Christopher Baldwin

A drawing of my looking at a small storage unit crammed full all the way to the door. It reads, “And so I spent a week and a half moving out of my apartment. There was an incredible deal on a storage unit that was 5 x 5 which I couldn’t pass it up. Got rid of the furniture and slowly packed everything in like Tetris.”

A drawing of me carrying boxes down two flights of outside stairs at my apartment. It reads, “moving was strenuous, but I’ll admit, moving all my belongings down three flights rather than up was so much better.”

A drawing of me handing two plants to professor Pillbug. It reads, “And my friends totally showed up for me! Professor Pillbug took in my plants (indefinitely?).”

A drawing of me sitting on a couch, petting a cat, and talking with ivy. It reads, “And Ivy provided moral support and a respite from the chaos of my apartment. finished and dropped off the keys June 9!”

Today in Ancud I finally managed to get ahold of lovely lovely delicious peanut butter. But the journal comic isn't to Ancud yet!

A drawing of me, unshaven, wearing a bomber jacket, sunglasses, and fedora. It reads, "AND JUST TO BE CLEAR. IF YOU THINK I'M SOME WORLD SAVVY TRAVELER, I'M NOT. I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE TRIP, BUT I'M ALSO ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED. AND WITH GOOD REASON. I'VE NEVER BEEN TO SOUTH AMERICA AND MY SPANISH CAN BE DESRIBED AS PALTRY AT BEST."

A drawing of a fish in a bag. It reads, "I RECENTLY SAW A SOCIAL MEDIA POST DESCRIBING THIS STATE AS SIMILAR TO A GOLDFISH IN A BAG. BECAUSE FOR THE FISH IT'S A TERRIFYING SITUATION, BUT IT'S HEADING FOR A BIGGER TANK."

a drawing of southern South America. it reads, "A NEW ADVENTURE AWAITS. OCT. 2 I'M TAKING A LONG TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA. CHILE, THEN URUGUAY, AND IM NOT SURE WHAT AFTER THAT. AND SO IT SEEMED TIME TO START UP THE OL' JOURNAL COMIC"

A drawing of my looking at one of my drawings. It reads: "ONE OF THE (MANY) REASONS MY YOUNGER SELF WANTED TO BE A CARTOONIST WAS THAT I COULD TAKE MY JOB ANYWHERE. SO I'LL BE DOING THIS TRIP FOR ABOUT THE SAME PRICE IT WOULD COST IF I WERE TO STAY AT HOME. YAY!"

A drawing of me looking at flashcards and saying, "Orejera.” It reads, "AND SO I'VE BEEN STUDYING SPANISH LIKE CRAZY OF COURSE. MY MEMORY IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN PRETTY TERRIBLE, BUT BEAT ANY CARPET LONG ENOUGH AND MOST OF THE DIRT WILL COME OUT."

Starting up the ol' journal comic again, as I have just arrived in Ancud, Chile.

There are even skulls in it! Very thematic! :)

Illustration showing one book creator saying "I just found out my book won an award!" and the other saying "Wow, congrats!" but also wistfully thinking "I wish my books won awards. Or even just nominated. Sometimes I feel so invisible. Argh, why can't I just be happy for my friend? I'm a terrible person."

For fellow book creators who sometimes experience peer envy (hand waving here!) - here are some tips compiled from a poll I did a few years ago:

debbieohi.com/2022/04/peer...

#TheDireDaysofWillowweepManor and #TheNefariousNightsofWillowweepManor by @shaenon.bsky.social & @chrisjbaldwin.bsky.social

I adore Dire Days and I’m happy to report that Nefarious Nights meets every expectation and is just as fun as Dire Days, I was giggling throughout. It’s the perfect sequel.

No fear! @shaenon.bsky.social delivers!!!!! :)

Yay! I hope they love the sequel even more! :)

A photo of a copy of “The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor,” with Haley on the front holding a magnifying glass, and Montague holding a pile of books, and a dog and a chicken and a body laid out on the ground.

