First of all, bird. Second of all, bird. Mostly importantly, bird. 🪶

Excellent question! I’ve been talking with the very helpful Hugo team to clarify: The work *as a whole* is eligible as it concluded in 2025, but since that is 2000+ strips, we are including the 50+ strips from 2025 in the packet, with a cover page with links to Parts 1 and 2 for reader convenience.

Home, finally home, and checking out the riot the #garden became in the five days I was away. #gardening #BloomSky

Whelp, the amazing Prof. @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social sent this over, as made by her art historian friend Susanna McFadden—and now I cant unsee Hegseth as Caracalla. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Well this is…quite exciting!

Hi, new followers dropping by from the #Hugos announcements! I’m currently on a train coming back from signing SIDEQUESTED books in NYC! It’s our other comic and the book is just one month old, but you can read it for free here!

Is he ever gonna fire a dude or is it just women or do we even need to ask.

Hi, new followers dropping by from the #Hugos announcements! I’m currently on a train coming back from signing SIDEQUESTED books in NYC! It’s our other comic and the book is just one month old, but you can read it for free here!

Hey I won an upgrade to my train ride home and it comes with an itty-bitty toilet and a bed and what wait hang on we got nominated for a what—

Four days ago— Vendor: $8 corn dog? Me: Get thee away from me, purveyor of tempting but overpriced calories! I crave not thy divine pork! Now— Vendor: Hey. Me: Gimme.

Look I know I’m a grunchy grouchy grinch but I’m pretty sure this space at the Met (Charles Engelhard Court) used to be a garden full of statues and now it’s a wedding venue.

Him: What would be your dream job Me: Oh that's easy. Sitting on the back of a motorbike on the Tour de France pushing idiots into the ditch Him: Oh come off it there's no such job Me:

Jim’s talking about a career in comics here, but the whole thread up and down applies to pretty much every career. Particularly the bit about luck. In Hollywood in particular luck is such a major factor that if we really stopped and thought about, our sanity would snap.

really appreciated this analysis

Saw a mom explaining to her kid why he feels sniffly in the spring and I walked right on by that golden opportunity to permenantly traumatize a small child, please clap.

Can confirm that @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com exist and are not the same person!

“A Piece of the Action,” the episode from the original Star Trek series when they went back the gangster era of the 1920s, was set about 40 years before that episode was filmed.

Always admiring of long-dead garden designers who knew how to frame a moment in time.

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

Brain: Time to stop signing books. Me: But I’m almost finished! Brain: Honey, your name doesn’t have a D in it. Me: Yes it does! See, it’s right there on the page I just signed! Brain: Okay so this is literally the problem.

Tried to describe the difference between an indie bookstore and a big chain bookstore, and the best I can do is a good indie feels like it’s always on the verge of happy zoomies, just a strong current of readiness to explode into joy.

So glad I made it to the SIDEQUESTED event at Books of Wonder! It was really fun getting to meet @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com in person. If you like epic fantasy, humor, or surprisingly friendly vultures, you gotta check their work out. New book, or free webcomic! sidequested.com

If your SIDEQUESTED bookplates signed by @alepresser.com smell like milk and cookies, there’s a good reason.

At Books of Wonder near Union Square and admiring their used book collection. I tried to do book covers in this style for some of @devanbarlow.bsky.social’s fairy tales. Just such classic overwrought art, I love it so much.

*fire alarm screams despite complete lack of fire* *everyone in the apartment building stares up at it* Stranger: What happens if we take it down? Will it keep going off like in that episode of Friends? Me: What’s the brand? Looks like a basic First Alert from here. *everyone stares at me*

Okay, this needs a reboot. Damn, that is one lovely garment! Would look brilliant in waxed canvas.

Crocodile

And now for my favorite part of traveling…getting completely lost and cooing like a weirdo at street flowers.

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Taking the Amtrak to NYC and I’m seriously acting like I’ve never seen a train before, like “CHOO-CHOO IS COMIN’!!!” and we do live in a time of marvels.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Not going to platform Tucker Carlson in any way but I was not expecting the MAGA off-ramp to be "Perhaps he is the actual antichrist and we have been led astray by false demons.'

Not saying this is the worst allergy season ever but it’s our anniversary and my husband and I just had to leave a restaurant bc I was disturbing the other diners, and yesterday during a business call @alepresser.com warned me “Don’t go into the light!”

I’m resigned to photos of myself going on the internet from this meetup but I’m going to be in my best Old Lady Of BearWoods cosplay. Then I shall vanish into the croneswamp again.

Our spring booksale continues today! Tons of great books marked down to $5 and $10 🤑📚 firestorm.coop/sale.html

The correct answer is ankylosaurus and the lack of snuggly thonkbonks shows how far we have fallen from the light.

Hey, so, it's still time to preorder your personalized signed copy of Side Quested Book 1! We'll sign them this sunday, so you have up to... Saturday, I guess? To order yours! booksofwonder.com/products/978...

I'd have a handmade Spanish cedar greenhouse with a stained glass roof and a black clay-tiled floor that would catch the colors cast through the roof, and a small fountain bubbling over honed black granite in the center.

Good. Hegseth is a step backwards in our evolution. Any human can be a brute animal who thinks might makes right, and this flat tumbled rock rejoices in it. This won't go anywhere but...still. Good.

just gonna flag that it’s fucking weird how they’re trying to brand autism as MAGA, my brother in crisis you cannot claim autism while voting for a guy who would die before funding trains

This week has started off so rough I'm just gonna get a big bag of Doritos and treat it as salsa.

In what should surprise no one, no one at all, I was taking the first shower with the MOST GLORIOUS HOTTEST WATER we've had in literally months and Brown opens the bathroom door and says, "Dishwasher's broken."

A very good mail day from @firestorm.coop! Thank you so much, team! Go support Firestorm, they're an Asheville-based anarchist co-op bookstore and they need some love right now. I got a gay supernatural comic and a Trans Voices in Horror zine and they threw in some freebies :)

Dropping used tissues all over the place like my wicked stepmother is finally fed up with my allergies and I’ll need to find my way home after I’m abandoned in the woods.

A Sarah Bernhardt peony, first of the season. #garden #gardening #flowers #BloomSky

Anybody else spend an entire hour head-down, being productive, and then "Did it happen yet?" floods your synapses and *blip* there goes your attention span again?

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

Tune in right here on April 21 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time to find out who the finalists are for the 2026 Hugo Awards for Science Fiction.

Dude who bankrupted multiple casinos: Hey you know who would make a great VP?

Well, shit. Loved my time there but I've spent the last 20 years telling people I went to "New Hampshire College" anyhow to avoid the Fox News watchers' lukewarm takes.