if you're in nyc on march 6: we've got another frog farm live show, and we are going to be debuting a new comic from a young new artist who made a really amazing book that she will be live reading at the show. ticket/info: frogfarm.online/frogfarm11

anyway, here are some new prints on my webstore lol

lol going on the "alt-comix" feed on bluesky is basically half mid comics, and then the other half teenagers being like "eugh alt-comix are icky! r crumb is icky! i have read no other comics but im ready to write it all off bcuz im an innately incurious person! back to my fan art and OCs tehehehehe"

Pile & Ren

new big 11x17 print on the frog farm webshop frogfarm.bigcartel.com/product/epic...

this is the big middle spread cross section drawing in my new minicomic i just put out: "MOBILE GANG FORTRESS"

Gentry Tokyo “Vogue”, 1999

rereading a bunch of leguin hainish cycle shorts right now. i just rly like the POV all her characters have in them. they're all just weird people trying to understand other weird people lmao

i like how archaeologists depict wall engravings, hieroglyphs and stele art. sometimes they fill in the missing details, but sometimes they still leave it ambiguous

mobile gang fortress - gorby's binocs

Intermission Transmission 2: Out in 2026

discovered a new character inside me that's exclusively for when i host get-togethers: mr. martini

been getting back into reading about the silmarillion and other first age tolkien stuff, but immediately gave myself the ick by stumbling upon fanart. it all has this similar digital art glaze to it. it's a "fan art" style - it's like disney meets anime. it bums me out so much.

Got a lot of new followers all over so here’s a few ‘what’s funland’s whole deal?’ cards

frog farm mentioned many many times 😎 - mostly for valley valley/idella dell by @audra-stang.bsky.social but also szarlotka by @jas-hice.bsky.social (which technically came out last year, but we did do a big reprint in 2025 because of how well it was received including it getting an ignatz nom)

CALA was a really pleasant surprise - probably the highest ratio of book sales to shirts and prints. people were out here looking for new comic work to read, not just cool merch.

my short film Homemade Gatorade is showing at Sundance 2026 😋 such a wonderful honor, I can’t believe it !! big big thanks to my friends that contributed to this film, and to all my patrons that helped fund it ✨ @sundance.org

I’ve got a short new comic “MOBILE GANG FORTRESS” I’m debuting this weekend at CALA. gonna be doing a live reading of it all tomorrow night at Comics O Clock at Heavy Manners Library as well. please come and say hello

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...