I was writing a whole diatribe about the unfortunate influx of neckbeardism in our corner of comics but the draft didn’t save. should I try and rewrite it or let this dog lie? lol

is it really powerful and cool of me that I haven’t shared any of my new comic, or is it cowardice? hmmmmm.

The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...

I made a fun new cover for the new Funland. illustration gigs are fun.

me in the studio last week before frog farm

refreshing my prints at the table. I reprinted some popular prints of actors in goblin costume, and then made a new super large one.

sent out the november frog farm newsletter yesterday. subscribe to it if you havent yet! frogfarm.substack.com/p/november-2...

observation from teaching is that younger people are too attached to their one original idea they have for a creative project. it's v normal, i remember being like this - i think it has to do a bit with being afraid you wont come up with another idea. but it's important to break out of this mindset

i've been moving in silence the last month and a bit...i have a new comic idea i'm hoping to finish for CALA in a few weeks...we'll see if i can get it done...

this is on thursday! this is a more classic show with more animations, and we've got some real bangers lined up including @sweetstench.bsky.social who is in town for another film festival and we were lucky enough to nab her to show some of her other new shorts! she's been one of my faves for awhile.

65%!!! Getting close: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...

I’ve been working really hard on this! I was sick of my super talented, award winning artist friends being broke every month so I wanted to find a way to put my years of web and retail sales to work helping us all, so we can spend less time grinding and more time creating

hi here's a thread of some current-day art i like 😋 i'll start with CHIPS by Maddie Brewer, a funny animated series about a woman with cool vibes who gets into intensely violent situations. i love Maddie's distinct scratchy art style and comic timing. excellent action sequences!

lando is one of my favorite cartoonists. so excited to play this.

ive been kinda warming up to the idea recently of worldbuilding being its own form within itself, that includes using other mediums combined in different ways. think like creepypasta stuff like "petscop" or plastiboo's work. maybe its native home is the internet? which allows it to have nonlinearity

my favorite game genre is “little guy in big trouble”

working on slides for my next class

nice photos of valley valley/idella dell on the copacetic comics tumblr www.tumblr.com/copcomco/796...

brian wrote some very nice stuff about our new book "Valley Valley/Idella Dell" by @audra-stang.bsky.social

valley and idella diptych (pink version)

this isn't me answering the question because i don't think it's a hot take lol but social media comics discourse is terrible because it's just people speaking in colloquialisms specific to their scene followed by debate about semantics and anecdotal experiences when the post cross pollinates

Great conversation between Katie Lane and Drew Lerman at Miami Review of Comics this week Links to the books discussed below miamireviewofcomics.podbean.com/e/episode-10...

my wife is making fun of me for how much I like one battle after another. Is this an embarrassing thing to post?

i exclusively play this youtube compilation during the final free work hour of my class. i hope i am inspiring my students. youtu.be/6QOUNvMX-ws?...

my new doomer observation of trends on social media: people like seeing making-of content of hand made things to prove that it isnt ai. i half get it, some of these videos are v engrossing. but when i get to the final product at the end im like "huh this sucks." almost as boring as ai art lol

thank you to everyone who came by the frog farm table and to our mini reading this weekend at spx. was very nice to meet everyone. we had a very good weekend. our new book "valley valley/idella dell" by @audra-stang.bsky.social did numbers, and i was even told by a few it was the book of the show!

ive got two fun new drawings in progress right now

uh hell yes

putting together a frog farm mini comic reading show at SPX. is anyone gonna attend? IDK, but i'm picturing us sitting and reading our comics to an empty audience in a basement conference room, and it's kinda funny lol. honestly could be the most epic vibes of any show.

hi there! my comic was nominated for outstanding minicomic! you can vote for me here if you want www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-ballo... but for the record i don't deserve it more than anyone else! i am just happy to be here <3

interview with me and andrew about frog farm, cram, and small press in nyc www.tcj.com/it-can-be-la...

two frog farm nominees for "outstanding minicomic." will this stop the haters? hard to say.

buy our comics from @comicsblogger.bsky.social

oh wow big news

cursed man lost in a wretched cavern of spiders

this drawing i did in like 2022 is pretty good

imagine getting this illustration gig as a working artist in early 1900s russia where you are tasked with depicting the tsar's uncle getting blown the fuck up by SR terrorists.i gotta think the illustrator was like "hehe pretty cool gig"

wretch

shnork in water

some of the miniature conversions to be found in nick borelli's mad MOLD MOLD MOLD monograph

reading up about how the Bolshevik central committee that decided to go ahead with the October Revolution was held at a married couples apartment where the husband was Menshevik and the wife was Bolshevik and the wife was like “can you sleep at the office tonight?” and he was like “ya no prob babe”

sent out a long newsletter this morning about the last frog farm show and fair plus had a little discussion about where i think sci-fi/fantasy media is going frogfarm.substack.com/p/july-2025-...

never listened to Jon Stewart’s podcast before but this was the best pairing ever to be interviewed together!

comics is rife with neckbeards and dorks currently. we should have more geeks and poindexters but they’ve moved onto greener pastures. all the dweebs are still around. I could take or leave them.

does anyone I know know anyone who plays krumhorn? no project in mind or anything, but would be really if you did

frog farm is not doing cake this weekend. sowwy :(

tomorrow we march on dimes square

just learned about this painting called "They Did Not Expect Him" by ilya repin. the details in the faces are great and im generally just obsessed that crusty hippies existed in 1860s russia in such a big way. time is a flat circle etc etc.