I know a lot of you had a difficult time this weekend. For those of us that watched the videos and breakdowns with our own eyes, know what we saw. The Orwellian state would like to gaslight you into telling you what to believe, but even the most conservative media like DRUDGE REPORT is calling what happened to Alex Pretti in Minneapolis exactly what it is: ICE cold-blooded murder with impunity. Click here for a NY Times gift article for a detailed reporting of what happened on Saturday morning.

I know a lot of my friends and peers are having a difficult time promoting their stories and art when shit hasn’t been right—well—since ever. I urge you all to keep making and sharing your art. We need it now more than ever. I mustered up the energy to go see my friend Glenn Stanton and his band off Hollywood Blvd on Saturday night. He played with such passion and force when no one would’ve blamed him if he postponed his show after doomscrolling all day, but the show must go on.

Final Order Cut-off: Death to Pachuco #5

Today is the “Final Order Cut-off” date for comic bookshops to make sure they secure enough copies of Death to Pachuco #5 for their walls and subscription customers. There are three increidble open-order covers by Vanesa Del Ray, J. Gonzo, and Carmen Pizarro. Click here to find one of the many places you can preorder the final issue of Death to Pachuco. Here’s the first four pages you can only read here because there’s censored profanity and full-frontal male nudity:

Happy Birthday Henry 37% discount for the Death to Pachuco TPB on my shop

If you don’t like collecting single issue comics, please do us a favor and preorder the trade paperback. You can click here to support a local bookshop or preorder directly from me. I am doing a 37% off sale because I’m turning 37 on Saturday. The offer is automatically applied when you preorder; keep in mind, it ends on Sunday, February 1st.

This is my largest graphic novel to date. We are including the rare Sleepy Lagoon Case pamphlet by the actual Sleepy Lagoon Defense Commitee with an introduction by Orson Welles and Marion Bachrach. New York Times National reporter Jazmine Ulloa was kind enough to write an afterward. Here’s an excerpt:

That is why the comic you now hold in your hands is so invaluable. It is part of a legacy of art, books and history that capture the pain of our people as Mexicans and Latinos in the United States but also our bold ways of resistancia to the white supremacist projects that have sought to limit our opportunities and our worlds to a liminal space.

To make us feel ni de aquí, ni de allá. The pachucos and pachucas of the 1940s eran unos chingones. They were young Mexican and Mexican Americans who rejected all of that — who saw themselves as much from here as from there and set themselves apart in their defiance and slick sense of dress and taste in music.

Ulloa has a new book coming out: El Paso
Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory. If the themes of DTP resonated with you, El Paso will hit harder than a paddle to my bare backside. I can not wait to read this book. Click here to preorder a copy!

The Arizona Comic Book Arts Festival (2.28.2026)

The calm before the convention storm is…calming (?), but I can’t wait to get back on the road again. Currently, my only appearance on the docket is at my buddy Ryan Cody’s one-day comics show in Phoenix on Saturday, Feb 28th. Katie Skelly and Javier Hernandez are special guests! Click here to buy your tix!

WHAT I’VE SEEN

Read my Letterboxd review.

WHAT I’M WATCHING

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO

WHAT I’M READING

Comment below if you have any questions or concerns!

See you in the funny papers,

HB