I’ve been in a not-great headspace about these midterms for a while, guys. With the endorsement of my shrink, Dr. Waterford (also seen here), I went back on the antianxiety medication I had to take after the 2016 presidential election.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I made some calls to get out the vote for Rodham Clinton in 2016, and one of the respondents I spoke to said she wasn’t planning to vote because “I’m not very interested in politics.” What I wish I’d said[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So one of the best pieces of advice I’ve gotten about writing comes from an old version of the AP Stylebook, and I read it when I was a fresh young copyeditor getting my start at my college paper. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Probably subconsciously inspired by, and of course not as good as, Ben Edlund’s “How to Draw the Tick,” though I like to think I also captured some of the assurance of a Kliban panel.
Jon Stewart said it best: “Yom Kippur—Jewish Day of Atonement. You don’t eat for one day, all your sin for the year is wiped clean. Beat that with your ‘Lent.’ What is that, forty days? Even in sin they’re paying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy New Year, Small Peculiarteers! Election Day is November 8, and this year’s midterms are kind of really important. Small Peculiar urges you to vote blue to defeat fascism.
This is an actual picture of my actual cat, as well as a neighbor’s actual doormat. They fascinate Nineveh, who likes to claw them and writhe on them. She doesn’t do any damage, but I would feel awkward if a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This tradition is sometimes recorded in America too, and I’d want it to be done for me if I kept bees. The royal beekeeper said he told the royal bees like this: “You knock on each hive and say, ‘The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I freely admit that I have used almost identical art twice before, here and here. In real life I am not nearly so insouciant when my anxiety shows up and starts saying terrible things to me; these comics are aspirational.
Click to buy my illustrated version of the book of Jonah! I’m super proud of it.