Saturday was the one-year anniversary of my 10,000 3x5 project. To my amazement, I created over 1300 drawings on 3x5 cards in the first year, which puts me on pace to finish the project in just under eight years. So I'm really just now getting started.

Here are a few of the latest drawings, from the past few days:











You can check out all 1300+ drawings on Flickr. Most drawings are available for sale: $25 for one, $40 for two. I put all drawings in a nice dollar store frame for your convenience. Just follow the instructions on each drawing's Flickr page.

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I have to point out that for some curious reason, I got more responses to yesterday's Mike Lester thing than anything I've brought up in months. I wasn't going to bring it up since it seemed kind of petty but so many of you seemed to notice as well that Mike's joke isn't even written correctly- he meant to say that the number of children would be inversely proportional, since he's saying that lots of children meant Obama's point was weak.

I guess this sort of coincides with my post about ThinkProgress, though. And I don't mean this as an insult to you guys, it's just that this is an example of when a nitpick might not be necessarily useful to the larger argument. Yes, Lester fucked up on grammar with that cartoon. The larger issue, of course, is that he's a hypocritical douchebag who's obsessed with defending animal torturers. Big picture, folks.

I'm doing this mini-convention at the Cartoon Art Museum on Saturday, December 12. If you're in the Bay Area, check it out. It's got WEBCOMICS.

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For my stance on Charles Johnson's weepy dismissal from the annals of right-wing douchebaggery, please see Oliver Willis and Dennis the Peasant.

I like how everyone's making comparisons between Johnson and, say, David Brock or John Cole, ignoring the small issue of Cole and Brock apologizing for their prior stances. Hell, Cole personally apologized to me in an e-mail once. Johnson doesn't show any remorse at all, just more condescending superiority over his former readers. Andrew Sullivan is exactly the same way, with his constant droning that the Republican Party simply failed to meet his standards. It's them, not him. Got it.

Like all the other right-wing wannabe "journalists" Johnson's covering his ass by distancing himself from the radical fringe that previously supported him. The fullest extent of his "abandoning" of the right will be which Republicans he endorses as "safe and respectable" conservative alternatives to the same Democrats he despises. And given how well Sullivan got away with it, it's no wonder. Johnson will probably be joining mister "decadent enclaves of the leftists" any day now in the pantheon of just so much smarter than normal conservatives™.

Vomit.

In today's Code Green comic, global warming is proven a hoax to those who always knew it was: http://ping.fm/xCj2l

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My friend Lance wrote me this morning, reminding me that today marks the second anniversary of my becoming a full-time cartoonist, supported solely by Unshelved. And I'm obviously a trend-setter, because Gene Ambaum finally joined me a month ago. Already I'm enjoying the luxury of giving him tasks that are better suited to him. For example I cannot fill out a form without blood leaking from my eyes, whereas he just grits his teeth and fills in the blanks. It's also a true pleasure saying "why don't you do it?" when he makes a helpful suggestion, something that was unthinkable when he had a day job. I trust he's already regretting his decision.

I couldn't have picked a worse economy in which to quit my job, but thanks to the generous support of you, our readers, we manage to pay the mortgage almost every month, for which I am deeply grateful. Thanks to everyone who has bought a book or t-shirt, hired us to do a talk, or patronized our sponsors. You have made it possible for me, and now Gene, to pursue our dreams.

I'm also grateful for Paul Southworth, artist and co-writer of my new comic strip Not Invented Here, and the designer of most of our recent t-shirts. He still has a day job, the poor sap, but check in again next year.

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Today's comic: Bunnista riles up the humans in their natural habitat, Gertrude's Sports Bar: http://ping.fm/pwDRJ

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Tcj.com down for maintenance; it'll return w/ new blog by Eric Millikin, Gary Groth, Shaenon Garrity, Ken Smith, etc. http://www.tcj.com/

More available: I’m now listed on the Skype an Author Network.  I have used Skype a grand total of once so far, but it worked like a dream and I look forward to doing Magical Author Visits Of The Future, Today!

Less available: I’m taking a semi-hiatus from social networks: not posting to or reading Twitter or Facebook until next year. Not til 2010! Which still sounds like it should be a lot farther away than, you know, a month. The goal for this hiatus: more writing, less seeking of intermittent variable rewards.

Thanks to Sara Zarr for encouraging both these shifts in my availability.

Originally published at sararyan.com. You can comment here or there.

Every year I try to make a Christmas donation to my favorite charity – Heifer International, a wonderful organization that purchases animals (from bees to buffalo)as well as veterinary care and training  for impoverished families the world over.  (Read more on their site.)

This year it’s a bit harder for me to donate than usual, since I’ve made the transition to being a self-supporting artist.  Many of the friends with whom I used to go in on an animal purchase are in the same financial situation.

It seemed to me that this was an opportunity – for me to make things, for you to purchase something lasting, and for a family in the larger world to benefit from it!  For the month of December, I will be creating and then selling watercolor paintings of animals (as often as I can manage!).  When I finish, I’ll count up what’s been raised and then buy the most animal possible!

My offering today:  an enemy of many of the animals Heifer sponsors, a fox!  Little does he realize that his dastardly deeds will ultimately be doing good.

This crafty fellow is on sale at Etsy for $40.  It is a lovely little painting, and I will guarantee arrival by mail to any part of the world in time for Christmas, and that it will be packaged fancy-like.

I'm not sure if "Cyber Monday" is a real thing or something the media made up, but if you're buying Xmas gifts online today, then I hope you'll consider buying Atom Age Vampire on DVD for yourself and all your friends! Atom Age Vampire's been making the rounds on the film festival circuit this fall, and Animation Magazine called me "a rising star of animation." Plus, Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 300 says, Very funny! In the MST3K tradition.”

As always, the DVD is only ten bucks, postage is free worldwide, and I'll sign it for you if you want. Wow! Makes a great gift for the animation/MST3K fan in your life.

So buy Atom Age Vampire today! And pick up my book for just $7 while you're at it.

dudes I have Riker'd it up, perhaps you should too:

Riker Town

My fave episode still is the one where everyone is falling on the bridge. I think I have only seen like four episodes of TNG, perhaps I should nerd up and watch more. They're pretty amazing.

I'm sure all of you are just as excited to read about my NaNoWriMo experience this past month as I am to write about it. In case you're not, here's a cut tag. ;) ( Read more... )

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Good liberals should point out when other liberals are looking like complete idiots, and this is sadly the case for ThinkProgress today. Suggesting that the Washington Times is running an ad with "racial overtones" because it uses the centuries-old "Three Wise Monkeys" trope is nonsense, and I mention that because it completely demeans and cheapens the influence of the important part of the story, which is the Times is running birther ads against Obama.

It goes without saying that there are racists in the conservative anti-Obama movement, and the birther movement itself is deeply enshrined in race-based paranoia. But there is nothing that strengthens ThinkProgress' calling out of this ad by suggesting it's racist. It simply isn't, and instead simply makes ThinkProgress look foolish. Way to give the right-wing "you guys say EVERYTHING is racist!" chorus a fresh basket of ammo, guys.