Some heartbreaking animation news today from people who have been some of my animation heroes. It’s up to us to hold the line and build a better future for animation.

yikes :(

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Hey, fellow writers, hope you get some time and space to write today if that’s what you want. And if you do, I hope you can forget about the industry and focus on the work.

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

#booksky! Have you SEEN the cover for my upcoming THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN? I tell you, it must be seen to be believed! #ParanormalRomance #Romancelandia #PulpFiction Many thanks to @trashmancer.bsky.social & @fringe-element.net for making my VISION a reality! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

And so, with the help of these kindred spirits who understand my SOUL, I present to you the utterly, magnificently, wildly, insanely, perfectly pulpy cover for THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... @trashmancer.bsky.social @fringe-element.net 😍🦈🫶

And this of course is genAI working as it should, as a cultural infoweapon that denatures truth and trust in Everything, including art, even if/when it's not actively in use.

the internet used to be mostly images like this

There are now enough "let me know when this launches" pre-backers (if that's what we call them) for THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN that BackerKit is starting to think it could happen. I'm somewhat more confident than "starting to think" :) www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

"Night Wing" was created using #gouache on paper. 🦉 #owl Prints/merch of my work; www.the-inner-observer.com

Rod Serling. His life is fascinating and he created my favorite TV show ever so maybe I’m biased.

🫡 CJ Cherryh. Fifty years of publishing and probably close to a hundred books—what a body of work, and so full of gems. One of the very few authors of whom one can say, yeah, I've read a dozen of her books and haven't even started yet

I’m not surprised it’s so expensive. Most cows don’t even lay eggs

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

If you didn’t care to write the book, why should I care to read it? If you didn’t care to make the game, why should I care to play it? If you didn’t care to paint the piece, why should I care to appreciate it? If you don’t care at all, why should anybody else?

I’m directing 1984 and am going to have Winston Smith karate kick O’Brien out of a skyscraper window and shout ‘Tell Big Brother he’s next!’ There’s a big animated dance sequence with rats at the end.

I am still working on the first draft of issue one, but the henchman character is a mood, I have the most fun with his facial expressions because relatable. (First time doing any sort of bold inking in my style, but I am trying to mimic in some part stylization of older comic books.)

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

When AI proponents throw out the tired line “get on board or get left behind” like somehow it’s a bad thing to not want to get on board when the train is running straight to hell lmao

Occurrence. Those double c’s always make me doubt there’s double r’s too so I will almost always write occurence first before the red squiggle reminds me of my folly.

I keep thinking what Marshall McLuhan would think of A.I.-generated media. If “the medium is the message,” what does the medium of generative A.I. say louder than its content? I think the answer there is: Nothing. AI slop is truly just that. Slop devoid of any true meaning regardless of content.

Slow 🐌💎✨ #repostyourart

There is a direct throughline from this and the rise in global authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is actively hostile toward the arts and intellectualism, and thus imagination. When people say that AI is a “fascist project,” this is explicitly what they’re referring to.

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Pedro Friedeberg, Two Cows, 1969

It makes me very happy that two #Murderbot episodes, "All Systems Red" and "The Perimeter," have been nominated as finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards! #tvsky #booksky @marthawells.com

Making a comic is hard but at this point I’m committed to the bit

Read this from @colsonwhitehead.com because it's funny & true & because, alas, it's not enough to oppose AI, you have to fortify that opposition frequently, because it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, friends and comrades are going down all around us. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

just had a thought...

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

💫 Gouache and pencil on aqua board!

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

The fact people will lie about using AI says to me they know deep-down it’s an embarrassing shame they’re just too lazy to try otherwise

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

T-5 minutes now! #Artemis

BREAKING: NASA is just moments away from sending astronauts on a moon mission for the first time since 1972. Artemis II will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, circling the Moon and returning to Earth on a 10-day mission.

I can't get over people whining, "But what if I'm baaaad at that?!" in response to everyone telling them not to outsource their creativity to fucking AI. Who raised you? What did they teach you? Fuck all, apparently, because being shit at something isn't an excuse to cheat. Come on.