still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

a visual representation of that encounter in comic form

Shoutout to the beautiful lesbian couple I signed up at the library today who referred to each other as "the love of my life," you were the excellent wholesome queer presence my day needed ❤️

The portraitist

Despite my brown thumb, I get to have one gardening triumph this year, as a treat.

Classicstober day 10: Hekate 💃🏻🖤🌿🐾

[nonsexual nudity] MY completely original and not at all filing-the-serial-numbers-off mediterraninlandsteppe neolithironbronze ages eurasian societies mythical Amazons-inspired bullshit straight up mounted archer & cavalry female characters.... 2!!! feat. ancient horseball. smile

Joanna Newsom, John Darnielle, Glenn Richards

Pitches open at Island magazine for comics to be published in 2026: islandmag.com/submit #comics #graphicnarratives

Speaking from personal experience, this is a truly fantastic time to finally figure out you're gay, and put that into practice.

sometimes you look through old sketchbooks and find out you were cooking

RIP to every bookseller currently being asked to pre-order this edition

The way my eyes kept getting WIDER through this video!!! It is BONKERS to think about how much time and care went into animating this via embroidery, a medium where every stitch has to be hand-made. Incredibly cool fluidity on display, and something deeply human too

Somewhere during my very disrupted night of sleep, the doctor in my dream handed me a bag of what I thought were not-awfully-nice snacks. But when I'd eaten a few crunchy things and looked down at the remaining screws and washers, it turned out it was actually a bag of IKEA fastenings.

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

Funny, if I do this kind of funny math when applying for foodstamps the government repossesses my house

Each year around this time I learn one more football fact against my will, but the existence of someone called "McLuggage" is great actually

library apps should have a feature where when you're queuing for a loan you can see the reading progress of the current lender of the book and you can message them things like "a little slow aren't we?" "reading hard or hardly reading?" and things of that nature

You ever watch someone encounter their very first satire, and then crash fatally on its rocks? This passage was, improbably, found at the end of a review for The Secret History.

I like to close out my talks sometimes by trying to draw my least favorite things as quickly as possible (horse, hands, car 😒). A note arrived after one of these talks. I love it to bits. It’s going on a wall.

Nikolai Kupreyanov (1894-1933)

Clip Studio layer names from my latest comic-in-progress: alternate bottom old lower panels time stretch panels spare text (cry) hands good hands good hands A faint third hands (onion)

I’ve a new comic up at the COMICS OFF THE PAGE exhibition at Melbourne’s Pink Ember Studio! The exhibition features experimental comics that go beyond the confines of a 2D space. Mine is a single comic page about process that is itself deconstructed into its layers

graphic novelist

When two colleagues in a row earnestly ask me "are you ok?" my first thought is not "ah, a national day for promoting awareness of mental illness, how wonderful, how affirming". I have a generalised anxiety disorder, so my first thought is a panicky "oh SHIT, who died???"

Today's Love Letter is from the unstoppable @shing.bsky.social. Shing's ode to Making Little Guys is one of the single most nourishing pieces of nonfiction I have ever read. Maybe you need this one as much as I do.

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

Also, props to the Emerging Writers Festival for having the best selection of comics events I've seen at a lit-fest in quite some time!

Come by my studio in Coburg on the 17th for a comics exhibition - and love performances! I'm so excited for this one. www.pinkemberstudio.com/whatson/o8jn...

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship! IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email! CAN www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... AUS www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

Just removed the date label from an old book and discovered that someone has drawn a design for a teapot that can serve either tea or poison how's your day going?

Peter S. Beagle I will love you until the day I die

Aus comics pals, check this out!!! Exciting... www.rmit.edu.au/research/cen...

Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext

I passed a librarian milestone yesterday - I had cleaned vomit in the library but now I have cleaned poop as well 💪🏻 The running joke among my colleagues is: "other duties, as required."

Seeking funds for my next project, a trapdoor that opens automatically beneath anyone who utters the phrase "but I'm a rate-payer!" in a public library.

"Women everywhere must ride a razor of incompatible expectations, but the particularly Kiwi manifestation of that evil is that women must be women without ever being fucking girls." Ooffft. This is so beautifully and devastatingly put. Read this post, and read her books too!

I love late-winter flowers!

When this unrepentant bigot finally shuffles off the mortal coil they'll have to build a fence around her grave to stop people like me from dancing on it.

If you (like me!) loved Amal El-Mohtar's beautiful new book "The River Has Roots," you might enjoy this playlist I put together as I read it, containing as many of the folk songs referenced as I could find. tidal.com/playlist/7b0...

'One of the proposed solutions to the fact that these AI companies are already stealing the work of creatives, writers and artists is not to wonder – not even performatively – about how to protect the output of the creators but to suggest formalising the theft'. rick-morton.ghost.io/crumbs-at-th...

Called out by my past self, who left this note at the end of the current comic script:

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Oh this is beautifully put!

LRP Walter Crane is one of my favourites and it’s also important to know he was a committed socialist and his politics is intertwined with his art practice.

🎉A very happy birthday to the wonderful Walter Crane who was born on this day in 1845. Crane, along with celebrated artists, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, defined the genre of toy books, popular in England during the Victorian era, and lay the groundwork for the modern-day picture book.🧵

I have this theory that a good 95% of the world's problems are sped merrily along by tech bros' absolute refusal to greet their own mortality with even a shred of grace.