comics are so good, i wish people could get paid a livable wage for them

April newsletter out! Subscribe here: thefloatingbookshop.substack.com be kind. stay weird. read books.

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

Left this in a comment on @comicbookyeti.com’s thread, but it bears its own post. Others have addressed this, but the dissonance between “never fully remove the human from the workflow” & AI being ok for “coloring assistance, idea exploration, background generation, effects, animation” is HUGE. 1/3

Live Laugh RAT

Excellent thread about the new owners of GlobalComix, venture capital firm Point72.

Our March newsletter is here! thefloatingbookshop.substack.com/p/happy-marc...

One of our favorite books by one of our favorite writers is available for $1.99 at bookshop dot org right now! Here’s our direct link if you’d like to buy it and help out The Floating Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/96084/9780...

Will wonders never cease? It's an actual newsletter from TFB! Welcome/Welcome Back to Buoyant News!

Renée Nicole Good’s prize-winning poem from 2020. May her memory give us strength. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Show @bookshop.org some love here, folks, so they give the social media platform not owned by billionaires more attention! You can shop with The Floating Bookshop through bookshop dot org here: bookshop.org/shop/thefloa... Or find you local indie bookstore and support them!

Here’s a little guy I’ve befriended while walking around a small town in Portugal

Caturday. Hoggle says "You did what to Venezuela"? Stoopid Hoomans.

WOW!!!!!!!

Met this very careful little cross-eyed kitty on my daily walk here in Portugal. Happy new year / feliz ano novo

Happy 2026, #booksky! Do you like scrappy little indie bookshops? We’re a home for poetry, horror, libros en español, queer books, science writing, ttrpgs, fantasy, scifi, book clubs, zine making, author events & much more in downtown OKC We’re helping build the kind of culture we want in the city

2026 is a year to ORGANIZE, and we’ve got a few Slingshot planners left to help do it. While supplies last, you can save 10% on these radical planners. Plus most everything else is 10% off, AND all hardbacks are 20% off through Wednesday, December 31! be kind. stay weird. organize.

We need to hear some wins right now. Please share victories for collective action, cooperation, etc. Human artists doing great things on a small scale, communities finding their unhoused members homes, local foodways, pedestrian & bike friendly projects, strange guerrilla art, moments of joy.

Attn: @tanglman.bsky.social @regularcandy.bsky.social @absurdistzines.bsky.social @notarealghost.com

Free shipping and 20% off a future order at @bookshop.org today! Shop with TFB here: bookshop.org/shop/thefloa...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

The Kickstarter campaign for my first solo comic, DREAMHOUSE launches tomorrow! I am equal parts stoked and anxious. I've got 104 followers on the project, I would LOVE to get to 150 by launch tomorrow. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

Perfect, no notes

The response to our first ever art show call has been awesome! We’re gonna close the call Monday, Sept 29 at noon, so we can notify those selected & make sure they can pick up their race kits with plenty of time before 9th Street Derby Day on November 22. Details & entry: forms.gle/ksqSnTcJ9ipq...

This is why, if you're wanting to do comics, it's far more important to practice drawing comics than it is to practice drawing. The drawing comes with time and you get the time by getting opportunities to make comics, you get those opportunities by demonstrating storytelling.

More of our famous free shop stickers and less-famous @carefulkittybooks.com stickers are here! Get the TFB stickers at the 🌈🏡 on 9th St, & Careful Kitty stickers at any of the stops on our tabling tour, including @okcomicarts.bsky.social (Sept 13) @slicexpo.bsky.social (Oct 18) and OKCZFX (Oct 25)

Lookie, ma! We made the paper! Come see us at the #paperplainszinefest vendor fair today, Sunday Aug 31 from 11-5 at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., LFK

What if we kissed like I imagine the 70s playground turtles at the KS turnpike rest stop playground do?

