J. Marshall Smith

I am self-employed. Obamacare is how I get insured. My rates doubled this year. DOUBLED. Does our government believe that only people who work for corporations should be allowed to live?

The Hard Tomorrow remains a favorite of mine.

Giveaway drawing

I'm still swamped with too many things but I've been making comics again at a crawling one panel per day pace but even that feels good.

WANDERING*

Hey, if we are friends and you are planning on coming to Baltimore for @iconconference.bsky.social I am already hosting out of town friends but I will try to place you with folks you can stay with and save money.

Also if you live in Baltimore and want to host a wondering artist, let me know.

Hey I'm going to be at @pieburgh.bsky.social on the 15th! Come grab some comics or just give me a high five.

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

Giveaway Drawings | J. Marshall Smith Get more from J. Marshall Smith on Patreon

Dropped a free public post over on Patreon with some giveaway drawings and a little feature on a recent favorite comic.

Such a fun story!

There is something interesting about how actual plays make me emotional like other media doesn’t

Blind Alley No. 421

Sketchbook. Folks at an art market.

Finally taking my own advice and I’m making slow progress an hour at a time on a zine I’ve been wanting to make for years. Be proud of me, internet strangers.

Some books ask big questions loudly. Testament by @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social does it in a whisper.
This is sci-fi that trusts silence. It allows space for doubt. It understands that sometimes the most profound stories about faith aren’t about certainty, but endurance.
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Thanks to all the wonderful folks who have enjoyed my little comic I may sell out of Good Girl Laika soon and I'm not sure if/when I will be able to make a new edition so if you want one now is the time to order it.

I'll send you my whole boilerplate contract but basically it is "you can't feed my work for data training/slop and if you use gen ai / steal anyone else's work while im under contract you are terminating our agreement and you still have to pay"

Not that I have heaps of clients knocking on my door but I finally added a No AI / Data Training clause to my freelance contract and that feels good.

Sketchbook spread with a Gregory Orr poem and two class warm up prompts. "Upside-down drawing of a cartoon character" and "Draw a writer from memory after looking at their photo for 2 minutes."

Thank you! That's so kind.

Sorry for making you sad!

Oo I can't wait!

What if everyone is starting cool art cults and nobody is inviting me!?

Reading about Vuillard.

I try not to idolize past eras that were also shitty in their own ways, but I do like how early modernists all started semi-mystical little painting gangs and clubs and wrote manifestos and such. I really love this painting of Toulouse-Lautrec cooking.

Sketchbook

We have to update the benches to say #1 nice freak city.

We will see a great many things… yes, I do believe we will.

“Going Up” is a new comic drawn by J. Marshall Smith and written by myself. You can read all of it below, or—if you wish to show your support—buy a high-res .pdf on Gumroad for a price of your choosing.

5987842792553.gumroad.com/l/GoingUp

Thank you for reading! I'm glad you liked it.

House Sparrows