next week (Oct. 1st) you’ll be able to read The Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight, my new 41-page romantic queer fantasy comic about a shepherd who questions his isolated existence when he rescues a knight trapped under a sleeping spell.. 🧚

Paws up

It’s me!! Delighted to be a part of this incredible crew. 📚✨

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

HAPPY FLIP DAYYYYY!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 l

two truths: (1) ANYONE can make comics (2) if you have a professional background in a form of storytelling that is not comics, it can be helpful to familiarize yourself before signing a book deal

My latest graphic novel, Flip, is out tomorrow! ✨

Happened to find this - it's a useful little website if you A) want to know why you should drop Substack and B) want a list of alternatives. A couple also have tools to import your old SS posts over. leavesubstack.com #kidlit

Knights of Guinevere PILOT youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

sunmis mini letter from the recent 4th issue of datura, seems relevant rn

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#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by... Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

This came out early in the year, but I'd like to remind you to give it a close look. Highly sophisticated art with an incredible batch of storytelling. @galegalligan.bsky.social's greatest is here. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/20/r...

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

now why the FUCK would you try and charge me $20 to talk to a simulacrum of a dead celebrity. my self-insert fanfiction would be less ghoulish AND more satisfying

i'm going to keep summoning her whenever she is needed.

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

rough few years for folks named Al

‼️COVER REVEAL 4☆☆☆☆☆☆ 🅖🅞🅣🅣🅐 🅖🅞 𝙵𝙰𝚂𝚃 𝙵𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝗆𝖺𝗀𝖺𝗓𝗂𝗇𝖾 I’m opening preorders for my Sonic fashion zine on September 26th! Hope you’ll check it out~

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If you're looking for a positive governmental effort to engage with, here's a good one: 19thnews.org/2025/09/lgbt...

sloooowly drafting a very belated BSC retrospective and can i just say: WHEW, american graphic novel landscape was very different in 2015

Phantom of the Opera fans, rejoice! Victoria Grace Elliott's Please Be My Star re-imagines the classic story as a high school rom-com that features themes of loneliness, pop culture, and first love. #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded

one of the most frustrating things is to watch clients accept flaws in AI work that they would never accept from a human artist. art generated without layered files? inconsistency from one image to the next? impossible to print? why do we extend grace to the machine instead of to each other?

Since it's out there in high quality-- figure I'd share the inks for my Crossworlds cover 🦑▶️🦖▶️🦔

NYCC returns Oct 9-12 and for the first time in years, GNCRT will be there! (Writers block booth WB-19) 💪 We are looking for volunteers to help up staff the booth! bit.ly/GNCRT_NYCC25 You do NOT need to be a current GNCRT or ALA member to volunteer!

yes we absolutely discussed my being hot on abc news lmfao

Charlie Kirk is a means to an end: defector.com/charlie-kirk...

I like to close out my talks sometimes by trying to draw my least favorite things as quickly as possible (horse, hands, car 😒). A note arrived after one of these talks. I love it to bits. It’s going on a wall.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

KID AUTHOR TIP: when writing a bio, read it out loud so you can imagine how excruciating it would be to hear someone else saying those exact words to an audience while you are standing right there

heyyyy it me!! (still they/them though) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

本日の１枚 「白のエリカ/金魚」 9月17日の誕生花のひとつはエリカで、白限定のようです。白いエリカの花言葉は「幸せな愛」だそうで。 あ、金魚がいるのは葉っぱが水草のように見えたのでつい😌

today seems like a nice day to make sure you've hit that prelaunch button to make sure you're in the loop for the comics courier issue 3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

Episode 44: Summer of Our Discontent Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?

🚀 AIPT EXCLUSIVE: Writer @kennyporter.bsky.social & artist @mikejbecker.bsky.social launch The New Space Age at @madcavestudios.com — described as “‘Flight of the Navigator’ for a new era.” Hope, grief, UFOs, & magic-fueled space travel collide. Full reveal + interview by @chriscoplan.bsky.social:

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“What if comics paid EVEN LESS?” is my extremely uncharitable assumption abt where this leads

Today in cool stuff on our spinning rock: Did you know that some octopus have a trick called 'passing cloud', where they flash pulses over their skin to make it look like something HUGE has passed overhead - thereby startling prey into moving, so they can grab them? Incredible. 🐙

between the nyt "answering all your questions about AI to say you should absolutely use it" newsletter and the npr "parents should use AI with their kids" article i am feeling very much like some people with money reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want me to believe i need garbage in my life

THIS 👏🏽 ALSO 👏🏽 GOES 👏🏽 FOR 👏🏽 COVER 👏🏽 ART 👏🏽

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

shoutout to the five year old at the roller rink who skated up to ask my favorite kpop demon hunter

What a great art assignment idea!

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

BARBAROUS: CH 9 COVER REVEAL SHH my show's starting 👀🔥 read for free @ johnnywander.com

HADES II v1.0 is coming September 25!🌒 Battle beyond the Underworld in our launch trailer.🏔️ Play in blazing-fast 120fps in TV Mode on Nintendo Switch 2, or 60fps on Nintendo Switch (w/ free upgrade to Switch 2). Transfer PC progress from Steam/Epic w/ Cross Saves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJ...

thinking about Them