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’s the thing, I don’t know why you signed up for this newsletter, but I know it wasn’t to see paintings because I wasn’t painting when I started this...
Hello. I have a new book out today.
Hello. I have a new book out today. But you already knew that because it’s the subject line. Or maybe you heard about me talking about it online. It’s the...
It‘s horror movie season, witch!
The idea of a perfect movie is stupid. After all, perfection doesn’t exist. But neither do ghosts, goblins, zombies, vampires, werewolves, or the Candyman,...
Crab Theory
Every summer, my Dad would begrudgingly throw us in the car and drive south to Maryland. Why he did this I don’t know. He didn’t want to do it and we didn’t...
Go Magellan, go!
Sometime in the latter days of the 12th century two armies clashed on the west coast of the Iberian peninsula. The land where this battle took place would...
The Ukrainian
Since every platform on the internet is now apparently run by garbage humans, I've spent the last couple of days working on setting up a blog. Yes, a blog....
None of us are the same anymore, and some of us are dead
Last Monday, I took a hot shower, put on a wool hat, hopped into a rented car, and drove to the Walgreens in South San Francisco. I took a hot shower because...
Rua do Poço dos Negros
There is a street in Lisboa called “Rua do Poço dos Negros.” Roughly translated it means “Negro Pit Street,” or more honestly — that street where we dug the...