I rarely like other people’s drawings as much as I like mine. I refuse to apologize for this!

Which texture coating is better: flocking like on a Calico Critter? Or granulated sugar like on a gumdrop?

hey man. i can see from your replies you probably don't have object permanence. and that's fine. but some of them are so bad that i have to ask: do you even have subject permanence

People are always going like “hey Macarena” but when she’s like “yeah, what’s up?” they don’t know how to answer. Like they just shrug.

“Hot coco” to me is one of the most loathsome misspellings

I can draw anything. I can make characters as abstract or grounded as I please. I can put them in peril or paradise at the flick of a wrist and the wisp of a whim. I can tear them to shreds and they'll be fine because I decide they're fine. Because it's all fake. You are trying to chain daydreams

"Desire," Talk Talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnm...

✂️ zine clubs are resistance. zine fairs are resistance. zine meet-ups are resistance. zine swaps are resistance. zine fests are resistance. ✂️

Another classic case of what the fuck is supposed to be happening in these thumbnails

What I do outside of it, almost inevitably by definition, matters so much more than what I post here. I suggest everyone embrace that

"Happiness is Easy," Talk Talk. youtu.be/gl4lvJmvqQU?...

The worst part is that it’s 100% worth it

Which post-con malaise is worse, physical or emotional?

congrats, @fantagraphics.bsky.social

It is so worth it. YOU ARE WORTH IT. Thank you so much for being with us this weekend. Safe journeys. We cannot wait to see you again.

I kind of hope I’m not up for another award for awhile, that experience was harrowing

A thing I wish I saw more of is people who are not pros/creators, just regular folks, discussing craft of the comics they're reading just for themselves, casually, like in film or anything else, so all I know to do is just do that which I would like to see more of lol.

Julia Gfrörer won an Ignatz Award, which she absolutely deserves, because she is somewhere in the top 10 living cartoonists. I want to make it very clear that i am only hedging with "top ten" because this is not hyperbole

The best modern cartoonist @thorazos.bsky.social won an Ignatz and that rules

Corinne Helbert presents Outstanding Collection. The winner is World Within the World Julia Gfrörer, Fantagraphics She points to her son Frank aspiring cartoonists. On cartooning: “Everybody can do it and everybody should. Every unique and horrible voice helps make the world a better place.”

@thorazos.bsky.social won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection for World Within the World!

YOU GUYS I WON

I think DC has it exactly backwards on who was doing who a favor by making this comic

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

All the other artists you know who hate drawing hands they hate it because I stole theirs

"all literary fiction is about horny male professors" is such a giant red flag, especially from a WRITER, because it's basically admitting that not only have you not read decades of work by women writers, queer writers, writers of color, you're not even AWARE of it

Rainy Sunday morning, stay forever

Public service announcement: @seantcollins.com has been unable to post or delete posts here on bsky all day due to a server error. He regrets that he is unable to share links to his recent work at this time and hopes to rejoin us shortly <3

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Ballet teachers love to be like "when I was starting out we weren't allowed to have air conditioning/water bottles/toe pads/human rights"

"i can't let this go. why?" is the root of almost everything I've written worth reading

Monsters of ages past: supposed to be dead but aren't (vampire, mummy, Frankenstein, zombie) Monsters of the present day: supposed to be safe but aren't (clown, doll, animatronic, hockey player)

How are people looking at their phones like all the time? What are you even doing on there??

Great facial expression in the new @thorazos.bsky.social comic The Basilisk

To everybody who keeps sniffling in public: blow your fucking nose already. I’m going to kill you.

I woke myself and my wife up this morning by yelling in my sleep because an entity known as “8th Avenue Kenny” had cursed me to become hopelessly lost in Manhattan.

children are an oppressed group, they are the biggest target for SA, they dont get to decide ANYTHING in the family unit, their emotions are underestimated and misunderstood. you cant just say shit like "i dont like children" in public. we have to bully these motherfuckers ASAP

When I tell you I love my local print shop. Today I dropped off my new porn zine. When I handed it over I said cautiously "It's adult..." and the guy shrugged and went "That's fine. I've seen your work. Lots of people print stuff like that here. One guy has us make the labels for all his porn DVDs"

When you review my work I expect you to explain to me exactly what the fuck my problem is

actually fuck it I’m gonna do this right now. here are some Fantagraphics comics I think you should buy

The physical abuse of children by adult men is an actual plank of all right-wing political thought, a thing they believe in strongly and govern to enable, not just something thousands of them happen to do. Fascism is a politics of violent mastery and no one's easier to do that to than a child.

Revolution crone-style now

Anti-AI activists targeted "AI Portland’s Summer Soiree," writing anti-AI graffiti, throwing paint on cars, and leaving behind these flyers declaring '“Butlerian Jihad Against AI,” a reference to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy...depicting a war of humanity versus robots and computers."

Hellraiser movies ranked from worst to best 11. Hellraiser Revelations (#9) Excruciating from beginning to end. More coherent than some others but you almost wish it wasn't. 10. Hellraiser Deader (#7) Literally a cheap vampire flick and not a Hellraiser movie. Pinhead might be in like one scene.

My cat likes to sit in the window, and when it's open with just the screen I can hear people greeting him as they walk by

Go get your ballot and vote for Julia RIGHT NOW! www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-ballo...

A healthy theatre is powered by freaks, misfits, outcasts, semi-criminals, etc. In spirit. It doesn't preclude professionalism or surface polish, & it doesn't mean hurting anybody. But it's different to the smooth, look-at-me careerism you see everywhere.

If you want to be a great artist you can't just sit home and draw, you have to also get out of the house and fuck around as much as possible

In spite of all my meekness, if I have a little weakness, it's a passion for a flight of thunderbolts