10/10 cartoonists agree.

Here's my #artvsartist for 2025. While I've been shouting in your digital ear about my first book, I've been quietly working on the second and drawing lots of Ferris wheels ... the duality of man......

This is kind of what it’s all about, isn’t it? Hayao Miyazaki, 1979

Merry Christmas from the Card Game Spectator

Stunned & thrilled YOU AND ME ON REPEAT popped up (twice!!) on @comicsjournal.bsky.social’s year end list :’) shoutout @andrewfarago.bsky.social and @henrychamberlain.bsky.social :)

“Your push notifications are off” hell yeah and I’ll never turn em on!!!!

Can't read "I quit my job to follow my dream!" stuff anymore because there's always holes in the narrative to me. Were you saving while at the job? Did you go into CC debt willingly? Did you get money from relatives? Are you supported by a partner? Money is a story and I want to see the spreadsheets

Here's the email I sent to my senators this week, I have been contacting them regularly about this since May. Feel free to tweak it and make it your own:

it is so poisonous to react to "this is a hard part of the process" with "how do i skip this part of the process." just do something else if making art doesn't interest you damn

Baby beasts

Let’s say using AI actually could make my art and writing better. I’d rather make it myself and have it be mediocre

the term "content creator" served it's purpose very well. conditioning people into seeing everyone as anyone and everything as anything, mostly among the ruling class who found it most convenient for their pockets. in that sense, generating slop is the final result of content creation

5 hours left 🐀 👀

LOS ANGELES!! I'll be at @comicartsla.bsky.social this weekend at table 63A! And on Sunday I'll be moderating a panel about the grind of graphic novels with @kaneicaruslynch.bsky.social @charmgardens.com and @andycomics.bsky.social!

Hey, I'm launching a Patreon! You may have heard that it's just a little bit hard to make a living as a writer these days, so if you like my culture writing, please consider subscribing 🖤 My first essay, live now and free to all, is on Elem Klimov's Come and See www.patreon.com/posts/143805...

I’ll be tabling at @comicartsla.bsky.social this coming weekend, and doing some really fun programming with Shay Mirk @crucialcomix.bsky.social @maryshyneonline.bsky.social @charmgardens.com and Andy Warner ! Hope to seeya there!

We're featuring a selection of pages from the new graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' by artist Mary Shyne (@maryshyneonline.bsky.social ) in our latest Emerging Artist Showcase. Come check it out. cartoonart.org/calendar/2025/9/27/opening-reception-with-mary-shyne #artexhibition #graphicnovel

@maryshyneonline.bsky.social a signed library copy is crazy! Really loved this! These two have my heart! ❤️

The 2026 finalists for the William C. Morris Award and Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award have been announced! Morris Award: https://bit.ly/4iGbxBn Excellence in Nonfiction Award: https://bit.ly/4oyoZIX YALSA will name the 2026 winners during the ALA Youth Media Awards on Jan. 26.

A single $1 million endowment would keep the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco running indefinitely.

Library holds are ACTIVATED 😎📚

CONGRATULATIONS to Mary Shyne and Askel Aden, finalists for the William C. Morris Award!! 😭🙌 We 💗 this annual award celebrating YA debuts!! Cheers to all the finalists! bit.ly/4pPg3Qv @maryshyneonline.bsky.social @surmulefyr.bsky.social

So excited about this!! If you haven’t read Mary’s book yet, now is a great time!! Well deserved 🥰

*burst through the drywall* YOU AND ME ON REPEAT IS A FINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD 😱😱😱😱 www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Very pleased to return home with the familial Miss Piggy from Muppet Babies piggy bank

Remembering the one Mocca Fest where they had the Big Charlie Brown floating overhead inside the Armory. He slowly deflated over the course of the day and had his foot propped up with a chair until they could top him off..

The thrill, the sheer exhilaration of realizing you forgot how to draw a character because this is writer-illustrator COMICS, baby, and we don’t got TIME for no character turnaround sheets

Congrats to @maryshyneonline.bsky.social, whose debut graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books for teens for 2025. We're featuring a selection of pages from the book now in our Emerging Artist Showcase. Come check it out.

Parsifal Press is thrilled to announce that the year 2025 is almost over, and it’s going out with a surprise new book by Ron Rege Jr. Debuting at @massmice.bsky.social Pre-orders are live on our website! www.parsifal-press.com/product/pre-...

The internet just showed me this response drawing that I posted five years ago. Feel free to use it if you have a need.

YOU AND ME ON REPEAT is on the NYPL 2025 Best Books for Teens list 😭 the publishing production grunt who hoofed it regularly from PRH’s offices on her lunch break to the 10th Avenue Columbus branch ten years ago could hardly conceive 😭😭😭

I've been trying to get my version of the Bechdel Test to catch on called the Ballard Metric. It basically asks if the creator was able to work for free or for slave wages due to an invisible financial safety net and recontextualizes the work. (I'm kinda joking idk)

Every so often I think about how mother seals leave their pups to fend for themselves after only six weeks and I have to sit down

writing is a way to process, synthesize, and discover your own thoughts and feelings. Ai cannot help you — it just means you are outsourcing your own experience and meaning-making of life to a machine

Niche rant: when dog clothes designed for Frenchies are also advertised for pugs, BUT ALLOW NO ROOM FOR A TAIL THAT STANDS UPRIGHT

Teeth Grief 🦷 [1/4] (C/W: Blood, Dentistry) #comics

We're featuring a selection of pages from the new graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' by artist Mary Shyne (@maryshyneonline.bsky.social) in our latest Emerging Artist Showcase . Don't miss it. cartoonart.org/calendar/2025/9/27/opening-reception-with-mary-shyne #artexhibition #graphicnovel

I haven't heard a single news report about the government shutdown and employees being furloughed that mentioned that members of Congress still get paid, and it seems like that should be mentioned every single time a reporter mentions federal employees working without pay or not being able to work.

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously

This weekend, I'll be at @texasbookfest.bsky.social in Austin at two amazing panels and doing one workshop!

Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...

For November, 25% of ALL sales from my shop will be donated to NE GA Foodbank + Freestore Foodbank. I’ll be rounding up + donating on top of total $ raised 🥘 Low inventory on shirts (DM to purchase, $20, sizes XL-S). All purchases comes with a free sticker! mildpain.bigcartel.com

All of the Zohran discourse I’ve seen is missing the part about how handsome he is

I must repost the BORSCHT as @darylseitchik.bsky.social did as I too have made BORSCHT

A teen couple just came by as The Man in the Big Yellow Hat and Curious George… pack it up everyone. The Halloween cuteness contest has been won

Whenever I see people asking for advice on 'how to become a comics writer', I just think of this:

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This is so cool ... I want to hug

Our latest Emerging Artist Showcase features a selection of pages from the new graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' by artist Mary Shyne (@maryshyneonline.bsky.social). Catch it on your next visit. cartoonart.org/calendar/2025/9/27/opening-reception-with-mary-shyne #artexhibition #graphicnovel

As someone who started as a writer and worked my ass off to be able to execute my words visually, miss me with the "I'm doing all the writing, the AI is just for visuals"