CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

I think one thing that people fail to account for is that even if you get rid of or otherwise fix a lot of the current systems, you still have to deal with people’s behaviors being heavily trained by the old systems

The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at: cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

i spent my entire comics career thinking i was slow as mud for taking 2-3 years to finish each book, until my french editor called me "fast" and when i asked what he meant by that he said that on average french artists are taking 5-10 years to finish a book

[january 3rd voice] god what a fucking year

In the last half of 2025, the President of OpenAI donated $25 million to the SuperPAC MAGA, Inc — the single largest contributor

State birds and wildflowers for a friend's Christmas gift to her parents. California, Kentucky, and Oklahoma 🐦🌷

it's been a while since I did one of these for the public, but one goal going into 2026 is showing more appreciation for the things I love, so here is my "best of" for 2025:

Just finished Strange Bedfellows by @arielries.bsky.social The. Art. Is. STUNNING. I truly am grateful to have this on my shelf for inspo; themes of self induced isolation + banishment were painful to witness, but comforting to digest. Thank you Oberon x Kon, it was a joy to spend time with you

📣JUST BETWEEN US preorder campaign with Yu & Me Books📣 Get a signed and personalized copy from me as well as 3 character photo cards when you order from Yu&Me books. You get to collect cute photocards AND support local bookstore its a win-win. Find it here: yuandmebooks.com/products/978...

PSA to anyone ever looking to hire an illustrator, artist, designer, craftsperson, etc: Do not send them gen ai images. *Especially* do not send them ai images to use as a basis to work off of/ improve/ fix for you. Just send a description of what you are looking for and a sketch (100000% better!)

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

Two years ago, Tam's best friend Iphi was the sole casualty of a freak tsunami. Now, Iphi’s back—impossibly alive with a newfound affinity for water—and threatening to upend the peace that Tam has built after the years of grieving … by… being a really fun person to hang out with?

it's december !! 🙀 good excuse to post these guys again ...!

My debut graphic novel JUST BETWEEN US is coming out Febuary 24th! It's a figure skating graphic novel about the rivalry, and romance, of star figure skaters Lydia Chen and Elaine Yee the year leading up to the Olympics! @penguinteen.bsky.social

LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta 🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg 📧 [email protected]

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Hey US & UK friends! Wanna buy books & comics for Cyber Monday but don’t want to support Big Corpos? Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚 I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more! bookshop.org/shop/johanna...

Nightlife.

Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade. lfi-online.de/en/stories/e... www.instagram.com/p/CIDnpVhAFT...

Holy smokes, THE BIG PICTURE has reached 1000 subscribers!!!!! 😻🎉✨ Have you missed that cozy read-along experience? The thrill of a new comic? This is like getting a CHECK PLEASE update in your inbox once a week, except words. And 1000% more Garfield mentions. ✏️ ✨ www.okjohnrich.site ✨

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.

Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

For over 30 years, the Seattle Aquarium has led in sea otter research, contributed to recovery efforts and cared for northern sea otters who are unable to live in the wild. Today is a big day as we welcome Ruby—the first southern sea otter in our care. ✨🦦 (1/4)

My 2025 Saturnalia Shop will launch Saturday Nov 22 at 1PM GMT!🏺🌿 shop.flarohillustration.com

🎉✨ Bookiversary part 3 for 🥘 COOK LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO INTUITIVE COOKING WITH RECIPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD by Mariah-Rose Marie @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social store.silversprocket.net/collections/...

HADES II, the biggest and most critically acclaimed game we've ever created, is now 20% off on Steam through this weekend!! May moonlight guide you as you battle beyond the Underworld. 🌒🌕🌘

made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)

With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2

If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at [email protected] to let me know!

Did you know there are several fascinating ways to express "I see" in Filipino Sign Language? Each variation adds a unique touch to the beauty of communication!

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

Had the chance to illustrate for Quanta again, and got to draw one of my favorite animals: sharks! This is for “Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects” by Joanna Thompson. It was really fun to focus on all sorts of species, from the large Whale Shark to the small Spiny Dogfish

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'll be (virtually✨) presenting my “Design Can Make or Break Your Picture-Book-Dummy” talk to the Maryland chapter of @scbwi.bsky.social on November 3rd @ 7PM, and will also be offering portfolio/picture-dummy reviews. Register today! 💙❤️ ▶️▶️▶️ www.scbwi.org/events/MDDEW...

I'm SO excited to finally get to show you the front AND back covers for The Adventure Zone: Story and Song graphic novel! The book will be out on July 14, 2026, and It's available for preorder now! theadventurezonecomic.com 🎉💖

the underworld siblings 💀🌙

unbelievably excited to dig into @trungles.com's new book 🥹💕 just look at all this delicious paneling work!!! congratulations on its release, Trung! 🥂✨ you are such an inspiration

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing