Let's fucking go

This was a great last show of the year, I love you, Providence

Confirmed, there are snacks here

All set up, come thru PVD, Dirt Palace 12-6. everything is really cool people are really good artists in this town

Made a bunch of new bookmarks for the Dirt Palace sale today xoxoxo www.cathygjohn.net/store/test-p...

Dirt Palace Holiday Faire new date is TODAY! Come on down PVD and hang out, get a calendar from me or whatever. I think there's food and treats, why not?? Who is stopping you???

Hey Providence, Seven Stars Bakery workers deserve a livable wage! Leave Google reviews for their locations in support of their union and ask for management to go to the bargaining table!

It’s my birthday!!! Magic Girls 2 is up for preorders!! Wahoo www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/99G/m...

Finally some good news

Pieces I liked at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Ugh they found the shooter finally, fuck

I have a tiny ankle tattoo of this Cezanne mountain, welcome home little guy

Yesterday I got a leg tattoo piece from Emi Lynn Holler at Fruit Camp Tattoo in Baltimore, inspired by the Spanish translated cover of the novel Devil House by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, which in itself was inspired by the Rider Waite tarot deck. It came out far better than I ever imagined.

Providence Student Union released a statement addressing a lot of the things I've been concerned about being a reactionary response to the Brown shooting: lockdown drills can be harmful, we need school psychologists more than we need cops in schools. www.instagram.com/p/DSYAeSDjpG...

Oh I love a spring show, we need something in April! Maybe I'll finally be able to make it out to CXC!

Do y'all know that donating to the Black Zine Fair Fundraiser is tax-deductible? Do you want to put some end of year donations towards something great? Support the BZF!!! gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - thanks to a generous donation we're close to $5000.

It’s been a wild 30 days. The last few weeks I traveled from Baltimore, Burlington, Eugene, Boston, and LA to talk about Black Arms to Hold you Up. It’s only possible because of all the support from the comics community. I don’t have space to thank everyone, but hopefully you know who you are.

The time-honored road trip tradition of peeing one last time in Connecticut and then barreling through NYC as quickly as possible until you get to the NJ Turnpike, many kisses to the city but your bridge game leaves much to be desired

Getting to know Cuyler as a colleague this year was a big highlight for me!

Normally I wouldn't listen to interviews with student witnesses of school shootings, because I think it's unethical to interview minors. I am listening to the Brown students speak, and all these Ivy League kids talk so eloquently about this horrible experience. They're amazing. I'm so angry and sad.

Me and my turtle both had doctor's appointments today 💕✨✌️😚

what’s up

Passed the building where the shooting took place on my way to an appointment, nothing there but some limp police tape and an unmanned news camera. I also passed a huge group of students waiting in the cold at the megabus stop. These poor kids.

This is the wave that swept up my book The Breakaways, and it was pissing me off because it felt like such a blatantly fake misdirection for organizing resources. But it's a canary in the coal mine, right? So keep banging the drum to protect books, but bang the bigger drum to protect communities.

Law Enforcement is releasing the "person of interest" in the Brown University shooting. He’s not the guy. The search is ongoing, and this isn’t over. This is why I never reported on the person's name. Getting stuff like this wrong can ruin lives.

No longer a "person of interest," Providence Police release detained man “I think what is really unfortunate is that this person’s name was leaked to the public. It’s hard to put that back in the bottle…” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha steveahlquist.substack.com/p/no-longer-...

My phone now automatically includes a huge button encouraging me to AI the photos that I am texting, fundamentally misunderstanding the reason a person is texting a photo to another person

the post office experience

Watch this movie!!!

No new info was released by the Mayor at this press conference, but here it is: youtu.be/15hAt5TFzT8

Something I do want to point out is they used city RIPTA buses to transport students safely out of the area. A bus system that many people in our city government have been trying to gut. Buses are a public good that need to be protected.

As is always true with me if you're local to Providence and need help with something I got a car and a can-do attitude.

Don't spend your entire Presidential administration attacking higher ed and then act like this isn't the most preventable thing in the world. I fucking hate guns. Those students deserve peace. I'm so sad for them. I hate guns!!

It is postponed to next week: "The new date for our Faire is Sunday, 12/21 from 12-6PM." Love y'all, see you then if I don't see you sooner.

God I dunno man, after last night and the snow today, but if the Dirt Palace is still open for the market today I'll be there, I'm there to hang out with community anyway, the market is always just an excuse. Love y'all.

Six hours and students are still getting cleared in lockdown, it's a lot of buildings and rooms I know but I'm really feeling for them. Six hours is a long time.

brown daily herald doing a good job keeping regular updates on this active shooter situation: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

I'm okay, I don't live near Brown University. The shooting did happen in a building I wrote a lot of my graduate thesis in. I'm listening to the scanners, they're letting students out of lockdown, but they're still gathering witnesses. Don't go to the east side right now.

Going to a bar tonight wearing my very 90s crewneck sweater emblazoned with the name of my small Midwest hometown meaning at least two Gen X men will jealously ask me where I got it

Ready to rock at @comicartsla.bsky.social ! Table 62B!!

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

Shirt sizes and inventory are all updated! We're getting limited over here www.cathygjohn.net/store?catego...

Los Angeles! Today is @comicartsla.bsky.social! I personally won't be there, but @charmgardens.com will have my calendars and their table! So a small part of me will be there, and you can buy it lol 💕🗓️

Providence! So happy to be back at the Dirt Palace Holiday Faire this Sunday! 12-6pm! I'll be in the ballroom, first floor

People joking about Heated Rivalry being a fanfic previously probably don't really know that like.....like if you've read fanfic you know that there are oodles and oodles of fanfic that has 99% nothing to do with its source content. So often it's just a home for writing.

Thank you for the shout-out, @comicsbeat.bsky.social! I'll write a bit about the award soon, I'm still wrapping up my year and a new blog post is on the list.

NOT TATU 😭😭😭

My favorite Matthew Lillard moment is when he did that Zoom live show with the McElroys and Carey P to launch the graphic novels and they were doing a comic reading and about halfway through everyone realized there had been a glitch and he wasn't seeing the pages and had just memorized his lines

ernie bushmiller’s ghost came to me in a dream and told me “Nancy NEEDS a mullet”

I'm tired of salt in desserts. Sick of it. That's not why I'm here. You've broken the code. The sacred pact between chocolate bar and Cathy is severed. I'll see you in Hell.