This feels especially true in the era of every social media platform trying to be more insane than the last.

Beast Fables #2 is live! 🦊🐓🐿️ Did you know? Some second issues of comics can go for over $300,000 in auction! Wow, imagine that. Not mentioning it for any reason, like your chance to be part of history by giving this link a click. Anyways, enjoy! iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

This feels especially true in the era of every social media platform trying to be more insane than the last.

Whenever I worry about starting off a new series, fretting that if I don't capture a reader's attention with the perfect joke immediately I'll lose them forever, I just look at the first Peanuts comic and remember you just have to start somewhere.

after all is said and done, you'll end up a skeleton 🎻🏴‍☠️

Beast Fables #2 is live! 🦊🐓🐿️ Did you know? Some second issues of comics can go for over $300,000 in auction! Wow, imagine that. Not mentioning it for any reason, like your chance to be part of history by giving this link a click. Anyways, enjoy! iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

Ctrl + c, Ctrl + vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

BioWare was cool while we had it.

Welcome to my talk about why the movies Serendipity and Your Name can get wrecked. 1) People should be with their soul mate as soon as possible. 2) The world is bad enough without depriving people of true love. The end.

Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️ First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore. iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

Field recording along the Fraser River this morning. Lots of splashing, creaking, and high tide sighs.

This cannot possibly, in any timeline or dimension, be a good thing.

Beast Fables is here with comic #1! 🦊🐓🐿️ First issue. Very mint. 4-panel comics like in newspapers of yore. iskotaa.com/comics/beast...

Indie Game Roundup (September 26, 2025) virtualmoose.org/2025/09/26/i...

I return to webcomics tomorrow, and honestly it's about time. New (old, but new again) series launches tomorrow! Stay tuned!

Great wisdom from a perpetually stoned otter

This is a story about cycling, panic attacks, and a squirrel. elzyg.com/blog/why-zwi...

What I find very frustrating about tech funding froth is how much money is wasted financing garbage while artists & art orgs are left scrambling for scraps. In a just world, there would be plenty of money directed to the VSO to properly pay its musicians. Art is labour! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New blog post up! "Being “gud” at a game is not an indicator of anything of value since the conditions of skill change with each player. Ease is just a perspective, not an absolute truth." iskotaa.com/blog/2025-09...

Hey artists, maybe your next big art share tag should include your email newsletter link and you website if you have an independent one. Let us sign up for your newsletters and get around all this platform bullshit

My current job ended this week and so did my desire to ever work a startup/tech job again. I have a few thoughts about that and what I'm going to do next. elzyg.com/blog/2025-09...

Put my LinkedIn in hibernate mode today, so this feels especially appropriate.

I saw a post once that was like If you would give an artist $1 for art that's locked away, but wouldn't if the art was free, you're not supporting the arts, you're paying to keep it away from others and that really stuck with me

Happy #BiWeek ! 💗💜💙

I was blindsided by a random Calvin and Hobbes comic today:

Bringing back book reviews, one post at a time. I'm even giving you a 3-for-1 deal with Michael Lewis's "The Big Short," "Liar's Poker," and "Going Infinite." elzyg.com/blog/-michae...

Copies of my brand new poetry book No Depression in Heaven just arrived on my doorstep! Available wherever you get your books. I hope you’ll give it a look. talonbooks.com/books/no-dep...

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

And the break from socials is going well! I've submitted a graphic novel sample for consideration to a few publishers and a few smaller comics to magazines. Turns out it's easy to focus when I'm not constantly distracted 😦😦😦

Breaking hiatus slightly to share my take on the same topic: iskotaa.com/blog/2025-08... P.s. we share a CD book if you're wondering why it looks so similar ;)

For my 500th skeet (!): I wrote about quitting Spotify and rediscovering my CD collection. elzyg.com/blog/leaving...

I just received a stack of my new chapbook in the mail from Edmonton-based Agatha Press. Slop poems for our caps lock era. It’s a beautiful little publication. Order a copy from the press if you’re inclined. They do great work! www.agathapress.com/shop/p/as-lo...

Road cycling is a deeply silly sport. We ride a slice of carbon and aluminum downhill at 60+ km/h. We give gigantic smoked hams and wheels of cheese as race prizes. No indoor training platform gets this like Zwift, and it's why I keep riding it year after year. elzyg.com/blog/why-zwi...

I think it's time for another little social media break. I'll still be updating my website @ iskotaa.com, and maybe a few links out here and there, but I'm going to focus on my art and happiness. Ciao for now!

Well, we kinda already opened a museum for bluesky artists 🥰 twigbit.itch.io/skymuseum

Vancouver’s Secret Garden Streets

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

For Blaugust, I decided to write up a little "making of" post about the Cybersurf comic I just released. Enjoy! iskotaa.com/blog/2025-08...

Top 5 Anime Betrayals #art #illustration #digitalart #comics

I have a new short story live on my website. I had a lot of fun with this one - I hope you enjoy! iskotaa.com/comics/short...

Everything’s a Sign: No. 12 Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, 2025

Turns out 9 years of writing documentation makes for one rusty storyteller. My brain is for creativity only from now on 😤

I have a new short story live on my website. I had a lot of fun with this one - I hope you enjoy! iskotaa.com/comics/short...

Finally done my next short story! I've changed...everything...about my usual process and I'm pretty thrilled with the result. While I work on uploading to my website, please enjoy these posters I designed as part of this corpo-ruled world featuring their mascot Piggy Moo!

Messing around with colours and ended up with a happy little accident for my new short story.

I have a new chapbook titled AS LONG AS I'M ALIVE I HAVE INFINITE CHANCES available for pre-order from Edmonton-based Agatha Press, who have been doing some excellent work. It's a suite of poems inspired by our current "all caps era." I hope you'll check it out! www.agathapress.com/shop/p/as-lo...

I had the best week hanging out with @bifanoland.bsky.social and gang. We hiked, sought out marmots, and made art

I don’t post nearly enough:,) here are two polite buddies

The fact that you cannot be 100% entertaining or attractive to 100% of the people around you 100% of the time is not some contemptible personal "failure"-- no matter what your neglect history & "fawn" response is trying to tell you right now as you read this.

Toby Fox gave me the mummy's curse of loving game development