December 23rd, 2024 As I remind you every year: lists are so stupid, and oh do I love lists. These aren’t the “best” in the same way we rank athletes or products; these are the things that best captured my imagination, best dominated my conversations, best made me think and feel and moved my soulContinue reading “Best of 2024”
Tag Archives: Pop Culture
Flow Review
December 17th, 2024 As much as I like to participate in the popular culture conversation (and, boy, do I ever), I also like to highlight stuff that you would probably miss otherwise. Even though it’s been the talk of the animation world, collecting awards and getting nominated for a Golden Globe, most people I’ve talkedContinue reading “Flow Review”
Twin Cities Con 2024
November 10th, 2024 It’s been said by people way smarter than I am that we should “find community” this week and be with each other. Twin Cities Con couldn’t have happened at a better time. (A special thank you to the peerless TCC gang who make this show one of my favorite weekends of theContinue reading “Twin Cities Con 2024”
It’s TCC Time!
November 7th, 2024 I can’t believe it’s here, but this weekend is the fourth annual Twin Cities Con at the Minneapolis Convention Center! I have a table (you’ll find me at G7 in artist’s alley), I’ll have my books and what’s left of my indomitable spirit, and I’ll be doing two panels, one each onContinue reading “It’s TCC Time!”
Inktober 2024
November 2nd, 2024 My Illustrator class had us participate in #Inktober this year! We only had to choose eight prompts, but I had a blast, putting a Pokémon spin on my picks. Before this year, I rarely ever used Illustrator, self-teaching myself Photoshop to get any and every project done. Learning it (and especially theContinue reading “Inktober 2024”
Tell Me Something Good
August 3rd, 2024 Dudes. I don’t know if you’ve been on this planet (and this internet) for the past week but has it not been just fucking brutal? It’s been hard to keep with the idiotic, ignorant, and hateful discourse; it’s been difficult to be a compassionate, empathetic human among those being less than. MyContinue reading “Tell Me Something Good”
Summer ’95
June 10th, 2024 I heard Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” this morning while running errands and I was taken straight back to the summer of 1995. As I considered my own power, my pleasure, my pain, I daydreamt about what I would be doing then. I had just turned ten years old. I would probablyContinue reading “Summer ’95”
F#(% THE ALGORITHM: A Promise
April 22nd, 2024 A video today about a human being just trying to make it in a human being world. #algorithm
In Defense of Marvel
November 10th, 2023 I’m sure you’ve already heard, but Marvel is done, big time. There’s nothing left. It’s all too woke, the studio is broke, none of the stories make sense anymore and they’re just putting out, like, the worst garbage ever made of all time, like, for reals. Weirdly, though, I watched the seasonContinue reading “In Defense of Marvel”
Flip: Dream a Little Dream of Me
October 19th, 2023 I have never been a religious person. But that’s not to say I’ve never believed in anything. When I was growing up, there was no shortage of things I thought were real but could never prove: aliens, ghosts, mutants, Bigfoot, vampires, time travel. I would spend entire days at the library (thisContinue reading “Flip: Dream a Little Dream of Me”
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