Hello Bay Area! I got books, art, swords, and jokes here at Berkeley Public Library Comic Con. Come say hello, and swing by the 12pm panel where I’ll be chatting about working on Star Wars and Avatar!

I’ll be at @berkeleypubliclibrary.org with the Triple Dream Comics team Saturday, Nov 8th!! We’ll have plenty of copies of Agent Cupcake 🦄🔎 I’ll also be on a panel at noon w/ Chinaka Hodge, @anireal.bsky.social, @saraalfageeh.bsky.social, @moellennial.bsky.social, and @mychal3ts.bsky.social, eeeeek!

I need the opposite of finding dupes. My algorithm keeps giving me cute clothes made out of awful cheap material. I wanna know what original design they ripped off

Could not figure out why I was tagged in this post, until I realized this account is a romance publisher I made a cover for LOL

day in the life of a social media manager

On inspection, my breakfast looks like what I would give a prize winning show dog to help them grow a beautiful coat

📚I'm in a panel at the Berkeley Public Library Comic-Con joined by mod @mychal3ts.bsky.social, @saraalfageeh.bsky.social. @moellennial.bsky.social, & @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social! Visit my table for prints, sigs, & personal comic art news! Portion of my sales goes to 🏳️‍🌈Pacific Center of Human Growth!

I just don’t think human artist will ever be able to be replaced!!! Like from conception to execution this is so cool x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQZU5bu...

I think naturally my next step after a career in fantasy book writing and marketing is joining the CIA. Would really love to be in the writers room for pitches like “make it look like vampires only kill communists”

Teaching is so goofy. How are both of these notes in the same lesson plan: 1) Man created god so god could create man 2) Notice the inclusion of nipples on Robin's 90s costume

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Morning.

Finished inking this piece! 🥳

Asked my students to grade themselves on their midterm project before I did. Encountered this compelling argument.

Life is a cat drawing competition and I am losing.

All art awards are ludicrous for even pretending to attempt to discern who are the best artists. Except for the art awards I won. Those are all incredibly legitimate.

God in Islam: you guys are so messed up I’m sending multiple prophets to Arabia, sometimes back to back, because you’re just not getting it. Arabs: wow…this makes us better than everyone right?

I was put on this wee earth to tell my wee stories. Sometimes to make ppl giggle. Sometimes to help ppl make better choices. The goal is both, of course.

One day I’m gonna do a project on the evil eye because it’s such a fascinating cultural concept. It says so much about gendered anxieties, and perceived agency.

I illustrated a single hot man and it took everything I had in me

Someone explain the renewed wave of Taylor Swift hate to me. I don’t go here, I’m just nosy. Are these long time TS haters who just have new album to rip apart? Or are these TS fans genuinely underwhelmed?

Do you think the AI Chatbot renaissance is killing the online catfish industry? And I’m not talking about romance scammers, I mean the real classic, for the love of the game catfishing.

Went with my comic students on a trip a manga exhibit. Wore my most professor ass outfit I owned. Like this shirt had performative elbow patches. Was still mistaken for one of my FRESHMAN students. Twice. 😭😭😭

I had a dream that was literally just the first episode of the new avatar series, ending credits and all 22 straight minutes with a couple ad breaks, because even in my dreams I’m picking the cheapest streaming option

Was stuck video editing at the office until 8pm. While things rendered, I doodled. ….there was a theme.

I have played Marvel Rivals every Monday for the past calendar year and I have neither gotten any better at this game or really enjoyed it that much more But this is what you gotta do to wrangle men in their 30s on to a weekly phone call

I don’t remember how to download pirated pdfs of comics off the internet anymore, but also none of my students know how to put together a pdf so we’re truly at a stand off

As someone who does social media marketing for a living let me be the first to tell you, the current state of socials will kill you.

Got woken up by the sound of something falling off my shelves. Immediately start calling out my cat’s name, assuming she was the culprit. Realized actually the whole shelf is shaking. Also, my bed. And the whole apartment. It’s an earthquake. California cat owner things.

Looked at an Alan Moore script for the first time. I will never complain about working with anyone else’s script ever again.

It’s always a good day to draw Kamala Khan. Did the cover for the upcoming Ms. Marvel novel!

Bathtub lifeguard on duty.

Misfits assembled 🛠️ Here’s our current roster of Arab-origin creators building The Arab League of Misfits: Nazih, Sara, Zein, Rafif, Omar, Jack and Walid. Satire, folklore, and a healthy dose of trouble, so if you’re an Arabic dev and want in, don't hesitate to knock.

Linkin Park concert tonight… Teaching manga fight scenes to my students tomorrow… 12 year old me could have never imagined this.

I hacked an infinite free comic scheme (became an art instructor)

My apartment is so unable to sustain human life this morning, that Elon Musk is investigating it for colonization

Growing up is realizing any clothes worth a damn are air dry only. Growing up is also realizing these domestic topics now fascinate you.

Something happens at 10pm….suddenly all my students remember I exist and fill my inbox within minutes of each other… what a curious phenomenon

In my new model, live theatre now offers a cheaper ticket, where every 20 minutes the cast must pause the commercial to reenact a GLP-1 advertisement.

“Wow did you see this clip from Candace Owens” “Never thought I would agree with Piers Morgan!” “Wow Tucker Carlson actually had a point!” Please stop. These grifters will never, ever be in your corner.

I’m noticing an interesting trend with contemporary fiction and non fiction where authors refuse to directly say the name Trump in their books. They’ll do a weird referential nickname, or a he-who-must-not-be-named thing Personally, I think it’s very corny.

Been a minute since I stayed up late reading. Devoured Martyr by Kabeh Akbar.

I don’t do diary comics because it would all end up being shit like this.

Getting your art stolen for a lofi video is a right of passage LOL I stopped doing “grungy” art after a piece of mine got stolen beyond any scope I could ever stop. Funnily enough, also a skull dude.

Went to a TIAT (The Intersection of Art & Technology) event last night in SF. It was definitely for Technologists who make art, rather than Artists who use tech as a medium. The distinction feels clear with the emphasis on “how” rather than “why”. Would love more storytelling!

Lyft added a feature that tells you what events may be causing traffic in your area. They killed my favorite small talk convo with one button. I love speculating about why there’s traffic with strangers. It’s the city version of talking about the weather.

Unfortunately have to step back from attending NYCC this year! I am an adjunct professor this fall semester at the California College of The Arts. Between teaching and all my projects, cons are tough to pull off now unless they’re local to me :(

My fantasy book is set in a fictional Middle East. Had such a silly interaction at a con this weekend. Guy: so how is Israel depicted in this? Me: It’s not in it. Guy: so you removed Israel? Me: It’s fantasy. None of the countries are real. Guy: are you trying to trick me into supporting you?

Yearning for the Kit Kat on my counter, but cannot rise for there is a kit cat on my lap.

@saraalfageeh.bsky.social is so cool !