Last tweet before I’m off the platform again for good. My virtual door is always open to anyone working in comics currently, or even wanting to get into it. Predatory industry relies on us not sharing information with each other. Hmu
Yo. sales of Your Black Friend and Other Strangers are going to Anarchist Black Cross in Philly. It’s a good time to remember some of us get locked up for life in this fight and that there are dedicated ppl working to support us when that happens. S/0
@phillyabc
#FreeThemAll
If you were a full grown fascist, promoting it in a real active way for a while, I’m gonna need to see an equal amount (no, actually a million times more) of energy disavowing and resisting fascism to believe it was “just a phase.”
Yo I can’t believe it, Sports is Hell won the
#eisnerawards
for Best Single Issue. Thanx so much for everyone’s support, especially
@AnnieKoyama
and
@Eagles
for putting a inspirational riot on. This is a lot dreams come tru, really.
since this goin off lemme say my cat parkour over the bodies of the wealthy 🔥🏴😻, ACAB (All Cats Are Beautiful), support your local bail fun and antifa. Free tha Land
many of you know i was being sued for defamation along with 10 other cartoonist. some of our suits have been dropped but not all and the rest really need our support. we ain't free til we all free.
The defamation lawsuit has been dismissed against the 8 defendants who don't live in New York State! That just leaves Whit, Morgan, and me. We're immensely grateful for the support that's afforded us a great lawyer.
Donate to our legal defense fund here:
Could not be more crushed that the
@thenib
is closing its doors. They took a risk on me before anyone was really reading me. I doubt I’d be where I’m at if they hadn’t let me go off on subjects no one else would pay me to make.
After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last. Read the full statement from our editor here:
I’ve done two comics about MLK and his ideas. The most recent one was about his conflict with Robert F Williams and the subject of self-defense. It’s actually my favorite ones and was a lot fun to research.
Ppl need to stop with the backdoor racist “outside agitator” mess. they think black people are just sheep to whatever energy is out there. We are the formentors of our own dreams and revolts. This is what that is.
Undercovers surveilling militants = real
Undercovers planted in protests = real
Undercovers encouraging illegal activity in groups to make a case = real
Undercover "agent provocateurs" actually attacking property to "incite a riot" to make demonstrators more arrestable = NOT real
one of the major points of departure between the largely white and middle-class (culturally, if not finically) anarchists and adherents to Black radicalism is the fundamentally different relationship to criminality.
I’m very very very hyped to be working with
@blkagendareport
and getting to be part of a platform that facilitates radical discourse for our community.
just to get in front of the inevitable exasperated cries of "then what can i draw" from white comics dudes this craig Thompson convo will bring up at some show i'm at, the answer is not your weird racist boners.
@Sack_a_potatoes
That’s almost it. We talking about ppl acting your oppressor looking like you is an improvement. It’s a voluntary position ppl justify being in, as well as supporting.
the most counterrevolutionary thing about most breadtube yters is that they don’t link things to existing movements, just other content creators and academics. it’s just a spiral of content without hearing what ppl could do irl
wanna share my love for
@ssbcpunk
for taking a chance on publishing DAYGLOAYHOLE after mad years of not much love for the book, right before they picked it up I’d decided to give up on comics in general cause I wasn’t making enough to keep printing them and doing shows.
there are grassroots anti-fascist groups in your community monitoring and fighting white supremacists rn. if you aren't able to join them, at the very least figure out a ways to support them.
Your Black Friend was based off a real incident where a lady bragged about calling the police on a man who was walking out of the backyard of a house that seemed "too nice" to be his according to the lady. unlike the comic, I flashed out on her.
You’d be surprised how many drunk white cartoonists thought riffing off “Your Black Friend” was real funny late night after comic shows…jk, no you wouldn’t.
if anyone is wondering bout my mood rn i'll remind you i've been shot at. home boy is chillin at home building magic decks like a grown up.
#ifyouknowyouknow
i wish ppl would stop talking about being “pro-gun”. i’m deeply invested in revolutionary movements and community defense, but i’d toss the strap in the trash the minute i didn’t think i needed it anymore.
sometimes i wish we could make white ppl forget MLK so they could actually learn about what he, and that era, was actually about. failing that, just forget about him so i don’t have to hear watered down takes on him.
It shouldn't have to be said that going at marginalized ppl that accuse you of predatory behavior is, to say the very veeeeeery least, not the move. clapping back makes it obvious you don't understand what's at stake for folks that feel hurt.
Alt-Right bro's got the "Your Black Friend" video banned from Facebook after 130,000 views. Know anyone at FB who can fix it? That's some racist algorithm Mark.
Until then, here's the YouTube link:
Hey y’all as many of you know I was sued, along with several other amazing comics people, by a total trash bag. All but three ppl’s charges were dropped but the last three ppl really need financial support for legal fees. Shit is mad money and they need all our help for this.
SPX ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF FUNDRAISER TO
#DEFENDTHE11
-- Please consider making a donation to our
@gofundme
campaign to support the 11 members of the independent comics community fighting a defamation case:
My comic about the intersection of Football fandom and black radicalism called Sports Is Hell is out this month published by
@koyama
. Peep this brief interview about it that generous folks at Newsarama featured if u wanna.
there's some parallel between my distress at
@DerfBackderf
ignoring my core point during SPX (maybe conveniently) and my distress at having to drop my love of Crumb as a teen because he obviously didn't think i was human. both started me off to where i am now.
Right after every break-up I'm like "this would be a great comic" then after I start I'm like "the world really doesn't need more sad man comics." I know I'm a hero, you don't need to tell me.
Announcing our 2022 Spring Season!
First up: 🏈Sports Is Hell🔥 by
@DAYGLOAYHOLE
"A lacerating, darkly hilarious howl against racism, sports fandom, and tribalism in general by an artist with a distinct and necessary vision.” - Library Journal
always was pretty proud of this comic about the debate around violence during the civil rights movement. there wasn’t a monolithic preference for non-violence despite what most ppl are led to believe.
There’s maybe an impression some folks have that the fash are on the run rn cause their man was voted out, but it’s clear they are very much coming into themselves in this moment.
The only solace I have rn is that they are huuuuge weenies.
if someone needs help w/ paying for travel to SPX. i can't help u with the hotel but i'll get your bus/train/plane ticket. i got one person in my budget. get @ me.
In the pages of the magazine "Liberator," Martin Luther King, Jr and lesser-known Monroe, North Caroline NAACP chapter President Martin F. Williams had it out: is violence necessary?