planning con outfits and having a rather genderfluid time

six cons in six months...it's rewarding and fun, don't get me wrong. being around chaotic good artists and folks who give a damn about each other is what's keeping me above water spiritually, financially. but it IS work. we hustle because we must...le. ha! i'll keep trying.

los angeles you are cordially invited to invade The Last Bookstore on saturday 📚🕶️ i'll be on the 5th floor tinyurl.com/77dxnu3j

✨🎀💐 classic book illustration but queerer 💐🎀✨ series for Nucleus Portland's 2026 gallery show, now online (with correct link lol): tinyurl.com/y6wr4rt8

curtain call / for Nucleus Portland's coaster art show 🎟️ #salut11 #illustration

i read PERSEPOLIS in a mall Borders as a preteen in 2003. it explained the war better than my school. some of it went over my head but much more did not, thanks to stark, clear cartooning that so effectively conveyed rage, compassion and a determination for justice. rest in peace, Marjane Satrapi.

ITS PRIDE MONTH AND MY BIRTHDAY MONTH 🥳🥳🥳 perhaps i could interest you in some brushes to support a trans guy and father of 2 cats 🙏🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ 🎨 ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin 🎨 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG

June rewards ✉️

was very honored to co-host the 2026 Nib & Ink Fest closing ceremony @cartoonist.coop 🛹💥🔏 congrats to all on a whole month of indie comic sales and events! recording + a playlist of ALL the amazing programming is here: tinyurl.com/ydhjv9yu

harper / for Nucleus Portland's coaster art show 🪉 #salut11 #illustration

👉 TODAY—Saturday May 30! 👈 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️

got a flat tire on the way back from Oasis Night Market and had to take my car to the shop. now sitting in a Mediterranean restaurant recommended by the mechanic, eating stuffed grape leaves and telling myself "it's what Laurent of Vere would do..."

nice. kiriban is still set for 700. but nice.

amorino / for Nucleus Portland's coaster art show 🏹 #salut11 #illustration

thanks for a great show. especially moved by everyone who remembers my and Emil's art from Fanimes / YCONs of yore (10 years ago)! our cups and wallets overfloweth. see you next Night Market 👯🖤

completely sold out of comics/zines. but we will continue serving left hand commissions, prints and looks until 1am

tonight's left hand commissions. thank you.

oasis night market, you are absolutely nuts. i am sold out of DISCOORDINATE, BESPOKE and HONEYMOON and dangerously close to selling outta THE PRINCE. this is night one. what am i gonna DO

*silent hill 3 heather voice* hell if i know

parasol / for Nucleus Portland's coaster art show 🎀 #salut11 #illustration

another...event added...The Last Bookstore in downtown LA is turning its entire building into an arts festival on June 13th 🛹 potentially radical??

The dress-up stickers arrived! www.slimgiltsoul.com/products/dre...

ready for ya at the archivessss LA Queer Zine Fest! ⛅️🕶️

Went to the Carnavalet Museum and was captivated by this black and white painting by René Lelong:

promenade / for Nucleus Portland's coaster art show 🖼️ #salut11 #illustration

felt like drawing softness for this year's gallery show with Nucleus Portland (June 7) 🎀

I haven't made a self indulgent sad sack diary comic in a while. Here is one from a couple weeks ago about when my dog died.

trying to decide on how to price zines and prints for cons like "well, if i am asking x amount, that's like two bobas. that's pretty fair" but then thinking about how much a boba drink costs now and spiraling into despair

Animating on one 3DS is fun but using 2 3DS is even more fun :)

new event added: LA Queer Zine Fest next Sunday 5/17 🏙️🖤 at the largest LGBTQ+ archive in the world! free admission! www.eventbrite.com/e/la-queer-z...

yeah. if you're a comics worker, fill out Cartoonists United's pay transparency survey: airtable.com/appLRxNDI7Yj... and if you're not, but care about art, pay attention to the results. something's gotta change.

2 yrs ago I woulda been PRESSED about the gutting of the voting rights act, the impending food cost spike, the iran war... it's still horrible, but the cure for anxiety is action. this org I'm co-steering is rly getting off the ground. we're working to build food autonomy for a strike-prepped LA!

Qifrey watercolor i painted in 2021. the WHA anime is unbelievably well done, it will make you believe in art ✒️ #WitchHatAtelier #qifrey

updated my portfolio then thought, screw it. goth website 🔏 blueludebar.com

it makes me SO happy to see others try out the daily calendar doodles habit. it drasticaly improved my ability to retain (and draw) details of everyday life during/since 2020. keep going, your precious memories are worth it!!

he was a labor boy, she said SEIU later boy

happy International Worker's Day from Cartoonists United 💪🏽 check out all this indie cartoonist labor! comic sales go directly to the artists! very proud to have helped curate alongside a crazy dedicated team ✒️🖤

'The heather and the hills' - close-ups of my newest aerial embroidery, combining knitting for the base again! Summer heathers, sheep and ponies dot this wild landscape... it won't be available until I made a little frame for it but I have more photos to put up in a couple days :)

hey! thank you so much for liking my deer art! also, thank you/welcome to my new followers, i appreciate your being here 💕 here are the original marker drawings for the pieces featured in the original post, should anyone enjoy seeing that. more art is coming :)

my spread for @glimmr-mag.bsky.social vol 2 ! : ) The Bramble and the Rose 🥀 I had a good time bouncing around the composition lol

would you like a sneak peek at my table for fanime's oasis night market. here it is

der schleier fällt

men reading fashion magazines, oh what a world

i wanna be forgotten, and i don't wanna be reminded.

my line ends with me.

#TheRoseofVersailles hers heart made rose

There's a section of Lone Wolf & Cub where guys with ladders keep attacking Ogami and Daigoro on a row boat and this is what comics are all about.

playing with typography :))))