Our Executive Director @librarylandia.bsky.social spoke with CBC about the Alberta government's censorship of comic books in schools. Their attack on diverse voices is a continuation of how governments have historically exploited "moral panics" to threaten human rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

We’re thrilled to announce that the TCAF will return next June to the Mattamy Athletic Centre! Want to be a part of it? Watch this space! We’ll soon be posting our exact festival dates, application form for exhibitors, call for programming, and loads of other chances to contribute to #TCAF2026.

Want to see what wild things @maryroach.bsky.social has been up to? (You do.) join us THIS THURS at 7pm EST to talk about REPLACEABLE YOU! Free: www.youtube.com/live/auLhvM6...

COMING in November from Heavy Sweater Comics is Wallace Ryan's graphic memoir, "December". "December" follows the life of local comix artist Wallace Ryan as he enters a dark period. It was written in the months following his wife Linda's diagnosis of cancer.

Heading into day 2 (and the final day) of the first ever ✨St. John's Comic Arts Festival✨ hosted in our lovely city at Memorial University's UC #comics #graphicnovels

Had a lovely evening at The Rooms as part of the St. John's Comic Arts Festival kick off, where festival director Georgia Webber talked about comics with Scott Chantler. Can't wait for the next two days, jam packed with comics ✏️

🎉I'll be hosting a talk with Wallace about making comics in N.L. too - which folks should definitely check out!

I'll be a Featured Guest at the first ever St. John's Comic Arts Festival!!! AND I'll have a table there!!!

Can't wait to pick up my copy and also celebrate at the launch in September 🎉

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

An air tanker drops a load of water on a wildfire at Paddy's Pond, Newfoundland, Canada August 12, 2025. The fire has closed the Trans Canada Highway and residents of St John's, Paradise and Conception Bay South on evacuation alert. ...on assignment of Globe and Mail #canada #wildfires #newfoundland

Thank you @elwhitten.bsky.social for writing a really cool article about our work in Battle Harbour, Labrador this summer! #archaeology #gravestones 🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I am sold, will be tuning into this!

Fallen into looking up Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons - it counts as research on the Cluny Macpherson biography #amwriting

Very excited about reading a book about WWI chemical weapons and finding citations to Sir Ian Hamilton sending telegrams to Kitchener about gas in Gallipoli 😷#amwriting

Canadians Mariko Tamaki and Boum among Eisner Award winners, recognizing the year's best comics www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...

One of my favorite musicians and I heard one of his songs just yesterday. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Was at the gym, mid-stretch, when I spotted this - me on the CBC! This was a piece that aired a few days ago, all about NL's tech sector and the possible boon of increased defence spending

I interviewed a woman about how Air Canada lost, then returned her carry-on.... Only to open it up and find her hundreds of dollars in her things missing and items that weren't hers now in her bag. Like a knife and ticket scanning device: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once again, it's time for my favorite softwood lumber explainer from The Rick Mercer Report (like Canada's version of The Daily Show, but it ended in 2018), which aired in 2006 and is unfortunately still relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGz...

Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.

I wrote up a whole page of notes on dysentery in the Gallipoli campaign but am flipping through my notebook but can't find them. Did I imagine writing the notes? #writingproblems

BOOK NEWS! Please, if you could, preorder THE DEAD COME TO STAY! It’s so very helpful and the #book is a #mystery with #autistic protagonist, family secrets, Russian dolls, a treasure hunt, art #history, and much more! www.amazon.com/dp/133512187...

Quite a story from CBC N.L. "... no public disclosure of the decision before now." "Premier John Hogan was not made available for an interview..." "... no replies to a CBC News message sent to the legislative email addresses of every current cabinet minister." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thanks so much Wallace for having me into your studio to talk about the City of St. John's new policy on AI art submissions

I've been putting off untangling a tangly chapter in my Dr. Cluny Macpherson biography but sat down and finally did it! #writingwoes

On July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in a stable sparked a fire that spread through St. John's. It left the east end of the city in ruins and 11,000 were homeless. From the ashes came a safer city with a new architectural look. This is the story of the Great St. John's Fire. 🧵 1/8

"Court of King’s Bench Justice Janet McMurtry says a prison sentence would have made it difficult for Ruben Manz to support his family." And that's rape culture, babyyyy

Very cool to be just surfing bluesky and spot someone post the story I wrote! 🚂

Bankrupt 23andMe is trying to sell Canadians' genetic information. 27 U.S. states have filed a lawsuit to block the sale. In the meantime, experts say: Delete your data, by Sheena Goodyear www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... via @cbcnews.ca

Some important info here rooted out by @sarahsmellie.bsky.social at CP. Remember the fees were also what the government said would cause the companies to rapidly release reserved land if it came to it. This is worth keeping an eye on. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #nlpoli

SUPPORT our comic book anthology "TOWN: St. John's in Comics"!!! We're running a Kickstarter for it through the publisher Black Panel Press and please feel free to donate or even pre-order your special copy as a reward!

"The only thing that's been in Andrew Furey's House of Assembly seat over the last two weeks is Lucy Stoyles's handbag." Now that's an opener. #nlpoli @petercowan.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

RIP Issac Newton (aka the last alchemist), you would have loved watching the physicists get annoyed because they accidentally turned lead into gold theconversation.com/physicists-a...

Let's make this happen Canada!! Show a little love for St. John's and some great local artists. ♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

OKAY PEOPLE IT IS TIME You *really* want to join us for this! #NYC friends, please share! May 14–free or support gift— REGISTER HERE tinyurl.com/BushwickSchi... 🏳️‍⚧️📚🧪🗃️ #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #trans #books #bookclub

110 years ago #OTD the first large scale gas attack took place in the Ypres Salient - in the coming weeks a Newfoundland doctor would invent an early gas mask called the hypo helmet to protect those on the front lines: (I also am writing a book about him) www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

April 5, 1932: Roughly 3,500 people storm the Colonial Building in St. John's to protest government corruption.

"The 'worst-case scenario' can be found in Newfoundland and Labrador, he said, where small towns in that province have lost three-quarters of their news outlets in the past 16 years." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/loc...

Be safe 👇

The unseen human costs of doctor shortages in rural N.L. On the Baie Verte Peninsula, residents say the wait for a doctor feels endless, by Ariyana Gomes www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #CanadaWAITS

#OTD Dr. Cluny Macpherson was born in St. John's in 1879. He would go on to invest an early gas mask, the hypo helmet. You can read a bit about his story here (while you wait for my book on him to one day come out) www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

March 18, 1879: Cluny Macpherson, the inventor of the gas mask, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland.

A boil-water order set in 1989 has finally ended in Branch, N.L. All it took was 16 years, $1.8 million and the unrelenting efforts of the town's volunteer, all-women council. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/uns...

Researchers race to cure 'Newfoundland curse,' which can kill without warning. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy is caused by a genetic mutation that clusters in 28 Newfoundland families, by @sarahsmellie.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @thestar.com #ARVC #genomics

New piece up -- reflections on International Women's Day, and the struggles that truly deserve to be honoured theindependent.ca/commentary/o...

Happy World Book Day!

This conversation is fucking abysmal, disrespectful and disgusting. Trump and Vance are, to their very core, dickheads. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...