This year’s addition to my con offerings: tiny colorful linocut prints.

Some friends I will have in Juneau this weekend thanks to the kind folks at saturnstickers.com, it is delightful to use local vendors to produce high key nonsense

My five year old has discovered my giant omnibus of New Yorker cartoons and insists I explain the jokes to her, which is like doing a round of Expert Panel with @davidmalki.com but with an aggressive countdown timer and a bucket of Nickelodeon slime wobbling over my head

Sure it’s great to have resources that delineate the unique calls and songs various birds make in the wild, but what’s still lacking is a formal classification of the embarrassingly specific sound effects I make in response to spotting them

EXPERT PANEL streams today at 1:15 PM Pacific! Me and @dylanmeconis.bsky.social will continue reading 1930s comics from BALLYHOO magazine!

I'm going to be at the library in Willamina, OR today for Free Comic Book Day from 12-4! I'll have my new risograph minicomic CEMETERY + a table of supplies so you can make your own minicomic/zine with just one piece of paper, and showing off how I make my lil hand-carved stamp art/linocut prints.

WE'RE ON talking about weird old cartoons!

Uber but for one perfectly ripe avocado

Nothing on earth is better than the fact that the pine siskin’s scientific name is “spinus pinus”

Tis the season —

EXPERT PANEL stream w/ @dylanmeconis.bsky.social also happening soon! 10 minutes!!

IN TEN MINUTES: @dylanmeconis.bsky.social and I continue reading the seminal work of cartoon art, THE GAY NINETIES

Wild that people keep writing novels with the plot “married professor has disastrous but richly observed affair with student,” or “rich friends reunite in middle age after inciting event uncovers [manslaughter??].” I can’t imagine the chutzpah it takes to submit that manuscript in 2025

Today we'll be reading a book called THE GAY NINETIES, so if that don't pique your interest, idk

Just to give everybody fair warning, the 100th person to tell me “oh, I’m a terrible artist, I can’t even draw a stick figure!” WILL be thrown into a volcano. However I will not be disclosing what number we are at now

I finally got to draw one of my signature penguins on a book cover. Blessings upon the whole History Smashers team for this opportunity 🙏

I will absolutely never get over the pronunciation of “dour.” Just unconscionable

🧵I’m female and have a name which is traditionally used for boys and girls, but in the US is usually read as masculine. I was constantly assigned to boys’ cabins at summer camp, a male roommate in college, had to find subtle ways to slip third person references to myself in e-mails, etc.

If you belong to any religious organization, please contact leadership about this morally abhorrent update to the USAID story and demand a collective, public condemnation. Catholics especially should come down on Rubio like a ton of bricks. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Sometimes an old sketchbook brings you a lil gift

I think of this meme almost every day

I have a lot of questions here

EXPERT PANEL returns today at 1pm Pacific (12 minutes from now!) @dylanmeconis.bsky.social and I will be streaming at twitch.tv/davidmalki

Once again @davidmalki.com and I will be embarking on EXPERT PANEL, an archeological dig into 1930’s gag panel cartoons, where we attempt to unearth the missing context of their ancient punchlines using only the power of our small, wet brains 1pm Pacific at twitch.tv/davidmalki

So many parents fret to me about their kids always wanting to read Dav Pilkey books (because they're "not real books") assuming I will agree with them, and their expressions when I tell them I'm a children's author with a literature degree and I think they're sophisticated and brilliant 💩

Expert Panel is streaming again today at 1pm Pacific! As @dylanmeconis.bsky.social said, "Hey nerds, it's the nerd show for nerds" twitch.tv/davidmalki

describe yourself in 4 characters (embarrassing edition)

Once again I would like to apologize to any French speakers who suffered through my dramatic readings of 19th century cartoons about Floozies™️ but honestly my entire public career should have warned you of this inevitability

Attention nerds, the Nerd Show starts in 30 minutes

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

What Do Potential Tariffs Mean For Comics Publishers in 2025 By Gina Gagliano www.tcj.com/what-will-po...

Had cause to pull up a drawing of my last D&D character, one in an extensive series of snarky, long-suffering male elves. DMs love to torment them with especially humiliating mishaps, which only encourages me

If you haven’t yet made yourself a playlist of energetic pop songs in the key of “fuck you”, I cannot recommend it enough as a new year activity

Always repost Mr. Drip.

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Happy End of Winter School Break to all who celebrate

This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...

Cozy is not a genre; wholesome is not a content rating.

Some wonderful things happened for me this year (an entire baby!) and some horrible and sad things, too. All of them were physically and spiritually exhausting. My only goal for 2025 is to spend time with people, let them know how much I love them, and build little niches of safety and joy with them

My illustrator and I noticed you across the bar and we really like your vibe

#dudel doodle of the day — the Dowager Countess.

Fighting a malignant millionaire CEO has brought me and my family on the verge of a very real bankruptcy. This is not a drill, I genuinely need your help. Please, take a look at my fundraiser and share it if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco...

The next time I get a note from an editor about a gigantic plot hole I’m gonna try using this line

After all this we just got the call that we were denied financial aid for northwestern / @artbrister.bsky.social’s cancer treatment so guess who is extremely open to work and has a webstore. soengery.com/collections/...

Bird queue

In fairness, you could blame Disco Elysium for just about any instance of antisocial behavior

Nuts that people with no kids enrolled in the district, not district admins, no qualifications in education or library science, can trigger a review using right wing copypasta, and actual parents, educators and students have no recourse to appeal. Only the complainants. www.opb.org/article/2024...

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leaving this in case anyone out there wants to help 2 disabled trans ppl get into a more stable home that doesn't destroy our health. i don't know what else to do. she's on a fucking ventilator. please please help me get her out of here. i'm not able to do it. ko-fi.com/gatorpond

Something a lot of Europeans don’t seem to understand about why American government social supports (like healthcare) are so non-existent and/or terrible: