You build confidence by letting yourself feel insecure about your art skills and creating anyway.

I wonder if I will ever live through a period where everything feels like its improving instead of slowing falling apart

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Okay okay I get it I get it

Just in case you forgot... My book about ghosts, '80s pop stars, (not) haunted synthesizers, and following your heart instead of your follower count is still out there haunting bookstores everywhere! 👻🎹✨ Already read it? Tell me your favorite part/character/spooky moment!

Kinda chic to make art with your own two hands.

Happy gotcha anniversary to our sweet Shortstack 🥞 A whole year just flew by! He's really settled into life here with us. His favourites include: sweet potato chews, naps in a sun beam, zooming around the coffee table, and above all, his brother Fig. A good boy. A great boy.

Turned 41. Bought art supplies and a tarot deck. Ready for another one. Let's go.

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Watching it tonight as well

𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ@gorangligovic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re watching X-Files and I’m doodling a bit

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McGuirk - New York Times

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Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)

😺 EXCLUSIVE @boomstudios preview: Baby Garfield is back! In Baby #Garfield #2, the tiny troublemaker discovers why Mondays are the worst and has his very first encounter with… lasagna. 🍝 By @hellocookie.bsky.social & @heywhitney.bsky.social! #comicsky Preview the hijinks before the 4/29 release:

EXCLUSIVE BOOM! Preview: Baby Garfield #2

Two new baby Garfield adventures? No, we’re not kitten you!

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Bet you never thought you'd read the words "the death of creative passion in a society" in a Racc Pack review, but we get deep like that. Get ready to get the gang back together this April. Pre-orders are open! raccpack.com

I need you to understand that you only get to make good art by making A LOT of bad art first. I promise you. The good art will come.

Working on some new portfolio pieces 🪲🌿

🍁🧣Happy Canada anniversary🍁🧣

Roger@partlyhuman.com · 7mo ago

Today marks 9 years since we packed everything we owned into our station wagon, left our house for the last time at 3am to drive to the coast and then onto a ferry that took us to our new home of Canada, where with no friends or family, we started our lives over from square one. Nine years.

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

This should set off alarm bells. ONE IN FOUR Canadians experienced food insecurity while TWO OUT OF THREE of those did so while full time employed. And these numbers are rising sharply. There's an upcoming one time tax relief indexed by need but what then?

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 7mo ago

A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. 🥬 #canlab #canpoli

If they can continue this for 3 days the local economy will grind to a halt, I hope they can manage it, general strikes might be the only real weapon the people have left

Raven Schwam-Curtis@ravenreveals.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Massive anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis today draws thousands despite -10 degree weather. Their statewide strike calls for no work, no school, no shopping, and ICE out of Minnesota FOR GOOD. Cheering you on from Illinois!

also NYCC is coming up and i am begging u PLEASE wear a MASK!!!!!!! do it for georg

Free Piano (Not Haunted) @heywhitney.bsky.social takes a new note to cleverness, spookiness & coming of age story. I enjoyed the way this #graphicnovel is written/crafted! PLUS a great read for spooky season but also being true to yourself! Here is a little fan animation I made based off the cvr!

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

I miss when AI meant adobe illustrator Btw I also hate adobe illustrator

Big news!!! Free Piano (Not Haunted) is a Harvey Award nominee for Best Children’s Book! Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported this haunted little story. My 80s pop-star ghost heart is singing today. 💖🎹👻

What a fabulous bookstore! I left signed copies and last last little KING at Back Cove Books in Portland, Maine after a very sweet storytime. So nice to see book friends too! @heywhitney.bsky.social @caswasshere.bsky.social #kidlit

Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel | CBC News

New graphic novel, Free Piano (Not Haunted), was inspired by an ad for a free piano, that was allegedly not haunted.

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I spy Free Piano!

Julie Jarema@rainbowfish523.bsky.social · last yr.

Books I read in May

Free Piano (Not Haunted) is the newest graphic novel from @heywhitney.bsky.social and on today’s See Jurassic Right we chat about our mutual obsession with Goosebumps and the episode, “Piano Lessons Can Be Murder,” and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...