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James Kochalka Superstar

@kochalka.bsky.social

The first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. Eisner, Ignatz, and Harvey award winner. Rock star, cartoonist, wild berry picker. https://linktr.ee/kochalka

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For some reason some of the other services didn't get it up yet, I don't know why they failed. But it should be on almost 200 different streaming services today, you can use whichever one you like best.

20.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh no!

20.02.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
watercolor painting of the US President surrounded by sycophants while his handlers scurry about, based on a real event

watercolor painting of the US President surrounded by sycophants while his handlers scurry about, based on a real event

When the President Shits His Pants is up on Spotify now, and should be on other streaming services too hopefully by the end of the day
open.spotify.com/track/7szPdc...

20.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

wow, this is big news! Concrete is a great comic series.

20.02.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they just want to sell frog shaped tablets

19.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no I didn't do any touring of schools, as an author or anything else either.

19.02.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no haha, I did not tour elementary schools. My band did play a couple local schools...the one that my kids attended and the one my wife works at.

I don't know what "Kafun" is but I think you mean Ka-Blam!

19.02.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
GFS I - Truly God's Finest

God's Finest Scalpel has a new album out, if you're into terrifying ambient guitar: open.spotify.com/album/7MR4SL...

18.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kochalka: ka-CHAL-ka

...usually. But sometimes I say ko-CHAL-ka. The former is more casual and what I usually do, and the latter is how I say it if I think about it too much.

17.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kochalka: ka-CHAL-ka

...usually. But sometimes I say ko-CHAL-ka. The former is more casual and what I usually do, and the latter is how I say it if I think about it too much.

17.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if your kids stood up 1000 times during dinner there’s still an infinite number of other times they did not, between the times they did.

17.02.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ebooks can be unavailable, but not β€œout of print” of course. Book is out of print and the ebook is unavailable and the author confused the terms.

17.02.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t count things that didn’t happen. Did I not throw my spoon on the floor 10 times, or did I not throw it on the floor a thousand times, or did I not throw it on the floor a billion times? The number of times I did NOT throw my spoon on the floor is infinite.

17.02.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it even possible to count how many times someone >doesn’t< do something?

17.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

although I had previously many hits on college radio all over, (and a couple local hits on commercial radio), Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly got me play on a handful of commercial radio stations across the country…in LA I remember and I forget where else.

17.02.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RYKOdisc released the greatest hits Our Most Beloved, and then the new album Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly and like the day that came out they sold themselves to Warner Bros. and I asked if I could be let out of my contract.

17.02.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that’s on the DVD that came with Our Most Beloved

I signed everything-thing
Now I get the bling-bling
Every time I sing-sing

17.02.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy President’s Day

16.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are many many James Kochalka Superstar songs we’ve played live that never got recorded. Many songs I can’t even remember at all. Some I just remember a title.

16.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was watching some YouTube documentary about Trader Joe’s and then I was like, what do I care? I never even been in a Trader Joe’s. What does it matter to me if their name-brand pizza now has a different manufacturer than it used to?

16.02.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh! I saw something a lot like the upper right of that image when I first woke up yesterday

16.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

??? It wasn’t completely scrapped. The overworld is very much like that, still.

16.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Johnny Boo riding a skateboard on the Ice Cream Monster's hand while Squiggle squiggles around them.

Johnny Boo riding a skateboard on the Ice Cream Monster's hand while Squiggle squiggles around them.

Sam-I-am gives a plate of Green Eggs and Ham to his new neighbor the bear while Walter Plot cowers in fear behind a fence.

Sam-I-am gives a plate of Green Eggs and Ham to his new neighbor the bear while Walter Plot cowers in fear behind a fence.

My two big books for 2026 are:

Johnny Boo on the Go
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814572...

Green Eggs and Ham Go Next Door
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724753...

28.01.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

its wild that people still don't think dragons were real even after we've found thousands and thousands of their skeletons

16.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

just not famous enough

16.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I played a show in Raleigh NC once, but it was in the mid 90s.

16.02.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because no one bootlegs them?

16.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We did What’s Bitchen? and Anybody out there? last night, but in very different form, plus 14 other brand new songs.

15.02.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The Bus Stop Song

normally in a cover song, you're not allowed to change the lyrics. But I did in my glorius cover of The Bus Stop Song (The Philistines Jr.) open.spotify.com/track/5CoxKI...

14.02.2026 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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