It’s like as if the USA sponsored KFC around the world.

Anywhere you go, you’ll find people who are generous and kind and just trying to get by and make a little joy with their time on this earth.

House of Brown accidental(?) painting, Philadelphia

Two PacMans in Philadelphia #gamedev #retrogames #pacman

Gum Shatter street photography, Philadelphia