Some of you all have shitty literary agents and it shows.

Here’s every movie I watched or rewatched in 2025. If that’s the sort of thing you find interesting. boxd.it/BVjVo$hkBDc9...

Weird year (1/2) @marjulia.bsky.social and I won The Printz Award. I traveled more this year than I ever have. My agent @jas-perry.com sold a three volume sports manga to Abrams.

My 2026 energy will be the same as my 2025 energy.

I’m sort of endlessly fascinated by people claiming that they want more deaths in books, movies, tv shows, etc because that somehow “raises the stakes”.

“You’re like Jack Black in High Fidelity.” Took me literal years before realizing that was not a compliment.

…Thereby making the students utterly incurious and cut off from the community around graphic novels, the history of comics, and the development of their own artistic tastes as readers, let alone as potential artists in dialogue with any of the former.

I don't have time for comics people that can't stand behind the shit that comes out of their mouths.

I wish people would stop equating “plot hole” to “thing I don’t like”.

I’m so stupidly hyped to listen to this!!!

A Harper Collins editor (one who knows the details of my fucked up situation over there) had the gall to show up in my inbox and ask me to blurb another Harper Collins graphic novel title.

Aging Caucasian punk rockers turning into unapologetic dumpster fires (because … punk) is one Pokémon evolution that I’m so fucking tired of.

There is a VERY delicious publishing rumor going around right now.

Please for the love of god stop suggesting Understanding Comics or Words for Pictures as primers for potential comics writers. Also, get the fuck out of here with suggesting Blake Snyder or Robert McKee's books.

Scream 2 automatically loses a star just due to the fact that I have to listen to Less Than Jake cover "I Think I Love You" during the credits.

There needs to be an online database of comics folks that are willing to do school and/or library visits. Make it easier on librarians and educators to find people!

I’m just over here thinking of the time that well-known Batman writer tried to convince me that John Carpenter movies have no rewatch value.

Books I’ve read and enjoyed, an ongoing 🧵 (hopefully. I don’t promise anything. I get bored easily.)

There’s far too many people that confuse “surprise” with “storytelling”.

Baltimore Day 1 is in the can! Stan Sakai is an absolute gem and our panel audio came out great! Look for it on the feed soon!

Want to follow the saga of @samuelteer.bsky.social & @marjulia.bsky.social's Printz-Award-winning BROWNSTONE from the beginning? Start here!

yōkai are for the children 👹 …and are currently 50% off on Jeff B*zos’ baldheaded website

New episode! @samuelteer.bsky.social and I talk about the legacy of his OGN (w/ @marjulia.bsky.social) BROWNSTONE, his difficulties with publisher HarperCollins, and winning the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's Michael L. Printz Award.

Hold up, Andrews McMeel! You all just laid off a really great editor and THEN you announced that you are buying Quirk Books?

Literally had ONE meeting with a Hollywood agent and I'm kinda feeling like I should go back to my stance of not allowing things I've written to be shopped around or optioned at all.

What publishing bee could possibly be in my bonnet this time? Such a mystery.

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!

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