Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury

*jabs screen* that's my baby

had this guy blocked for ages and i can't remember why but i know i was right for doing so jfc i can't stand him

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's- Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)

a thing i’ve been thinking about a lot lately is that the way the arts have been cut off from stem is the same way philosophy has been cut off from the arts.

watching as high-profile low-talent white male directors trip all over themselves because they can no longer rip off satoshi kon has been...healing

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

making pinup drawings is all good and well, but it won’t make you any better at comics. only making comics will make you better at making comics.

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING. 202–224-3121 Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

on accident this one-page fan comic became a three-page fan comic this is just how my life is i guess

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

started reading discworld and it was like terry pratchett reached out from the pages to grab my neck and throttle me until i made fan art

Good morning~🙃今日は動画の仕事をします！ #今日の過去絵

a little crop from something spicy (mild spicy? at best?) because i like how some of the pencil stuff is turning out. the clown represents me.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

not a fan of living in a pariah nation tbh

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Just a little wizard. He has no name as of yet, and I don't know what I'm going to do with him, but I love him very much.

Buff Batman is very silly to me. The little Robin drawing turned out cuter than I thought it would, so I went ahead and made an extra page of him.

No one here is having a good time.

Challenged myself to get better at digital coloring and feel happy with the results, hooray for me.

I have no idea what I want to do with her just yet but I love her and I'm absolutely going to build a whole comic around her one day.

Plastic Man sketches I never inked.

There's easier ways to hold hands if that's what you're into, boys.

My favorite thing about Guy is that before he was a Green Lantern he was a gym teacher. Imagine entrusting your child to this man. Imagine him teaching your child line dancing.

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