Thread. Lots of comics folks posting their own accounts of the deadline & workload challenges of making a GN or kids book. Here's mine. (1)

Canceling the 2026 election. I have NO doubt this is what will happen. It won't be wholesale shutting it down. It will targeted to crucial races and states. Results thrown out by MAGA Secs of State, that sort of thing. Just enough to keep power. The disaster 2024 election is our last free election.

It's Twelfth Night. The day we take down our Christmas tree and pack it away in the attic. But it's also Jan 6, and Trump and his horde have forever tainted the day. Switch days? Or refuse to give in to the fuckers?

Look at that spinner rack! Drool. Turn around and grab me a armload of those ECs, ma'am!

We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.

Thurs., Jan 16 at 7pm. I'll be in Paris for the premiere of the Making of My Friend Dahmer documentary. It examines the 20-year-long struggle to bring this book to completion. It will be on ArteTV on Jan. 21, but here's a chance to see it on a big screen. www.forumdesimages.fr/avant-premie...

What The Fuck. Arrested for "obstructing a roadway." She's clearly standing on the sidewalk.

I'll get the scoop when I'm in Paris next week, but there's little movement on freeing the Angoulême Fest from the reviled CEO Franck Bondoux. The 2026 fest is canceled after a massive boycott. Franck has a death grip on the operation and will not step aside. A disaster for the French comix biz.

NO regrets about bailing on this series. I liked Series 1 (who didn't?), was meh on Series 2, abandoned Series 3 when I got bored halfway through. Sequel already announced! Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. Animated, no less. Ugh.

Unfortunately, this.

From 1990, 36 years ago. #CaptainAmerica

Because nothing screams "democracy" like hedge funds, Big Oil and the weapons industry.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --- Dick Cheney, 2003. Don't know why this statement popped into my head.

And when the next round of files are released, he invades Greenland.

It was not the breaking story I was hoping for

If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.

Jack Kirby's boyhood home, in what was then the squalid Lower East Tenement District. Still standing. The brick building, 147 Essex St. "I hated the place," remembered Kirby. #Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby

2026 plans. I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025. The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2. #indiecomics #comics

Hold the phone, are you telling me that the guy on the right created a chatbot that is producing child pornography? And are you also telling me that the President whose campaign he funded and who was Jeffrey Epstein's "best friend" for a while wants to prevent any form of AI regulation? Weird.

Earliest memory? I was 3 or so. Stretched on the living room carpet with the Sunday comics spread out. Sun streaming through the large windows in our Midcentury Mod house. A very clear mental picture. And what else would it be? #SundayComics #Newspapercomics #Peanuts

Jack Davis spoofs Easy Rider, 1970. #Madmagazine #comics #comicbooks #ECcomics

This whole social media thing has worked out really well, no? Such a boon to society. If you still have a toehold on the Old Place.... why?

Jan. 1978. The Pistols show didn't happen. The US Govt tried to bar them because they were such a threat to America's youth, so the Cleveland show was missed. They planned to circle back and make up the dates, but the famously fell apart at Winterland on Jan. 14. #punk #pistols #Ramones #Agora

Pluto? Who cares. But Betty Boop!!! #FleischerBrothers #cartoons #BettyBoop

FLASHBACK — per REUTERS Nick Shirley, the guy behind the Minnesota day care *fraud* video, once paid Hispanic day laborers he recruited at Home Depot $20 to hold pro-Biden signs in front of the White House to gin up fears of an “invasion” www.winnmediaskn.com/pro-trump-in...

Love how all college football today--- most of which is being played by taxpayer-funded public universities-- is on pay tv.

You know comics Hall of Famer Jerry Robinson as one of the creators of Batman. Bob Kane hired him at age 17 in 1939! Jerry was the co-creator of the Joker and Robin. But did you know Jerry's main gig in his long career was as a political cartoonist? He did this feature, STILL LIFE, from 1962-79.

Happy New Year everyone. Let's hope we survive until the next one. (I have to track down this figurine btw).

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

Good fucking riddance to 2025. I won't dwell on a personal recap. It was mostly a quiet year of work. Hard work! Traveled to Paris, the Oregon coast and the Appalachians. The first 2 were great fun. Marked 40 years with the remarkable woman I feel in love with at age 22.

Ready for tonight!

Space 1999 by Don Rosa, from Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector, 1975!

Another milestone. MTV should've given up about 35 years ago. I was one of the MTV Generation. I was at Ohio State. Columbus was the test market city for cable. I watched it that first day, and mindlessly vegged to it until I graduated. Didn't watch it after that, except for Liquid Television.

30 years ago today, the final Calvin & Hobbes strip. I'll admit I never really got the reverence for C&H. I was in my mid-20s when it debuted-- the same age as Watterson, who I knew from college papers. Too old to have it grab the heart strings I guess. I was already leaning into alt-snark comics.

I have minimal interest in this. The National Lampoon/ early SNL era is a favorite obsession, but Chevy ? Nah. Except as a somewhat tragic figure who squandered his chance by being such an unlikable dick who greedily cast aside being dangerous and creative for the windfall of being a Hollywood hack.

Who agrees? ✋

"Financially devastating but morally exhilarating" is a state of grace our enemies will never know

Just inked the cover and sent it to Abram. I’m done. Three years of work in these boxes. Out in Fall 2026.

I'm happy to say I've NEVER encountered this. I've encountered my share of dicks in the comics biz, but they give off a vibe. Anyone I've ever asked about process has been very generous.

Another social media falls to the rightwing. The new owners of TikTok are Larry Ellison, one of Trump's closest buddies, a shadowy Korean hedgefund, and MAGA megadonors Marc Andreesson and Ben Horowitz. Which leaves us with Bluesky. Until they come after this site. Only a matter of time.

WW2 Warner Bros cartoons are just bonkers. Love em.

Haha. YES!

Feels like a Steve Earle kind of evening.

“Is he dead yet?” should be the first question asked at every White House press conference. “OK, but it’s happening soon, right?” should be the second. And then maybe “how fucked are you all once he’s dead and can’t pardon you anymore?” if they’re still at the lectern

Don Knott's and his hottie wife Loralee. Apparently, Barney had quite a lot of success with the ladies, which makes him a fucking hero to dorks everywhere!

Well THIS is disturbing!

Gen Z men learning that voting for "I can say the r-word now" is perhaps less important than "I have no savings and I can't get laid."

"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. Their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

A single page from Capt. America Comics #1 went for $900 on ebay. Cool page, front and back, but not $900 cool.