Hey it's people in the city in live in, making some real good noise!

Skill issue.

For folks in the BC Lower Mainland, my workplace (non-profit, office in Richmond) is hiring a communications manager currently. Salary of $70-80K. Excellent medical & dental, and RSP matching benefits. It's a very good workplace. DM me your email for the official package 🙂

without fail, a bit that works in every classroom of 8-12 year olds when an UNWANTED BUG enters the room is "Aw man, he's just jealous he doesn't get to do [activity] with us because he's too small and can't [do a basic task related to the activity]." 10 times out of 10 it lands.

i'm laughing way too hard at my computer compressing the file name "sound fx FINAL ART" to "sound f...ART"

without fail, a bit that works in every classroom of 8-12 year olds when an UNWANTED BUG enters the room is "Aw man, he's just jealous he doesn't get to do [activity] with us because he's too small and can't [do a basic task related to the activity]." 10 times out of 10 it lands.

For those coming to town for TCAF, I'm making a thread of some other artsy fun things you might want to do while here. Obviously stopping by the festival founder's Beguiling/Little Island comic shops, 319 College Street. #TCAF

i'm laughing way too hard at my computer compressing the file name "sound fx FINAL ART" to "sound f...ART"

Anyways if you know of anyone looking for in-house or contract game design, narrative design, or writing, full or part time, I'm still looking. Also open to in-person work of nearly any kind in the Vancouver area. ryanmcdiarmid.com

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

For whatever it’s worth I also have a lot of implementation experience in Unity and other engines, and can write C#, Python, CSS, and HTML.

Anyway this is your reminder to back up your art no matter what software you use!

Many things scare me on a, like, professional level about the widespread adoption of AI and the dangers it presents .... but this Google Search stuff feels like one of those "past the point of no return" pivot points for the digital media industry

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Women want only one thing and it’s disgusting

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

“how am i supposed to explain gay people to my kid” how am i supposed to explain homophobia to MY kid

The most banned books in Alberta school libraries this year were all graphic novels, and include multiple queer coming of age narratives. What you need to know, part of a collaboration between Xtra and @theijf.org

i don't care at this point if ai makes some part of your banal big company tech job easier. i don't care if the llm has that one specific use case. nothing justifies building all these data centers & everyone else knows it. be so fucking normal

me, inking: yes haha yes me, colouring: why didn't i CLOSE my PATHS!!!!??????

Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition is available now! Catch a preview of some of the annotated pages here. icv2.com/articles/pre...

Hey, Vancouver! There's a protest against those friggin data centers on saturday! I cannot make it due to a prior engagement doing a different kind of worker solidarity, but I encourage you to check it out! Lots of good people will be there.

i swear 2 god i use the vpl website every single day & right now i am ADRIFT, LOST, BEREFT as it's currently down & i can't access my checked out audiobooks

I thought I needed to oil my sewing machine because it was making a weird squeaking noise. NOPE. I took apart the machine & found a true rats nest of lint in the machinery under the bobbin.

thank u vancouver public library patron for returning the 3rd diviners audio book to the library so i can snap it up just in time to start colouring a 294 page graphic novel.

good news: the hand quilting thread has SHIPPED 😈👀🙏🌈

Ever fucking green

Best art advice I ever got was from Mark Mayerson at Sheridan saying something to the effect of “if you don’t make your film about something you like to draw, you aren’t going to have much fun drawing it all year”

Ultimately, there is more to success than just chasing popular trends. If you take a follow-the-pack mentality, you’ll always be outclassed by people who *genuinely and sincerely* LIKE the trend you’re trying to chase and your voice will get lost in an ocean of other marketable trend chasers

If you figure out what the thing that makes you happiest is, you will make it with such unparalleled enthusiasm that it will be impossible for people not to notice in a way that will be so much more memorable than treating yourself like a branded product before you figure out who you are.

My advice to young artists is that ESPECIALLY as a young artist you have so much to learn about yourself and the world and what you like about the process and what your favourite things are, and if you do a little bit of everything you will figure out what you love more than anything else

if you ever want to rob yourself of joy, accidentally buy unsalted rice crackers.

lighting a candle for all trans people to live fucking long lives and get old as fuck and happy and comfortable and satisfied

I'm not *teeeeechnically* launching these until June, but fuck it: early purchase link for Trans Rights shirts and totes! Pre-order sizes get a 10% discount. www.nngenderfluid.com/shop/trans-r... www.nngenderfluid.com/shop/trans-r...

OKAY FOLKS. New blog post up about how I saw some cool vintage shorts but did not take any reference pics, and could not find similar online anywhere when I tried searching, so I made my own. www.kagcomix.com/blog/2026/5/18/kag-sews-friday-pattern-company-sport-short-modded

applications for the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival aka DCAF 2026 with @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social are now available: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Also the base pattern that I modified is a FREE pattern with a fairly inclusive size range. So like check out the blog post if that sounds cool and fun to you.

i'm soooo close to being done this quilt. i finally got the last of the ~54 hand appliqué elements on last night. Once the hand quilting thread I ordered arrives I'll get the batting sandwiched, quilt it, and actually finish off this project!

Idk that I ever posted this comic? Done alongside students a few years ago.

New statement from San Diego Comic Con on the Eisner-nominated anthology using AI:

every time i go to a convention i immediately get so stressed out by navigating the crowd & how hard it is to hear. i love going to them & getting inspired by all the cool things ppl are making, but i do feel like i'm an alien piloting a human suit trying to come off as "normal" the entire time.

OKAY FOLKS. New blog post up about how I saw some cool vintage shorts but did not take any reference pics, and could not find similar online anywhere when I tried searching, so I made my own. www.kagcomix.com/blog/2026/5/18/kag-sews-friday-pattern-company-sport-short-modded

I still love this shirt I made. Self drafted + my embroidered design. like + reblog if you feel the same way about pretty little liars or have never seen the show.

The craziest thing about the AI boosters is when they say “you can’t do this without AI” “I can’t make an event flyer without AI” when we all remember just 3 years ago how we all got along fine without it.

Perfect sunday activity lineup: checked out the vancouver art book fair & nabbed some books i've been wanting for ages, now i'm going to sew a pair of jeans & listen to Nalini Singh's Angel's Blood on audiobook. 😎

i was mutuals with ami for years, she's a wonderful person and she's going through a rough medical problem and facing barriers in healthcare due to being trans. if you've ever enjoyed the eschergirls tumblr, she's the person behind that!

it's kind of blowing me away how much folks are liking my quilt-in-progress

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Once again this government works hard every day to get good headlines for doing as little as possible, to cover up all the suffering it causes by turning people away at the border, sending out deportation orders, and not renewing temporary worker permits for people who are already here.

And none of them can come from the US (unless they have Canadian ancestry, which is not very many). I refuse to celebrate the self-evidently good step forward when we’re simultaneously taking twenty steps back. The job of the media should be to report the whole truth, not just the silver linings.