Andrea Shockling

(It’s been a week. No backsies.) So I learned last Friday I was awarded a fully funded research/education trip to Occupied Palestine by the Palestine Justice Network. I’ll be documenting everything in comics: witnessing, interviewing, writing & sketching while I’m there. Shana Tovah, indeed.

Erie PA— this Thursday the 29th, Andrew Aydin and I will be teaming up to discuss our work in “March, Run, Vote: Graphic Storytelling and the Fight for Democracy” at Gannon University, 7pm— plus Q&A and signing! See you there— register/tickets here: www.jeserie.org/global-summi...

America! Are you preparing to vote? Do you know anyone feeling apprehensive about voting? A group of us made a free guide for you to print and distribute in your communities! howtovote.tips

For the morons in the back: You can hate Netanyahu without hating Israel.You can loathe the illegal, violent settlers in the West Bank without hating all Jews. You can not like chuck Schumer or the job he’s doing without being an antisemite.And if you can’t do that, STAY OUT OF MY GODDAMN COMMENTS

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I’m heading to occupied Palestine this week & I’ve never been on a 10+ hr flight. My devices are loaded with all 4 Area X books, as sort of the ‘safe foods’ audiobook version of my echolalia? Hopefully the sweet dulcet tones of Bronson Pinchot yelling fuck will calm me 😎

Gingerly picking up universities, carrying it over to the light, and saying, aw man, this was my favorite, as I examine it from all angles.

The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

"Erica Stockwell" by Karen Jerzyk

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

0-0 and back to the Bay

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

One of my main regular clients has opted to use internal staff for their promotional art this year. This means I’ll have some availability for illustration work and comics covers (possibly for interiors) in the coming months. benjamindeweyart.com

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

This is a silly collection meant to channel some of the actual rage I feel at how bad everything has gotten online. I hope you’ll buy something of course, but the more important thing is that if you like it, please share this artwork far and wide. We’re all in this together.

SAY NO TO AI with our collection featuring prints, stickers, and a pre-order for t-shirts and sweatshirts. And I’ve also made the artwork free to download and use on your own. Print your own posters in a variety of sizes, all at the link below. alternatehistories.com/collections/...

also the entire education system needs to be overhauled, because the entire system of education is braced on the backs of unpaid teacher over time also we owe Black people ~2 trillion dollars furthermore ICE must be abolished

Just something to think about as the same people trying to eliminate writing and music with the computer are also increasingly expressing the notion that empathy is a weakness.

Books and music make us understand for the first time when we are young, or remind us over and over, that we are not, in fact alone, and that other people exist, much like us. They develop and deepen or capacity for empathy.

A common thing I hear about writing, my own and others, is that it made me feel like I wasn't alone -- see James Baldwin on Dostoevsky -- or put something into words I was feeling but couldn't express. The same is true of music. We've all felt this. This song is about me. It saved my life etc.

Avi is hiking a section of the AT, which is extraordinarily cool and exactly what he should be doing for his midsemester break. However. It has been 72+ hours since I’ve known where he is - absolutely the longest time of his entire 21 year old life - and tbh, I hate it.

Oh my gooodness, @edidin.bsky.social !!!!!!