Yep. Drawn animation is especially magical! So is paint-on-glass, stop-motion, etc.

I feel like I've said this already but animation is legit magic to me 😍

Finally picked the Tove Jansson illustrated edition of The Hobbit this weekend & it is, of course, wonderful Dying at this pic though which perfectly captures not only many of the gigs I’ve been to but also 95% of the audience. Pure Cafe Oto turnout, just missing a dwarf on a modular synth

This needs to always be in circulation in comics circles. I think especially after Comic-Con announcements stirs up those inner demons telling us we need to “step up”. That our drive is the problem, not an industry that makes its inefficiency and chaotic decisions everyone’s problem.

2 comic pages a day is throwing you into a meat grinder. Whoever is pushing that is either a moron ready to break or someone who has burned through enough artists to know the outcome will only benefit the assembly line where you are disposable. These current page rates don’t deserve ur suffering

Here is a very San Francisco specific intrusive thought I have

Montreal gets creative with housing and urbanism architecture. Here’s what caught my eye when recently biking around Canada’s second-largest city: 1. Someone put a little pink house on top of an abandoned industrial silo. Now that’s a way to promote more housing!

I think the same way there used to be smoking and nonsmoking cars on the train, there should be designated BART cars for people who are just gonna talk about AI the whole time cuz I don’t wanna hear that shit

🚨CALLING ALL CARTOONS!🚨 Artist Lisa Hanawalt, of Bojack Horseman fame, is a guest on an upcoming episode, and we want all your CARTOON-RELATED disputes! Do you think Roadrunner and Coyote should stop fighting and get together? Are you a Simpsons-head but your partner loves South Park? LET US KNOW!

Great for finding reference. It even has a button that can not show you AI slop.

I WON A HARVEY AWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭

Well-sourced, eye-opening (but in hindsight, unsurprising) piece from Adam. The main use of AI by publishers appears to be publicity/marketing. I would like to explain why this is a bad use from the perspective of someone who gets pitched dozens of books a week for coverage.