David Mariotte

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is back in limited stock! All funds go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society! Currently there are 20 regular physical editions, 20 phys/digital combo editions, and 4 of the bundle packs available. A fantastic anthology and one I'm glad to have orderable again!

Showing off WIPs of a new, spicy comic on my alt. If you wanna take a peek, let me know.

Something cheeky is coming soon.

Do it!!! I wanna read your comics!

That blows, Kody. I'm so sorry to hear that.

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

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Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

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Since my birthday's coming up here in like 11 days, if you wanna buy me a gift, I do have a wishlist on Throne! But, TBH, I'd much rather you come out to SD Zine Fest on my actual birthday (10/18) and get things from @beccabeean.bsky.social and I directly! Or shop our sites if you're remote!

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

And if you're still waiting on a copy you ordered, it is either in the mail now or getting sent out today! All remaining creator comps have been pulled and will be sent out ASAP as well!

If I need to move anything around (e.g. the regular physical editions sell out fast and you want just that, not the phys/digital combo), just reach out. We'll have some stock going to San Diego Zine Fest on 10/18 and may post extra copies online after. No limit on the digital edition.

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is back in limited stock! All funds go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society! Currently there are 20 regular physical editions, 20 phys/digital combo editions, and 4 of the bundle packs available. A fantastic anthology and one I'm glad to have orderable again!

Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake is *technically* more of like a suspense/thriller, I guess, but it's a fun ride. And Out There Screaming, the Black Horror Anthology from a couple years back is full of bangers.

I'll second all the Tingle recs. Sarah Gailey's Spread Me is a great time (though it just came out, so might not be library download friendly). The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo was great. I liked Model Home by Rivers Solomon earlier this year too.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I am very available for work! I'd love to write for ya! I've got some freelance editing availability! Also still looking for a full time gig! If you're going to NYCC, recommend me to your colleagues and publishers! Happy to send samples too!

It's Banned Books Week. So, very quickly, yes, you should absolutely obviously be getting engaged in your community. The concerns of book banning are huge at local and state levels, as well as with Federal grossness. Schools and libraries need your support. Book banning and banners are stupid.

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Obviously, it depends on who you're writing for and what you're writing, but at most publishers "whoa" is the accepted style, so it ends up being extra work for editors and/or letterers to fix down the line.

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This could be quite big re paypro censorship

Bookmark this post, comic writers.

and hey on the topic of ID laws

do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord?

these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

I am very available for work! I'd love to write for ya! I've got some freelance editing availability! Also still looking for a full time gig! If you're going to NYCC, recommend me to your colleagues and publishers! Happy to send samples too!

While we're dealing with increased #bskycensorship, we gotta keep an eye out on all the facets of banning--both the hard bans of losers influencing governments and schools to restrict certain titles or label them obscene and the soft bans of making it so you can't buy a lot of books at all.

Itch is in a precarious place with its adult content comics, zines, & books. Manga Planet is shutting down their digital platform. IndieGoGo (which has its other problems) is about to enact a hard ban on all adult material. Patreon and Gumroad (lol more problems) both have restrictions on publishing

Also reminding folks, however, that a big part of the conversation around bans and censorship right now is the "soft" censorship of payment processors. There're a ton of books that're effectively being banned by PayPal, Stripe, MasterCard, Visa, and banks because they're not allowing them to be sold

It's Banned Books Week. So, very quickly, yes, you should absolutely obviously be getting engaged in your community. The concerns of book banning are huge at local and state levels, as well as with Federal grossness. Schools and libraries need your support. Book banning and banners are stupid.