My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

My dad got polio because a doctor at an AFB told my grandma that there was no polio where they were and "don't worry your pretty little head." Wouldn't give them the vaccine. His right arm still randomly stops working. Guess which of my parents was rabid about us getting every vaccine?

OTD: Fleming figures out penicillin. 🧪

Timeline cleanser 🐈

PS from the Portland reddit...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Lies gain power through repetition. Repeat the TRUTH!

After eight years, my glucose meter finally gave up. At least going by my fasting "37" result this morning, followed by "184" on the immediate retest. The insurance company is changing manufacturers anyway, but one more month would've helped.

Satire is a powerful tool in the age of authoritarianism and I'm proud of my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social for doing his part in this fight.

I'm hoping to get a bit more sculpting and writing in this weekend and next. But we have a short trip to Texas late in the week that might confound that.

Revisit A Conversation with Bernie Wrightson

More on the recent listeria outbreak. And another reminder that this is notably dangerous strain of bacteria. Since June: "Of 20 people with information available, 19 have been hospitalized and 4 deaths have been reported. There is one illness in a pregnant mother that resulted in a fetal loss."

Another one of my oldest sculptures—Pilla the Swampwalker. I think this one might be my favorite one. I think it gave me the courage to go forward. I mean after that structure I was ready for anything. I still think I might revisit it someday, but not just now yet.

I'm tired and it's been a long work week, but I thought a few quick paint fixes to one of my evil conquistador sculptures would do me good.

It’s happening! Jarrod and I are super excited 🖤 #frazetta #shiflettbros

speaking in weight and grip

Last week i was on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Fest with Dwyer Murphy and Joyce Carol Oates. Me and Stephen Graham Jones got to pal around the city got to see Todd Robinson who gave me my career There are so many terrible things going on But there is still beauty if we are brave enough to find it

Study Finds Regular Journaling Can Help Provide Clues About Mysterious Disappearance https://theonion.com/study-finds-regular-journaling-can-help-provide-clues-about-mysterious-disappearance/

More mind blowing art from KAREL THOLE: “IL FUTURO PASSATO” (The Past Future) is a tiny 6x6” white ink on black board artwork. The way he shows us the astronaut through those perfectly concentric circles… 🤯🤯🤯 I’ve only seen something similar attempted successfully by another artist: VIRGIL FINLAY!

feral antiquity II - 2015 #surrealism #popsurrealism #sculpture #handmade #mixedmedia #ooak #noai #airdryingclay #polymerclay #art #artwork #ellenjewett #botanical #slowart #maximalism #wabisabi #sculpture #wolf

I wonder most days if I should give up graphic and web design and art and writing, and just go be a cashier or shepherd or something.

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

I'll take that golden escalator that wouldn't take him up as a symbol of his own personal endtimes (no rapture included). For what began with going down a golden escalator 10 years before.

Well the brownies do look like monsters I suppose (new pan).

We literally only looked away from the zucchini plant for one day.

There's a fabulous quote from Alicia Mickes at Wizards of the Coast in this (more for my day job than my writing and sculpting). "If you involve us only at the end, you’re not getting design, you’re just getting decoration." blog.hubspot.com/marketing/wh...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

The Skinless Man Counts to Five is ALSO on sale for $14! A collection of 25+ years of my horror short stories. Some award winning, some never before published until now! #horror #shortstories #surreal #weird #creepy

Teenagers can die and be maimed by violence, but cannot be allowed to read about it. Teenagers can get SID and underage pregnancies and suffer sexual violence, but must be protected from reading about sex. Does that about sum it up?

Kermit and Gonzo spooky watercolors by @jodyvanb.bsky.social. #artlife #comics #art #fbf

All of these are fantastic! I also love: Occult Saiko! The Large Family The Medium The Horror In The High Desert series The Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi series The Fake Documentary Q series The Bay The Dirties Grave Encounters Deadstream

THE GUNSLINGER ON THE BEACH (1982) Acrylic on Board - 28" x 18" The winter months of 1980-81 were tough. My wife and I became parents with the arrival of our daughter in November, and I needn't tell anyone who has children what that means in terms of lifestyle changes...like lack of sleep. 1/4

I have a major issue with @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app auto-flagging my content as disturbing or sexual when it isn't and the appeals process is useless. Some people are like "flagging isn't censorship" but unless another user has "show adult content" turned on EVERYWHERE, this is all they can see

Random Morning Grumble: I loathe the entire concept of "cringe". Self-policing yourself because of what other people might think is a fool's game. Love what you love, be who you are, if other people are embarrassed by it, that's their problem, not yours.

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

I have another collection about to hit paperback for the first time. In it are several poems, and I was reading this... and wanted to share. See if you can pick the lines that I made me think man... you can actually DO this poetry thing... Also, the cat that will make you look at it.

Take the Fall is an autobiographical comic book about artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez. What happens when you find yourself trapped in your body with blooming cancer tumors and ghosts from the past who want you dead? You make a comic about it. tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com/product/take...

The trip to our friend's pumpkin farm was quite successful.

I don't know that anyone will ever be interested in my sculpting (watch out for my imposter syndrome there). But I did have fun creating this stone block texture. #sculpture #sculpting #claysculpture #sculptor #horror #monsters #horrorart #traditionalart

I was going to try to get some sculpting in before we go to our friend's pumpkin farm. But I needed to do some rearranging and adjusting first.

Looking for a silent movie? I have reviewed over 770 of them from every genre and era! All organic human brainspace, typos and all, no AI, here's my index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Said it before, I'll say it again: The "not technically illegal" aspect of AI is going to be used by unethical companies to provide users with things they previously could only get on the darkest, nastiest secret corners of the web. No-age-limit chatbots and stolen schoolgirl photos are the start

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

SURVEY SAYS: "Name something people felt compelled to pretend to care deeply about for three days, but actually don't care about at all." thedesk.net/2025/09/sinc...

In case you missed it, last week on #BetwixtTheSheets I was talking to the marvellous Alexander Meddings about the emperor Nero and asking the question, was Nero a fuckboy???

Think I'll finish this in the morning.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Heeeeeelllllpppmeeee…. 🪰