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You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Watercolor crash in progress

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Ursula K. Le Guin

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Absolutely 100%, this everywhere, until these fascist crooks are in jail.

I’ve put a free printable PDF of the below image up on my website (from the comic ‘Goat and Sheep by the Well’). Print it out and staple it to a telephone pole, tape it up on your wall, etc. www.joshuawcotter.com/jwc-comics-a...

Out today (tomorrow in comics shops): an economically-priced single-volume MARCH omnibus. While there’s nothing new in here content-wise (that’s something we’ll be tackling in the future), it’s a great option for schools, libraries, book clubs & the bookshelf. Softcover and hardcover!

When the President Shits His Pants song by James Kochalka Superstar

Officer Babypants, from my anti-fascist satirical comic ‘Thee Infinite ©️’

Personal commission from last year.

Very much reminded of this bit from @frankconniff.bsky.social from years ago. youtu.be/p8qM3QNqT48?...

also recognizing the fact i’ve never actually shared much of my studio practice on here. here’s some tidbits of some of my work.

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

Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked at town hall anntelnaes.substack.com/p/rep-ilhan-...

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Stephen Miller - Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

Do you have a case of the Friday blahs? Do you wanna maybe do that thing where you buy yourself a little something to get some of those good retail therapy endorphins? If so, may I suggest... www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

JD Vance - Thiel Proxy and Authoritarian Apologist

I’ve put a free printable PDF of the below image up on my website (from the comic ‘Goat and Sheep by the Well’). Print it out and staple it to a telephone pole, tape it up on your wall, etc. www.joshuawcotter.com/jwc-comics-a...

Kristi Noem - The Dog-Killer of Mar-A-Lago

Gregory Bovino - Grade A American Shitweasel

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Sorry/not sorry for the title I came up with for my Comics Journal Scott Adams obituary. www.tcj.com/i-have-no-mo...

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

People really need to understand They are underreacting to what is happening here and the longer they downplay this harsh truth that we are undergoing an armed ethnic cleansing the more likely it is to show up in your neighborhood next.

#iceout #Minnesota

Creative work in the United States is no longer sustainable. Unlike other countries, there’s really no public funding. So, most folks that can afford to be artists nowadays already have wealth. Obviously that’ll skew their pov & subject matter. Thanks for tipping & keeping me (a poor) in the game 🙏

Friends, LeBeau’s daughter is still missing. There’s always a chance someone will see something. Please share in the hope of helping this family reunite.

ICE in their own words

#OtD 10 Jan 1934 disabled anti-fascist construction worker, Marinus van der Lubbe, was executed by the Nazis for setting fire to the Reichstag. He'd hoped to inspire resistance to fascism; instead, the Nazis used it as a pretext to repress dissent stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8195...

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

A panel from ‘Goat & Sheep by the Well’, 2024

An homage of a sanity sketch to welcome the new year. Happy 2026!

@barnesandnoble.com is running a huge preorder sale! If you want to preorder MY BELOVED OTHER and get 25% off, join their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout! Please share! #BookSky #comics #BNPreorder #MyBelovedOther @01firstsecond.bsky.social @macmillanusa.bsky.social

A strip I made for a friend for the holidays, done in watercolor and pencil.

It’s Christmas Eve here in Japan. Whatever you believe or feel, I hope you’re able to find a moment of peace and happiness sometime over the next few days.

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

The original cover art for the collected ‘Skyscrapers of the Midwest’ (2008) and the sketchbook containing the entirety of ‘Driven by Lemons’ (2009) became a part of the Billy Ireland collection this year. Take a look if you make it to Columbus! library.osu.edu/site/cartoon...

ANY use of gAI is a violation of the most BASIC ethical standards. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/yo...

An image I made for a print for the 10 year anniversary of ‘Skyscrapers of the Midwest’, 2018 - pen & ink with digital color

Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.

My family's dealing with a whole lot right now, with my mother's dementia and my father's cancer both in late stages, an elderly dog, and mounting debt. Anything you can spare would mean the world, and even sharing helps! gofund.me/2d5250128