More annoying things about AI: the dumbest people in the world will attempt to blackmail you with dumb crap they generated because they fixed your incorrect Wikipedia edits.

Every time I think we've figured out what's causing my constant exhaustion, dizziness, and brain fog, it doesn't go away and another doctor's like "oh, you also have THIS wrong with you, that ALSO causes those symptoms. Here's 12 more daily pills that all also cause those symptoms as side effects."

Why is every public domain Mickey project based on and named after Steamboat Willie? There are now 24 Mickey Mouse cartoons in the public domain. Ub Iwerks' entire run. If you start a project that will takes 8 months now, 12 more will be cleared for use before you're done.

No man should see his own skull as many times as I have this month.

I found a place in Korea that has clothes my size. It's called "Miracle Big Clothes Hulk."

I just really like this restaurant mascot. I have nothing witty to say about it.

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

My latest podcast merch that will mean nothing to you if you haven't heard the podcast. All the cool podcasts hire me to design their merch. Be like Reddit on Wiki and Welcome to Night Vale and pay me to draw weird in-jokes for you!

Ok. We all had our day to talk shit and be angry. But it's Wednesday now and I'd love to encourage the kidlit community to focus on our real fight. There are now 2 book banning bills introduced on the federal level. 7661, which we largely know about but now 2616, too. It's call your reps o'clock!

Intergenerational book clubs are an AMAZING idea, and I'm always overjoyed when Gaithersburg Library invites me to Zoom in to theirs. t was especially fun this time, since they were reading Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit together, which is ABOUT an intergenerational book club.

Star Wars: Padawan by @kierstenwhite.bsky.social hasn't been challenged as of yet, but the book banning bigots are considering it after this scathing review of its "woke pronouns" and icky "kissing."

Another note on the challenge form for the same Star Wars book... "GENDER CHAOS: an "alien character" that is not a boy or a girl! Agenda much?"

May the fourth be with you against the book banners. Jedi Academy was banned in Florida because a because it features a Jedi respecting a padawan's preference not to be called an insulting nickname, and that reminded bigots too much of being nice to people who are different.

I'm one week into physical therapy to straighten my spine out, and it's literally changed the way I see the world. I'm 6'3", but I only now realized that with my back hunched and my neck horizontal, my POV has always been as though I was 5'10".

The official diagnosis is Torticollis, which inflicts mostly infants and the occasional badly postured cartoonist. I had to scroll image search for 5 minutes before finding a picture of an adult, and it appeared to be an etching from 1849.

Our alphabet is so dumb. I'm trying to explain to Hyun Sook the pronunciation difference between SCISSOR, CAESAR, and SEIZURE. "Yes, OR, AR, and URE all make an ER sound. The SS makes a Z sound, the S makes a Z sound, but the Z makes a secret, other sound that we never talk about."

Rich in Color has a list of the 10 best young adult books about censorship. Hyun Sook and I wrote 30% of them.

The Topic of Censorship in YA richincolor.com/2026/05/the-... #booksky #youngadult

It's the first of May!

The absolute panic I felt checking my passport expiration date to make sure I wasn't going to be forced to get a special edition Donny version. Whew.

Garfield is lying about his age. His first strip, then called Jon, appeared in a school newspaper in 1976. He's 50! (He looked a lot older then than he does now!)

Rumors of my "being A-okay now" were greatly exaggerated. But the doctor has this brave little cone dog on the way to recovery. Watch your posture, pals You'll pay for it later.

I used to run a page called For Exposure, where I featured funny quotes from people who refused to pay artists. I let it die when Twitter did. But I just found some of the For Exposure Illustrated drawings I did, and I figured I'd let them live here.

If I seem way behind on important issues, it's because I'm trying my best to do a digital detox while recovering from my health problems so that's why the only things I post about come from the weird corners of my poorly-working brain.

The last Korean movie I was in is so big there are 4 different foreigner casting teams working on it. Since I filmed my part, I lost 27 pounds and could shave my beard and look like a new dude. Should I secretly see how many roles I can get in the same movie before anyone notices?

