roses are red violets are upsetting

Thinking today of my late studiomate Jesse Hamm. He drew a lot of great pictures and wrote wonderful essays on the art and craft of illustration and cartooning. Here's a link to one of my favorite of his essays, on Alex Toth and cartoon realism: sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/89372.html

dungeon crawler nerds, please don’t spoil shit for those of us still on floors 5-6

if you're not already watching Interview with the vampire, you're missing out on a show that takes huge swings over and over again and i'm so hyped for season 3 also, lol me looking at eric bogosian the way eric bogosian looks at lestate

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

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I got mad at the establishment and spent some time volunteering for a state rep. candidate's primary with some video editing where I got to slip in some Slayyyter. (vote Michael Sugar for Oregon State Representative of House District 40!) www.instagram.com/reels/DYM45D...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

that horrifying realization that dungeon crawler carl’s success means cons gonna have too many nerds without pants for cosplay

in: slayyyter out: sleater-kinney (justice4janet)

near as I can tell, gaming peaked with Hitman 3

Happy 100, big man

if Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park were a real guy, would he be pro or anti AI?

I need a 30 volume digest library of these. 🎨 by @hercreative on IG

Please do not forget my game, THIS IS FINE: MAXIMUM COPE out now on all currents numskullgames.com/game/this-is...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

#MayTheFourth | #StarWarsDay | #MayThe4th

somebody should sit joe pesci down and interview him for an hour about working on MOONWALKER

i wish movie studios and theaters would be like “hey let’s put HEAT out in theaters for a couple weeks in IMAX and see what happens”

the problem with trying to solve racism in this country is that white people need to get mad about it too and do something about it

i feel crazy watching the news pretend to not know that his nominee surgeon general was retracted because trump realized she was black

NIN should appear on Sesame Street to perform "I'm Afraid of Asparagus."

my kiddo is a huge fan of the hadestown soundtrack and I'm now trying to convince him that orpheus put out another album under the name "Jeff Buckley"

maybe a hot take? not only is ziggy sobotka a great character and a great performance (RIP james ransone), but looking back from the vantage point of today, "young man struggling with his masculinity and yearning to be recognized as a man commits catastrophic violence" is incredibly prescient.

anybody here have strong feelings about final cut pro (creator suite) / premiere / davinci? i want to go nestle back into the comforting arms of fcp but i haven’t been a regular user since like 7.0

RTing an EPIC comics history thread by our late studiomate Jesse Hamm. Jesse, an artist and educator. This was one of Jesse's best & it shouldn't be left to languish on twitter. It's long though, so if not interested, mute #hammthread.

god this guy rules

Young Shadow & The Watchdogs debuts today, as well as a reprint of the first Young Shadow collection. Pick them up at bensears.bigcartel.com or through your local bookstore, or request them at your library!

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

A great country does not have starving children in it

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated

Hire me to draw some stuff. I've only got coloring work for the foreseeable future and that makes me feel sad.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

how corrupt and scandalous must you be to be too spicy for the trump administration www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

They're cowards for not doing this.

For the morning sickos. Saint Jane is on Global Comics. First issue is free!

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

on the one hand, its not right that donald trump keep trying to pick a fight with the pope, but on the other

clicking through this investment thing is like poking at the storytelling puzzles in the roottrees are dead invest.tokyopop.com

considering the nature of manga's dominance in book stores and libraries and culture for da yoots, how hard do you have to work at failing at being tokyopop?

for a good time google “nine inch noize as live as you needed me to be”

everyone in BIGBANG looks like a character i should pick in KING OF FIGHTERS

we shoulda made iggy pop president

i was skeptical about iggy pop’s set due to age, but this set whips. the horn sections adds a wall of noise and i realized his backing band includes the touring rhythm section of interpol and nick sinner from the yeah yeah yeahs on guitar. this ensemble is LOCKED IN #couchella

At @mayor.nyc.gov’s 100 Days address, full-stage blackout and surprise appearance by VT Sen. @sanders.senate.gov, entering to AC/DC’s Back In Black. Crowd exploded in enthusiastic cheer, then chanted “Ber-nie! Ber-nie!” before he spoke with glowing compliments to Mamdani & a quick stump speech.

suicidal tendencies mosh pit at coachella mojave stage sponsored by the aarp