Ok! In honour of the book being done, I’m re-upping this mini-thread. Come read the first 10 pages of our book, that convinced our publisher to buy it! I promise it’s really, really good.

When Bluesky doesn’t like my posts

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

Star Trek: Red Shirts, written by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social, art by @meganlevens.bsky.social and @charliekirchoff.com, with letters by @longtalljodie.com. The trade paperback cover is by Declan Shalvey. Hardcover cover art by @skyepatridge.bsky.social. I had to get both!

This.

you are not honoring the memory of an artist by putting their shit in an generative ai system without their permission you are desecrating their work

We are delighted to announce that applications for our third CAG Mini Grant are live! It's hard to make the comics YOU want to make when the cost of living keeps rising. So this Mini Grant is here to offer a little breathing room: groceries, childcare, whatever you need. forms.gle/J7V7frhTZvH7...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Steve Conley is a brilliant illustrator and game designer. He’s also in a bit of a financial pickle at the moment. If you can help out, even by sharing this GoFundMe, please consider it. gofund.me/aeca3e9d5

Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

hey that's white supremacist fascism

"The No. 1 thing for people to understand with this type of legislation is, while the headline is about kids, the actual implementation is about you” says @evangreer.bsky.social , director of digital rights advocacy group, @fightforthefuture.org www.governing.com/policy/state...

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

LOS ANGELES: Excited that we are partnering w LA Public Library to throw an event about how AI & slop is threatening the future of the internet, media, Hollywood Please RSVP - May 31 with @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social @dexdigi.bsky.social @samleecole.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/la-made-x-...

Between the brutal marketplace, the shrinking publishing industry, and the baked in lack of respect for the arts, every writer and artist you know thinks they must suck at this, whatever their "this" is. Always a good time to use social media for some good and remind them how awesome they are.

Even if you have a hit monthly book the money just isn't there. There are ways to diversify your income (royalties, commissions, conventions) but it's very difficult to be a success in this industry, let alone a success that can make a living off of comics. www.thebookseller.com/news/comics-...

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I had the privilege of peeping this early, and it is excellent. Visually delightful with a nod to Silver Age flare, and a story with so much heart, it made me misty. Bravo to this whole team. Jadzia, @ryehickman.bsky.social & @longtalljodie.com have made something very special 👏👏

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

work with assets stolen from your fellow professionals AND no guarantee of enough pay to live on is the kind of pitch i'd expect from a billionaire looking to get into comics

Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights.

Jon Oringer, founder and executive chairman of Shutterstock @shutterstock.com, is trying to recruit comic and graphic novel creators over on LinkedIn to a new AI platform that he’s building. Feel free to let him (and them) know what you think of this, and never use Shutterstock again ✌🏻

By the great Lynda Barry!

I had the privilege of peeping this early, and it is excellent. Visually delightful with a nod to Silver Age flare, and a story with so much heart, it made me misty. Bravo to this whole team. Jadzia, @ryehickman.bsky.social & @longtalljodie.com have made something very special 👏👏

Today is the release day for GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN. Thank you, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com for telling this story with me and making this book so incredibly beautiful. This is a book all about finding your people and I love that I got to make it with my friends.

May the 4th be with this dude. I think his name is Darth Vader or Annie or something.

24 MINUTES PLEASE GUYS COME ON $295USD NEEDED *NOW*

it's aanhpi month please buy my books ty

GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN is a graphic novel about being a trans teenager, the power of queer love, anxiety over life after high school and what to do when a powerful empire wants you dead. Who saves the world? What if you were the only one who could?

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

Decades of public health messaging have failed to make smoking look as uncool as this picture does singlehandedly.

Was looking for something else in my phone, but found this old Columbo sketch instead

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Stop using PayPal (unless it’s your ONLY option). Especially for work. I stopped using it 4 years ago, switching to Wise and bank transfers only. I have had NO issues. In 4 years only one commissioner couldn’t work with me because of my payment preferences. One in 4 years. Fuck PayPal.

Here for the return of the mustache with that little five o'clock shadow. Good job, dudes. 10/10

Latest episode of the FAQs Project Pod live w/ @jrsosa18.bsky.social as we talk about the introspective Ancestral Recall for @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social live on YouTube #podcast #comicsky youtu.be/TRn-nKIFQKk?...

Going to be slinging my #zines /art @ #ZeusComics tomorrow in #Dallas for #FCBD #freecomicbookday

Was looking for something else in my phone, but found this old Columbo sketch instead

I'm all set up at @sterlingsilvercomics.com !!! Come hang with me, @mikester.bsky.social , and the rest of the incredible team putting on today's FCBD event! I'll be here 11am-3pm, but the store is open til 7pm tonoght!!!

Money is really tight again this month so if you're in need of an affordable writer/editor with a quick turnaround either slide into my DMs or send me an email.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

You should read Out of Alcatraz. okthanksbye.