Jonathan Hill

My bag is packed for an appearance on a Banned Books Week panel at Literary Arts in Portland tomorrow, 10/6, at 6:30 pm. I'll be with @cfastwolf.bsky.social, @oneofthejohns.bsky.social, and Alicia Tate. Please join us if you're in the area! literary-arts.org/event/banned...

This should be a great panel! Look at this wonderful panel I will be part of!

NOT A DUNK, SERIOUS ANSWER: $40 for a domain with certificate annually, $20 or $30 a month hosting, varies. Yes web design sucks hard, but it's achievable & learnable by humans. Templates exist. It's not zero dollars, but it's very doable, it just cuts into your art time.

I did the illustrations in the OPB / Oregon Art Beat documentary 'Indie Comics City' that released at Rose City Comic Con a couple of weeks ago. Here are a selection of the illustrations. It was a lot of fun to play with some different styles of comics! Colors by @alliedrakeart.bsky.social !

Good documentary, and it was super cool to see my buddy @oneofthejohns.bsky.social 's art featured throughout!

Solidarity to the workers. Happy Labor Day!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

Apropos of I am VERY mad for a friend: If you have not made a comic book before and are coming from other media writing, GET A COMICS EDITOR. Comics looks easy. There are 1,000 sins you will commit if you haven't written a comic before and an editor will save your ass.

Vietnamese character in a Miyazaki game?!!! This game is the whole reason I bought a Switch 2. Who else is gonna be playing?

6/30, 6 PM: join me and Ari Koontz at the Literary Arts bookstore for a Youth Pride celebration, grownups also welcome! Zine-making, blackout poetry, button-making, reading & conversation—hope to see you there, PDX & PDX-adjacent pals! literary-arts.org/bookstore-ca...

1/5 @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social just reviewed the city’s independent report for renovations to Moda Center. The numbers are far less than what we are being asked to pay.

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law. I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

Nothing better than waking up to a great review of a book you poured your heart into!

This is tonight at 7 at Elliot Bay Books! Celebrate at the park & set an alarm to amble over to our reading.

I’m doing a book giveaway on my Substack! Leave a comment on the latest post for a chance to win a signed Pip & Pals ARC 🦦🚀❤️ jendeoart.substack.com/p/a-pip-and-...

NYT runs a nonsense op-ed by an 84-year-old man yelling at cloud about darn kids that is on face directly contradicted by months of its own reporting.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

TV show too short, movie too long.

I'll be at Hissy Fit this year running a workshop for youth!!! I hope to see you there!!!!

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Hey cartoonists, do not sign on for this. If they aren’t paying animators or authors, they sure as hell aren’t paying livable graphic novel advances. And also, it sucks.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

I can't get over people whining, "But what if I'm baaaad at that?!" in response to everyone telling them not to outsource their creativity to fucking AI. Who raised you? What did they teach you? Fuck all, apparently, because being shit at something isn't an excuse to cheat. Come on.

I don't mean to brag but many of my friends are authors, and I am an author, and also we would all rather die than use AI to do even a fraction of our craft. AI in art is for cowards unwilling to be vulnerable for long enough to learn. The prompt is the easy part. Always has been.

Excited to share my dandelion dad hat— my first embroidered merch! I’ll be selling these at Sunny Day Art Market May 10, but also releasing a limited number online (in charcoal) this Friday 4/3 at 11am ET. I’ll also set up a preorder in black! And if you prefer, a patch is coming soon :)

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

You know he would too

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

This is from ten years ago and yet the threats and bribes the NBA and Blazers are making to Portland and Oregon are exactly what's talked about here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJ...

Remember when education was all like “git gud” and now everyone is like “but automating homework is the same as learning, right?” smh

IMPOSSIBLY important to rally against this - vote NO, fight against banning books

If you willingly use this. You have to be one of the dumbest shits alive. This company is no friend to artists. Its become a AI shill, nothing more. (How long till workplaces abuse this by feeding off the work done in house, then fireing staff to "cut costs"?) My guess is not long.

Leaving aside the blow this would be to our democracy & civil society, the collapse of USPS would likely destroy the US economy & US businesses. No regular business can afford to double their shipping expenditures by using a private service. It won’t happen. They’ll all just go out of business.