This. Ideally everyone would have continued to mask since 2020. But the second best time is right now. If you don’t mask everywhere, at least do it again for higher-risk situations (i.e. traveling, conventions, doctor appts).
Cartoon of Kate, a small person with a chibi-style large head, messy bun, and hoodie, seemingly blissed out in a dance club. A single sparkling tear drops from one eye.
Screencap of Jon Hamm, blissed out and dancing in the same club and pose. He wants to be Kate so bad
lights off (iykyk)
Black and white coloring card featuring a nervous-looking rat in a party hat holding a wrapped gift at a party. Text around the rat reads “PARTY RAT!*” “*social anxiety included”.
my sticker shop (BigChallenges.shop) turns 1 this week!! from now until april 1, every order comes with a free Party Rat coloring card.
Party Rat is a little stressed but still ready for cake
Yes, yes a thousand times yes, also when you work with artists on communicating your science, YOU will get better about describing your work, too! There are so many little benefits you won't even realize you'll get by doing this.
I am slightly biased because it's me, I'm illustrator but it's true!
psst: everything in my shop is affordable (kate. CHARGE MORE) but if you'd like it even affordable-r: use code STILLHERE26 for 26% off your purchase
psst: everything in my shop is affordable (kate. CHARGE MORE) but if you'd like it even affordable-r: use code STILLHERE26 for 26% off your purchase
Along with hiring graphic designers and illustrators (it's fire sale prices) there are many tools to help you provide your own illustrations for scientific graphics. I'll drop a few here in 🧵 #ScienceSky 🧪
You can find illustrators via the many many amazing posts of #SciArt feed.
Black and white coloring card featuring a nervous-looking rat in a party hat holding a wrapped gift at a party. Text around the rat reads “PARTY RAT!*” “*social anxiety included”.
my sticker shop (BigChallenges.shop) turns 1 this week!! from now until april 1, every order comes with a free Party Rat coloring card.
Party Rat is a little stressed but still ready for cake
every single day the probability increases
(nature is beautiful)
every single day the probability increases
(nature is beautiful)
image of a skeleton surrounded by fire announcing the second annual taco bell century on saturday june 13. the rest of the text reads: 100 miles, 10 taco bells. ride or don’t. eat tacos, go fast or go slow, ordee at drive-thru on two wheels, crunchwraps, make friend? and nobody threw up last year
save the date, seattle friends, and start training* now
*eating an uncomfortable amount of carbs and cheese before your rides
(yes, these are lo-fi and poorly aligned, but they're still a comfort)
crap i misspelled their name. forgive me, finless cuties
it's a great day to be an extinct fish
Quickly sketched marker cartoons of some very cute yellow and orange finless fish. The fish look like they're having a great day
drawing warmups / @franzanth.bsky.social fesh fanart
Pearly, iridescent round sticker featuring a wreath of cherry blossoms and bare branches and the handwritten words "maybe it will happen today"
one of the million things i love about haiku is its vast language of symbols—most famously the cherry blossom, a reminder of impermanence and the inevitability of death
anyway i made a sticker
eminently smoochable fesh
Shitty cartoon of a worm cradling a diamond, as though Worm herself is a precious ring
perfect
worm katehorowitz.substack.com/p/worm-regards
Shitty cartoon of a worm cradling a diamond, as though Worm herself is a precious ring
perfect
worm
what a coincidence. worm, blood, and moon are my top three muses
(yes, these are lo-fi and poorly aligned, but they're still a comfort)
Pearly, iridescent round sticker featuring a wreath of cherry blossoms and bare branches and the handwritten words "maybe it will happen today"
one of the million things i love about haiku is its vast language of symbols—most famously the cherry blossom, a reminder of impermanence and the inevitability of death
anyway i made a sticker
so few things are inevitable
but someday soon
this drawing will be irrelevant
Image description in the link of this incredible piece (who wants to buy me an art. I want basically anything Breeyn has ever made.)
A poster featured an illustrated Jim Henson-esque puppet of a S’more hold holding a trophy. Text reads 2026 S’mores Award, March 2nd-29th Submissions open! Mini Grants for New England Emerging Cartoonists. Poster art by Camden Crocker
Information graphic. Two logos at the top, one of a S’mores drawing a comic page and holding a trophy and the other reads ‘Back Cove Books Woodfords CRNR’ text of the graphic reads Comic Arts Maine Portland (CAMP) is thrilled to announce the 2026 return of the S'mores Awards mini-grants for New England-based emerging cartoonists! These grants are made possible by the generous contribution of CAMP sponsor and local Portland bookstore, Back Cove Books. Submissions for the S'mores Awards will be open from Monday, March 2nd to Sunday, March 29th at 11:59 PM EST. This is a juried, $300 mini-grant given to two artists who are primarily self-published to support the printing of a new mini comic. 2026 awardees will be announced at Comic Arts Maine Portland on Saturday, April 11th at 2:30PM. To submit your pitch, please visit: www.comicartsmaineportland.com/smores-award We would also like to invite you to join us Friday, April 10 at Back Cove Books to celebrate the launch of the mini-comics created by our 2025 S'mores Award cohort! Details to follow.
Comic Arts Maine Portland is thrilled to announce the return of the S’mores Awards mini grant program for emerging cartoonists in 2026, thanks to our generous sponsor Back Cove Books! To submit your comic pitch, visit this link:
www.comicartsmaineportland.com/smores-award
Unfinished ballpoint pen ink sketchbook drawing of a girl with a flower bonnet and snail shell. She has braids in her hair and is crying a few tears. Drawn on brown recycled paper.
Making another snail girl... 🐌✨️
#artsky #blueskyart #drawing #illustration #fantasy #sketch #sketchbook #ocart #wip
It's also available for $5 through itch and if you get the PDF, you can share it with a friend and then 2 (or more!) brains get to read it for the price of 1, what a deal.
alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
Today is Disability Day of Mourning, remembering disabled people murdered by caregivers/family.
Any journalist who portrays these stories as anything short of murder is doing serious journalistic malpractice, yet it happens so often. disability-memorial.org
