warmup for today

Weird how the NYPL is able to promote and use the proper art assets for Brownstone, while Harper Collins uses the wrong assets and I have to argue with them about using the correct ones.

New "Sleep Well Tonight" strip is now up for patrons, and all the archive until last week is free for everybody. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

In other news, I am extremely happy to be working with Abrams Fanfare on Pok-Ta-Pok! I've met like, three people from Abrams and they've all been just the sweetest human beings and we're having a lot of fun bringing Cookie, Salty and the rest of The Green Shoots to life!

Perhaps you are like me and wondering why there’s been little to no mention of the Printz Award winning Brownstone during Latinx/Hispanic Heritage month?

Copying is the artistic mind’s first step to developing their own voice. Generative AI is simply presenting the voices and labor of others as your own.

I once had a prospective literary agent (this the same fucker that offered rep without reading anything I had written) outright tell me that I didn’t know how to write comics. I hope I get to run into him, because I’d love to shove my Printz award up his pee hole.

This is a work of art:

My podcast The Evolution of Horror is back with a brand new season! This year we’re diving into mad science, deadly technology and man-made monsters…

This seems fucking rad!

New Episode! #1 in our 5-eps-in-5-weeks September sprint! I got a chance to talk to cartoonist/letterer Rick Parker about his graphic novel DRAFTED -- the first of his 40+ years in comics!

Happy Fall folks! I'm once again open for longer gigs and I'm dying to do a big book again ✨✨ I'm also open for short comics, pinups, covers etc. Please share and all that!

recently also clocked midsize/indie pubs quietly backpedaling contract boilerplate to make timely registration of copyright the author's responsibility

Oh also want to mention this great graphic novel which was so amazing to read. It's called Brownstone by @samuelteer.bsky.social It's a must read. So real, so true ,so heartfelt and the illustrations are fantastic. #book #booksky #graphicnovel #life

Here’s my Printz Award speech. Warning: It be looong. youtu.be/pL0_SYhz9lA?...

J.P. Takahashi is literally one of my favorite authors. Don’t sleep on WAITING FOR HANAMI or TOKYO NIGHT PARADE.

Excited to meet the author and illustrator of Brownstone @samuelteer.bsky.social and @marjulia.bsky.social at #alaac25 Thanks for writing about a 14 year old! #youngteenlit #tlsky

I was fortunate to be able to join the BROWNSTONE creators to celebrate this year's Printz Award at #alaac25 -- so proud of this creative team, @samuelteer.bsky.social, @marjulia.bsky.social, and @ashantifortson.com; art director, Mary Claire Cruz, and original editor, Erika Turner (in absentia)!

📣NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT📣 Mark your calendars for POK-TA-POK, a YA Sports Manga following a ragtag team of Mesoamerican ballgame players, written by Printz Award winning author of BROWNSTONE @samuelteer.bsky.social and illustrated by @nodowdy.bsky.social!🎉✨🤩 COMING SPRING 2029 from ABRAMS/FANFARE!!

okay, so. i have bipolar disorder. we have a suicide rate of about 1/5. i've basically spent my entire teenage and adult life trying not to kill myself. so with that in mind, here are my tips on how to hang in there: 1) don't isolate. i know all the excuses. but don't do it

ashanti color designed all of brownstone, if you think it looks beautiful and you need to hire someone, its them 200%

Also, it’s *comics*. The awards are nice, but they don’t change our lives or improve book sales. And we have to just know people we work with or around are totally willing to be openly racist at us over what basically amounts to a nice gesture.

Corrected winners in the #GraphicNovel category ... EMG Winner PEARL by @rhymeswithcapri.bsky.social, , illustrated by Christine Norrie GRAPHIX YA Winner BROWNSTONE by @samuelteer.bsky.social, illustrated by @marjulia.bsky.social Versify