There's a ChatGPT commercial with a lovable granny chatting it up with her brand-new pocket phone friend for hours and hours about the smallest stuff and holy shit.
K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
Writer, cartoonist, editor. Hugo finalist. Very sweary. Half politics, half dog pics. She/her. 🖼️ kbspangler.com 🐨 agirlandherfed.com 🐲 sidequested.com 🎉 patreon.com/KBSpangler ✨ Rep by Bailey Tamayo • btamayo@sjga.com ✨
It's Greg! I love Greg. Ale is playing with the carousel feature. It works really well with Greg!
Ale@alepresser.com · 20h agoMeet Greg, on SideQuested.com ! #webcomics #comics
“Even if you don’t agree with our specific solutions to problems, we will make sure government is responsive and accountable to you” could be a pretty seductive take for people who think that corruption is bad and voters should have more power
It's Greg! I love Greg. Ale is playing with the carousel feature. It works really well with Greg!
Ale@alepresser.com · 20h agoMeet Greg, on SideQuested.com ! #webcomics #comics
I’m at the vet’s while a HUGE thunderstorm rolls in, and hoooo boy this is like an entirely new circle of hell for the Shitbeasts.
The problem with naming an entire family of characters after gemstones is you have to start researching different gemstones and now I want a larimar pendant with a lapis ring chaser.
Really enjoying THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell. Barely fifty pages in and the characters are already real, with lots of hints of dire traumatic revelations to come, all of it wrapped in a three-headed dragon who needs a hug.
Extremely niche opinion but I love how brass fountain pens are becoming a thing. #pens #FountainPens #pensky
This is such a fun book!
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 2d agoHeads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
🚨FOR PETE’S SAKE PEOPLE, DO NOT EAT THINGS YOU THINK MIGHT BE WILD CARROT/QUEEN ANNE’S LACE UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WILD HEMLOCK LOOKS A LOT LIKE WILD CARROT AND IS BAD NEWS FOR THE HUMAN BODY www.dcmga.com/wp-content/u...
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Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 2d agoOnly learned recently that this thing I’ve been calling Queen Anne’s Lace for most of my life is actually also called a “wild carrot.” Totally blew my mind. I didn’t eat it, but it *smells like a carrot*. There were hundreds, so I pulled one and washed off the dirt at the riverbank.  
Bold words to describe an inner monologue that’s 87% dick jokes, cookie.
There's no reason for me to redraw the same image 28 times to give each chapter page that "handmade" look but also I'm pissed at everything, so.
I have no idea what to do with this Covid revisionism. It feels like the bad kind of group therapy where you help each other ignore facts. We don't have to go *that* far back in the social media timelines to prove how fucked up it was. We were so scared we were scrubbing eggs and baking the mail.
If you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic
K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · last mo.We have an illustrated "About" page here! agirlandherfed.com/main?i=1&p=a... And this cover page is the introduction to our Hugo packet. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic #Comics #Webcomic
Those little animal figurines next to your mug or mouse or keypad? til those are called "tea pets"
That took a lot longer than I personally would have waited as a parent while people attacked my daughter's credibility. But at least he did it.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. Moreno says Rep. Max Miller should not serve in House after abuse allegations from Moreno’s daughter.
Need a great way to start your day? I was chuckling out loud as I read SIDEQUESTED by @kbspangler.com this morning. What a lot of fun! "Peony, I found an eyeball for you." 😂
K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · last wk.It's my birthday, so please come read SIDEQUESTED, our weird comic about weird people with weird rules of magic. The main character is a very slightly intense librarian who fell in love with the princess she rescued from a tower. sidequested.com
I'm a giant fan, and bonus, you can then slide right into the *not quite a sequel but some stuff has a different context* Rachel Peng near-future crime novels.
K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 4d agoIf you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic
I'm reading up on the most recent Reflecting Pool stuff and I want to believe that the bare-ass naked emperor is finally getting some pushback? We've reached the point where even his most ardent supporters are like, "Oh no, that's stupid and he's wrong."
If you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic
K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · last mo.We have an illustrated "About" page here! agirlandherfed.com/main?i=1&p=a... And this cover page is the introduction to our Hugo packet. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic #Comics #Webcomic
Bluesky is better at nuance than most online spaces and we mostly still refer to "AI" as this huge generalized swamp of job theft and resource consumption. It's difficult to create mental silos which allow for coexistence when useful tools and slop are smashed together in our heads.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoI think the right move, which I don't see enough of, is developing a synthetic philosophy of how to co-exist with all this, as humans have had to try do in past industrial revolutions. If I could convince a think tank to hire a cartoonist, I'd be doing it tomorrow instead of between projects.
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Insomnia: Hey, quick question— Me: No. shut up. I haven’t even gone to bed yet. Insomnia: Yeah, but…”squirrel.” One syllable or two? Me. five hours later: …burl, girl, pearl, swirl, whorl…
Our girl is LIVE! And if you're dead, she doesn't MIND! In fact, she'd APPRECIATE IT or at least YOUR EYEBALLS! But seriously, our plush addition to the #VultureCulture came out so darned good. The team at MakeShip knocked the design out of the park. www.makeship.com/products/peo...
Peony the Vulture Plushie
Peony the Vulture is ready for teatime! Cute, fluffy, with a weakness for gossip and tasty eyeballs, Peony is always up for an adventure and its many side quests. Comes with a tiny hint of Death Omen....
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Ale@alepresser.com · 5d agoShe's here! She's ready to go and she has TEA!! 🎉 Get your Peony the Vulture PLUSHIE right now at MakeShip!! www.makeship.com/products/peo...
Went into a whole flappy-armed tirade a week ago about how even basic routine checkups have barriers, where we need to take time off for each separate appointment, and why can't we take one day off a year and get everything done at once in the same facility and oops I invented the Mayo Clinic.
Matthew R Francis@bowlerhatscience.org · 5d agoI'm working on a book proposal about eugenics and one very striking thing is how extremely eugenicist our healthcare system is compared to much of the world