Graham Lewis, robert grey, and colin Newman of wire

Wire in 2015

Wire - Live at Metro, Chicago, 20 June 1987 YouTube video by prolinea4

It’s Robert Gray’s birthday, so I’m celebrating 80’s Wire, my favorite Wire era

hey who doesn't though

Small monarch caterpillar on a swamp milkweed leaf

Checking on the lads every day

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doing a signing event for my new book this Saturday in Louisville. Gonna have the new stuff and some odds and ends from the webstore. My mom is making baseball cookies.

If you're in town, stop by:

Tradewatch: exciting bookshelf editions for the week of 04/22/26 Trades and collections worth adding to your pull list next week.

nice to see Young Shadow & The Watchdogs in here, thanks @aiptcomics.com

Seventeen Traditions - Fine, identifies issues but offers little to no solutions. Comes across as aimless nostalgia for a pre-tv, chain store, and internet era.

Ralph Nader wrote this in 2008, before smartphones, c0vid, and trump so i imagine he has even more contempt for American society now.

Picture of an arsene lupin story collection by Maurice Leblanc

Picture of Ralph nader’s the 17 traditions

Recently finished

Lupin - great stuff. Tonally pretty close to the Miyazaki Lupin III. None of the lecherous Monkeypunch antics.

I haven’t

Still from the movie My Neighbors The Yamadas

Coach Mcguirk from home movies

Watching The Yamadas and can’t help but think that coach mcguirk has very yamada-esque features

Picture of the book Young Shadow

Picture of the book Young Shadow & The Watchdogs

Picture of the mini comic Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision

I’ve got copies of my new book Young Shadow & The Watchdogs, as well as the 2nd printing of Young Shadow, and the recent mini comic Tunnel Vision up in the webstore. Very excited to have all these in print simultaneously!

Pick up signed/sketched copies here:

bensears.bigcartel.com

Probably helps that the soundtrack is great, and that I watched it 100x as a kid

Scene from muppets from space where the bear gets his eyes blasted by a retina scanner

First time rewatching as an adult, great picture

Crow t robot describing a scenario in which you are rooting through your junk drawer to find a gun

Picture of a newly hatched monarch caterpillar on swamp milkweed

Picture of a newly hatched monarch caterpillar on swamp milkweed

Picture of a newly hatched monarch caterpillar on swamp milkweed

🚨🚨🚨

soon

A Guy Called Gerald plays analogue in his studio YouTube video by A Guy Called Gerald

Great video

hello

Craig's gonna go harder than usual before the primary. Honestly shocked I've seen a few of his yard signs around lately.

The amount of homeless people the mayor disappears before derby

Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love) (2002 Remaster) YouTube video by Ramones - Topic

always forget the back half of Too Tough To Die is loaded with hits

Drawing of MF doom digging for rare 45’s in the desert

MF DOOM blank cover commission

Contact thru the webstore for commission info: bensears.bigcartel.com

A picture of three comics

Picture of a comic spread depicting some baseball action

Picture of a comic spread depicting a chase scene

Picture of a comic spread depicting some kids running around a sewer

Young Shadow & The Watchdogs official release date is April 21st, but you can order it now, along with the other books in the series, at bensears.bigcartel.com

Color illustration of a guy working at a convenience store counter with his cat

New 4x6 prints for $10 patreon supporters
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Drawing of MF doom digging for rare 45’s in the desert

MF DOOM blank cover commission

Contact thru the webstore for commission info: bensears.bigcartel.com

Pencil drawing of MF doom digging for treasure

A monarch butterfly on some swamp milkweed

A monarch butterfly egg on the underside of a swamp milkweed leaf

Big news today, there’s a monarch laying eggs on the milkweed

A black rat snake (non venomous)

Waterleaf flowers blooming

Some wild ginger and trillium

Noteworthy walk sights