The Boy and the Herring

Being far less attached to social media than I was a year or two ago means that now I sit around thinking things like “god I love jjajangmyeon” and that thought just stays inside of my head instead of going anywhere (except for right now I guess)

god at lunchtime on day 5

Talking to my therapist this morning and not really wanting to get into [politics, society, the world feeling like garbo, etc etc], so now I’m just calling it “*gestures into the air* the Miasma”

drawing

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA a comic/poem (1/🔶)

Happy New Year, MICE friends! We just uploaded some photos to our gallery from MICE 2024, so we can ring in the new year and celebrate the old 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for all your support and here's to another year 🥳🐭 https://buff.ly/4a9yOaU

The 2024 @massmice.bsky.social Mini-Grants are here! For the past 5 years we've partnered with MICE to offer distribution to all their Mini-Grant winners. We've just added THIRTEEN fantastic comics to our distro catalog! www.radiatorcomics.com/collection/2...

Hot alligator selkie in question

“She’s an alligator selkie.” “Oh that’s hot.” “Yeah I made her really hot on purpose.” “Selkies gotta be hot, that’s how they get kidnapped. …Did I just victim-blame selkies…” (@maggiedreadful.bsky.social)

We found a place near the meetup venue that will write in ricotta on your pizza for a few extra bucks so we can never not have pizza messages ever again (this one was from the week after the election)

Hello, comics folks! The 2024 Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grants are officially open! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today's opening day! Check out our submissions page for more info - we're looking forward to seeing what you have come up with!

Excited and honored to have been the artist for MICE @massmice.bsky.social 's convention poster this year!! I'll also be a featured guest! Come see all this awesome comics talent in Boston this December~! 🐁🐀🐁🐀

I’m making the staff schedule for MICE right now (🐁 COME TO @massmice.bsky.social NEXT WEEKEND 🧀), and the title I have given my role is Galaxy Spider. This is more succinct than “cross-eyed and staring into the universe while trying to manage 120 people in my fragile spreadsheet web.”

“I’m a Work of Art” (cw: nudity, body issues, disordered eating) 1/19

People have been telling me I should get back to Bsky and then all of a sudden a bunch of followers arrived so, I guess I am here again, hi

Why do these girls keep dancing up on me can’t they tell that I’m a bottom

I miss Twitter but weirdly I have been treating IG stories like Twitter, I should start using Bsky again…

Blind Alley No. 272

oh my god

i don’t always pay attention to british politics. but when i do, it’s to laugh at things like “the prime minister goes on tv looking like a sausage in a wet lycra 3-piece to beg for his job”

This has been in the entry way for three days so I wrote a curators note for it.

Dear artist/writer/maker, I just UPDATED my quick guide to helping your hands not to hurt. If you want a copy, head here: abriancart.gumroad.com/l/HandMainte... Can't afford it? Just read the whole post, I've got you covered. Kindest Regards, Abrian C

I saw this last night and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The adventures that ox must have had.

Boston, I'm doing this next month! www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...

Babe wake up, new Hemingway luxury variant just dropped

We'll be at The Greater Roxbury Book Fair this Saturday with a lot of other cool Boston literary folks! We're excited to have a table and to be working with Comics in Color to sponsor a comics workshop with LJ Baptiste and Jonathan Todd.  See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/savor-the-...

No, they just lost one of their guys.

Butter tarts

Three travel weekends in a row means I have a collection of half-eaten snacks in my backpack: spicy peanuts nibbled at in Seattle and upstate NY; grapes that went up to Toronto, met some strawberries in Boston, and came back to Queens; crushed granola bars that successfully avoided ravens in Juneau

Why are all multivitamins in gummy form, I just want something to put in my pill case so I don’t forget to take it

MICE applications close this week! it's my favorite indie comics show!! their app process makes more sense than anyone else's IMO (application-based, some discounted spaces set aside for first-timers, you can only exhibit every other year so more folks have a chance to table) www.micexpo.org/apply

As a volunteer run non-profit; table fees only cover a portion of CAKE's expenses! Keeping alternative comics publicly accessible as a free to attend show is important to us and your donations help maintain that! Consider donating to Chicago Alternative Comics Expo: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

10PM on a Wednesday

“Before you croque” was right there

Nothing radicalizes you like seeing all your freelancer friends have to pay 30% taxes on their poverty wages. Everyone is out of work, under employed, underpaid if at all. There are no savings and no safety nets. Groceries cost $80 every trip. It feels like I'm bleeding to death.

Masquerading as an AI so I can get my job wrong 83% of the time and not get fired, while billionaires keep giving me money to try and make me slightly better.

Therapy is hard you guys, did you know this

You’re never alone when you have eye worms

rip to the boring darlings

A cop just poked their head into the subway car when we stopped at Penn and asked “You guys good? Everything good?” I assume this is a new initiative for them to try to justify the NYPD swarming fucking everywhere on the MTA nowadays.

the HAUNTS kickstarter hit its first stretch goal!! all $20+ backers now get a free haunted house sticker with their copy of the book! only 9 days left to grab your copy! 🏚️💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kay... (reposts appreciated!)

My emotional support arepa

One of my favorite weird cat guys: Le Chat d'Ostende. George Catlin, 1868. www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-1...