peopleWatching season 3 continues-- watch episode 2 now! Why not compress the entire dating experience into one day... Why date, when you can TURBODATE... Why ignore lovely, heartfelt indie shows when you can watch them for free: youtu.be/Qc-3FWnHZr0?...

peopleWatching season 3 continues-- watch episode 2 now! Why not compress the entire dating experience into one day... Why date, when you can TURBODATE... Why ignore lovely, heartfelt indie shows when you can watch them for free: youtu.be/Qc-3FWnHZr0?...

It would be remiss of me not to thank our excellent series 2 sponsor @winstonrowntree.bsky.social (and urge you all to watch @peoplewatchingshow.bsky.social RIGHT NOW)

Honored to have sponsored this podcast from @thedailytism.com -- please do check out the complete season and learn something about your autistic fellow humans, while having a good/unhinged laugh along the way...

Season 3 of peopleWatching is finally rolling out on youtube-- watch episode 1 now! My #1 artistic advice is "make what you wish existed," so here's the kind of show i wish existed, which now, in fact, exists, thanks to endless work from many great people-- see it here: youtu.be/_ZcVG2CSC0U?...

Season 3 of peopleWatching is finally rolling out on youtube-- watch episode 1 now! My #1 artistic advice is "make what you wish existed," so here's the kind of show i wish existed, which now, in fact, exists, thanks to endless work from many great people-- see it here: youtu.be/_ZcVG2CSC0U?...

Learn about autistic sensory issues, via a very amusing podcast! Then do me a favor and *never* walk around whistling, which sensorily disrupts whatever song is playing on a loop in my head and feels like THE END OF THE WORLD lol

Here's a comic i made once about communication differences-- when people have something to say but they live on others' terms. And sometimes what you create is your preferred voice. I'll always relate to this one.

This is a really valuable discussion for anyone mired in the self-doubt of life (raises hand...), check it out! So happy to be sponsoring this show.

Reminder!

stop saying asperger's, it's not a thing, there's a whole bad history to it but even aside from that people keep pronouncing it 'assburgers' and i cannot stop laughing when that happens

So pleased to be sponsoring this season of the podcast Autistic Women Oversharing! Definitely check it out, and also follow @thedailytism.com for all your autism satire needs! (my own autism satire needs are SUBSTANTIAL)

Today on Autistic Women Oversharing, we're joined by our brilliant social media manager Sarah Barnard to talk about our past jobs. Nothing can prepare you for this episode save for a Geiger counter, a falafel costume, and... a couple of amorous hamsters? Find us on all good podcast apps!

loved @winstonrowntree.bsky.social's 🧵taking @inkcanada.bsky.social up on shouting-out for an amazing cast and team for S3 of multi awarded #peopleWatching regardless of whether webseries voice actors are considered for CSAs this year! Love them in S3 #Canada www.primevideo.com/detail/peopl...

I CAN’T

Re-live peopleWatching Season 1 today, and receive the gift of being distracted from reality for like 75 minutes! Actually the show repeatedly refers to reality and how fucked we all are, but it's at least pretty funny..! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Been at this over 20 years, it's important you have your own site, I have seen publishers come and go, promises broken and sites burnt, others castles (sites) will sink and you will have to rebuild when they do. Only your own castle will last you a lifetime.

See the particular effectiveness (and courage) of organized nonviolent resistance with what's happening in Minnesota: *anyone* can participate, young and old alike, and so they do; worldwide media attention is gained; it's very clear who the antagonists are, so nobody watching can pretend otherwise.

Artists: quote with your night time art www.viruscomix.com/page593.html

Oversharing is caring!

Martin Luther King Jr., from "Where Do We Go From Here"

Every time I go back to Subnormality (usually to find Everything's Better With Cheese) I end up rereading old favourites. www.viruscomix.com/page596.html Count to Ten is about choice and yearning, and these panels still make me cry every time I read them. Thank you, @winstonrowntree.bsky.social

So pleased to be sponsoring this season of the podcast Autistic Women Oversharing! Definitely check it out, and also follow @thedailytism.com for all your autism satire needs! (my own autism satire needs are SUBSTANTIAL)

This season could not have happened without our incredible sponsor, peopleWatching. If you enjoy The Daily Tism, this is basically custom made for you & is one of the funniest, realest & most moving things out there. Seriously, watch an ep - you’ll be hooked.

