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the US needs to be torn up root and stem.

apropos of nothing in particular, i really like puvis de chavannes's compositions.

i drew so many leaves of ivy today. i like the composition, but making it legible at 4x2 inches... mistakes may have been made. now to fill in the midground with something straightforward. maybe a twig. or a gradient. or a twig on a gradient.

back on my bullshit

spent a few hours digging into 990s from the Society of Illustrators, looking through the list of 2025 MoCCA fest sponsors, and browsing the 2025 program to locate ads from non‐sponsors. i also made a few calculations based on their sponsorship "opportunities". and... lol. lmao.

Can I show you guys the best/worst Early American Portrait I know of? Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1830, Portland Art Museum. Look upon her visage.

wow, google has made their AI shit even more intrusive and harder to avoid touching when viewing PDFs than it was before. this definitely won't make my job—which to great extent consists of checking reports printed as PDFs for formatting, math, spelling/grammar errors & accuracy to our DB—harder.

my understanding of what the New School is began to clarify when they built that shiny autoCAD box on 14th & 5th while i was a student there, and they've signalled their commitments every time Israelis have engaged in mass-killing of Palestinians, but this is still a fucking travesty.

when i must have been about three, Amphigorey entered my life like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. seeing these books, prints and drawings last monday at the Houghton Library (on the heels of MICE!) was very nearly a stendahlian experience.

LRP a car is a gun and drivers need to live in fear of pedestrians darting in front of them out of blind spots. for safer streets drivers must be reminded they are operating killing machines, and i therefore consider it a public service to cross streets wherever and whenever i feel like it.

i think a lot of car discourse boils down to whether you think a car is a horse or a gun.

starting to get the listing populated...come get your copies!!! Come get THE clear UV ink riso comic! ko-fi.com/s/fa5cb79d33

the bar i'm in has a cocktail named "mr and ms pamplemousse", which i think must be meant for siblings to share.

Hey look I'm in the Beat's MICE coverage!!! :O

within ten minutes of being given direct access to the database of the company i've worked for for about five years for the first time, i dug up a set of tables no one could explain: frogstudents frogclasses frogschools frogdistricts frogusers a mystery to the entire office

post-MICE, something i'm thinking about is how so many of the artists i spoke too struck me as kinda starved for feedback on their work that hits on specific technical/formal qualities and the effect those decisions produce in other people experiencing the work.

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to zinesters and faggots and to disobey federal law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically soft, mentally awake, and morally degenerate.

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Happy MICE day two! I’m back at @massmice.bsky.social table 77A. Please come by soon because I’m running low on a lot of products and expect to have many sell-outs by the end of today!!!

one secret trick artists won't tell you: it's actually very easy to get free art—make art yourself and share it with artists for fun.

Danger Overhead catenary wires are alive. And hungry.

boats in their natural habitat

boston MFA you have some gems in your collection but this is embarrassing.

Tomorrow “Sending This Message Was Important to Us” debuts at @massmice.bsky.social ! Possibly the first and only comic of its kind printed with Riso’s experimental clear UV activated ink. If you like really weird zines and/or nuclear semiotics, come to table 66A!

they disconnected me in Schenectady.

...with UV! (mostly 100%, details 20-80%) making this was a flatout 1-week sprint. no idea when or if the opportunity to use UV riso ink will ever appear again. i'm really pleased with it—i had no idea if areas w/ layers of different density UV would be legible but they printed exactly as hoped.

New zine—In The End There Was Light—inspired by the Human Interference Task Force. 100% kelly green on orchid paper...

looking at some of the stuff i've drawn lately and feeling pretty good about myself. it's been about three years since i seriously started drawing, and while i see numerous flaws in my work, i kinda feel like i could draw anything if i put myself to it, and make it look decent too.

dang, i just shared the UV reprint of Chamber, and i'm now like 90% of the way done turning around a new zine meant to take advantage of the experimental UV riso ink, and so much has been going on that i completely forgot to share pictures of the furry indulgence zine i literally just finished!

a zine i finished late this past summer got reprinted! and in a format that in part actually permits it to be shared digitally!

spent all afternoon tearing my hear out yesterday trying to draw this figure's head, and this evening i had it in five minutes.

got a work email past 5pm from a co-worker literally on the way to the hospital to give birth. really not comprehending why she would be emailing me!

Victoria's Egret New! Sensual Bittern Collection 25-26

male oneliness epidemic. they keep experiencing moments of clarity, followed by dissolution into quantum foam.

KA Applegate call me

god i hope this gets some kind of US theatrical release. i need to see Magnetic Rose projected 50 feet tall.

awoken before my alarm by a vague buzzing shape demanding i provide my hand for a pillow, and demanding cheek skritches as well.

in all directions odd erections

can't believe gristedes is going out of business tomorrow.

a figure, on their knees and curled in on themselves, viewed at a low angle almost head on. sure. i won't regret choosing this composition.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Meet Barker and Catchfast her Prey from Fallen into the Garden! They have a ~special dynamic~. Read the comic through @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social until 8 PM GMT/ 4 PM EDT / 1 PM EDT October 31st! www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

i guess i'm "sexy phantom of.the opera.1925 doorbell"

just saw the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, and i begin to understand why people still talk about lon chaney. however, what the fuck is this thing? how do i get one to replace my doorbell?

If anything here intrigues you: check out my comic Fallen into the Garden October 2025 through @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social ! www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

at work we're now producing reports with summaries branded as if they're an AI-generated product, complete with ✨️-logo. except it turns out AI is extremely unreliable and tremendously time-consuming to QA so they're actually made with the same non-AI tools we use for everything else lmao.

i'd really like to re-watch Alien as a pendant to Angel's Egg. Angel's Egg directly quotes elements of Gaudí's architecture, which strongly influenced Giger's visual vocabulary; both have scores with atonal passages reminiscent of Ligeti; and both enter similar thematic territory vis-a-vis faith.