Gender affirming care saves lives.

all zine orders in the store have been shipped and should arrived before Xmas (except the one to New Zealand, sorry my friend that's way too far to make it in 7 days) don't order any more books or i'll freak out and have to go BACK to the damn eagle rock post office www.youthindecline.com/products

shipped out all SEKIRO and MUSIC (and Frontier) zines orders pending. Everyone should have their zines before Xmas. Shop remains open and I'm shipping every day. If you order before tomorrow at noon I'll have it out tomorrow afternoon! OR buy them at Secret Headquarters in Atwater if yr LA local!

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

come up from zine world to read the news and curdled by the grimness. RIP, good lord

If you weren't at CALA, we now have SEKIRO and MUSIC for sale on our site, two new zines by America's favorite 3rd Grader. (Naomi is now saving up to get Mario Galaxy 1+2 for switch2) www.youthindecline.com/category/und...

Thank you to everyone who came by and checked out our zines at CALA, and thank you to the cartoonists who were supportive and kind to my daughter, Naomi. I think Naomi has internalized that she herself is a zinemaker (with 6 books under her belt!) and part of this community, and I love that

As always, PEOW2 continues to inspire me as the publisher pushing the envelope in the right direction. Fearless and intuitive and following their hearts. Patrick is the best! Peers make me wanna move Youth in Decline forward in 2026

Zines are now on sale on the Youth in Decline site! www.youthindecline.com/category/und...

See you at Comic Arts LA tomorrow?? Free show, me and Naomi are selling zines at Table 54B She has TWO new zines coming out, MUSIC and SEKIRo

The publication Dummy Zine is apparently selling Mark Beyer tshirts to benefit Mark Beyer, a comics legend who is dealing with expensive health issues. www.dummyzine.com/category/hel...

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

Okay, I take it back Risograph is good

(at that part of the Risograph printing process where i truly can't discern what is "Important step of the production process" and what is "Bizarre superstitions I invented for myself in 2011 and can't shake") 65% done printing Naomi's 2nd book that will be debuting at Comic Arts LA <3

RISOGRAPH PRINTING TIP: Every Risograph has an evil spirit living inside of it. The spirit waits until you've laid down 3-4 of your layers and have one final color to print. By law, that's when the evil spirit has to make every 10th sheet of paper slip and misfeed the machine. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Here is one of my sequences from the Invincible Training program. Thank you to our directors @tannertrue.bsky.social Jason Zurek, Ian Abando, Sol Choi Thanks to the mentors Warren Fok, Emmett Yonemura and Karl Savage And thanks to Ryan Sands for developing the program!

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

I shouldn't have to know the inner workings of media companies to work out if I will have a job next year lol

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about

At a sold out 9:45 screening of Angel's Egg at Vidiots, feels like half of LA animation scene must be here

Yesterday was a great day to have a stamp unveiled by Canada Post! Rural places like mine depend so much on CP, we support the workers, and I’m honoured to be in this 2nd graphic novel collection with 5 others! 📬 www.instagram.com/p/DRTQlk4jG9...

Are you a Same Hat reader / early manga weirdo like me? 90 minutes of incredible reporting and history in the new YouTube post by "matttt". The video is named "How manga broke the US comic industry" Matt interviewed my friend Fred Schodt, Stu Levy, Alvin Lu, www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51Q...

Bought a few inspirational Reading posters for our son as he starts his phonics journey in TK U can buy them from ALA, even the wild ones with Channing Tatum or whatever

The most uncursed thing on this damn app

charter schools are a pernicious leech on communities & the common good

I still absent-mindedly navigate to www.comicsreporter.com some mornings as I sip my first coffee of the day... and then I miss Tom - a generous, gossipy guy with a clear sense of taste, sharp wit, and deep passion for the actual working people that make zines and comics.

Unclear why this McDonald's is flying their flag at half-mast... did the Hamburglar die?

Was not expecting the de Young manga exhibit to be this extensive. The first and final pages of Ashita no Joe? A room of Rumiko Takahashi originals? Huge paintings by Araki from JoJo? So impressed

SE’s localization work on FFXIV and FFXVI have been some of the most incredible examples of good JPN-ENG loc. SE has defined new standards for excellence in our craft. Not to mention, that good loc has been pivotal in establishing a dedicated fanbase—and good sales.

Incredible new comic by Lynda Barry, our most treasured storyteller! (Always read NYT for free on archive.is, don't give them the views or $) archive.is/XZdG6

An incredible collection of stories by one of my favorite cartoonists!!!

haven't posted here in a while but! I'll be at Lightbox Expo walking around tomorrow before our Invincible panel at 4:45pm Next show for Youth in Decline is Comic Arts LA in December and there will be a LOT of exciting news to share (Also, Naomi will have 2 new zines there: Sekiro and Music)

Family trip to Tokyo

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Wasn't able to be at RAZ today, had some family health stuff to manage. Missed everyone there!! We have copies of Naomi's new SEKIRO zine ready to go, thinking to hold it until CALA and debut alongside her MUSIC zine (as well as maybe another surprise)

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Naomi made this with a macro generator, and I have to admit it's extremely funny (Eno is her little brother)

Such an amazing resource, we need Manben on bluray someday. Urasawa is such a gem

Horrible horrible news. I'm very sorry for his loss, for his family, and for our scene. 💔

Life is more important than books, but I do want to say that I appreciate Star Fruit's place in the industry. They license such cool books that would otherwise go missed. I found Minami Q-ta thru them, and they've published Hideshi Hino too. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

naomi and i defeated Isshin, the Sword Saint (an important final step before her sekiro fanzine comes out at RAZ Fest on 9/20)

Absolute madness, and basically destroys the international zine and records and indie comics mail order ecosystem in one fell swoop Not at the top of our country's current atrocities and crimes, but god this is fucking stupid and shortsided

Suddenly remembered that Magic Leap existed as a startup, and all the millions and millions and millions of dollars (and person-years) wasted by them, Google, and Meta on VR and AR glasses that nobody ever wanted, and they never truly figured out a use case for before they started sinking resources

you can just... never use spotify (i dont) you can just... uninstall tiktok (i did) you can just... promise not to murder anyone (so far so good) you can simply... quit instagram stories (okay let's not go crazy)

not saying this for hollow congratulations but: I've never used Chat-GPT in my personal or professional life. like, no LLM usage ever - not once. ditto for image generation tools it may be my sober alcoholic mindset but IT IS POSSIBLE to just never accept them in your daily life. reject them!!!

My new favorite shirt!!!!!! Made by Enter the Night Gallery

Jesus Christ. No more direct mail order of kus!!! This is so bullshit