How to fight
This is for something bigger in progress. This week’s question comes to us from Alan McCoy: Do you feel it's better to fight with all of your being for a...
How to enjoy Thanksgiving
This is a union painting in progress in my studio. This week’s question comes to us from Jared Spool: What do you think we should do about Thanksgiving?...
How to apologize for broken links
Beloved friends. Last week’s newsletter contained a broken link to my book, for which I’d created a discount. For you. This bothers me. And I’d like to make...
How to ride a rollercoaster
This is Union Season. I think I painted it in late 2022? This week’s question is from myself: What now? I have opened and closed this newsletter a dozen...
How to eat Halloween candy in the correct order
This is what my paintings look like before razor blades. This week’s question comes to us from Ashley Chapokas: What’s the right order for eating your...
How to get past the utter dissapointment in everyone and everything
Glow-in-the-dark skulls, 2022, wax and razor blades This week’s question comes to us from Maria Arango-Kure: How do you get past the utter disappointment in...
How to handle news, good and bad
3 Dead Kids, 2024. These will find their way into something bigger. This week’s question comes to us from Andrew Norcross: How do you handle a situation...
How to make choices
4 Guillotines, 2023, 8×8” ea. This week’s question comes to us from Betsy Streeter: Sometimes my family has a terrible time selecting a movie to watch....
How to relax
Felix Relaxes, 2023, wax and razor blades This week’s question comes to us from Milly Schmidt: How do I learn to relax? I’ve been debating how to answer this...
What to do when you wake up at 4:30am
Little painting of Porky from 2022, maybe This week’s question comes to us from Kio Stark: What do you do when you accidentally wake up at 4:30am? During the...
How to stop digging a hole
Courage Comes from Palestine (featuring Adam Villacin) 100×64”, wax and razor blades, 2024. This week’s question comes to us on behalf of Anonymous: Why...
How many hobbies is too many?
Couple little paintings I did this week for reasons. This week’s question comes to us from Gord Fynes: How many hobbies is too many? There's only so many...
What to get your dog for their birthday
Bullshit in progess. 2024. This week’s question comes to us from Mathias Rechtzigel: What should I get my dog for his birthday? Fifteen years ago today, we...
How to enjoy sucking at things
Five Union Signs, 2022. Wax, razor blades, and sticks. For Labor Day This week’s question comes to us from Ross Floate: You know when you start a new thing...
What to eat after a colonoscopy
Sad Porky on the teeter-totter. 2022. Today’s question comes to us from Kio Stark: What should I eat after my colonoscopy? First of all congratulations on...
How to make real things
“No.” painted in 2023, by me. (photo by Sean Tubridy) This week’s question also comes to us from Sean Tubridy: You're prolific and make real things. How do...
How to win an election
Shit in progress. Gonna be part of a much bigger thing. This week’s question comes to us from Caleb Sexton: What do I say to people who tell me to shut up...
How to get wise
A section of a painting currently in progress, a collaboration between me and Adam Villacin. Each panel is 12×16. This week’s question comes to us from Rain...
How to talk to animals
BILLIONAIRE SEASON, 2022, wax and razor blades This week’s question comes to us from Betsy Streeter: If animals could speak human language or humans could...
How to make your space
This is Billionare Season, painted in 2022 Today’s question comes to us from Trace Meek: Does having a dedicated space to do your work makes a big...
How to make a mixtape
Detail from Porky’s Very Bad Day, 2022 Today’s question comes to us from… well, no one. I got Covid this week. So I’m using it as an opportunity to run an...
How to write a good paragraph
I painted this a few weeks ago. Seems pertinent. This week’s question comes to us from Rafael Camargo: How long does it take to write a very good paragraph?...
Where to go from here
1312, painted in 2022 This week’s question comes to us from Anonymous. I spent 25 years building a career in what people now call UX. Now it seems like every...
How to be here
A little painting from 2022(?) Today’s question comes to us from Dan Ryan: So much of my personal growth is from small changes in how I look at the world....
Why is ABBA the greatest pop band of all time?
