Nintendo dropped the new Animal Crossing update a day early, and I'm stuck at work like a chump.

Normally, I would be sad that a cartoonist has died. But today, I'm sad because I didn't eat enough lunch.

Listening to some movie soundtracks while working, and I feel like a wacky detective solving a low-stakes case. A nice change of pace from the anxious nightmare I've been feeling like lately.

HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.

With two inkers and a flatter working around the clock with me, I drew and coloured close to fifty pages of a GN in one long weekend. It was hell on earth.

One scene after James Bond escaped a laser shit at him via satellite in DIE ANOTHER DAY, he swiftly cut through a chain-link fence in North Korea and the sixtysomething dad sitting in front of me loudly proclaimed to his wife, "There's no way he could do that so fast."

My dog is cute!

Kumail Nanjiani and Armando Iannucci on TASKMASTER 21!

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi! I'm a cow.

why doesn’t anyone care about doing things well anymore

STRANGER THINGS stuck the landing. Great show. So happy to share it with my kids, who are the exact right age for it. I would have loved it back in the Nineties.

No sir, I don't like it.

I enjoy watching STRANGER THINGS. It doesn't make me angry in the slightest. I think it's fun.

I have watched zero Christmas movies this year.

The half-eaten cookies are out, the milk has been drunk, WHITE CHRISTMAS has been watched... time for bed. Christmas awaits. Good night, friends.

Some random young person I didn't know walked up to me in 1997 and said, in awe, "You are *beautiful!*" and I've never ever forgotten it.

Getting into RESERVATION DOGS this weekend. I love this show.

There's like three designs that I think are really great in Starwars, and Salacious B. Crumb is one of them. First vintage Starwars thing I've owned since the mid-Eighties.

*chuckles in quebecois*

Reiner made THREE of the FUNNIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME and then also two of the top King adaptations. Plus, via Castle Rock, he bankrolled more things than you can name without taking a producer credit (all the Christopher Guest movies, fucking Seinfeld!). A legend.

Horrible. A blazing talent, a welcome presence, a trailblazing producer, a philanthropic patron. What a loss.

Used some of my money from teaching a class about comics to buy some second-hand comics from Strange Adventures, one of Canada's finest comic shops. Buy comics!

Allowing corporations to rename stadiums was the beginning of the end.

Stevens for Unbenevolent Dictator!

Had an upsetting experience with a Rottweiler, so I called the police, and my experience with the police was more upsetting than the experience with the Rottweiler.

Repainting a Mario toy into a pixel version, for my stupid mental health.

My hot take is that I don't care about graphics (and I don't think they really matter all that much) if the gameplay is great. Some of the best games ever are graphically very very very simple.

New Pixie Trix Comix is up! tinyurl.com/mr3bb6t5 #pixietrixcomix

Quick and easy Elf on the Shelf idea: don't do it

It's been a few weeks since I've seen the woman in the white BMW that cuts me off on my commute every morning. I hope she's doing well.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Feed Tom's family! But only at Christmas! Don't ask me what happens when you feed them after Christmas! I won't tell you!

good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong this story delights me every year

Wow, 2025 sure is the year that keeps on taking.

I like STRANGER THINGS, but I love that my kids love STRANGER THINGS.

If the library doesn't have a book you want in their system, order it! In Canada, we have the Public Lending Right that pays us for our books that are in the library.

I saw a dog get hit by a car tonight. Thankfully, he survived. I managed to get him off the road, wrap him in a coat, and get him into the car of a woman who was looking for him. My brain, thankfully, has started repressing the image. Warranted a good cry when I got home.

"Let’s say 20 years ago the rate for a page of pencils was $150. People still get paid that." My work is largely in the book market, buuuut yeah. BOOM! recently reached out to offer an IP gig with the following rates: script $50/page, pencils&inks $150/pg, colors $50/pg

Another grey day, but at least I've got a little bundle of fresh carrots from my wife's garden.

Please make sure your children have access to books. Lots and lots of books.

Protip: make sure your coffee thermos is actually sealed before you throw it in your backpack.

I got to play my favorite game today: Is That A Large Mouse, Or Is That A Small Rat?

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

Feels selfish to take five minutes to relax after a 17-hour day instead of just heading to bed.

I loved PREDATOR: BADLANDS!

If you love a piece of TV animation made in the Eighties or Nineties, there's a safe bet TMS animated it. They're the best of the best.