Sam Sharpe

An old slide I made for a lecture about writing. You have my full permission to use it if you would want to.

gas prices got me fucked up

The Onion never misses

YES

My Mom, trying to remember Walton Goggins' name: That man, the one with the teeth. Wally Gogo?

The Greysons put their only son in a rocket destined for a planet where people don’t find circus culture a little much.

guys remember—don’t let the Manhattan sized supercomputers that we don’t understand and can’t trust get hooked up to the autonomous killer robots we are also building. If something goes wrong it would be like that movie… Short Circuit

Pardon me I have to time travel now.

I think, in the end, that the various Reasons people give for why it's good and fine that they are very aggro on this here internet and actually this is upholding the true and the good and the beautiful are always a bit less persuasive than: no you're not, you're just being weirdly mean, stop it.

here me out. “The Third Goose” a children’s book about six goslings being raised in a polycule

Leaving Heroes Con and heading home. But, of course, a Heroes visit wouldn't be complete without getting a glimpse of Don Rosa's cranky-ass THIS IS NOT DUCKTALES sign. #HeroesCon2026

GENIE: I can summon anyone in history you’ve ever wanted to meet ME: Hammond Cheese. GENIE: … ME: The guy who invented the Hammond Cheese sandwich GENIE: That’s not a real guy. ME: Then I wish he WAS real, that he was here, and that he’d make me a sandwich GENIE: that’s three wishes ME: ok

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

If you’re a cartoonist and feel like you don’t know how to make a short comic interesting read three adult Osamu Tezuka manga and realize that you can do any insane plot twist in your comic without explaining the Lore first as long as it’s fun to read

Love a Wikipedia entry with comic timing

Comics have somehow ducked unionization for 100 years. This is more publishing house than artist related, but its a huge step in the right direction.

Streaming killed the "ha ha tricked you" DVD industry. I'm oddly nostalgic for it.

Higher-level writing programs should include a botany/plant identification class, being unable to describe the natural world in language places limits on one's visual imagination in ways we only dimly realize

SOLRAD, the two-time Eisner-nominated literary magazine for comics criticism, is open for submissions. We publish reviews, essays, and interviews — and we pay $100 per piece.

Leaving aside the use of AI slop to make a point that could have **easily** been made with five minutes of drawing (a big thing to leave aside), AI takes away your control. Here Snoopy has a look on his face like he's about to disagree. Was that intended? Bc that's what this cartoon is telling us

And now: a Coconino love story. New twelve-page comic drawn by @bmure.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or download a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing (process files also available for purchase): hagaipalevsky.itch.io/coconino (1/2)

As a death penalty abolitionist, "Trump bringing back the firing squad" seems like a pretty big strategic win for our side. Feels brutal, barbaric and cruel to normies despite being significantly less cruel than lethal injection as practiced in the USA is.

Some drawings related to the cartoon below: last panel/sketchbook doodles/original art.

Actually Niche: James Salter’s Light Years Slash Maraud Not really niche: a brooklyn 99 comic star trek: enterprise “season five” comic

"Good Body"

Odd fact: California has only had one non-white governor, Romualdo Pacheco, who held office briefly in 1875

This chair is uncomfortable.

About to watch My Undesirable Friends Part 1 at the Wisconsin Film Festival. In 5.5 hours you can ask me what its like to watch a 5.5 hour Russian doc

"It says here that your only graphic design experience is laying out an indie rock magazine from 1998-2002" "Was that a question?" "Not really. You're hired."

I believe the current trend of mixing various candies in popcorn is leading theatre patrons to dig deeper and more aggressively into their bags for perfect candy/popcorn ratio fistfuls and is thus creating bag ruffling volumes higher than previously known to theatrical experience

75% chance he thought he needed this to move to Albany

i can relate to how these astronauts feel sitting there for forty five minutes after landing because i’ve flown into o’hare before

Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

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.

At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

Q: where do all the the tax dollars go? A: the justice department throws away frames when they want to change photos.

Yes, they do. Mine is Star Trek Corps of Engineers. I want adult captain Molly O'Brien flying around solving problems and building Star Fleet infrastructure!

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you