The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor by @shaenon.bsky.social and I has been released today by Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon&Schuster! Happy book birthday to this fun weird thing we've made. :)

www.indiebound.org/search/book?...

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nefari...

a.co/d/0qTP6t1

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.

I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.

Enjoy an animated promo for THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, out next week!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

So exccciiiited! I just got my comp copies today! :)

yeah, I've been pondering this for the last day. He doesn't care about anything except power, praise, & money for himself. So what's the angle? Is it simply more distraction for Epstein? Or since he once suggested the US should take over Gaza, maybe this is dissing Isreal so we can move in? 100% SUS

Fall 2025 Preview: Young Adult Comics Romance, magic, and mystery from top comics talents like Trung Le Nguyen, Mariko Tamaki, and Ngozi Ukazu, plus plenty of promising debuts, make for an exciting season.

THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, by @chrisjbaldwin.bsky.social‬ and me, is one of Publishers Weekly's most anticipated YA graphic novels!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Cover for THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, "The hilarious second graphic novel in the Willowweep Manor series."

Kirkus Reviews calls it "thoroughly clever and delightfully weird." This is correct.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

A screenshot of DuckDuckGo’s AI assistant settings. The circled section reads “Hide AI-generated images. Filters out Ai-Generated images from image search results”

Sooo DuckDuckGo is officially goated. WHAT?!
You mean I don’t need to download complicated website blacklist plug-ins? I can just turn this shit off???

A single-panel comic drawnin pen with inkwash shading; the top caption says "I've had such a long-standing habit of guilting myself during periods of art-block, I guilt myself even in periods of productivity." In the panel, two visually identical versions of me, a white lady with wavy dark hair and glasses, are sitting on my couch; the one on the left is folding laundry from a hamper next to her, and the one on the right is lounging on the chaise end with an open can of beer. The me folding laundry has speech bubbles saying "Hmmm. I haven't made enough art lately. I should work harder. I'm gonna fall out of practice." Lounging me replies, "Shut up. You literally drew a comic every day this week, and the 24 weeks before that." Laundry me responds, "Ya, I guess you're right. But what abou-" and is interrupted by Lounging me, who says "No. Shut up." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (7-5-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 186: Shut up, me!

#gentlecomicshabit

God, I love this stuff so much. My favorite snack cheese.

Thank you! And yeah, since I'm from the NE I miss all the green and never-ending cumulous clouds. And winters. And sugar houses. We need to but all these things in one place! :)

a desert landscape, a huge wall of rain coming towards the viewer.

While trying to not check the news constantly about the budget voting, I watched a huge rainstorm move in, and then I made some earl grey tea and watched it by the screen doors with the cool air and petrichor wafting in. Then I started two loaves and bread and made two dozen snickerdoodles.

I wonder if the Satanic Temple will choose to believe that Heterosexual Marriage is against their teachings, and therefore their followers can opt out of 99% of school offerings. One can only hope.

I totally agree. And I’m also curious about the phrasing that it needs age of verification if more than 1/3 of the content is porny. I hate AI, but I’m wondering if companies will, for every post, have the AI create two posts that aren’t porny at all. But I might not be reading it correctly.

I’ve read people here being extremely frustrated about finding reference photos because everything is AI junk. I’ve 100% believed them, but I haven’t had to find a reference photo for a while. And yeah, what used to be an incredible tool, the image search, is becoming useless. I wish AI would die.

Spanish preterite conjugations seem so nonsensical. It’s making it a little hard to get them to stick. 8-/

Brutal. Beautiful and brutal. 💔

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

Zohran feels seismic. Moments of hope.

Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne's "Oglaf" is nothing short of brilliant. Anyone curious, checkout out (although be warned, as opposed to this silliness, it is often VERY NSFW) www.oglaf.com

A four panel comic for "make a terrible comic day." A dominatrix tells her slave to jump, and he replies, "How high?" She tells him to jump "higher than this stepstool." He says, "oh, that's easy," and as he winks at her he says, "Since stools can't jump." In the last panel she is furiously whipping him as he gleefully says, "Worth it!"

Very silly for #MakeATerribleComicDay