final proof of “las fronteras son líneas imaginarias: landscapes after Herriman” Get your copy of this very limited edition ziclée (zine x giclée or something) at the @carefulkittybooks.com table during the #PaperPlains Zine Fest vendor fair in Lawrence, KS from 11-5 this Sunday, August 31 #LFK

re: chatgpt and suicide/psychosis, if somebody talked like that to other people in any of my peer support groups they would be banned instantly. a healthcare or psychiatric provider who did so would be stripped of their licensing. a crisis hotline would be sued into oblivion. shut it the fuck down

Nine (9!) years ago I did a run of 15 of these Devil Dino screen printed posters in honor of Jack Kirby. They’re long gone, but I still like the image. Happy birthday, Jack.

Careful Kitty will be at the Paper Plains Zine Fest vendor fair this Sunday at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St, in lovely Lawrence, KS. Come say hi to @absurdistzines.bsky.social, @regularcandy.bsky.social, & @notarealghost.com and pick up some zines, comics, and more! See you soon, LFK!

The best thing ever (for this hour)

Comics conventions are going to have to develop and enforce no-AI policies. And soon. Probably yesterday would've been good.

My schedule for next month is pretty barren, so, if you need wild art that you won't find anywhere else on your next project, consider hiring me? Covers, sequentials, character design, album covers, I do it all! Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com I also offer commissions if you don't have a project

Stickers of “morning devotional: please be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on” $4. Profit goes to the Immigrant Defense Project. Available at @thefloatingbookshop.com, or find me at the @carefulkittybooks.com table at Paper Plains, @okcomicarts.bsky.social, or @slicexpo.bsky.social

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Updated Fall tour schedule •Sunday, Aug 31, 11-5: Paper Plains in LFK •Saturday, Sept 18, from 10-6: @okcomicarts.bsky.social in OKC •Saturday, Oct 18: @slicexpo.bsky.social in St. Louis Come see us for stuff from @absurdistzines.bsky.social, @regularcandy.bsky.social, @notarealghost.com & more!

Here’s the parts of the tour I can announce: •Sunday, Aug 31, 11-5: Paper Plains in LFK •Saturday, Sept 18, from 10-6: @okcomicarts.bsky.social in OKC •Saturday, Oct 18: Somewhere in Missouri. We’ll let you know as soon as we can! Stay tuned for even more Careful Kitty news & appearances!

😻 IS THIS REAL LIFE 😻😻

BREAKING NEWS from Careful Kitty HQ: Crispy (AKA Crispofer, AKA Crispus Cattucks) caught a mouse! 😻😻😻 Thank you, Crispus!

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Super elated about this, and not just a little afraid that by creating objects that "purport" to come from Area X, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social is calling it into existence in the manner Orbis Tertius did with Tlön.

Careful Kitty will be at three awesome zine & comic events in the near future, and I started making this for them, but I’m not sure I can talk about one yet, so consider this a teaser 😹 More soon, but see you this fall in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri!

No matter how wide your hind end is, it belongs in a box on Cat Box Sunday! Celebrate your feline figure, your tabby tush, or your big ole Bob cat booty today! #cat #cats #catsofbluesky #tabby #pets #catpics #funnycat #blackcat #meow #catlovers #catlife #paws #Catboxsunday #chillin #funny

You: storing things in the cloud Us: storing things in a murmuration of starlings We are not the same.

Assuming I don’t forget the reminder to pay our table fee that I scrawled on my arm, we will be in LFK this Labor Day weekend for Paper Plains Zine Fest! We’ll be there with zines and comics from @absurdistzines.bsky.social, @regularcandy.bsky.social , @notarealghost.com, & maybe more!

🇺🇸USA🇺🇸 The first EVER USA #SmallPressDay event! The Flying Bookshop will be having a sale on indie comics and zines and a @carefulkittybooks.com popup Saturday afternoon/evening! Any friends across the seas - this one’s for you! @thefloatingbookshop.com @carefulkittybooks.com