My most strongly held comics opinion (I hesitate to say "opinion," because it's a fact): lettering should be the first finished thing done, not the last. Done after (or along with) roughs and finalized before pencils. Pencils and inking should be done AROUND the lettering.

How come I've never heard about this?!? Absolutely brilliant. And 100% correct.

no matter how disappointed you may be in the democratic party you will never be as disappointed as the democratic party is in you for expecting anything of them at all

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

They got cute and used Senators not up for re-election next year or ones that were retiring for the surrender vote. So here's the metric we use instead: If you aren't pushing for a new Democratic leader in the Senate *immediately,* you're out on your ass.

HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO FUCK UP THIS BADLY

DO NOT CAVE!

Chuck Schumer and Corporate captured Dems think the lesson from Tuesday is they have the midterms in the bag and so they might as well take the coward’s way out on the shutdown. This is why democrats are as bad as Trump. Not because they’re as evil, but because they allow evil to win.

Does Elon Musk know he is a Tulip Bulb?

A really underrated great type of post is when a guy falls for a lie or a sarcastic post and then says “but you could see that happening for real”

Pascal is so lucky he didn’t live to see online sports betting

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

Cheney dying and these elections in one day is almost too much good news in one day. My body isn't used to this anymore.

[Exit Clown.]

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

Aloof wife / mayor boyfriend

Anyway, this is what immediately springs to mind when some dipshit whines about folks being "too free" with the block function.

Do not trust subscription services. 🗣️📢 Buy physical. Store your own raw digital copies. Keep the media and art that you love within your own access.

I mean, as soon as I saw this panel I knew it would be the one I posted from this issue. If you can’t figure out why, check the ALT text.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

"Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch!" is such a bad, cumbersome slogan that it wraps back around to being great. That’s the magic of comics

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

I know I’ve said this sort of thing before, but, seriously, if you could go back in time 15 years and show someone that headline with that image… they’d be completely baffled.

Looten Plunder-ass economy

Today is the birthday of Grace Drayton (Oct. 14, 1878-Jan. 31, 1936), who was among the first popular female cartoonists. She created the Campbell Soup Kids campaign in the early 20th century, & the newspaper strips Dottie Dimple, Dimples, Dolly Dimple & Bobby Bounce, & The Pussycat Princess.

ol kooky kirby makin up stuff that could never come to pass well folks that's just comic books

Introduce yourself using one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand. -olives -Signs -What's Up (4 Non Blondes)

S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® print, artwork/collage by me, color & digital by Chuck Forsman.

#comic about starting up a Patreon! Next week I'll be launching it and uploading tons of comics content.

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a frog with a cape over there Tellin me, I got to beware You better stop, children What’s that sound? Everybody look, they’re croaking now

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

A thing of beauty

my hot take is that torrenting is preservation

For Better or For Worse is one of the most important comics in history but won’t get the credit it deserves because it’s about a middle aged woman

But this is not all.

lettering is the fulcrum around which comics turns

listen, anybody can make a comic. anybody. but most people aren't dumbass enough to bother. and I think, as a demographic, that makes us really special

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already. What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

Politics should not take up this much of your brain every day

When are we gonna get a show where the cops and crooks listen to Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, and bro-country? Oh, right, never, because that stuff makes Hollywood music supervisors (and prestige TV viewers) want to throw up. So instead we get a biker gang full of Richard Thompson fans.

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

I know this sounds cruel but the cold hard fact is we need to appeal to more voters if we want to win elections. That’s why I argue that we need to dispense with purity politics and accept candidates who want to ban Ezra Klein from receiving medical care.

David Cross folks.

Here is a drawing in my sketchbook of a food delivery worker who was too fast to be caught by a whole gang of ICE gestapo pieces of shit. Way to go! September 28th 2025. Pen and ink on paper.

"Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" will surely go down as one of the most enduring quotes of this era.

I guess this is what they call a timeline cleanse.

Comedians are a cowardly and supercilious lot.

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.

Remembering the late 🇲🇹 Maltese-born actor #AngeloMuscat (24 September 1930 – 10 October 1977)

Splash panel of my one-and-only AMBUSH BUG contribution; pencils (& concept) by me, inks Bob Oksner, script (post-pencils) Robert Loren Fleming.