Queen Sonia 🌿 #LegendofZelda #illustration

This truly was an incredible project. Lots of love to everyone who supported this zine! 💙

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

~2 weeks left to get our darkly comedic grindhouse horror comic MACABRE VALLEY #1 is a perfect read this Halloween...combining border politics and gruesome monster-of-the-week horror Digital tier is $5 and hits your inbox 10/16 Pre-order now: kickstarter.com/projects/zackq/macabre-valley

💕 DONATION MADE 💕 Together we raised $3398 for RAPS Cat Sanctuary in addition to $255 in direct donations to cat rescues across 5 countries around the world! Thank you again for making miaow possible 🐱

Queen Sonia 🌿 #LegendofZelda #illustration

One the things I'm really loving about Consume Me is how unmistakably it takes place in NYC, in subtle but detailed and grounded ways. Reading on the subway, going on dates at museums, the manhattan mall, doing laundry in the basement. I grew up here too, and I never see the city shown like this.

Concept art by Hans Bacher for Beauty and the Beast (1991), dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Feature Animation

My zine Strange Tales and Modern Legends collects three illustrated short stories based on Japanese folklore. These stories celebrate demonic women and delight in the unruly joy of problematic characters. 👹 digitalterrarium.itch.io/strange-tales 👹 www.etsy.com/listing/4299...

Emi Yagi’s 2023 novel When the Museum Is Closed is a short, sweet, and refreshing work of magical realism about a shy young woman who falls in love with a statue of Venus. The twist is that the statue loves her back! I really enjoyed this one. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/25/w...

Hey, this is really cool! Includes an interview with Alexander O. Smith and Steve Anderson, with new insights on the localization process.

Emi Yagi’s 2023 novel When the Museum Is Closed is a short, sweet, and refreshing work of magical realism about a shy young woman who falls in love with a statue of Venus. The twist is that the statue loves her back! I really enjoyed this one. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/25/w...

The people have spoken: "Touch grass, Jo! We're all BROKE!" Introducing the SOFTCOVER edition of HOW TO TOUCH GRASS! Same content, same quality, just without any bells, whistles, or hullabaloo. The price will increase from $30 USD ~after~ the Kickstarter, so get it while it's HOT: buff.ly/HbA2TT6

Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is live on Kickstarter! If an episodic tale of an opossum and an astronaut living in a sword and sci-fi world sounds like your thing, this book is for you

autumn journey 🍂 #illustration

I'm currently querying a novel, and it is my deluded but sincere hope that prospective agents look at my social media, see that I have a relatively normal (ie, small) number of followers, and think, "Oh thank goodness."

How are you feeling as the fall arrives? This wild boar in autumn flowers and grasses c. 1800 is definitely telling us. 👀💦 Let’s a be a little more celebratory of Autumnal Equinox Day #秋分の日 as the colors turn! 🍂 This Mori Sosen painting held by LACMA: collections.lacma.org/node/215192

"Sewers combine the allure of secret underground tunnels with the chance to study old artifacts that have been thrown away and forgotten." — Kathryn Hemmann Read more in Seven Intriguing Video Game Sewers: sidequest.zone/2025/03/03/v...

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is a cozy collection of connected stories about death, life, and talking to ghosts. What sets this book apart is Mizuki Tsujimura's exploration of the rules of the magic system that governs her gentle urban fantasy. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/20/l...

hades 2 this week!!! wahoo!!! #art

Ganondorf commission for @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social , based on an early concept art for Tears of the Kingdom. I love this guy so much. ✨

Special discounts on chibi horror commissions! Valid until the 31st of October. ✨ #art #commissions #horror

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is a cozy collection of connected stories about death, life, and talking to ghosts. What sets this book apart is Mizuki Tsujimura's exploration of the rules of the magic system that governs her gentle urban fantasy. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/20/l...

