Tyler B. Ruff

If you come pitching at me in an email with some AI-generated drivel, I’m gonna mark it as spam and move along. If you can’t be bothered to use your brain, I can’t be bothered to give you a crumb of my already limited attention

Building a 250 million dollar ballroom just to feed your ego while the government is shut down and roughly 42 million Americans are about to lose SNAP benefits next month is some pretty bold “Let them eat cake” behavior

Mr. Slice's head is huge in frame. They're looking right at you. Behind them reads "Today today today! October 18, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., The Sheldon, free entry!"

TODAY TODAY TODAY! Make your way to The Sheldon for a full day of independent art, writing, poetry, printmaking, and more! We can't wait to 👀 you!

www.slicexpo.org/slice-2025/

Screwed up writing my pronouns on my vendor lanyard, so I’m “he/him/hiss.” AuDHD says go with it

Making a $70 Pokemon game called Z-A, about battling to climb through the ranks from rank Z to rank A, and then having the plot force the player to skip from rank V to rank F is QUITE a choice. Not a good one! But certainly a choice!

Anyway, Silksong is $20 if you want a game that lets you play it

See you this weekend, St. Louis!

Also, hey: if you like good things made by real artists, you should totally share them far, wide, and often, because the people who make them very much need and appreciate your support—maybe now more than ever

YouTube video by Don Giovanni Weakened Friends - "Smoke and Mirrors" | Music Video

I fear people may be sleeping on the new Weakened Friends album, so it’s my duty to share this thing that totally rules in these times of suckage: youtu.be/QoqTv3YddT4

Listen if you like: Nirvana, Sleater-Kinney, Screaming Females, good music

Is “dying like fifty-seven times just trying to get to the left save bench on Mount Fay” that same as “playing?” Because I’m doing one of those

A reddit screenshot of a thread where someone asks, “Is there any point going into comic art with AI about?” A reply states, “Yes of course. Most people don’t like AI art.” A reply to that comment states, “I posted some AI cover[s] I thought were cool and comic fans here tore me a new one.” A reply to that comment states, correctly, “Perfect.”

You love to see it

No billionaire has any fucken thing of value to say or to contribute to pop culture. Billionaire brains are rotten. Art is made by and for the underclass.

Any Star Trek you want to be watching, buy used/secondhand on DVD. Pull the plug on Paramount.

Computer, load up “Celery Man,” please

The only leading role Stephen Miller should be taking is at the head of the queue of war criminals filing into The Hague for conviction

One way to avoid people making fun of your death is to not make a career of gleefully proclaiming other people’s deaths are necessary for your enjoyment of life

Today is a good day to look up the Paradox of Tolerance for the unfamiliar

Live your life in such a way that millions of people, if not billions, aren’t desperately hoping for or celebrating your demise, or are terribly disappointed that you’re still alive

Idk what’s worse: the AI slop/sloppers, or the simping for the fascist slop machine designed to steal the labor of real artists, take away peoples’ ability to think for themselves, and burn up the planet. We can argue about it while we all die of thirst after it uses all our drinking water.

“Well I don’t want to get anywhere near this guy—better just huck every single one of my traps between us”

A pencilled comic book page showing two figures fleeing a demonic-looking entity through three increasingly destructive and destroyed panels, from the top-left corner to the bottom-right: a high school hallway where locker doors are exploding off of their frames, a frozen lake where the dock is being ripped up and the ice cover is bursting, and a Greek-style museum where the ceiling is caving in and columns are falling down

One of my favorite pages I’ve penciled in a good while. Doing a lot of weird convention-breaking stuff this issue with the art that I can’t wait to show y’all! Hoping to still have it out this year, health allowing—been a rough go for a long stretch, but the work persists (albeit slowly).

I sure do love being alive in the new golden age for grifters

Live your life in such a way that millions of people, if not billions, aren’t desperately hoping for or celebrating your demise, or are terribly disappointed that you’re still alive

two men are sitting next to each other and one of them is yelling Alt: A crowd is cheering. We focus on one man in particular, Tony Soprano, as he joyfully yells and pumps his fists in the air

Me when it happens

A cicada pressed against a window, screaming—a parody of that meme of the Sickos guy

I put on and played through The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus for the first time the other day and it was the best time I ever had sorting papers

My darlings, you can’t beat fascism with lesser, more “polite” fascism

Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of

Oh there’s definitely a crime emergency in the District of Columbia. Getting a convicted sex pest traitor out of the White House would be a good start to cleaning that whole thing up

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

When it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Indie comics ain't easy. Working very hard to make something as well as you possibly can that you know only a few people outside of yourself care about can be quite lonely, and often feels almost like a folly.

Please let indie creators know you enjoy their work, it really helps.

Punching fascists is always correct