The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

This is primary and personal for me. Molly and I can barely afford our health insurance now. Absent those subsidies, we’ll likely not be able to afford them at all. What did we get for forty days of shutdown, as public opinion shifted against the republicans? Not a thing. Get fucked, @democrats.org

This is near the top of the list of reasons why we have no faith in the democrats, no faith anything good will ever happen again Next email I get demanding five dollars, I will figure out what an IP address is, how to find one, then I’m coming over and breaking your jaw

Watching the Outkast rock and roll hall of fame performance and a.) incredible how much ground those two covered in their recording career and I’m happy we got what we did and 2.) watching like 7 pro rappers be unable to keep up with Big Boi’s flow is just more proof of his position as All Time King

My buddy, my editor, my pal and yours @cjiswingingit.bsky.social needs some of that solidarity we all like to talk about so do ya thing for as member and friend of the community

Considering there is a detailed YouTube tutorial on how to correctly do every single task on earth, you would think we would be living in a golden age of human competence. However I am starting to worry that this is not the case

Panel borders are finally here The end is nigh

"Integrity" is punk-noir about addiction and moral weakness. this is one of the works of fiction that hits closest to home for me personally and that I'm most proud of. @stephenpellnat.bsky.social made an illustration for it that still haunts me buttondown.com/ChrisMJones/...

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

I am within spitting distance of the end

I can’t WAIT to see how the rest of the Democratic Party fails to understand what’s happening in their ostensible base, fucks this up royally between now and next November and hand the republicans another easy victory I have faith in you Chuck and Hakeem I really believe you can and will do this

Looking unlikely that I’ll finish the book by the end of the year. Family stuff. Thanks for anyone who’s stuck with me so far.

To everyone who ordered a hedgehog bootleg: I fully intended to get to the post office this week but in the course of four-jobbing it, that shit ain’t happening. I’ll get there next week! I’m very sorry for the delay.

DOUBLE CAT ACTION

I got my first critical write up in @comicsjournal.bsky.social and hey man I’m just happy to be here www.tcj.com/arrivals-and...

How do you tell a video essayist on YouTube that you miss them

Flash moves the algorithm blood is the lubricant of the engine of capitalism buy my stupid hedgehog bootleg www.stephenpellnat.com/mach-the-hed...

Flesh moves the algorithm it is lubricant of The capitalist engine buy my hedgehog bootleg

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

NEW COMIC ALERT www.stephenpellnat.com/mach-the-hed... Get your paws on my very first riso book, printed by the amazing buds over at @risographstudio.bsky.social ! It’s really good! Brand New IP! Go get it!

Early on in the deterioration of a mind I love comics lettering and while it’s small and slight, one of the best things about lettering myself all these years is the freedom of visually communicating beyond the written word in the prescribed bubble space

Ministroke, early signs of dementia in a comic about a dude who sucks

I like Mamdani a lot and I love watching him do Harlem globetrotters trampoline dunks over Andrew Cuomo I also have yet to hear him provide a satisfactory answer to what he’ll do if Trump does turn off the faucet of federal dollars to NYC I would vote for ya if I still could but figure it out homie

It's fascinating how in real life huge stories just don't have an ending at all. Remember the Boeing scandal? Planes falling apart? Dead whistleblowers? Was there some kind of resolution to it? Is it all fine now? It's like a plot that's just an endless series of inciting incidents

Cover by Pete Costanza.

Add one drawing you like they said okay I said

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Consumer choices are the truest form of American self expression On which point, considerable research has led me to the conclusion that owning a post-2015 BMW or new model ford bronco means you are either whipping shitties on 84 in the middle of the day or driving me off the road to merge

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

Thank you to @comicsjournal.bsky.social for making me and @qcomix.bsky.social look jacked at COMIX THING

war, war never changes.

saw an artist I assumed was successful post about trying to go back to school for an internship which reaffirms my suspicion that as a creative person you cannot Make It anymore. you have arms and legs and there's a boulder and a hill but strangely the hill has no peak

Drawn in procreate on an airplane as I lay out small drafts and ideas for a new non-upstate project

This old New Mutants book, pencilled by Bret Blevins and inked by Al mf Williamson is really doing something for me

Pete Davidson, a man whose father was killed during 9-11, going to perform at the Riyadh Comedy show, is the only time Pete Davidson ever made me laugh.

This feels like an all timer

This is one of those weeks that allow me one day of full drawing and mostly nibbling at the edges of my waking time to do what I can so here’s what I can

Wilkommen in Deutchland

Working before work is kind of the only way this works

I hate it here

Done enough

@cartooncrossroads.bsky.social ! I will be in the great city of Columbus THIS VERY WEEKEND, sweating and mumbling and selling dense, depressing comics! I will also be doing a live reading this Thursday with DISTRACTOR, so roll through, Midwest friends

I want to draw my comic play Sekiro and hold my cats upside down and today allows for none of those

My understanding is that this is what sells comics

I like lifting weights to the point of feeling like I could shit my pants because Victory is most thrilling when it’s separated from defeat by the thinnest of margins

The eagles are bad + deserve scorn but without them we might not have gotten this Glenn Frey solo masterpiece, quintessentially American in its ability to make me homesick for a place I’ve never been, so it’s a great object lesson in taking the rough with the smooth open.spotify.com/track/0b8eSs...

Upstate 5 features fucking and you bet your bippy it’s just as loaded craven and bleak as you’ve come to expect from my work nothing to unravel in my own life there

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy