next are these charming friends from @lilypadula.bsky.social! perfect for cozying up for soup season 🥣

I’ve been working really hard on this! I was sick of my super talented, award winning artist friends being broke every month so I wanted to find a way to put my years of web and retail sales to work helping us all, so we can spend less time grinding and more time creating

we’re working hard to make something special. check us out and give us a share!!

Today’s arrest of @bradlander.bsky.social is just one disturbing example of what ICE does every single day across the country. It’s not interested in law and order—this is about spreading fear. New York City will not stand for it.

This is a fantastic breakdown of the broader implications of the current spectacle in comics culture.

One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest. I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!

Some very chaotic swans for Deloitte 🦢🦢🦢

One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest. I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!

welp. The thing I’ve been worried about happening for about a year finally happened. Please consider checking out my web store or giving me a boost, it’s going to be basically our only household income for a while 🫠 ♡ www.stillvreni.com ♡

Another exciting project with EarthJustice, I’ll be sharing more about this series next week!

Another piece from my Character Strength cards, a deck I made in collaboration with HKCocoon! This piece is called Social Awareness: “I am aware of and understand my feelings and thoughts, as well as the feelings of those around me." Art direction by Hannah Ma and Cherry Ma

Bluestockings Cooperative is an incredible radical space in NYC, and they do do much important mutual aid work in their community. Help them stay open! www.gofundme.com/f/qe29bh-sav...

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” Remembering Aaron Bushnell’s words and the close to 100,000 people martyred by american imperialism through israel. In the year since we’ve seen so much brutality, proving the necessity for us to keep putting our skin in the game

happy 10th birthday bloodborne 🩸👽❤️💉🦑

Humility, a new illustration from my character strength series! I usually see tigers used as symbols of strength and ferocity, so I wanted to flip that symbolism around for this piece. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah from HKCocoon for commissioning me for this project!

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." - Jasmine Mooney www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

up now in my shop! #artshop #riso

NEW INVESTIGATION from me: There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Oh hey my two beautiful girlfriends have arrived with their print treatment. Such a delight reading this book and getting to illustrate these two small town heroines for Tess Sharpe's newest book "NO BODY NO CRIME." Ty to the team at FSG!

a girl can dream 💭 #comic

Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024

Illustrations that accompanied patient reports of their anxiety, created in collaboration with DScout a few years back! Prompts for each image in alt text, the full series can be viewed here:

This piece is from an assignment about wage gaps in the workplace- art director wanted to avoid money imagery and asked me to tackle this dry topic with a more conceptual approach, so I decided to solve the problem with S H A P E

Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹

Illustration from a few years back, done at the peak of the straw ban craze for @nbcnews.com about how the pollution problem goes way beyond straws. Many thanks to Kara for working with me on this!

Illustration I created last fall for a @propublica.org story, about the Yakama Nations fight to secure funding they were promised for a solar project, but is now held up by bureaucracy. Many thanks to my art director Peter!

I am STRUGGLING on here without drafts

Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024

I can’t tell if the egg on my egg carton is friendly or sinister

All of you have been absolutely amazing and I should probably share this more than once as this is the fund ill be building the rest of my life and funding a "celebration of life" for my brother and dad next month

LOS ANGELES! We put together a figure drawing fundraiser and raffle next week to benefit animators displaced by the Eaton fire. 2 models on 2 stages! Raffle items from @natandrewson.bsky.social @angelasungart.bsky.social @trevorshin.bsky.social @owenfreeman.bsky.social and more!

Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses due to the LA wildfires – here is how to help displaced individuals in the animation industry. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY SO WE CAN HELP EVERYONE OUT!

why the fuck would i want realistic graphics. i can see real things just by opening my fucking eyes. i want to see 1000 different interpretations of the world. show me what makes each thing a thing

I used to think my dog was dumb for checking a spot where he saw a squirrel for days afterwards, but I saw a fox a week ago and every morning since I go back hoping to spot it again 🥺

This famed designer is intent in not understanding that her famous firm, Pentagram, used GenAi models, which are under litigation for copyright infringement, as a foundation to one of the biggest government projects around, which 100% displaced artists. www.creativebloq.com/design/ive-n...

Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨ Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)

First snow first snow! To celebrate i wanted to share an older illustration I made. It’s about a part of the Mount Everest hike called “rainbow valley”, named after the bright gear that can be spotted on bodies of hikers that fell and cannot be retrieved.

Everyone coming out of our hole to read the words on the bullets

Old favorite piece circa 2019 or so, commissioned by NBC news during the straw ban era, about how straws are only the beginning of the plastic pollution problem.

First up in my character strength series is Creativity! When I was dreaming up this illustration I’d never seen the northern lights, though it had always been a dream of mine. About a month ago, they showed up in New England in the most dreamy way!

Earlier this year I created 24 illustrations based on different character strengths. These were commissioned by CoCoon, an educational non profit based in Hong Kong. I’ll be sharing more about each piece in its own post, but here’s an overview. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah for a dream assignment

I'm still new here. Please help me find folk in the #fiction world, and #climate #storytelling space. I need my #solarpunks too. Let's see if this also, alogos.

If you cancelled your subscription to the LA Times or Washington Post, please invest those dollars in non-profits or independent news committed to important journalism. Among them: Pro Publica, The Marshall Project, Reveal, The City (NYC), The Texas Tribune, Baltimore Banner, Philadelphia Inquirer

SOLRAD Presents is an imprint of SOLRAD for cartoonists looking for a permanent digital home for comics. We accept comics that had previously been published on social media, unpublished comics, or comics published in other places that no longer serve their maker’s needs. solrad.co/solrad-prese...

Cooking and eating seems like such a scam until you realized a computer needs enough power to run a small country to draw a picture and all I need is toast