Val 🌱 blogging will fix me

graphic reads ‘hourly comics day disability diaries’ with a drawing of me (white nonbinary guy w black facial scruff & short green hair) lying in bed looking shattered. Lower text reads ‘hello. I make comics, and—‘

“This year’s my 10 year anniversary of chronic illness (ME/CFS)” - a small cartoon of me with a balloon going ‘wow!!’ then ‘…wait.’ In an inset past year’s comic, I’m going ‘hopefully later I’ll be well enough to draw a little!’ but end up lying still in bed all day - ‘alas’. “*8 years of my illness being “moderate to severe” = mostly bedbound, unable to walk down the street or prepare a meal without collapsing.”

“I’ve been making a day of hourly comics every February since I first got ill” (some pics of many years worth of hourlies,w ith me waking up feeling exhausted, too ill to sit up)

“It can be hard, but it means a lot to share the reality of my daily life honestly and to hear from others in the same boat. So here’s Hourly comics day 2026” - a small baloon now reads ‘still here!’ next to the same drawing as the first, me now waking up. 9am - “good morning my body feels like it’s been run over by a train’

Diary comics thread for hourly comics day ✏️ intro/9am
#hourlycomicday #MEcfs #ChronicIllness

drawing of three mushroom creatures walking on a path under some leaves

just some lil guys on a walk :)

I'm open for a couple experimental slots to do in february 💞
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I'm open for a couple experimental slots to do in february 💞
commission info: niidles.weebly.com/experimental...
order form: forms.gle/aZKH3NTxupWR...

HOURLY COMIC DAY. A series of comics drawn in the style of Simone Veil. Hourly comic day is observed annually on February 1st. It was started in 2006 by webcomic artist Simone Veil. (Hey) she’s has come out as trans in the intervening year years, so she went by a different name in 2006. You may recognize her as the author of the webcomic pictures for sad children.

Her comics are simply drawn often black and while. Characters are usually heads and bodies with stick arms. This is me trying to imitate her style (kind of a pale imitation). Her comics often concern sadness and existential dread manifesting in strange and surreal ways.

In 2011, she held a kickstarter for a print compilation of pfsc. Funding greatly exceeded her expectations. In 2014x after struggling to fulfill the last of the orders and contending with a rising chorus of internet hate, she posted a video of her burning boxes of unshipped comics. Then she deleted her comic archives and vanished off th internet. But I digress.

On December 21, 2005, Simone Drew a comic every hour she was awake. When th day was over, she kept going. On January 25, 2006, she picked a day and invited other people to give it a try too. And they did.

Incidentally, for 2024’s Hourly Comics Day, I started to make a comic about the history of Simone and Hourly Comics Day. But (ha ha) you know how it is with HCD sometimes — it gets away from you. Here’s as much as I made.

I seriously do think that the HCD history is important.

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wrote up a a blog post about my art in 2025, ongoing art goals, & about returning to doing monthly blog posts :>

as usual I crosspost these so take your pick:

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the english-speaking internet is veeeeery heavily weighted in favour of the states, so this is also a reminder that the uk's black history month takes place in october!

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!

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

she's GORGEOUS!!

the composition is soooo good! the moon framing the character's face.. the wavy lines coming from it... the colors.. .the highlights on the armor.. everything comes together so well

Begging people to watch Ikoku Nikki

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

extremely proud of this stuff. thank you so much for making it real 💖

you should go on strike

they're like cats, showing you how much they love you by blinking at you

they're so cute!!!

I will be cringe and free and appreciate the upside of not having a lot of people checking out my work is there less of you to witness my struggle

immediately after reading my post my girlfriend sent me a message asking if I wanted proofreading </3 yeah I have a ways to go (love her & it was very helpful)

conveying myself with words is something I've always struggled with, even more so after periods long of isolation like 2024 was 😞 but like anything else it is a skill I can! and want to! get better at

one of my goals with my blog posts is to get better at writing clearly & (a little) more consistently. and it's a bonus if it feels good to read

I'll be cheering you on!

she's so pretty 🥺💞

Art blog (re)launch, 2025 retrospective, & ongoing art goals | pine niidles Get more from pine niidles on Patreon

wrote up a a blog post about my art in 2025, ongoing art goals, & about returning to doing monthly blog posts :>

as usual I crosspost these so take your pick:

patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/art-bl...
tumblr: www.tumblr.com/pine-niidles...
wordpress: pineniidles.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/a...

Digital painting of Emerald, the original character of TacticianKate

Closeup

AND at long last my part of the art trade with the wonderful
@tacticiankate.bsky.social ! The beautiful Emerald 🥺💚 Perfect first piece to complete in 2026, if you ask me 👍

#art

gorgeous :o

they're all so pretttty, I love the floaty hair

i made a guide on how to write, draw, and print a doujinshi/fanzine/whatever you want to call it.

this is a crash course on literally everything i know about making doujinshi. it's over 40 pages long. i hope you like it.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

‪ok hiii 👋 very light and spoiler-free intro to some characters you might see frequently in my gallery. i'm in the process of writing this story! #oc