Revisiting a few paintings I did back in 2017 for a Pride month comic 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

My May book reviews are up (free patreon post) and information about THREE different federal book banning bills, all of which I urge you to call your reps about. I wrote call scripts: www.patreon.com/posts/may-20...

If you'll be at TCAF this weekend, make sure to visit Hazel and Bell and say hello from me!

Hey all, please sign the petition and share and get everyone you know to sign. You have no idea how hard these folks have been working and how much your support lifts their spirits. Show the Dark Horse workers your love and stand with them!

happy "all queer infighting and lateral punching completely stops and we focus our collective ire on cops, corpos, and politicians" month

I love this comic so so much, in part because Kori's experience is really different from mine, but reading this helped me understand my journey! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌟

Happy Pride!!

finished it just in time! #art ✧ #trans ✧ #pride ✧ #crossstitch

"OF COURSE, we always knew you were GAY..." A short autobio comic I made as an A4 foldie zine a while back ✨🏳️‍🌈✨

Thank you @fuse8.bsky.social for highlighting OPTING OUT and for your thoughtful questions! afuse8production.slj.com/2026/05/21/r...

Over at @prismcomics.bsky.social, I shared an exclusive excerpt of GENDER QUEER: THE ANNOTATED EDITION by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social & from @oni-press.bsky.social Read here: www.prismcomics.org/exclusive-ex...

Tomorrow night in Santa Rosa!

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

When people ask for shipping supplies recommendations I do not hesitate to link refuseuline.com Quite literally I just reference this, there are so many options that are better and not evil.

Hell yes, Dark Horse! Good luck with the union @darkhorseunion.bsky.social 🖤🐴! #DHWU

The book-banners are at it again. We're all tired, I know, but please consider calling your house reps and senators to demand they vote NO on this trifecta of book-banning bigotry. They win when we give up. So we can't give up.

pssst get your Ignatz subs in this week (as I know bc my calendar keeps spamming me about it) www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-rules/

I signed a big stack of books at the Powell's on Hawthorne in Portland, OR this weekend! Pick them up if you want one :)

I loved this book! If you are in SF this weekend, say hi to @jooliefiveash.bsky.social and pick up a copy of The Froggy Library!

giles would never use ai for his slides. find your inner giles

HR 2616, text below, just passed today in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators & tell them to vote NO ON HR 2616/S 2251 (and the very similar bills: HR 2617 & HR 7661 which aim to ban all trans books from every public school in the country!) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

It's real and in my hands! ARCs for Fox River Comics Camp! I think it came out very charming, I think you'll be very charmed. Librarians and booksellers get at me/us if you want an ARC!

making this comic for @npr.org got me to do yoga again!

This Thursday May 21 hear me, Sina Grace sinagrace.bsky.social, Meg Cabot @megcabot.bsky.social, Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social, and Sean Ryan talk about our new books in the "Going Graphic" panel with @slj.com! Free to register here: www.slj.com/event/school...

GENDER QUEER: THE ANNOTATED EDITION is out today from @oni-press.bsky.social! I'm so grateful to everyone who read, bought, recommended & defended this book over the past 7 years (5 of which it spent within the top 3 most challenged books in the US). www.simonandschuster.com/books/Gender...

🧡💛💚💙💜

Thank you @autostraddle.bsky.social for including both OPTING OUT and the ANNOTATED GENDER QUEER on this list of most anticipated queer books released in May :) www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant...

FYI, Neil Gaiman appears to be lurking around Bsky again All are encouraged to block: bsky.app/profile/neil...

New statement from San Diego Comic Con on the Eisner-nominated anthology using AI:

We toured!!! Find signed copies of OPTING OUT at the bookstores that hosted us- The Nonbinarian in Brooklyn, Cover to Cover Books in Columbus OH, All She Wrote in Boston, Left Bank Books in St Louis, & Under The Umbrella in Salt Lake City. Also Half Priced Books on West Lane Ave in Columbus OH 📚🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥰

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

Not sure what the Eisners should do about the current AI predicament they find themselves in, but this petition requesting that guidelines be updated for the future saying any comic using AI will be disqualified from the Eisners seems like a no-brainer. c.org/8N5Ydf8GVS

Thanks for the great show 💜 #방탄소년단 #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_STANFORD #bangtan

Excited for this one!

Thank you so much @bklynlibrary.bsky.social for including Gender Queer on this list! www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/... "250 most influential books in United States history"

Happy Friday! This weekend make sure the Little Free Libraries in your town are well stocked AND it'd probably be a good idea to put some of our HR7661 postcards while you're at it!

Apply! We have money to give to some folks this year!

Thank you for this generous review! I'm excited to attend my first Graphic Medicine International Collective conference this summer in Baltimore, MD- July 23-25: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-graph...

This is a great article by @saracentury.bsky.social about the annotated edition of @redgoldsparks.bsky.social's GENDER QUEER. www.polygon.com/gender-queer...

Finally got all of my zines uploaded on my website, so you can read them (if you wish). The site is still under construction and will maybe some day have more stuff on it. :) martinamonster.art/zine-archive

I have escalated my aversion to Spotify.

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Reviews of everything I read in April! (free post on patreon) www.patreon.com/posts/april-...

Making some journal comics, so here’s a preview where @redgoldsparks.bsky.social took me to the Schulz Museum!

I drew these pages in my sketchbook a year ago to explain my thought process on thumbnailing while working on Opting Out. I co-wrote this book with Lucky Srikumar @luckyscomix.bsky.social and it's out from Scholastic Graphix on May 5! bookshop.org/p/books/opti...

Remember: support workers by NOT BUYING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes a fair contract for over 10,000 baristas who are still waiting for Starbucks to do better! nocontractnocoffee.org

Join us on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm for a special after hours event with Maia Kobabe and Swati “Lucky” Srikumar in celebration of Opting Out. Details at www.covertocoverchildrensbooks.com/event/evenin... @redgoldsparks.bsky.social @luckyscomix.bsky.social

I LOVE THIS COMIC SO MUCH! 🧡💛💚💙 book is here: bookshop.org/p/books/opti... :D