Detail from Felix Revolts, 2022, a series of painted cartoon stills turned into signs with sticks. This week’s question comes to us from Johan Berndtsson:...
Do you explore different materials when you are painting?
We eat tonight. This week’s question comes from Thiago AMS: Do you explore different materials when you are painting/making art? I don’t. Mariano Rivera was...
Do you miss Twitter?
Do you miss twitter?
Should I move back to France?
Detail of a painting I did in 2022. Clown Show. It’s quite large! This week’s question is from Lola Masson: Should I move back to France? Yes. No. Well,...
Should I get a tattoo?
Sad Porky, painted sometime in 2022, best I recall. This week’s question comes from James Callan: Should I get a tattoo? And if so, how do I decide what to...
How to fix the internet
I was in a very good mood when I painted these. This week’s question comes from John V Willshire: Which internet do you wish we’d ended up with instead of...
How to be happy
Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home. This week’s question comes from Stephanie Reith: Looking back on your life, what was your biggest obstacle to...
How to get up tomorrow
Recent-ish painting. I was in a very good mood. This week’s question comes from Cody Almond: How do you think about answering the question “what is my reason...
How to actually be helpful
Detail of a painting I recently finished This week’s question comes from Milly Schmidt: What's your most annoying bad habit? My most annoying bad habit is...
Let’s sync up.
This week’s question comes from Dinah Sanders: What activities make you feel the most like your mind and body are in sync, in the same place, doing the same...
Value and quality
This week’s question comes from Douglas Dollars: What is the role (and value) of “quality” when often simply having something in the first place is so much...
Let's start a habit!
TL;DR SEND ME QUESTIONS Once upon a time, I wrote. And then things happened and I stopped writing. (I started painting again, but that's a story for another...
Something new to look at
Happy Saturday. The world is shit, but I finished a painting yesterday and wanted to share it with you. Hope you get some joy out of seeing it. I got some...
Let’s help someone today
Hello. I want to tell you about Taysir today. And let me start by telling you right off the bat that that I've never met Taysir, and I may never meet him,...
It’s easy not to talk about it…
It’s easy not to talk about it. It’s easy not to talk about Palestine. All you have to do is sit at home, where it’s warm, where it’s comfortable, where you...
Meet Cardi
Hello! TL;DR: give me money and be pleasantly surprised. Part of the fun of publishing your own shit is that you can keep making weird shit to give away with...
The Perfect Gift
TL;DR Click here, gimme money. Yes, yes, yes. I know I just sent a newsletter out yesterday, but this is a good one. As you may or may not know, earlier this...
TOO COOL TO JOIN A UNION? JOIN A UNION.
Hello. Mike here with a merch update! If you order a Design Is a Job zine this week you’ll be getting three things: A lovely hot pink pencil with a fun...
Two Truths and a Lie
Truth: If you order a Design Is a Job zine right now you will get an amazing button designed by Carolyn Sewell that says UNIONIZATION IS SELF-CARE.* Truth:...
…oh, and a painting!
…oh, I forgot I was gonna share a new painting I'm working on. This is just a part of what I think is gonna get much bigger, but I got a kick out of it so...
Get dirty. Get union dirty.
tl;dr click here and give me money. Hello my beloved. Halloween is over, but I hope you saved room for one last treat. (You did.)Starting today, you can get...
Still here. Just painting.
Here’s the deal. You haven’t heard from me in a while and although I feel kinda bad about it, I also kinda don’t. I've mostly been painting these days. That...
I accidentally wrote a children’s book
TL;DR: Click here to give me money. A few months ago my friend Betsy Streeter posted an illustration to a chat room. I saw that illustration and it evoked a...
Free Holiday Movie Zine
TL;DR: click here for free zine. Hello. Some friends and I have made a zine of our favorite holiday movies. When I gathered folks together I asked them two...
Good News for Introverts!
Still from Felix Revolts (1923) where Felix the Cat unionizes all the cats in town and they go on strike against unfair labor practices. • • • (The following...
Here’s a painting
So here