if any of you do the grocery store in the next 24 hrs i wish you a harmonious non-verbal dance of pause/go/check list/allow passage/space, gogogo-move with your fellow hunters/gatherers

anyone making a product should be given this design choice for the barcode, it still just goes Boop when you scan it

this was based on what would happen if you had a frog in a jar, balanced on a pocket knife, on a shallow wooden table in a crawlspace and you had the chaotic guile to feed it a living fly

it's frankly wacky that there's so much hair-pulling about self-publication when every week the grocery store and the universities of former residents of my apartment, and uline, happily to partake in mass (deluxe) mailings, the amount of prestige, glossy recyclables in mailboxes is wild

Gutteral thrills

can't believe Nieves has been publishing zines since way back

I thought all the CF comics about bikes and cars were about formula 1 and psychedelia but I just found out about Luigi Colani and that burner’s got a bite to him

recent object of curiosity was Densen, the cancelled game for ps2 about an office worker who uses a coat hanger to swing along power lines. allegedly inspired katamari and ico.

shouldnt Urban Planning be a BFA course? Bucky Fuller front and center, but get some local politicians on board...as an art student i would've absolutely taken a class on Sewer Systems or How Many Trees Fit Here

after sending my parents each a copy of the bootleg of my new book in progress, my mom read the whole thing but corrected (3) typos, my dad read the first chapter but had 3 pages of personal reflections. if i am verbose or elliptical online, this may be where/why it started.

The King-Cat/Cerebus Venn diagram, unintentionally prompted by @dominocomics.bsky.social

Skillz

See you in hell

tomorrow it's gonna be all turkeys and trees, how fleeting, to be a mere dancing skeleton in this dimension

Monster fan club release at Floating World was fun yesterday, I think I drew a dozen free goblins like this one for the Brave Souls who came out, also there Were tricker treaters in the mall, love to see embarrassed and bold kids dressed insanely in the ‘abandoned mall’ setting

October has been fairly on-point, folks. the O looked like a pumpkin, I've been sporting both jacket and hat, get ready for all the other months with No letters that look like the mascot, twice the garments, let's savor this

Me and my three friends reading your posts.

New @jessemcmanus.bsky.social comics are in local comic shops across the nation today! Go grab a copy of Monster Fan Club 3!

Anyone in Portland? mark your calendars for the 29th, Jason Miles printed a 12 page comic of mine in this monstrous comic book, i will be at Floating World doing free goblin drawings and maintaining a gruesome countenance. 'tis the season

let the gourd times roll

nothing in the Reddingk comics pdf said i was supposed to be good at posting 1 liners or using my lackluster typing skills to raise awareness about any real issues

favorite rapture was the total lunar eclipse in 2018, several seconds of daylight darkness and then we all walked home from the park like nothing had happened, watching solar mirages on the sidewalk, little did we know it would take 7 more years until our spirits were forced to evacuate or perish

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

TIL about the illustrator Gregory Blackstock, famous for his "visual lists" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory...

TFW you’re doing an appendix nobody asked for

so tempted to get a Mantis, they're affordable, insectoid and I could learn many things from them

'lotta Slenderman talk out there, but i was on a second floor as a kid, and a floor above me on a porch there was a bronze statue of a girl looking into the distance, and there were screen windows, so of Course she'd be able to crawl down them, using only her arms, and yknow, destroy me

Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, one of the great geniuses of cartooning who showed the medium’s literary potential, was born on August 22, 1880.

More art should take up the lingo of cooking, cuz anything I start drawing gets to a boiling point, after a peak needs to sit for a while, with ‘hating myself, the project’ being analogous to the food being too hot, or not cooked enough, yet often ends up being edible, aka ‘I got out of my own way’

cheers to everyone doing it upside down, inside out, or backwards from the norm, not because they're misguided or self-destructive but simply because that's the music they hear. others will hear it too, and ears will grow to hear it. God bless Brian Wilson

Didn't anyone notice that me and several others spilled our guts about being Terrified by Drawings on the recent MRC?! I'm late to re-post but a reposte in good faith is never tardy

Swanderson

pro-elevator, anti-escalator, not afraid of planes, terrified of cars, thumbs-up for bikes, spooked by eye-contact on foot

if anyone was wondering, i have 5 dreams per week about travel, 2 about not travelling, You are in 3 of them, other roles are filled by dead relatives and doppelgangers of friends and lovers, the theme is always bustling locales, not having my shit together and vertigo, that's the Dream Update

i have friends in other nearby states that are more practical to visit but i kinda wanna route an east-coast trip around a CTRI residency, 'the disneyland of casual discourse' or 'the six flags of cupping around with the ghoul'

i'm trying to figure out this back-of-the-head thing i like, lots of theories but i might just be freaked out by faces

Spearheading my chance to draw characters from behind, and all elements on separate sheets of paper to form a larger picture eventually

Welp, we’re at the ‘six eyes observing a cracked stone’ point in this comics project

now that he's gone, let us enjoy that although he was constantly accused of being a francis bacon imitator, that 'francis bacon' now sounds more like a lynch character than ever

i logged into bluesky and all i got was expert printing advice and friendly consultation on abstract creative projects

Todays big damn update was I tried to compress 9 pages of comics onto 1 page and the facts of the matter said nope asshole and stop thinking you get to cut corners who do u think u are bill Gaines, take a walk dumbass

It’s safe to assume everyone in politics or entertainment smells way differently than you’d think and our whole mass hypnosis is riding on the fact that our tech doesn’t let us Sniff, if we knew the true odors our reptile brains would go into overdrive, ideology would crumble

Anyone resolving to do an art project this year, I recommend it because it’ll become a parallel reality for you which will route your best and worst impulses in its favor, spookily, with a tangible result, and it’s time travel, it’ll be your birthday again before you know it

are you folks ready for Time Night cuz it's gonna goddamn happen and you best have your clocks wound up

all the people unwrapping nice fresh Clocks today as gifts are gonna be stoked for the holiday that's right around the corner of the weekend, it's called Time Night and it's nuts and you just got the Best tool to participate