And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

Just finished a Steven Millhauser collection so it's on to Joan Samson's THE AUCTIONEER from the Paperbacks from Hell imprint

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

D&D commission: the adventurers' superstore. Info on my commission and original art sales for the curious: www.shaenon.com?p=495

Some older folks were singing, "Ain’t Nobody Going To Turn Me Around.” I'll bet you some of them were singing during the first go around! Even if they were just kids at the time. No one should have to weather resurgent Jim Crow for a second time!

Oh heck yeah! Ngozi's BARDA is awesome.

The first thing the editor in chief of the Roosevelt school newspaper did when she got home was hug her father. Then she opened her computer and started to type. Her article went viral. Lila Dominguez said running the newspaper during the ICE surge showed her “the power of truth.”

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

Ninjas

The dream of bringing back segregation was sufficiently motivating to bigots that they worked without ceasing for 50 years. Are we as inspired by the dream of liberty?

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

As a depressed younger artist, my storytelling sometimes suffered. I just couldn't conjure up feelings & images the story needed. Over time I found some strategies for staying professional even when I wasn't feeling it. Thread:

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

My kid: Are you watching that thing everyone at school is watching? Me: Is everyone at school watching Amazing Digital Circus? Kid: Yes. Me: Then yes. Kid: (stares at me, shakes head)

Super

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Look at the tiny Andrew!

Interesting thing to note about Elevatorgate is how the new atheist personalities making the pushback against Rebecca Watson were all Epstein Islanders, and this should be probably be required viewing. She was put through the wringer by these creeps.

Outrageous

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

I wrote about Naoki Urasawa's and Takashi Nagasaki's BILLY BAT for the Comics Courier!

as a follow up: i had a lawyer talk with another lawyer and are getting these ads using my art taken down and damages paid. it ain’t a lot but i hope it’s enough to make a point. update the wiki!!!!!!

I think we will look back at the life of elon musk and think, that was actually a person sacrificed to teach the message of what pointless accumulation without purpose actually does to a person and how pathetic it makes one

Happy cartoonist day! Treat them nice

Maxxin'

not to harp on this every hour but you could literally pluck a thousand pieces of U.S. journalism from the newswires, and find maybe TWO that hint at the fact our President is completely insane, and has no idea how literally anything works even if he wasn't

The characters in this Richard Linklater movie just went to AstroWorld and I had this intense flashback to 100-degree parking lot heat and speakers blaring the song "Galveston"

Both these guys are kind of annoying, but on this particular point, Miller is 100% correct. The obsession of everyone on the left with fighting other factions on the left RATHER THAN THE FUCKING FASCISTS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY is insane to me. It was insane in 2015 & has gotten steadily insaner.

@evandorkin.bsky.social style B&T

New page of SEATON'S AUNT up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

When on the Kent State campus I always stop and put my finget in the bullet hole in the metal sculpture on Blanket Hill. 1/2 inch thick steel. These were the bullets shot into a parking lot full of 500 students.

Sending happy birthday wishes to Shaenon Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social today! 🎉🎂

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

HOLY CRUD WE'RE GETTING FIIIIIIIIIRE

Walden Pond Books in Oakland has STEAM!

Here I am at Damask Rose, talking up Steam for Simon Kids. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZW-LE...

I don’t even know where you can buy this 50 page comic book but it’s out now. eBay?

Watching it tonight as well

"Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you’ll help them persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them." Michael Ende Neverending Story (1979 book)

Hawkeye #11 from 2013. Written by Matt Fraction, drawn by @davidaja.com , and colored by me. Here's the entire issue without the lineart. Don't have this handy with the lineart and I'm too lazy to deal with it. This issue won the Eisner Award. #colors #comics #colorsWithoutLineart #flatColors

"The Man Without Talent" is the most relatable book about being a cartoonist outside of Evan Dorkin.

I took my wife to see a really big fat sea lion for her birthday. Everyone loves Chonkers!

Vaccines are good, SMOKING IS BAD, voting rights are good, RACISM IS BAD, what the *fuck* is going on and why do I have to be here for it 😐

Holy crud Jason did Jason fanart of the other Jasons (this is not a thing I can do)

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

I'm no longer a believer, but I despise that American society has embraced the cruel, empty idol worship of the "Christian Right" so thoroughly that it doesn't even recognize true Christian politicians like Hortman as such. She was kind and loving and helped the poor! How could she be a Christian?

Yessssss: The wildly unpopular antivax MAHA agenda — Lysenkoism from a conspiratorial health populist movement — is a liability even for MAGA, as American kids have begun dying of measles. Trump’s advisers made this clear in 2016 and saner heads are prevailing now. Bye, Casey. Fire RFK Jr.