Mostly finished editing Bullying in Japanese Literature—about damn time. 🫠 Meanwhile... I was grateful for @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social's review of Mizuki Tsujimura's Yami-Hara and the explanation of Shadow Bullying. I've read the novel and it was fun to talk about it in the episode.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

CITY is sort of a celebration of the absolute beauty of animation as an artform.

Retrograde collects the early short fiction of Osamu Dazai, an influential figure in modern Japanese literature. The translation is excellent and breathes fresh life into intriguing stories that are well worth being discovered by a new generation. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/18/r...

Retrograde collects the early short fiction of Osamu Dazai, an influential figure in modern Japanese literature. The translation is excellent and breathes fresh life into intriguing stories that are well worth being discovered by a new generation. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/18/r...

“And on a personal note… I strongly believe that the loss of local newspapers is an underdiscussed blow to our communities. With this comic, I hope to make readers consider that, as well as how we got here and how scary it is that nothing has effectively replaced what we once had.”

the kickstarter campaign for my new horror comic, Macabre Valley #1, is now LIVE (back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...) and I wrote about the experiences that expired it exclusively for @comicsbeat.bsky.social ...check it out!

At the first SAVE Point ///HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY UNDERTALE!! #undertale #undertale10thanniversary #UNDERTALE10周年 #UNDERTALEアニメ制作委員会 #frisk #pixelart #undertaleFanart

I love Lace and I'm loving Silksong so expect more fanarts in the next months. 👁️👄👁 #silksong #hollowknight #art

Yen On—again with the win for not publicizing its releases. 😑 Takeshi Murase's The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station (trans. Giuseppe Di Martino), published in May. Yen On claims to publish "light novels" but a lot of their titles... aren't. Hemman's review sounds something more like a comfort read?

Going to give Dungeons & Television another shout out, a little indie YouTube anime project with short eps (one so far) and sweet world building, artwork, and premise.

It makes me so happy to see that Peach has passed the "princess float" torch to another queen 👑 #Silksong #illustration

Mentally I am here

In Age of Shōjo, Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase demonstrates how, "through magazine stories and illustrations, readers came to acknowledge themselves as shōjo, a new cultural identity" that provided a space for young women to find their voices in twentieth-century Japan. japaneselit.net/2025/09/10/a...

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Shaped like a friend 🧡 #Silksong #illustration

"To truly understand this fight, to become one with it, we are chasing the hitless run. Radiant Difficulty. Perfection. Nothing else will force the state of mind we need." Read more in How to Beat Nightmare King Grimm and Ignore Your Grief in Ten Easy Steps: sidequest.zone/2024/11/04/h...

You really want this zine. I love all anime magazines but I'm crazy for print zines. I love print - he feel and smell of a new paper book or zine in your hands is a hit of pure sensuality.

Shaped like a friend 🧡 #Silksong #illustration

i'm sure everybody is excited about a certain video game coming out today - while you're buying games though, please consider picking up the Play For Peace bundle, which contributes direct aid to palestine! 🍉

"The forest represents a mysterious, forbidden realm or a boundary that cannot be crossed." — Kathryn Hemmann Read more in Trees in Video Games: sidequest.zone/2024/12/16/t...

Self-care is dragging the ultrawealthy to the guillotine 💖 #comics

The official EXCLUSIVE announcement for our Macabre Valley campaign just went up at @dreadcentral.bsky.social!! It’s got our full cover reveal, tier/reward info, the identity of our previously-secret variant cover artist, and more … check it out!

I had the opportunity to review the newest horror comics collection from adamtots.bsky.social, Let Me in Your Window. These gorgeously drawn stories offer disturbing insights into the murky shadows of internet culture + brilliant speculation on digital futures. www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-nove...

Graphic Novel Review: LET ME IN YOUR WINDOW sees the ghosts in the machine Adam Ellis's Let Me In Your Window embarks on a thought-provoking exploration of the haunted spaces of digital culture.