DAMN I forgot to apply for TCAF

Matched with someone on dating app and they recognized my book 😳

I am constantly exhausted… But I will never be lazy enough to use AI

Trying to fill in my 2026 bingo card but it’s really hard in the current headspace

NEW YEAR, NEW BINGO CARD!!! 🥳 ✍️fill it with your creative goals 🥇for every bingo you get you're entitled to a treat 🏆for scoring all fields you're entitled to a big treat! 🌻BONUS: a little phone wallpaper for personal use!🌻 #artbingo2026 #bingo #art #wallpaper

also due to big personal life event and moving from living with my ex-partner back to the west coast, my only source of income this past year have been Ko-fi and commissions. i've had to start over with almost nothing since leaving behind a lot of studio equipment and community built over months.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Wanting to plan my business stuff for next year, but it feels kind of pointless when you have chronic pain and are unreliable because of it

I have two creatives inside me: the one who wants to keep things secret until it's ready to be shared, and the other constantly craving to spoil everything about it before I even start working on it

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Hm I need a critique group for comics

This epiphany is sponsored by: People Pleasing, the main reason my past relationships lasted way longer than they should’ve!

Hm, maybe if I try to fuck up my life a bit more, instead of always making the right decisions, I’ll figure things out better

Last I saw my grandma she said she hated AI Now will not stop posting photos “retouched with AI” please end this

Feeling miserable but just had the most cursed idea for nail art

Haha the endo pain has become stronger than ibuprofen

I feel like an evil criminal mastermind but in a good way, I just paid $56 for $140 worth of gel nail polish

As much as I want to keep my books pretty and pristine, I’m starting to feel like that’s some bs Books are meant to be for learning, not a shiny trophy on the shelf, scribble in the margins, highlight passages, dog ear the pages!

I hate AI so much I’m going to write a book about it

Friend just helped me brainstorm a whole world for a new project/book and I’m super excited about it but also i have crashed so hard after talking about it for 1.5 hours

not that it would convince any AI turds but this is the best way to explain it They want the tip of the triangle with nothing under it

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

A couple more test nails, especially proud of the star

If you use GenAI, you’re not welcome here #NoAI

Idk if I can take anyone on tinder seriously, my first match just opened his message with “hey hot stuff” and I cackled

Me: *joins a lively Discord group for artists because hey that sounds nice!* Also me: *gets overwhelmed by the number of people there and the fast-moving, overlapping chats and becomes a silent lurker in the corner*

I messed up on these but they’re still prettyyy, also turns out the nail is too long for my liking, so I will need to get some extra short tips But here’s the first press ons I’ve worn in about 20 years

More nails

I’m learning how to make press on nails :3c and here’s my first two tests

Living with #endometriosis is very hard and no one seems to understand besides others who live with it, so I want to share my experience. Here’s a little intro.

Missed a delivery for a gift I was really looking forward to >:(

Well, we should have known not to count on Disney

Why am I learning everything I know about endometriosis from tiktok and not my actual doctor??? ?

I want to make comics about my experience with endo but it’d mostly just be “ow ow OW”

I think I need to take a break from illustration for a while and just find hobbies I enjoy again, cus it’s been hard to find a niche when I don’t enjoy anything besides drawing (and I don’t even enjoy that any more)

I kind of want a bag that is straight up just a fabric tool box for all my crafty supplies to go

Why pain? I took the pain killers, it should have killed the pain?

Still thinking about her 😍

Every time I start to feel better about living with endo, I have a flare up and become depressed all over again because life is just pain from now on

I guess I’m no longer in burn out from my graphic novel, because I want to make all my story ideas into graphic novels now

Sigh…. What do yall do for burn out? Like the bad burn out, not just “it was a rough week/month” burn out?

Love that over half of the job postings in the list promoted by the local arts council, are for an A/I company

The time in between getting help for depression and actually feeling better is actual hell. I just want to do things I like, but I can’t, it all makes me miserable.

I miss drawing

A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills. If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now! store.ironcircus.com

Did you know that I keep a mini gallery of #KidLitArtPostcard pieces on my website? I update it a few times a year, and each image links out to the artist's website. Thanks to everyone who shared work yesterday! www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Dads shouldn't be worried about their daughters having daddy issues because they might sleep with older men, they should be afraid of their daughters writing books and making the dad into the villain in every book

Super frustrating to have a vague idea of a story, wanting to write it, but not having enough planned to do so yet

Listen… I know I haven’t drawn much DA fanart in recent years, but yall should mention me in this form 👀

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard ! I’m Mazie, a Canadian cartoonist and writer, looking for work in kidlit, specifically early readers and chapter books, though I’m open to any kidlit projects that fit my style. I’m also querying a graphic novel and chapter book series. MazieLovie.carrd.co