Whiners today: All modern cartoons look the same. Villains in old cartoons:

Why Am I was a fun podcast to be on. BUT my favorite podcast experience of all time was the warmup activity, Fantasy Restaurant. It's meant to be a quick 10 minute mic check to get guests comfortable, but I told food stories for almost 40 minutes. Now it's out as its own episode!

This #NationalLibraryWeek, We Need Diverse Books is proud to announce that we’ve welcomed 21 school and classroom libraries from across the country into the Unbanned Book Network, assisting them in diversifying their collections and building out their student spaces!

📚 2026 Members of the Unbanned Book Network: ▪︎ A high school in Missouri

Oh, hi marketing team for Beef Season 2. Did you not think to mention at any point that Song Kang Ho plays someone who's bad at his job? One of the greatest things any work of filmed entertainment can have? I just started watching but Song Kang Ho sucking at his job has never failed.

Hey @readswithrachel.bsky.social remember that guy who said we were "attacking parents" for opposing book bans?? I guess we'll be getting our apologies soon???

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How bad was my blurred vision during my health scare this week? I thought I saw a skeet from my agent, Janine Kamouh, and was excitedly typing a message welcoming her to Bluesky. It was James Kochalka.

I talked about this flippantly yesterday, but it was genuinely terrifying to think that I would never be able to work again. I was drafting letters to my editors about how to return advances and figuring out how to announce that I'd never make comics again. I am fine now. I am so relieved.

The plot of The Boys is that a bunch of people who want to kill each other spend five seasons getting perfect opportunities to kill each other and then just don't kill each other it because the vibes are off or something.

After weeks of doctors and hospitals trying to make sense of a series of concerning sudden onset symptoms, I'm pretty sure the final diagnosis is in. "Bro, you old now. This is just what being old is like."

For everyone asking for a The Pitt night shift spinoff, JWBOTD. Just watch Bringing Out The Dead. It has everything you would want from Pitt Nights (A variety of colorful patients! Smart people destroying their own lives/mental health to save them!) plus it's directed by Martin Scorcese. JWBOTD!

Oh. My. God. The idiot did it. Everyone's been waiting to see if prosecutors appealed Somali's 6 month slap on the wrist. But before they could, Somali appealed. The problem? Appeals take up to a year, and he has to stay in jail until it's done. Bro probably doubled his sentence even if he wins.

Look, Onion, proud of you bro, but not everyone we bump into on the street is online enough for us to be out here buying InfoWars merch.

I’m so glad my mom gave me permission to read @ryanestrada.com and Kim Hyun Sook’s Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit. I love persimmons, and Ryan delivers one to all librarians on the dedication page of this sweet, tender intergenerational tale of friendships, families, secrets, and traditions.

If you know Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-Seok) as the guy from Eternals and Train to Busan, you have no idea how much he permeates every aspect of life in Korea. His face is everywhere. I'm at the doctor, and in the waiting room they have the Ma Dong-Seok Guide to Living With Herpes.

My latest wave of author scam spam is a company offering to, for a fee, train generative AI systems to bring up my book more often. There are very few things I would not pick over that in a game of "would you rather."

Read @ryanestrada.com’s story. His response to the “What do you wish people knew” question is spot on. Spread the word: Book banners manufacture outrage to further a political agenda that seeks to destroy public education & impose conformity w white Christian nationalism. Book banners are grifters.

I saw the trailer for the new Wishbone documentary and was about to post how grateful I was to grow up with Wishbone. But then I remembered that I could drive a car when Wishbone was on the air. I still never missed an episode, and I'm still grateful.

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If you haven't watched @readswithrachel.bsky.social and I make fun of book banners yet, get on it, because we're about to do it again. Here's the original 2025 video to watch while we work on the sequel...

Regardless of your opinions on the papacy, we must not let Hillbilly Elegy kill another Pope.