After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

It's been announced! There's a story written and drawn by me in this Godzilla one-shot from IDW, and all the other stories and art are by my buds! Check out these sweet covers by Ben and Caitlin!

An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.

"Hello, Carol. We're John Cena" isn't just great, it's Mary-Tyler-Moore-Slides-Down-Walnuts great. #PLUR1BUS 💜

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

NSFW—But fascinating! New Delhi-based trans artist Shubnam sent me a link to her 2018 digital comic (on Behance) titled "Sediments". It includes some daring expressionistic passages and wild uses of both color and typography—in three languages, no less! (translation at bottom of each frame). 1/3

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

A great Xmas gift! I just bought one! (...okay, technically I bought it for the house, not as a gift for a person—although the house does have a lot of personality. 🤷‍♂️)

To enjoy over a nice bowl of Grape Nuts!

This entire weekend

I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot of wild speculation, so please remember:

This area is reserved for wheelchair users, the deaf, the blind, and... actors (???)

Where I am right now.

Yikes! That REALLY IS half-true and half PURE HALLUCINATION. 🥺

I approve this message.

I don't know how many people know *both* these albums well, but nothing better sums up my values as a barely-adult music fan/struggling artist in the early '80s than the fact that I had pirated both on either side of a C-90 cassette and nearly always listened to both albums back to back.

All strapped in for Boston—and MICE!

It’s true, Alas, that Raina will be unable to join me this weekend in Boston, but I hope to share with MICE attendees why I’m so excited about visual communication these days—and of course, talk a bit about my collab with Raina on our very special book, The Cartoonists Club!

Just for fun, click on the "Mike Johnson" trending topic in a desktop browser and scroll slowly down to see him make that same head dip over and over and over again like an old school "Drinking Bird" toy.

Schmitt’s argument is unintentionally revealing. The “color revolutions” were non-violent, pro-democracy political movements aimed at ending autocratic regimes in former Soviet bloc nations. If the Democrats are leading a “color revolution,” then Trump is an autocrat & Schmitt is pro-autocrat.

Magnificent as always!

Okay, this is a cool idea.

It’s 6 *times* 7

How to make beautiful comics: Step 1: Have something to say. Step 2: See Step 1.

Nuremberg-based illustrator Sina Simbürger has posted some lovely comics, but they seem entirely siloed at Instagram and Threads. Kinda wish there was a standalone personal site I could link to; this stuff is good! Anyway, click below or just Google her name I guess. 🤷 www.instagram.com/sin.xline

These pages look pretty cool!

In Conversation: Raina Telgemeier on Facing Feelings and the Power of Now The Beat spoke with best-selling graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier about her new book, touring the country, and collaborating with Scott McCloud.

@scottmccloud.bsky.social Just noticed this title card refers to Steamboat Willie as a “comic” and I immediately thought of how Understanding Comics defines the difference between “cartoon” and “comic”.

Help our FAVORITE comics store keep the wolf from the door! Books with Pictures is a treasure; let’s show them how much *we* treasure all they offer us! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

In my intro Making course, a favorite project, students pick 3 comics authors that inspire, influence, aspire to be like to mimic for a comic about themselves for "autobiographical influences". Some stellar examples from this time around 1/3

I had the immense pleasure of seeing this (and beyond) in its early stages. Read and keep reading. This is storytelling in its most urgent and grounded form.

This is not hyperbole. This is not undue hype. @sirosenbaum.bsky.social is creating the the most emotionally affecting graphic novel I've read this year, and everyone should subscribe to @flaminghydra.com to read it.

Oooh!

Ahem.

Ninety years before @goraina.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social 's The Cartoonist Club, Tack Knight & Horning brought you the Cartoon Club, a newspaper feature that they supported by appearing at new clubs for cartoonists throughout San Francisco.

Okay, two episodes in and I am SO hooked on PLURIBUS.

This is extremely disturbing. The new evidence raises more questions about what Trump knew and his relationship with Epstein. Release the files.

Welp!

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Fun fact: Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.

Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.

I will never understand the people who can look at this and shrug.

Day 310: Drawing animals I've never seen in person like a 400CE monk If there's an object or living thing you think I don't know much about, and you'd like to see me draw it very badly and then kind of okay, sound off in the comments baby

Gave my 9-year-old nephew The Cartoonists Club by @scottmccloud.bsky.social and @goraina.bsky.social last night and he has already finished it and is excitedly describing it to his parents. 🙂