I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

I ❤️ @summerpierre.bsky.social

Loving parents and other caregivers of trans kids fighting for our kids’ lives. Listen to the people impacted, not the loud, ignorant voices out to deny healthcare that doesn’t affect you. (Altho denying healthcare that is well-researched and supported by specialists in the field WILL affect you)

Before anyone asks: Both Warren and Markey just got a frustrated, demanding, begging email from me.

Gender affirming care saves lives.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

I have a comic about the great cartoonist HELEN E HOKINSON in the latest issue of @newyorker.com ! I am fainting with joy! www.newyorker.com/cartoons-and...

4 years ago my 12 year old daughter, newly vaccinated, healthy and energetic got the Omicron wave of COVID and has never fully recovered. For some, Long COVID is a long but temporary experience, for us it is ongoing. She turns 16 in 2 weeks. We are still here and still learning.

stunning!!

TODAY from 11-6!!!

I’m in Seattle this weekend for SHORT RUN! Come and see me tomorrow from 11-6pm!

The evil and idiocy was foreseeable but I admit I didn't quite expect how childish American fascism would be

We need to move beyond LMAO. I've come up with a few alternatives: LMTO=laugh my testicles open GMTO=giggle my tits off CMGS=chortle my gooch sideways CMCA=cackle my coochy apart HHMHW=ha ha my holes wide LMAITSOAHATYWMAAAH=Laugh my ass into the shape of a hat and then you wear my ass as a hat

Convinced Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, Peter Thiel and others are just showing Trump AI videos in his morning briefings to keep him stumping in the direction they want him to. Med beds.

Good morning. It's Friday! Thoughts for today: 1) Reoccurring dream: finding a secret room, or wing, or basement of a house. 2) The House of Dies Drear is a fantastic and beautiful book. 3) Scooby Doo also once investigated a haunted skyscraper. 4) Keep trying. Be loud. Be very very loud.

I’m just so nuts for Luke Kruger Howard’s new webcomic. 🌺🏈 www.footballamericadream.com/football-ame...

Free post on Patreon today. Welcome to the working week! www.patreon.com/posts/cartoo...

Writing a Memoir. 🖍️

Quay Lewd from the legendary The Tubes! A page from my memoir in progress BABY HOLD ON TO ME. In 1976 my mom Bee Oliver produced one of their shows that was a total scandal! She was thrilled!

One of my favorite cartoonists @glynnisfawkes.bsky.social has this little gem in Narrative Magazine: narri.tv/4nDpfHd

Quay Lewd from the legendary The Tubes! A page from my memoir in progress BABY HOLD ON TO ME. In 1976 my mom Bee Oliver produced one of their shows that was a total scandal! She was thrilled!

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night once a year.

I don’t come to social media sites that often anymore, but I gotta tell you this place is so much better than threads any day.

AGREE ✨✨✨✨✨✨

Pitching a new film to Hollywood. SPEED meets Joan Didion in a world where you have to tell yourself stories in order to live... literally. (M. Night Shyamalan to direct?)

Three GOP Senators actually did vote 'No,' despite having their careers threatened. Which is why, if you have a GOP Representative, you should call and badger them to vote NO in the House. They know this bill is unpopular. Poke as many holes in it as you can! Unleash Hell!

My cat really is the best art. 🩶

Pigeons? Art? Libraries?? This book was such a delight! Bravo Katie Fricas! Out from @dandq.bsky.social

Delmore Schwartz

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

OMG We’re funded????? Thank you all who donated and shared!!! We have closed the campaign! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Without due process there is no law.

Nothing that SCOTUS did today prevents any state, anywhere, from doing exactly this. Respond to SCOTUS upholding discrimination by antitrans states by making your own state as protective of trans people as possible.

I see you Tennessee. 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🩵🤍

The bravery of this woman cannot be overstated. The cruelty of the current admin is the point. It undermines and demeans us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Pencilling in the page of my brother’s birth—on his birthday! Happy Birthday to my little brother Blake born 49 years ago today!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy Pride. Take a few minutes to listen to some queer voices of the past. Because queer, trans, LGBTQ+ people have always existed and will always exist. No matter what certain lawmakers in DC try to do.

This morning we drove to Bozeman Pride for @zoandbehold.bsky.social to speak, then went down to Yellowstone and saw incredible sights. Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted. Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)

I have work in a show called CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES at @fortpointarts.bsky.social along with cartooning greats @kurtankeny.bsky.social @karlstevensart.bsky.social @natalienorris.bsky.social and @keilerjean.bsky.social ! Show is up until July! I love you, Boston ❤️

Very grateful to be a part of this show at @fortpointarts.bsky.social along with @summerpierre.bsky.social @karlstevensart.bsky.social @natalienorris.bsky.social and @keilerjean.bsky.social! Show is up until July, come by and see it!

true also of cartoonists. I think about this when I see my friends in performing arts do their thing. You get this immediate visceral feedback, I get email complaining about typos.

Just finished reading PREPARING TO BITE by my friend KEILER ROBERTS. It is hilarious and original, and despite the dog on the cover, cats approve. Out from @dandq.bsky.social (of course!). bookshop.org/p/books/prep...

I have TWO events next week: a book launch and the opening reception for a show I'm in. Come see me, I'd love to see you: www.patreon.com/posts/events...

My friend Graham Parsons, a tenured professor at West Point, writes powerfully about his decision to resign in response to the academy’s capitulation to the Trump administration: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Finished this rainy morning: “The Knitting Circle” 22”x30”, ink & colored pencil ❤️💛🩵💙

CARTOONISTS RIGHTS urges all editorial and political cartoonists-wherever you are-to take part in this vital survey. Speak out about censorship, abuse, and threats. Your experience is crucial-help expose the risks and shape the upcoming report. globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/updates/2025...

Today, that author—Graham Parsons—published a @nytimes.com oped announcing his resignation from West Point, which he said "abandoned its core principles" in a matter of days. After consulting with him, @lawfaremedia.org decided to publish his initial submission below.

So proud!!!

A “culture war,” you say?