What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

art is so hard but im too stupid to stop

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Certain episodes of Columbo were released theatrically in Italy, a collection of posters.

they should invent an industry that isn't actively collapsing

Whenever I hear comic creators talk about what an ‘honor’ it is to work on this character or that IP, this sort of quote is what my mind flashes to. These publishers want you to think that it’s an honor to compromise your work and get screwed over. Don’t buy into that.

Cover by C.C. Beck. #Shazam!

hollywood/comics pay the creators you profit off of challenge level impossible

giving in to the mental illness is the only way

My hot take is that publishers can solve their "damn, this artist can't meet a deadline" problem by paying us with the same regularity they pay their in-house staff. Because applying for hospital financial aid with the system we are currently paid in is a disaster.

There is someone out there who wants your weird little book. Even if you doubt yourself sometimes, don't doubt their earnest enthusiasm.

Thinking about Shuichi Higure's covers.

Being a creative in 2025 is like, okay, time to work: first, let’s have a good cry about all the cruelty we are powerless to stop in the world but not too long, don’t want to drown in despair and alright time to draw my silly little pictures now

my very hot n spicy midnight comics take is that i think it’s kind of bullshit that when men make fan work it’s a blockbuster movie or official paid series work, but when women do it it’s dismissed as fan art or fan fic which is very low, derisory art that makes little to no money at all

one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from July 5, 1936.

youtube keeps recommending a video to me about pixar’s “bean mouth problem” and i would just like to say: i LIKE the bean mouth i think it is CUTE and FUN and EXPRESSIVE

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

add yours!

There have been harder times and worse times than the times we live in, but never more annoying times. This is hands down the most annoying of times

Didn’t expect this from Scientific American but here we are. (Article from 2020 but everything still relevant including COVID precautions)

me, in ancient rome, amidst news of senators stabbing caesar: comics for sale, comics for sale, I denarius for the limited edition, IV denarii for the deluxe bundle set...

To really drive this home, Joe Kubert's comic art at age 79:

Mods are asleep, post Jack Hamm drapery lessons

Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.

i recently saw a movie in which some of the characters turned out to be pretty stupid, and it got me thinking. do you think there are any stupid people in real life

manos

Cover by Al Bryant.

Cover by Al Bryant.

Plastic Man for the Ascot Textile Corporation, 1964

i’m not an artist, i’m not an illustrator, but a stupider third thing: i’m a cartoonist

terfs hate asexual people because at the core they feel like being "normal" is aspirational and everything that hints towards life being complex, often contradictory, always hard to quantify experiences rather than just a set of unspoken rules is abject to them, like it is to all conservatives

Cover by Jack Cole.

Making money is the least interesting thing that art can do.

Admittedly, this idea made me laugh, so I had to draw it. It will make sense to fans of Golden Age comics. As for the rest of you, please check the comments. 😁

This little trick that Jesse Hamm taught me years ago has saved me lots of time as a comics penciller, so why not share it here?

Gofundme should not be our national safety net

this year i’m challenging myself to not post any art on social media. i think it has an overall negative effect on me and my work, so i’m going to back off it for a while! if you want, you can still keep up with what i’m making on patreon (patreon.com/hannahvardit).

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witch hat atelier wisdom i keep on my desktop to stare at until it's imprinted directly onto my brain