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"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

office romance

Just home printer-ing it? Came out nice!! I was thinking about the logistics of that, not like you can ask the guy at staples 😭😭

When I tell you I saw the slightest bit of tummy definition and I got all these ideas about lifting weights and intense exercises, then tried to do one 15 min cardio vid and had a meltdown lmao need to start slower

Period into chest cold is pissin me off!! Derailed my exercise and my drawing 😭😭 hoping I can get back into it, so tireddd

Gonna finish my sad space book I'm reading

Late winter afternoons, early sping evenings ✨

Crashed out last night from lack of time to do what I want, fuck it, work on my werewolf comic script on the job since its dead today

(Made some leeway!)

I’m not like him. I’ll never be like him. #ff7

Say "NO" to ICE in Vancouver — COPE Vancouver

Vancouver locals:

please sign/send a letter in support of the motion by @seanorr.bsky.social & Pete Fry to ban ICE from coming to our home during FIFA.

www.votecope.ca/no-ice

New OC 🐺

Sooounds great hmm 👀

I was debating a huion! Glad to hear they're good 🤔 my poor iPad's getting older

The text "Read Black Comics" on an inky almost-grey textured background.

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!

Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Giving www.cosmos.so a try today

👙👙

I'm waiting for a sale on it but definitely the 3d model settings is what finally sold me!! Comics finally seem in my reach if I can figure out backgrounds and posing etc 😭 I've been on procreate and before that paint tool sai so the sheer number of buttons terrify me lol but I'll learn

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

plugging this by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social

watched yesterday and it motivated me to get my frustration out on paper. good reminder that everything needs practice, including art for social change!
which i tend to be more hesitant to make because of fear i'll fumble it, but that's how you learn

heads up that folks are asking to move hourly comic day to feb 8th since feb 1st is the first day of black history month in america. february is also lgbt history month here in the uk so that's a nice way to give both celebrations some social media breathing room!

New Hair

Pants Folds 🌝💕
#queerart #sketch

Oooooh! Ok, well congrats regardless 🤣 2 years ain't nothin

Hell yea!!! Should not have been that difficult for you and I hate that aspect but yay employment

People making fics for them?! Bless 😭💕

A vampire rider astride a vampiric horse. The atmosphere is dark and rainy, the perfect time for a hunt.

The Harbinger and The Hunter 🦇
Happy year of the horse! #darkfantasy #vampire #illustration

i think about this thread from @mightyatom.bsky.social basically ten times a day. sketchbook is toilet.

In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.

My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time.

Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026

And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.

Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

An illustration with a cryptic decorated border. Off to the left side, three circular panels depict a mollusk-like brain, a pattern of spotted lumps, and two swans with interlocked necks. In the center, a muscular-chested man with furry ears is holding a massive sword off to his side. He has shaggy red hair and a black doglike nose.

harbinger of the end ☀

I feel like I live in the lower right quadrant, sometimes stumbling slightly leftward...

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls