A good year ☺️

Slipped on a patch of ice yesterday and did a full cartoon fall where my legs flipped up over my head. Honestly surprised my boots didn’t fly off. Just laid on the ground for a moment after contemplating life and all the decisions that had led me to this moment.

After the snowstorm ❄️

Gingerbread houses in Toronto

‘tis the season 🪫

Grateful to have been asked to draw this year’s holiday card for the Lieutenant Governor Of Ontario, Her Honour the Honourable Edith Dumont. The card portrays the entrance to the residence at Queen’s Park, which is beautiful (the inside is stunning too). Thank you to Her Honour & the team there.

Just started this & it’s already so good. Bonus is that reading it doubles as an upper body workout.

Can I get a refund for the time I wasted reading about Brad Bradford’s motion to give refunds to transit users for delays of 15 min or more

Up today at city council motions from Mayor Chow & Cllr Myers on speeding up LRTs and streetcars. Yes pleeeeeease.

Visiting my mom and she’s got some A+ reading material on the go 🥹

Remember to sign the @ttcriders.bsky.social petition to speed up LRTs and streetcars in Toronto with signal priority www.ttcriders.ca/greenlight

Checked out a display of vintage marketing materials at the Toronto reference library today and I think the person who designed this one had something else on their mind besides penguins…

Drew my friend Eddy’s cat for his bday. 🥹

It’s not a true friendship until you’re chatting simultaneously on four different apps

2026 is gonna be real fun

Some recent cute pups (and their people) I’ve been able to draw through commissions recently.

I don’t want to be dramatic but switching from cold press to hot press watercolour paper has changed my life

Love when friends send me candid photos they took of me at parties

The annual interpretive Xmas lights dance

HolidayCardsTO is back! Six Toronto artists selling their best cards at wholesale rates—just $3 per card sold in packs of 8. Order by Dec 12. Shipping or free local pick-up also an option. HolidayCardsTO.myshopify.com

The cool thing about waking up at 4am every day is by 11:30am you’ve lived a whole day and are ready for dinner.

Golden hour at Grange Park this week

Naturally, this comic doesn’t apply to me because I am of course still solidly in my 30s and always will be

Reprehensible actions by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith using a tool that allows her govt the ability to override sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms to enact blatantly discriminatory & dangerous laws that, among other actions, limit healthcare options for trans youth.

This Thursday Nov 20 I’ll be at Cafe Zuzu’s Holigay Party in Regent Park, which includes a bunch of queer artists (me!), drag, music and maybe even prizes I think? Anyway you should come. It’s free but you can register a spot. www.eventbrite.ca/e/queer-east...

What the and I mean this in the best way possible fuck

Last day to get 25% off any of my prints. Including the Imperial Pub which closes for good today!! Jaketobin.ca/shop

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Saturday morning comic to bring you an important message from @arianagrande via her Vanity Fair lie detector interview. 🌍

So glad to see City Council allow corner stores & retail in residential areas at least in the downtown and surrounding n’hoods. Better than nothing. Also…*whispers* maybe not every policy has to be conceived of for citywide? Maybe community councils should be more empowered to decide policy?

Tonight’s sunset 🥹

I’m having a Toronto print sale! Everything is 25% off until end of the day Friday Nov 14! Discount auto-applied at checkout. Jaketobin.ca/shop

So many Torontonians love to praise cities they travel to (the plazas! the food culture! the joie de fucking vivre!) and then fight tooth & nail against the things that would enable them to happen here.

Ok Toronto people time to write to your councillor if you support n’hood retail options and tell them to support @joshmatlow.bsky.social’s motion at council this week.

Toronto snowstorm

More parties in greenhouses this winter pls

New game just dropped: 4am or 4pm?

An evening walk in condo city

Toronto traffic is kinda pretty when you’re not in it

Just burnt myself ironing a shirt in case you’re wondering how much of a functioning adult I am

*curb your enthusiasm theme*

Another maddening move by Doug Ford meddling in Toronto where his govt has quietly killed the city's 15 year old green roof bylaw—an industry-leading bylaw that has been copied in cities around the world & helps reduce stormwater runoff & building energy use/costs, as per @thestar.com.

A client who recently commissioned two drawings—his Toronto building & him & his husband on a barn swing—sent me a photo of a gallery wall at his house with the new pieces & a bunch of my prints 🥹🥹

Joined a cult last night (Started watching Andor)

Daylight saving time is the societal version of an annual subscription you don’t use anymore & every year you’re like oh yeah I should really cancel that but then you don’t & are just like oh well maybe next year.

🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeeaaar 🎶

Disappointed to see Toronto’s planning committee not support small-scale retail in n’hoods in their ever growing quest it seems to suck all the charm out of the city. Corner stores & cafes next to houses? The horror.

Tattoo season well underway 😌

Name a hornier book

Oh I see someone found the extrude function on SketchUp

Oh hi, gradient