Tikkun Olam

I first drew this about a month ago, and I have so many more thoughts and feelings and anger and sadness swirling around since then. But I'll start here.

i could not let this auspicious day pass by without celebrating! eat shit, michael! (and minerva!) have you seen what heinous things he does to those poor creatures in steamboat willie? fucked up.

Spelunking, 2023

we rewatched madoka magica recently

ID/ two people (the artist and their fiancé) sit on a couch, holding hands and crying. Arrows are pointing to them that say "sustaining irreversible psychological damage." Surrounding them are color marker drawings of the 5 main madoka magica characters, without facial features. /end ID

Remember her? She's a print now. Buy her here!

At SPX someone asked me why Gardevoir and I was like. Why not.

Some sketches from tabling at SPX (the Small Press Expo) in Bethesda, MD this past weekend! I had such a great time and I can't wait to table there again! (ID in alt text)

See the rest of the sketches on Patreon

1: Woman reads my autobio comics from college, feels entitled to ask personal questions

2: I think it. It would really. It would really come in handy.

i found this going thru stuff on my computer and idk if i ever posted it anywhere!

it was about Robot in the Invincible TV show

ID/ 1: Ben, a person with short dark hair and glasses, sits at a laptop. They say, "Wow, I love this character! I'm going to look him up!" 2: a screencap of a wikipedia page, section "characters," subsection "superheroes." Ben (offscreen) says "He's gotta be under here right?" 3: Ben is scrolling, and says "...no?" 4: The "allies" subsection of the wikipedia page. "Maybe he's here...?" 5: Ben scrolling. "uh..." 6: The "enemies" subsection of the wikipedia page. The cursor is shaking. Ben (offscreen) says "uh..." 7: Ben nervously sweats while reading. 8: Ben says "shit" and bonks their head on their laptop. /end ID

another old one. but everybody loves Final Pam

ID/ 1: The Final Pam, a woman with a pompadour, sunglasses, and feathery-collared coat, says “You mess with bull, get horns. You mess with Final Pam, get...” 2: Her speech bubble contains an image of a skull /end ID

excerpt from my zine/book “inquiries for yahoo”, re-imagining great yahoos i submitted to mbmbam (but were never used) as questions from medieval peasants

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an early one, like 2017 or so

ID/ a person lying in bed thinks “you don’t have to know or even have a gender identity.” 7 panels of them lying in bed go by. Then they think “AM I A BOY OR A GIRL OR WHAT” /end ID

Maybe they could stop making TV for a few years...

If you squint, you can see that the video essay is Jacob Geller’s very excellent (all his videos are excellent) “Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul.”

ID/ Ben has a conversation with another person Person: Omg have you seen Wednesday yet? Ben: no. P: Oh. What about Andor? B: No. P: S2 of Only Murders in the Building? B: Agh, not yet P: Severance? B: No. P: Ted Lasso? B: No. P: Stranger Things? B: Not since S2. P: White Lotus? B: No. P: The Boys? B: No. P: What We Do In The Shadows S4? B: No. P: Abbott Elementary? B: No. P: Dead to Me? B: No. P: Then...what HAVE you been watching? B: [holds up laptop showing YouTube thumbnail] YouTube video essay.../end ID

I have finally achieved my dream of doing a Redraw Reigen

Season 3 is coming and I’m!!!! scared

ID/ L: In a construction site, Reigen lays on his side on top of a pile of lumber, while talking on his phone. In the background we see Mob also on his phone, with Dimple floating next to him R: In a construction site, a construction worker lays on his side on a pile of lumber, while talking on his phone. In the background is another worker, also on his phone. /end ID

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Another new print, this time based on one of my collages.

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quarter-life crisis?

ID/ 1: The artist, Ben, says "I'm 25 and have created nothing of notice or merit," They stand with their eyes closed, feet apart, and hands up in kind of a shrug 2: Now with a wide-eyed wild look on their face, Ben says, "which means I never will!" /end ID