Travis Nichols

Wanna hear a BUNCH of phones blasting at full volume all at once? Go to a urologist’s office.

<buys 150 plums at a market>
Clerk: Those look yummy! Making jelly?
<buys 1 bag of prunes>
Clerk: Bro, this dude can’t poop. Gross!

Is your kitchen on fire? Try stacking bales of hay in your living room and filling your bathtub with oil.

Jurassic Park doing the same thing over and over again, failing more and more spectacularly each time, is the DNC. In this seven-part essay, I will

The mayor must invest one billion dollars into creating a shrink ray!

He’s a lil’ stinker!

My happy hop over to kidlit in the ‘00s was mostly out of how dang long drawing takes. But holy heck, the delta between a trad. book deal for an illustrated book from a big 5 or big indie … and a deal for a graphic novel from a big deal comics indie is the Grand Frickin Cavern.

Something that shook my skeleton (again) this week was (re-)discovering (again) that some of the most successful, celebrated comic folks are (still) making sooooo very little from their books (still).

I was inspired by the level of pre-work work that Alec Longstreth puts into his stuff. It sincerely brought me out of a burnout.

Flop? Like y’all gimme a chance to go see it. I’m REALLY BUSY BUT I’M GONNA.

Totes. I made a scale model full dang planet globe for an ongoing comic and it continues to make drawing more fun and more REAL.

When the web is a gutter choked with untested inedible AI generated recipes, all of you will look to my cooking blog and shout "SAVE US with your tested home-cooked recipes!"

And I'll look down and whisper "No. In 2003 my dear husband I visited a charming boutique in Martha's Vineyard..."

My right thumb and left forefinger were about to GO TO WORK ON YOU

Yeah I don’t like how aggressive dude pigeons are to lady pigeons but I guess I’m just sensitive like that

NO AI SLOP ON BLUESKY

Every time I see infighting on the left, I think to myself, “Mayor Cuomo.”

👋👋👋 in!

Sames!

oops oh no I might spent the next chunk of life pursuing the holy fool oh no help

THE HOMEWORK MACHINE IS HERE AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT AND LEARN TO USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMANITY IT IS A TOOL YOU ALL SOUND LIKE PEOPLE WHO PROTESTED ERASERS ON PENCILS

Furries paid a huge chunk of my rent in the early days of my comics career. SOLIDARITY WITH FURFOLK

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487

Beg your pardon?

Billions and billions and billions of dollars can’t buy a sense of humor.

Everything is the world is a little bit worse all the time. Even Roku City. Billboards that break the color scheme? EW.

YEP!!!

Paywalled news… nope. Don’t like it.

Damn. And the realness level is likely constant. The correlation might be *me noticing* your beard length and *me noticing* your level of REEEALNESS. I’ll try to do better science moving forward.