Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

We're already over $1k with so much more to go, please help us keep climbing. I truly didn't understand how expensive and fucked up the court system is in this country until I heard what my friend is experiencing. Anything helps.

I am quite frankly desperate to make ends meet this month. We are $900 short on rent alone despite everything, and could really use any help we can get. I'm taking autumn YCH commissions and accepting any other help I can get to make sure the check clear in just a few days here. ko-fi.com/eskiworks

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here! Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only! And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

If you have some free time, take a walk on the beach with Kentrosaurus... just be sure to walk closer to the front than the back.

Closing in on October, which means close to the end of the submission period!

Rest In Power ✊🏼

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad. www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE draw your balloons into your thumbnails i'm begging y'all SAVE THE ROOM AND YOUR LAYOUT

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

It’s been a year since I launched my free resource pack for artists! To celebrate, I’ve been working on new tutorials, brushes, and more. I’m finalizing the last details, and I’ll be updating it next week! If you want to be the first to hear about the new update, sign up here: links.loish.net

We've only received single-digit event proposals so far! 😢 Did you attend any of our incredible online panels this past year? Those came from folks submitting their panel ideas! Event proposals are open to the public. You do NOT have to be a @cartoonist.coop member to pitch us a NIF event!!¹

#art #resist #ArtYear

Go read a comic. Log off. It's okay, log off. I care about you. Log off. If you think I am writing this directly to you, I am.

Gonna boost this again to let other independent artists know about this upcoming platform! This is probably one of the most promising licensing websites I've seen, especially because they go all in on protecting artists from AI and not nickel-and-diming us in fees. Please consider supporting them!

If you have been thinking about structures of safety in TTRPGs, this issue is for you, including pieces that touch on games in the classroom, philosophies of safety, care ethics, and even rules lawyering.

So it's apparently Bi-Visibility month...

*jazz hands*

I'd also advise you not to have a take in a public forum that could be used as a matter of record...

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly! Heads on straight, gang!

This is inspiring me to make my game design even more unhinged

Comic creators: Don't use the Atlantic search tool, find a LibGen mirror. They are sketchy AF with popups so I won't link here, but I found the entirety of Paper Girls in multiple editions/languages.

THIS!! It's one thing to promote a small press title or a zine collection, but if I'm being published by a Big 5 publisher I shouldn't have to be their marketing and publicity employee.

THX to all the illustrators, cartoonists, designers who have backed the Kickstarter campaign for @armadillostock.bsky.social. They know Armadillo is a free to use licensing platform for illustrators by illustrators. -NO AI -100% 💰 to artists -Community support www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

To my sticker making friends who rightly hate AI: One less option to worry about when printing stickers! Feel free to recommend other printers in the comments that we can all use instead, bonus points for Canadian companies

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Print isn’t dead. It’s just run by out of touch weirdos and nepo babies. The future of magazines lies in the hands of those with other ideas. www.ft.com/content/d4d5...

20 days to go for the @armadillostock.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign. Help fund a new idea in art licensing…one where illustrators do it for themselves. -NO AI -100% fees to artists -FREE to use Please support the hard work of the volunteers who support you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

This just in, the fox that killed all those chickens will be guarding the hen house.

Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.

"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)

Hackers compromised an artist platform, and now are threatening to upload all of the artists' art to AI tools if the platform doesn't pay up. A novel extortion strategy www.404media.co/hackers-thre...

Hey folks! Wanna participate in the coolest online comics festival? Check out the Cartoonist Co-Op to get started and join us in preperation for NiF(Nib and Ink Fest) 2026!

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

Learn more about the history of #LaborDay in the US from this comic by Sam Wallman, shared at The Nib in 2018. thenib.com/labor-day-is...

gotta say if nothing else Andor is refreshing in that it reminds people Star Wars was an anticolonial story the whole time

Not read my comic about the misunderstood history of the Luddites, how tech is never apolitical, and the history of resistance against it? It’s now available on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social to read for free!

I backed Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators. Check it out and support if you can. It’s a fresh take on licensing illustration. Every little bit helps. Take back your power from big tech platforms that treat you as a nothing more than a profit center. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...