Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.

Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.

SUPERMAN

I'm working on a newsletter again, aiming for roughly twice monthly. I needed a place to work out ideas and digressions, and this week's is about what I learned listening to David Bowie and what I felt listening to David Byrne. subscribe or don't! essays.iamdavidbrothers.com/2025/12/i-am...

Big thanks to the incredible comic creator (and fellow trumpet player) @docshaner.bsky.social for the kind words about my upcoming series IS TED OK? This book is really a LEVEL-UP project for me and I can’t wait for you to read it. Issue 1 drops in late February from @madcavestudios.com 🔥

While you’re waiting for the Spirit collection, IDW just reprinted both Parker absolutes and the all in one paper back, they were out of stock for a bit but you should be able to find those again everywhere

many people are saying that Good Devils: Don't Play Fair With Evil is the sleeper hit of the year, a comic you can't miss or else your personal deity or lack thereof won't let you into the big book club beyond the veil

SALTY! Genuinely, I think this is one of my favorite jobs at DC. Got to draw Aquaman, a very good dog, sea critters, water environments, Aquaman again.

Tempest on the sea at nidht https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/tempest-on-the-sea-at-nidht-1849

M O N D A Y

Oldest thing I found today was this Lone Wolf and Cub from 2010, for the Comic Twart -

Realizing I neglected to mention here that I'd found some old pieces from 2010-11 in the office move, and put them in the shop. Only the Gorilla Man's left now but if you're interested in seeing some Very Old Drawings Indeed they're still up there for looking - docshaner.bigcartel.com

AQUAMAN.

Flippin' Lions are gonna be the end of me, why I did I choose to get into football

I've had a chance to read the first handful of issues and Dave's killing it on this one --

Check this out -- a preview of STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS 2025 with all six covers and the first page of all six stories media.lunardistribution.com/files/lunarm...

Opened Twitter for the first time in a while just to dig up this tweet of theirs I adore

Got my comps for BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA #1. Very excited for this! I’ve been wanting to make this book for many years. Very proud of how it came together. Colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr. Letters by @simonbowland.bsky.social. Get it in shops on 11/26!

"I'll bring the wine, you bring your scarred psyche" Chase and Bruce from @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

Stomach in knots over the Lions-Eagles game hrrnnn

muttering "gamera in gigabash", high-fiving everyone I see, crying

Jimmy Stewart, of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West fame.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

Today’s bit of process/ work-in-progress is the page 2-3 spread from Batman: The Last Halloween #9! This, and the rest of the first 12 pages for the issue, are up for auction now! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_... 🐈‍⬛ 🦇 ☔️ 🧥

Today we have a bit of process/ work-in-progress of the page 8-9 double page splash from Batman: The Last Halloween #9! This, and the rest of the first 12 pages for the issue, are currently up for auction on eBay! 🐈‍⬛ 🦇 www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

This goes double for anything any milk brained pundits think of last night’s elections. Their takes will be bad! We know they will be! Who cares what they think, they have been loudly and enthusiastically proven wrong in races literally everywhere.

Started this yesterday when it was still Godzilla Day. Skreeonk and such.

The Kickstarter campaign for my first solo comic, DREAMHOUSE is live! I'm so excited for y'all to get to read this very weird, personal, creepy comic! kck.st/4oJZSDq

Absolute Wonder Woman #14 - a very special issue. Don't miss it on Nov. 26. Here's a small non-spoilery scan of inked art. Thanks for the great support and reviews!

Do something Dick Cheney would have hated and help a Palestinian family ❤️

And a happy Finding Empty Candy Wrappers Hidden All Over The House month to all my fellow parents.

Dammit I want to watch The Frankenstein

Harrumph.

I'm pretttty sure baseball already ended for the year a few weeks ago but as a fan of Toronto, the city and the folks I know there, I want this for the Blue Jays.

What we're seeing with the SNAP funding issue is that when we are unorganized then we pose no political challenge or threat. The politicians aren't scared of unorganized people.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

I know it's 2 days to Halloween and very few of you want to think about Xmas yet, but the nature of comics means the time to order STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS is now! Please let your retailer know you want a copy, and please let me know if you're a media outlet who would like to talk about it!

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Up making a big cardboard pumpkin head for my youngest because the one we were working on for the last 2 weeks collapsed suddenly. Choosing to arbitrarily blame all of this on Patrick McHale.

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

I don't know what visual metaphor you need for the moment, but this should do it

#nokings Portland frog brigade