Malachi Ward

Love it 🔥

Oh, haha I just mean I don’t feel strongly about landing on one term or another. I love talking comics minutiae

don't let anyone tell you that Simon Roy doesn't have a gift with language

There are a lot of mainstream collabs that get marked down as "written by x, drawn by y" that are actually a lot more fluid. If you worked with a writer for something mainstream I believe the work would be the strongest if you are involved with the writing in some significant way.

And even though I was the one that brought up terminology I don't *actually* love getting invested in those kinds of distinctions. Same goes for the art vs. entertainment you mentioned.

There at least used to be a more discernible lineage from newspaper strips to indie/alt comics that isn't as much there now that a younger generation has folded in way more manga and animation, so I'm with you on "cartoonist" having a stylistic & genre association.

I wouldn't want to give the impression that I'm anti-collaboration (most of my favorites from my own work are made that way) more to avoid the concept that comics are best understood as the combination of two distinct forms: image and story.

One of the reasons I like “cartoonist” as the term for a comic creator, is that to me the default understanding should be that one person creates the entire comic. Plenty good can come from more collaborative versions, but those methods should be the exception.

My favorite Nirvana song

M-Bot by me and Matt Sheean

I’m watching a 3D movie tonight too - House of Wax - with a similar moment

November (2017) In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

Kick off October by watching November!! Free on Kanopy for library card holders. Funny, Beautiful, eerie folk fantasy from Estonia. It's incredible. boxd.it/fxu8

The cover for Drink From The Hippocrene, part of #mothershipmonth2025. Art by @malachiward.bsky.social design by @lonearchivist.bsky.social overlong zine title by me. Follow on Backerkit www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... ! ! !

The new Star Trek Voyager omnibus includes a story Matt Sheean and I wrote and drew about young Janeway and Tuvok!

LAST CALL! Only an hour left to get in on this great anthology. Here's a sneak peek at the story Matt Sheean and I contributed:

Ex.Mag V6 is kinda a throwback to some of the earliest Peow releases, featuring three of the artists, @wrenmcdonald.bsky.social , @decadencecomics.bsky.social and Matt Sheean from our 13(!!!) year old sci-fi anthology, Time Capsule, plus @hannakdraws.bsky.social t who we did "New Frontier" with!

Last few hours to back @peow.bsky.social Exmag 6 book. Really excited to be part of this book! My story is a gothic romance that takes place during an attempt to extract blood from cosmic megafauna 💔🥀🦟🌠💀

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I'm very excited to read Mykell Pledger and Michael Lopez's comic - -

James Noellert is such a good cartoonist!

Today is the very last day you can back Ex.Mag Volume 6 and get my and @decassette.bsky.social's ecological sci-fi story "Aeon Orbit" (I've seen the finished pages, they are gorgeous) along with many other awesome graphic short stories

Go now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...

Amazing dust jacket art by Dofresh

Genie Ink's contribution looks fantastic -

Ex.Mag Volume 6 The 6th volume of Ex.Mag. An Eisner-nominated and award winning genre-based anthology series from Peow2. Genre: SPACE EXPLORATION!

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A page from High Performance Personal Spacecraft, a new story Matt Sheean and I made for Ex.Mag 6. Today is the last day to back it on kickstarter!

Damn now I’m just thinking about how glorious a Sterte+Clarke collaboration would be

“I saw him there.”

When republicans find out about One Battle After Another they're definitely going to try and arrest PTA right

yea I'm just jokin' around you gotta get to the theater and see One Battle as soon as possible. I never see stuff in the theater twice but I'm heading back on this one.

Deathstalker (2025) The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation – a chalice, an amulet, and a sword – lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for n...

Nevermind about One Battle After Another - there's a new Deathstalker movie??? letterboxd.com/film/deathst...

Beautiful Black Hammer commission by @galvosaur.bsky.social. #artlife #comics