Oh no really I’m so shocked wow

Third annual fall island run with these guys and third annual me coming dead last.

Almost full moon looking like a moody sun this morning. And that 40x digital zoom isn’t bad 🌕

What if we kissed in the glow of the all way convenience and grocery?

Why do drivers seem to take more care when a squirrel runs across the road than they do with cyclists

I like my friend tony because every photo he takes of me looks like I’m posing for my first novel

New illustration for the latest @torontolifemag.bsky.social on forthcoming developments in neighbourhoods around the city. The brief was to create a fantasy mash-up community with transit, parks, mixed use, sixplexes & high-rises.

Practicing my Toronto Star angry person pose because the lower don trail still isn’t done after 2+ years of construction

Little boxes

Well I literally just drew the Imperial Pub last week to add to my Toronto bar collection and now they're closing after 81 years (!!!). I guess that's a pretty good run. Anyway, you can grab your copies (including the original ink & watercolour) here: jaketobin.ca/shop/product...

Really testing my gay powers today (sitting on a cafe patio on a chilly morning with an iced coffee)

Before sunrise in Toronto

So much fun inking these illustrations of Pennies and Pizzeria Baldiali. Next up some watercolour highlights. Prints (and the originals) for sale soon ✨

Golden hour 😍

Trump’s economic “policy”

Sitting down with my coffee to watch my morning programs* *the reels my boyfriend sent me last night

Some balcony snaps from 6:50am. I’ve lived in this building for seven years now & it’s crazy how many more towers are in this view, with more always being built.

First time doing an online survey and needing to choose the 40 - 55 age category for myself

This would be my Real Housewives tagline

There's something soothing about drawing a wild Saturday night on a quiet Saturday morning.

Can confirm Uncle Pete’s in Kensington is good

Guess I unpacked my sweaters too soon

Some snaps from my n’hood Church-Wellesley Village. I’m always struck by the contrast between old & new in Toronto—it’s like two cities existing at once.

The Venn diagram overlap between “people who do dumb shit” and “people who obey signs” is so infinitesimal as to be basically non-existent. And yet. We love to put up a sign in a city and be like there *dusts off hands* FIXED IT

Sadly the always relevant cartoon

So in love with my new tattoo from EK Chan of my beloved Dinosaur who died a few weeks ago. I’ve been saving this spot on my arm for her because it’s where her sweet little head would rest at night while we slept. Now she can sleep there forever. 💞

Cabbagetown snaps

Oh shit are we rapturing today? I need to do laundry.

Toronto, the city of small old buildings in front of new tall buildings.

Getting ready for fall aka the annual switch over from iced to hot coffee

We don’t have mountains in Toronto but we have this

Since I'm heading back there Saturday night, here's the scene at the last Precious Cargo party in May drawn from a photo I took. There's a lot of new parties that have popped up in Toronto but this one remains a fav. Just straight up warehouse house party vibes.

How do we get rid of the notwithstanding clause? I dunno but I just think allowing politicians to a trapdoor to get out of a charter of rights & freedoms challenge to discriminatory legislation is a maybe a bad idea.

There is no in between

A few drawings from my night out at Bunker last Saturday—a new gay club in the village. I was pretty taken with the way the neon signs in the bathroom reflected in the toilets lol.

My life hack is doing things and then putting them on my task list afterwards so I can cross them off immediately and be like yeah getting shit done!

SG Lewis last night was great but getting to see Sofia Kourtesis as the opener made the night

Ezra Klein wtf dude

Still summer ☀️

FB marketplace is wild

A portrait of my sweet baby Dinosaur who went to visit the big scratching post in the sky just over a week ago after 18 years together

Had to update my cartoon 🕯️

As someone who loves both parks & raves obviously this is bad (obviously) but there is a point here re the challenge of throwing legal parties in TO. Scarcer & scarcer venues, permitting & noise bylaws, etc. I mean just recently Cllr Moise was trying to make it even harder to do legally indoors.

Not often you get to go to a brand new club in the village. After yrs of just things closing it’s nice to see something open. More places to dance pls.

Digital version of an ink & watercolour I did of my friend Zed at Hanlan's. There's something about the fully stretched out pose that makes me feel so relaxed 😌

Some shots of this morning’s sunrise glow off the side of buildings in downtown Toronto

Ahhh yes the sound of the end of summer in Toronto 😣

Summer may be in its final stretch (screams into pillow), but there's still time to get to Toronto Island. Whether you're a public ferry lover or enjoy hopping on a water taxi, l've got you covered with this new series of prints. jaketobin.ca/shop/collect...

wt actual f is this AI slop post from the City of Vancouver? I know it's them spoofing themselves on that new Granville St Bridge bench, but just...no no no.

Finished inking the two public Toronto Island ferries for my new series for end of summer. I’ll have prints of all the water taxis plus these two as well as the originals for sale ☺️