It's just sad that one of the most historically successful cartoonists dies and all anyone can rightly feel is pity at life wasted in avarice and bigotry. Learn the lessons he didn't- don't get validation from money, don't stop being accountable, don't decide it's normal when nobody respects you.

peopleWatching has a new home on youtube! Find us at PART-TIME CULT-- Season 1 is currently uploading, with S2 to follow and then the new Season 3 debuts in March! Please subscribe and re-experience the OG episodes as well-- your views and comments make a difference! www.youtube.com/@parttimecul...

This book is vital modern history from @juliaioffe.bsky.social Read it, especially the unbearable parts. Learn from history- how misogyny is inherent to authoritarianism, and the total oblivion of the human spirit for *all* people at the end of patriarchy's dark corridor. This is the human struggle.

30 years ago today...

I rarely feel strongly enough about things to write a review, but this 80-page book by Emily Dickinson's niece, describing what her aunt was like, is easily my favorite thing i read this year, and i highly recommend it.

I still believe in the webcomics dream of 20 years ago when the "infinite canvas" of the computer screen let comic strips be as long and as weird and as horizontal-scrolling as possible, before phone screens began to reign in the medium again. As always read for free: viruscomix.com/subnormality...

peopleWatching is getting a new home on YouTube btw..! Season 1 is up first and will re-launch soon-- here's the trailer so you can revisit those 2017 vibes... youtu.be/F02CdYsLMio?...

Problems are systemic

In terms of how they contrast, effective writing is when little actually happens yet you feel like you've gone on a journey, whereas naïve writing is when you're taken on the most elaborate journey, but, when you think about it, little has actually happened.

I'm sure OP envisions moral boundaries or even evils but it is important to remember that this applies to acts of Justice as well. Don't just think about how many steps away you are from a moral atrocity or violence, think about how many steps away you may be from an act of bravery or kindness.

Think of morality in terms of stairs-- whatever we do enables us to then easily do something one step beyond that. Don't ask "should i do this," ask "do i want to be somewhere a few steps from here," because *that's* what may eventually seem exactly as reasonable as what you're considering now.

New work on Patreon -- sign up to read or miss out forever on my unwelcoming walls of text with occasional drawings alongside.. www.patreon.com/subnormality

One of my biggest takeaways from the new Robert Crumb biography is the recurring theme of him selling his original art and sketchbooks over the years, and the independence that granted. A literally valuable lesson: you can sell what you own (and a reminder of what AI art is meant to steal from you).

🖤RIP Drew Struzan Legendary artist Drew Struzan has died at the age of 78. His work has inspired generations of artists, and while his most famous illustrated movie posters include the other 'Star' franchise, he did a number of beautiful pieces for #StarTrek. 🖖1947 - 2025

Throwback to the horribly timeless BERNARD... www.viruscomix.com/page436.html

Jane Goodall used her stature to advocate for one of the most important, yet most unpopular, causes in the world: Animal rights. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/14PIox

Shoutout to Nell Brinkley, a fantastic artist who thrived 100 years ago when illustration was king (or rather, queen). Do yourself a favor and get to know her stuff-- the heights one can rise to with only paper & ink. Great work lives forever. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Br...

A uniqueness of comics is the effect the visual character design has on the writing. You write the script, you design the character, they immediately become something unto themselves, and then must the script be adjusted accordingly. "She would never say *that*!" Now that you've met her, you know.

If you just want to read my thoughts on the Rapture instead of watching a three hour video making fun of the Left Behind movies, then here ya go open.substack.com/pub/drjordan... (no idea why you would, but I aim to please).

If you’re cancelling your Disney Plus subscription today, now’s a great time to sign up to The Daily Tism Patreon. Not only is it a great time with bonus articles, podcast episodes & monthly community events but we pay real writers to write real things & we don’t fire them for being right on.

Read what an actual nuclear historian thinks about my ol' nuclear weapons comic! Thanks so much to @wellerstein.bsky.social for the honor of this write-up! doomsdaymachines.net/p/understand...

For many years — until some kind of mandated clean-up removed all unauthorized postings — I kept a poster on my office door titled "Understanding nuclear weapons," from the webcomic Subnormality. Here's why I love it: doomsdaymachines.net/p/understand...

I've been thinking a lot about this comic lately, especially its take on "institutions." It goes both ways: the oppressive institutions are often more brittle than they look, but so also are the ones you rely on for safety, health, stability, job security, etc. www.viruscomix.com/page528.html

Read my comix btw-- it's my preferred means of communication viruscomix.com/page599.html

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.