Thanks Dave! Hope life in CT is treating you well!

An enterprising teacher could have totally tricked me into learning about the Panama Canal by accidentally mis-shelving a few books next to Tintin, or Greek mythology, or anything with dragons on the cover.

It's kind of funny to think that as kids, many of us had favorite number sequences in the Dewey Decimal system! There were a few shelves that, no matter the title or author, their book was coming home with me!

Two kids in the foreground hold ravens. They look quite pleased about it, as they should. Behind them stand Thor (who looks like a bright orange bear) and Odin (who looks like a weather beaten scarecrow). In the background are some trees and a stave church.)

In my formative years, I borrowed my elementary school’s copies of D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths and Greek Myths so often, that a relative took pity on the librarians & bought me my own copies. Periodically that formative experience bubbles up again (by which I mean constantly). Support libraries!

I love when a comic achieves such cultural inertia that the cartoonist can just throw glorious non sequiturs into the world.

First Democrat that commits to banishing Trump (and his cabinet), Netanyahu, and Putin to the Phantom Zone gets my vote.

Or when it’s a book (movie/album) you absolutely love, and then you read it again years later, and it does nothing. (Distinct from when you discover the author is loathsome, and you can’t ever get past it.)

I’m not sure if you’re a beer drinker, but there are lots of great pubs, my personal favorites being The Ship and Shovell, The Harp (in Covent Garden), The Nell Gwynne (near the theater district), & The Cumberland Arms (near Olympia). Also Kew Gardens! A super cool wrought iron Victorian greenhouse!

Food-wise, pick a regional cuisine, and look for that neighborhood! I’ve had amazing Indian, Thai, Chinese, Persian… I don’t have specific recommendations for food other than it’s such a huge culturally diverse city that there’s no shortage!

The V&A is really interesting, in that it’s all over the place. It’s ancient at the bottom, and mid-century at the top. Lots of neat industrial and graphic design. The Tate Modern is fine (I’ll admit, modern art is kinda boring to me), but the walk across the Millennium Bridge is neat.

Most of the museums in London are free, which makes going to see something really specific totally acceptable. The British Museum is amazing (though slightly tough to overlook the colonialism)! The London Natural History Museum is amazing; architecturally and content-wise.

That’s my favorite TMNT lineup

I was at a friend’s house on Halloween, and Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon came Trick-or-Treating with their daughter.

Nice! I’ll definitely give it a listen!

A single panel comic. A white middle aged man is gleefully writing a letter at a desk. The word balloons read: “DEAR PRIME MINISTER JONAS GAHR STORE, MY NAME IS BRYANT. I AM 52 3/4 YEARS OLD, & I HAVE BEEN EVER SO GOOD THIS YEAR. I KEPT MY ROOM TIDY. I ATE MY VEGETABLES, & I PREVENTED SEVEN OR EIGHT WARS. I WOULD LIKE A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, OR A NEW BICYCLE, OR A BB GUN. AND MAYBE ONE FOR MY LITTLE BROTHER. BUT NOT AS GOOD.”

When I was a wee lad of 21, I thought I wanted to be a political cartoonist. I had a weekly strip in the school paper that was so baroque that I genuinely don’t know what I was talking about, when I look back upon them. Anyway, I periodically dip a toe back into political commentary…

Thanks Shel! I really appreciate it! I can’t wait to get my copy of Swords—I love the art you’ve curated for it!

Thanks! I definitely want to draw more of them at some point. And I’ve still been working on a game/setting based on them.

I genuinely don’t think I’d be the illustrator and cartoonist I am today without the Oh, The Beating Drum! comics I did for Worlds without Master!

I highly recommend the whole Worlds without Master run. Lots of great games, illustrations, comics, and miscellany. Comics and illustrations from Swords without Master RPG art director @portablecity.bsky.social. From Barbarian Lord and Hellboy artist @barbarianlord.bsky.social.

You should totally back this project! It’s got swords! It’s got sorcery! It has cool fantasy art, and fancy dice, and eidolons!

Swords Without Master A ttrpg of strange sorceries, ferocious deeds, and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

I just backed Swords Without Master on @kickstarter.com And you should too. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

My biggest issue with making comics is that by the time I get close to finishing one, my style has mutated enough that I want to redraw all the earliest pages. (I abandoned a GN 125 pages in because I kept endlessly redrawing pages from it! I now stick to short works.)

A modest proposal: a few years from now, once the big players are “vacationing” in the Netherlands (btw, we went to The Hague & Delft this summer, & loved it!), everyone who voted for this chud & his lickspittles goes on a peace corps apology tour. Just to see what their political nihilism wrought.

Coming soon: Swords Without Master A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

I’m assuming that for Epimas, everyone is following Swords without Master on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw..., and playing something weird. (Like an RPG made from the little placemat games you find in roadside diners.)

“Dip a Toe in the Briny Deep” An illustration of a seascape. In the distant background are several rounded islands covered in trees. In the middle ground is a boat that looks suspiciously like The Orca from Jaws. In the foreground, a mermaid leans against a rock looking at her phone. There are several seagulls there too, because seagulls are awesome. It’s mostly blues, and greens, with orange and red notes.

A practice illustration for a book project I’m working on. A few years back, I took a road trip around the Pacific Northwest. I was really enamored with the unusual geography of the Oregon coast, which inspired this illustration. All drawn in Affinity Designer on the iPad.

Solar and wind power are liberal scams, so we're putting our money on Gramulax the Magnificent, and his magic energy beans.

Want to increase consumer spending? Want to boost innovation by untethering healthcare from employment? Want to save tax-payer money? Want to treat people with dignity and compassion? If only there was a way to do all of those things... oh wait, there is. Single-payer health care. masscare.org

Will you be the 666th follower of this kickstarter‽ (I like that my computer autocorrects to an interrobang.) It's a really fun game!

A 9 pm address to the American people? How many souls of dead psykers will it take to keep him from dozing off mid rambling, racist tangent?

A screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article, titled “White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living”.

I haven’t read this article yet, but I’m assuming it’s a push for single payer healthcare, debt cancellation, and raising the minimum wage.