Haul from BwPCon, feeling pretty good about moving up here

Got a late start on leaving for our new home but that meant I was around to meet these rescue babies so

I’ve been pretty quiet, these past months have been tough. We lost our kitty after an intense 8 month long fight with cancer, parental estrangement, my back deteriorated to the point of needing spinal surgery #2, now an interstate move. Looking forward to getting settled and back to work, I need it.

Introduce yourself w/ bands you’ve seen live: Florence + the Machine Bloodywood Lacuna Coil Hanabie Wardruna Heilung Faun Korpiklaani NIN Bel Canto Depeche Mode Eluveitie The Cure Siouxsie & the Banshees Faith & the Muse Moonspell Dead Can Dance Sunshine Blind Diary of Dreams Ego Likeness

i have been fortunate enough to live a life in the arts, creating things and following hallowed footsteps. its something many buckaroos dream of, and as someone who has done it, THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS i received are the moments in between. if you generate with AI, THAT is what you rob yourself of

For anyone interested, I just started a petition to get anything created using generative AI disqualified from Eisner Award consideration moving forward. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/no-ai-at-the...

It is the time of year when I remind people that SSRIs, SNRIs, and SSNRIs make you more intolerant of heat, primarily through the mechanism of dehydration as they make you sweat like a motherfucker.

A limerick. Based on a true story.

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

the next pundit with 100k+ followers who suggests that psychotic is the same as evil is getting an earful I'm sorry but I'm fucking tired

Event art I did for a friend’s local strength competition that values mental health, inclusion, and community. Hosted by an area Norge Lodge. Watching her walk this path and grow into a leader and coach has been inspiring and heartwarming. There are so many ways to be the good kind of strong.

a quick comic about deflection

bug or rabbit, who can say they drift in a creek and seek the Way

I’ve been so bonkers busy the past couple months I haven’t been on here, for good and bad reasons both. Stressing about what cool music folks have posted that I missed learning about.

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

This is absolutely correct. Almost every artist I know is DROWNING in ideas. The issue is in executing the ideas.

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

okay, i've been burnt out on comics for a hot minute but THIS, this makes me so excited for the medium again. it is so good! the lettering! the paneling! the vibes! absolutely incredible.

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

Finalizing the design for a block print greeting card, I’ve been making a new one each year for vending at a local dark holiday market with a Wild Hunt procession. Looking forward to busting out my carving tools and little print press (I gifted myself a press last year and oh the time it saves).

Unscheduled live fire exercise at Camp Pendleton over I5 closes down the freeway in a location that basically doesn’t have any detour. Ordered by the White House. Blocks a major La <-> SD corridor. In the middle of the day. A very specific day. I’m sure it’s a coincidence dot.ca.gov/news-release...

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

comics is like "nice! finished a picture." and then you have to do it 2-8 more times. and then you have to do THAT on EVERY PAGE. and some of the pictures are like, hard

I'll keep reposting this (from 2023) because it's always a big mood for me at the start of Fall. 🥲🍂

Get your COVID vax this week if you can, friends.

a *lot* of anti trans shit coming from the house toward the FY26 bill & i can’t tell you how much it matters for a lot of people to tell dem senators—amidst the week’s jenga tower of moral panics—not to compromise & that trans people are worth fighting for. info & script in the QT ⬇️⬇️ please call!

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Full list of zines as of 9/2: California, Chicago, Colorado, DC Metro, Florida, Indianapolis, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina Triangle Area, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Rhode Island, St. Louis Metro Area, Washington State, Wisconsin Zine request form in the drive folder.

The war against accurate anatomy in Halloween decorations rages on unabated.

Outside of “working hours” I try to work on projects just for fun and impossible to make money off of, especially if it’s something tactile an algorithm could never. This time I woke up one morning with an urge to do this.

We’re on the cusp of autumn, so just a quick reminder: the next time you make your hot chocolate, put a couple of cinnamon sticks and a small fistful of green cardamom pods in the milk while you’re warming it up. You’ll be glad you did.

As soon as you’re willing to sacrifice any one group of people, you’ve already lost to fascism. Stand up for trans rights or get out of the way.

Shing’s work is a beautiful balance of addressing Serious Stuff with a playful joy, the kind of hopeful perspective that imo will always be valuable regardless of current events. But especially now because of current events.

I never thought I could sing, started taking vocal lessons a couple months ago. My spouse began to learn how to play a hurdy gurdy last year. These are skills you just have to be interested enough to want to learn. It will also increase your enjoyment of experiencing art and music!

“We gotta lower our standards and compromise on our values in order to save democracy” is what I keep hearing from everybody who thinks they’re in charge of anything these days, and you know what, I think it sucks, and I’ll keep bitching about it.

tfw it’s been a while since last dnd session and this is what the last page of your notebook looks like to remind you where things left off.

Daemons!

Fantastic news for artists: The lost functionality of Google Image Search as a reference image source has been recreated.

Trans children are not a distraction from some bigger issue that these people are ALSO not going to fight. They’re the center of this. They’re a part of all of our communities. They’re all our kids. Fuck these guys.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

This is one of the deescalation tactics @righttobe.bsky.social talks about in their bystander intervention training! They've got a free online session coming up - sign up here! Essential for 2025. righttobe.org/events/bysta...

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

If you're a Californian, consider calling Senator Padilla's office to thank him for at least trying to get some answers and push back on this bullshit

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

I hear calls for “civility” I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility

Going to a Protest? Police are Watching! (🧵1/8) by Andrew Greenstone (IG: comicsareforkids) and Ysabel Riina, 2020

new coloring book page just dropped. chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!

I wish people who believed that in the civil rights movement, nothing could be blamed on the protesters would read what was actually said about the protesters in the civil rights movement.

A few years ago an ex tried to talk down to me about non-violence, so I reminded him about the time he got his nose broken by starting a fight with strangers multiple times for no reason, and how I put myself between them when he pulled a knife on our roommate at a party. Some will NEVER get it.

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."