some excellent holiday gifts in here 😏

ORIGINAL ART very inexpensive- drawings from TV Funhouse! Snake'N'Bacon, the Adult Swim pilot! Bizarro comics! The They Might Be Giants album Long Tall Weekend! All incredibly cheap!!!

I'm having a BIG HOLIDAY SALE FULL OF SAVINGS on my website. 11x14 prints on sale for $45! And NEW 8x10 prints of all my classic designs for just $20 EACH. All prices on original art SLASHED. michaelkupperman.com/shop

Remembering the excitement

We used to have a thriving culture

Wrote a public patreon post about Ink Master. Some thoughts I've been working to assemble www.patreon.com/posts/ink-ma...

They love each other

I am always in a weird situation. I make comics, but I don't feel I have any place in the comics world or publishing. My audience is almost completely OUTSIDE comics. People in comedy, film, writing, other disciplines, they're the ones who like my work.

I'm here again, promoting my Patreon and the new tiers on it, where you receive a fresh zine and/or print EVERY MONTH. I'm taking a stand for art and comedy. www.patreon.com/MichaelKuppe...

I am once again promoting my patreon, where I now have tiers for physical prints and zines every month. I am taking this very seriously. I am taking a stand for art and laughter www.patreon.com/MichaelKuppe...

I have been making changes on my patreon. I am determined to make good and funny work & it's pretty clear I can only do that working for myself... so I'm starting a monthly zine & a monthly print. Putting together the first zine now!

If you ask me who my favorite artist is, it’s @mkupperman.bsky.social . From Snake and Bacon to Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Kupperman makes me laugh out loud again and again. AND NOW he’s releasing his own zine over on Patreon. Mine arrived today and once again, I’m laughing loud and hard.

I get that humor is objective and money is tight for just about everyone right now, but in my esteemed opinion anyone who doesn’t jump on this is a fucking idiot. Kupperman’s a truly original comic mind. This is a way to get a consistent flow of genius absurdity. It’s priceless, dummy.

I have been making changes on my patreon. I am determined to make good and funny work & it's pretty clear I can only do that working for myself... so I'm starting a monthly zine & a monthly print. Putting together the first zine now!

It’s Brooper!

It's breathtaking watching the liberal institutions all completely discredit themselves and hasten their own destruction, a process that's been going on for decades but has sped up intensely in the last couple of years. Like watching cliff faces slide into the sea

The house that nobody has broken into has been criminally ignored.

At the end, Bruce Willis finds out he's been dead the whole time. That's right, a dead person killed all those terrorists

Foreigner's first album was titled "Ennh! Excuse please! Can you tell me where is to find the, eh, station of buses?"

"Useful idiots" was how Lenin described the Three Stooges.

I have nine new copies of this Wes Anderson book I did the cover of that I want to get rid of. Selling them off, cheap! I'll sign it if you want. michaelkupperman.com/shop/wes-and...

Never not surreal to me when I remember I was #16 on Time Out's list of the 50 funniest New Yorkers in 2015. Right behind Jon Benjamin

Hello Mr. Pigeon

The one great thing that Twitter still has and this place doesn't, is the ability to restrict the replies you see on your post to the people who follow you.

The unbearable contradictions of the neoliberal order are tearing everything apart and driving everyone insane, and the massive human rights crimes of the last two years have really accelerated the process. Every liberal institution has lost all credibility.

Part of this nightmare era is the complete, engineered collapse of belief in human creativity and an increasingly desperate belief that nightmarish computer routines will somehow produce new wonders

I am getting my act together. I have a new assistant, I am redoing all my digital stuff, I am redoing my website. I will be raising all prices for prints, maybe even later today (they are way too low). But if you want a print at the low price- laaast chaaance michaelkupperman.com/shop

Query: How many of you feel like you've spent more time caring for your parents as they aged than they spent caring for you?

Our country is in the state it is at least partly because the Silent & Boomer generations lived longer than anyone expected having learned nothing about how their own bodies work and how to stay healthy

Once again: I need an irl assistant. Someone to help with mailings, good with online, reasonably enthusiastic about my work and can collaborate a bit with me maybe? One or two days a week. Knowledge of comics/graphics stuff a plus. DM or email if interested

I *desperately* need an assistant. Someone to help with mailings, good with online, reasonably enthusiastic about my work and can collaborate a bit with me maybe? One or two days a week. Please DM or email if interested. Familiarity with the comics/graphics world is a big plus.

What Trump is doing is not normal. Let that sink in. It is not normal.

I’m canvassing for Curtis Sliwa. Not emphasizing his policy proposals so much as the fact that he says he’ll fill Gracie Mansion with 60 cats. The whole place’ll smell bad, there’ll be hair on everything, all furniture clawed, massive staff turnover.

So Bluesky is doing the "election was stolen" routine again?!? Good, that's just what America needs.

Patreon completely lost my money this month. They're "investigating" how it happened! What are some good alternatives to Patreon, since it seems like they can't do their ONE JOB....?

I’m just going to ask. Any of you have a pdf of Eugene Viollet Le Duc’s Le Costume Medieval?

Just looked up the Dell Dude and he's an Instagram businessfluencer now. I once saw him in a comedy show with Kate Beaton, very memorable experience

This is really strong and provocative from Derek, as always. Coincides (unsurprisingly) with a lot I've been thinking about, how a career in comics is really an impossibility now for all but a few, and how the things that made life as an artist possible have all been eroded in this century.

Some of the crazy comments on Alex Graham's strip were like "a rising tide lifts all boats!" and "we support each other, there's room for everyone!" Very obviously untrue; "comics" is a shrinking liferaft, that's why the fighting is so nasty.

I love the art form of comics, but the “comics world” is extremely toxic, and it’s quite obvious there’s no place in it for me or a lot of other artists who have spent their lives making comics.

Get it straight, assholes- the Bride of Frankenstein is properly named Doctor Frankenstein's Monster Bride of Doctor Frankenstein's Monster. Memorize that. Show some respect

Someone draw St. Peter shouting "Norm!"

Finally, comics are for everybody.

I feel like, when I was younger, people wanted to seem interesting. Now it seems most people just want to appear normal

This was June 2022. How could anyone say this guy was “too old” to run again in 2024?

Scorsese has posted his review of Marvel's "Thunderbolts," and it is devastating

Oh also- I think the aesthetic backlash against CGI will retroactively make a lot of poorer-quality* CGI no longer acceptable. *which is nearly all of it

I don't actually find the "AI art versus hand-made-art" debate to be interesting at all. The thing is, the more defined and refined the AI "look" becomes, the more aesthetically limited it is, and the faster the eye loses interest in it. People get tired of a "look."

Trying to explain to my son how magical the original snossages commercial was

I am at Anyone Comics at 831 Nostrand Avenue all afternoon tomorrow, with free comics, also books and prints for sale! Please come by and say hi!