Reminder. This upcoming Tuesday at 7pm in the Wex Center auditorium at Ohio State University, I'll be giving what is likely my final public presentation on my book KENT STATE. A slideshow presentation, with a Q&A and a signing to follow. Books will be available from the Wex bookstore.

I'm very excited to be working as a editor on a nonfiction comics series on censorship with @xtramagazine.com !

It was deeply meaningful to receive the inaugural Kirby Award for Independence! Here’s more info on the Kirby Awards:

A lovely Morticia sketch I did while at OAX.

I wrote about how the 2000 indie bookstores known as comics shops have won over the book publishing industry and more thoughts on #comicspro26

Also picked up @natepowell.bsky.social's issue of THE TWILIGHT ZONE this weekend. Really great story, evocative of the best episodes of the series, and the art is, as always, gorgeous.

Once again.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Very much missing the near-daily drawing of Diana and Jody over the past 6 years, slowly experiencing an evolution in their looks, personalities, backstories and motivations. Here’s a panel from DIANA— out October 6th from Abrams!

John Lewis’s warnings have been on my mind today, as we see the direct vulnerabilities of downplaying civil rights as “activism lite”: Kansas fascists negating many trans citizens’ licenses serves both genocidal aims (erasure from society) AND voter suppression (immediate disenfranchisement).

Imagine the perfect life

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

“Discussion of gender is not sexualization… [nor making] books available to students that represent the diversity of their experiences. Such an interpretation says far more about the adults and the perspectives they’re applying to books than it does about the books or their intended audiences.”

Trans rights are human rights and if one of is ain’t free then none of us are.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

They are in an arms race against Americans

Epstein victims had been speaking both to federal officials and publicly since the 1990s. Admin after admin betrayed them. But instead of analysis of the continuity of conspiracy, it's falsely presented as "revelation". Much as the first Trump admin got memory-holed, now the Biden admin is too.

This Sienkiewicz double page spread from New Mutants 18 is why I never draw spokes on wheelchair wheels.

this is some bullshit. the Court is giving sovereign immunity to postal workers who allegedly engaged in intentional racial discrimination Thomas's rationale is that you can't sue the government over lost mail, but there's a difference between mail that's lost and mail that's withheld bc of racism!

Lettering for a poster of Cleveland history to coincide w/ next month’s events there! Lunchtime interview & evening signing on 3/20, and a live drawing event at the art museum as artist-in-residence for the day on 3/21. More complete info up on my site this week! www.seemybrotherdance.org

March: The Complete Trilogy details the early life of Congressman John Lewis, and his participation in campaigns for racial equality from the 1950s. It brings history to life with evocative art from @natepowell.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social theslingsandarrows.com/march-the-co...

This is worse when you see the quote because he is describing professors getting fired for calling Kirk a racist piece of shit and then his college fired him. Also: the origins and defining ethos of Turning Point is getting professors fired. That part, and not free speech, is baked into their bones.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Last night at OAX I was stunned to receive the inaugural Jack & Roz Kirby Award for Independence, alongside a legendary crew of Kirby recipients— Zoe Thorogood, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Romita Jr., Kevin Nowlan, Walt Simonson & John Byrne! My deepest thanks for even considering my work like this! 💜

Happy Birthday to John Lewis. Gone, but not forgotten. His powerful legacy lives on in our classrooms. Thank you @andrewaydin.bsky.social @natepowell.bsky.social for telling the inspiring story of the congressman in an engaging/inspiring way for us all. #goodtrouble www.pbs.org/education/bl...

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and myself leading the march through SDCC, 2015!

Thinking lovingly of my friend, collaborator, and hero John Lewis— who would’ve been 86 years old today. Transformed by our years together, and by his trust in us to help communicate his experiences to new generations in the ongoing struggle to deliver the still-incomplete promises of democracy. 💜

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Seein’ one, postin’ one:

A few of the 150 pieces of original artwork I’ll have at OAX in Orlando this weekend— I’ll be at table A39. I’ve got pages from every published book I’ve done since 2008, plus pinups, illustrations & stuff I did for fun. More info on the show: www.oax.art

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

hey let's do that over here now

From the people who brought you Scavenger’s Reign… yeah this is gonna get backed by me faster than fast. www.kickstarter.com/projects/neu...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Here’s the selection of original artwork I’ve packed up for OAX this weekend— I’ll be at table A39.

If you don't believe kids and teenagers can lead their own protests, I suspect you don't know many kids or teenagers.

I called Jackson again about a year later, in July 2020, on the day John Lewis died. He talked about Lewis's moral clarity, what patriotism really means, and about the rebirth of democracy in the 60s. "Our modern democracy was born in front of that bridge." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

all that say: in thinking about Jackson this morning & reading those old interviews--and considering time and traditions and transitions--I came across the statement he posted when Lewis died. it was a reminder of the ways that brave, dogged individuals, together, make change

Trump used our money to pay Russian criminals 4x what they paid for a fucking warehouse. And if that naked corruption wasn’t bad enough, it’s for a fucking concentration camp.

Here’s the selection of original artwork I’ve packed up for OAX this weekend— I’ll be at table A39.

Here’s a very fun, challenging commission I did this weekend— from Tillie Walden’s ON A SUNBEAM. Just acrylic inks & india ink!

I wrote this article ten years ago: thediplomat.com/2016/03/trum...

Here’s a very fun, challenging commission I did this weekend— from Tillie Walden’s ON A SUNBEAM. Just acrylic inks & india ink!

Diana and Jody. 🖤👹🖤 Back cover detail of DIANA— the very last piece of art drawn for this triptych of books I’ve been making over the past decade. Out 10/6/26.