We did a Marvel comics jigsaw puzzle on our vacation and I got to explain to my son what Kirby Krackle was and who John Byrne is

Awoke from an intense stress dream that I was about to be laid-off, relieved when I woke to remember, I already don’t have a job

I won’t spoil anything about Stranger Things, I will say it worked for me, and that it was special having a show my whole family could enjoy together. Also, as far as characters going from regular kids to lil’ mini Rambos, it’s very legit in terms of D&D, gaining new abilities and always leveling up

2025 was an odd year. Painful at times but personally incredibly rewarding, one of my best yet. But it feels wrong because it was such a horrifyingly bad year in a macro sense, likely even worse than 2020 somehow. May 2026 bring redemption and a ray of light through the darkness. I believe it will

Happy New Year everyone! Dont you think you should rack yourself up one more little tax deductible expense for 2025 and become a member of my Monthly Minicomic Club here?? www.patreon.com/mikedawwwson...

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

Perhaps this is common knowledge to everyone, but it wasn’t until last night, when I forced my family to watch Deep Blue Sea (bc we’re on a beach vacation naturally), one of my all time favorite schlocky horror moves, that I learned that Saffron Burrows was originally supposed to survive the ending

Beautiful order heading out to Norway🇳🇴 No marter where you are on Earth, we can send you visionary comics! dominobooks.org/store.html

Very few of us will ever create an image so iconic

some University should give Mr Beast an honorary PhD and then he should start going by Dr Beast.

The Trump administration threatened a $1 million lawsuit against against an artist who canceled his event at the Kennedy Center. In response, two more groups have pulled out. If they're trying to scare people, it's not working anymore.

This is the most I’ve been tempted to use Twitter in years, as I think the Stranger Things fandom there is losing their minds about the final season (and coming up with theories on on how it could still work out), while Bluesky is filled with adults who stopped watching after season 2

I finished up a brand-new book in 2025. I’m going to try to get you to notice it (and buy it, and perhaps even talk about it!) in 2026. You can’t read it presently, but if you want to get a head-start you cooouuullld preorder it, or just even put it on your Goodreads “want to read” list now…

Always have to lead with, I’m a Stranger Things apologist, but I must admit Will’s big moment in season 5 episode 4 feels to me a lot like Arya kills the Night King in Game of Thrones, in that it was an awesome payoff that looks like it may be followed up by a limp slump to the finish

I am in Mexico. Today I learned cartoon mascot faces on cereal boxes must be covered in grocery stores here to combat the issue of childhood obesity

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Just got a marketing email about getting ready and buying gifts for Valentine’s Day - just please, give me a break for one minute here, please

I will never get over the injustice

I am gonna be a Stranger Things apologist to the end, my kids love this show, buuutttt, they coulda’ let some of these characters just not be in this anymore

Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??

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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

I kinda feel like I’m mostly talking to myself with my Minicomic work, I don’t generally get a ton of feedback, so it’s majorly heartwarming and encouraging to receive a little tip o’ the hat in the TCJ Best Of roundup. Thanks Charles Hatfield! www.tcj.com/the-best-com...

I can picture it now, myself singing Yub Nub and playing the bongos on a row of ICE goon's helmets

I couldn't get my kid to watch a Star Wars if I paid her, but I did introduce her to Romy and Michele's High School reunion and she sincerely claims it's her favorite movie of all time, so that's kind of cooler, right?

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Order your 2026 Keefie Calendar today to have it by the new year/ And sign up for this Sunday's online workshop.. only 17 spots left! www.keithknight.bigcartel.com

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

today is the day we wrestle the darkness to the ground and give it a hard time until it says uncle

They should do a remake of BIG right now and it’s a 13-year-old but he grew up online so he’s just like talking about how Warner Bros. doesn’t understand Batman and Sidney Sweeney is a four

Happy Holidays from Mike Dawson Comics! www.patreon.com/posts/146302...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

In 2026 can somebody bring back The Nib?

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go…

Rob Reiner post/Kennedy Center name change/shouty address/trolling the wall of presidents/etc… this is Madness of King George bullshit, an impotent fool raging as his presidency collapses

ooh, might we be in for a Star Wars discourse today?

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

'member when we used to talk about Marvel movies

This post helped me decide what I feel like reading next

Things to come in 2026 over at my site! That’s right, a good ol’ website: www.seemybrotherdance.org

A brief wrap-up and an even briefer look-ahead substack.com/home/post/p-...

The generation that couldn’t get enough of VC Andrews and Anne Rice now wants to ban every book in sight

im sort of like the joker of this website because i make everyone smile and laugh

I hope those kids all remember to use the QR code on my poster before it expires on Friday

Those old cartoons where the girl chickens get all hot and bothered by the Frank Sinatra rooster and then they spontaneously lay huge numbers of eggs, I don't think kids should be seeing that shit

I have lost track of my own motivation

I made an image to print on a poster recently, slapping a QR code on it, not realizing that it was only good for a few days. Now I either have to pay to subscribe to the QR code, or make a new poster.... Either way it's additional $$$, like always... I guess use this code now while it still works!