Seth T. Hahne

Yeah, I rarely care about stuff like that but in this case I think it lends even more heart to the story!

Thanks autocorrect: Abouet

RIP Clément Oubrerie, illustrator of Aya Of Yop City and husband of Aya's writer Marguerite About. Died at 59 of ALS 😕

Brand names are just weird and some sound good and some sound dumb and I have no idea how any of that works.

I was thinking the other day what a funny name Nakama Press is, how it's like Group Press or Category Press, but then, actually, Category Press sounds kind of cool. And then I thought about Criterion and how the company might as well have been called Stipulations or Specifications -- then I give up

Osamu Tezuka's beret. Nothin else.

The final 1/8 I just say there with my heart in my throat, barely able to breathe.

Holy cats you weren't kidding. I am gobsmacked. Devastating

I finally decided it was time to bust into Dredge's Iron Rig DLC but it'd been so long since I last played that I decided a full restart was necessary. And really -- what a joy. This game is essentially perfect.

RE pivoting to AI translation: it's wild that a publisher would actively drive paying readers back toward scanlation. I mean scanlations are routinely wooden and clunky, but they're going to be loads better than the AI dross we see on the daily

What is instead we just take a big crap on each page and call it a day.

This is such hell.

Today's churchdoodle is a Great Crested Grebe.

I chose today's bird by shuffling Wingspan cards and picking a rando.

I never knew who Max Landis was, but I did find out he wrote a favorite AP Quach comic, Boy's Night. So it's lame for her that he's a turd.

I really like yellow in my art.

Artist! Quote with your yellow art! 💛

No worries! I only believe spoilers exist for detective-y stuff where the main point is to solve a puzzle. Everything else is just enticement.

Oh nice! We're still on s2, so I've got lots of stuff to look forward to

Oh man, I hope you enjoy them. I just finished v4 a couple days ago. Just a very fun read for me. Simultaneously a very Nihei book but also very not.

I'd read a little of it several years ago, but man it feels so on the nose that's it's kind of gross.

Excellent. Looking forward to it as I also loved Anderson's Octavian Nothing

My daughter played a wild, high-energy "Cruel Angel's Thesis" on a rickety piano for the school talent show. Nobody could place it (since it's not JJK, Demon Slayer, or AOT), but she wowed them regardless.

I'm listening to M.T. Anderson's Feed right now and, honestly, it's A LOT -- but one thing that's hilarious is how it's constantly interrupted by feed ads and the audio production on the ads is wildly overproduced. It fully sounds like I'm listening to real ads.

Post old memes to confuse young people

and pages 62-63, just for fun

It sounds like what you need is a good long staff meeting to really get revved up

and pages 60-61 :)

An excerpt from the first chapter of Tove Jansson's Fair Play that describes a particular kind of artist's Way Of Being, one that has no small overlap with my own. The details may differ but I do not find the reflection here altogether unmistakeable.

I'd probably just generate a QR to my linktree (which I'd never thought to do before but it's a good idea)

linktr.ee/sethhahne