2025 events updated

Getting everything sorted for the rest of 2025’s events. More info on all of these as they become available.

  • San Diego Comic Con (July 24-26)

  • Evansville Museum Geek Con, Evansville IN (August 23)

  • Small Press Expo, North Bethesda MD (Sept. 13-14)

  • CXC, Columbus OH (Sept. 20-21)

  • Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh PA (Sept. 29)

  • A2CAF, Ann Arbor MI (Oct. 11)

  • SLICE, St. Louis MO (Oct. 18)

  • Genghis Con (TBC), Cleveland OH (Nov. 30)

Appalachia Comics Project Kickstarter!

I’m proud to announce I’m teaming up with Dr. David Easterling on a science comic about precursor warnings of climate catastrophe in Appalachia for this upcoming nonfiction anthology, Islands In The Sky, from the Appalachia Comics Project. Other fantastic creators include Brian Bendis, Matt Fraction, Val De Landro, Gene Luen Yang, Andrew Aydin, Matthew K. Manning, Thien Pham, Alex Segura, and more!

A Kickstarter has just launched to fund this project as the first wave in an ambitious, long-term effort to inform and provide voice to the survivors of Hurricane Helene, while directly compensating those affected. Please read more at ACP’s website, or at the Kickstarter— and please donate generously. thanks!

'DIANA' is finished.

Clocking in at 308 pages, Diana is finished. I started work on this book exactly two years ago, and have spent the last 13 months inking, lettering, and painting the pages full-time, 6-7 days a week. (I also had to completely re-pencil 200 pages of the book as I went, due to a defective batch of Strathmore paper!) These characters are so alive to me, and it’s bittersweet to know that this wraps up the whole saga. Release dates, ordering info, etc. will be available in the coming months.

This will also be my final solo fiction graphic novel for quite a while. A fresh start will take patience and openness for new ideas to brew. My fiction is my lifeblood, but it’s increasingly difficult to make these books in a way that’s even partially sustaining— so if my work is meaningful to you, please buy my books, spread the word about them, and have your local library order copies. Thank you!

Diana is both a stand-alone character-centered novel and a prequel to my 2024 book Fall Through, for which I’ve been nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Lettering. If you’re a comics professional, creator, journalist, or anything else you can likely register to vote in the Eisners here— please consider your vote for me amidst a sea of fantastic books released last year! Voting is open until June 5th. Thank you so much!

2025 Eisner Award nominee!

I’m honored to find I’m a nominee for the 2025 Eisner Awards in the “Best Lettering” category, covering my work in both Fall Through and Lies My Teacher Told Me!

I love lettering my comics, and there’s a special thrill in it— lettering really is the underappreciated step in the process which makes much of the comics magic happen. With each book, I find my hand-lettering becomes increasingly interwoven with the artwork itself. I was nominated for Best Lettering one prior time, in 2009 for my debut graphic novel Swallow Me Whole. Being recognized by a win in this category would be incredibly meaningful to me.

If you’re eligible to vote in the Eisner Awards, voting is open from now until June 5th— you’ll likely have a link in your inbox. Thank you so much for your consideration as you vote! Winners will be announced on July 25th at San Diego Comic Con.

There are lots of fantastic nominees this year, across the comics spectrum, but I would like to endorse one in particular: my good friend and brilliant comics scholar Caitlin McGurk is nominated for “Best Comics-Related Book” for her fantastic debut work, Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, which is very deserving of your vote. Thanks!

'Right To Read Day' is today!

Today is “Right To Read Day”— celebrating and defending the countless positives libraries facilitate for our communities, and defending our fundamental freedom to choose what and how we read, write, draw, publish, and express ourselves.

It’s an honor to have collaborated with the American Library Association and their Unite Against Book Bans campaign on this. Fascists are actively and explicitly working to defund and dismantle our libraries, public education, social supports, and our fundamental freedoms of press and expression through legislation, criminalization, and threats of violence.

Nationwide protests today.

These are the stakes.

Things are going to get unimaginably worse, but we— and only we, meaning all of us— can counteract and stop this death march. Love and solidarity to everyone, from all walks of life, who are showing up at noon today in cities across the nation to speak out against fascism, and for the fundamental tenets of a functional society which values humanity and compassion.

(panels below from my book Fall Through)

"Drawn To Freedom" illustration for ALA's "Right To Read Day"

It’s a joyous duty to team up with the American Library Association for their upcoming “Right To Read Day” on April 7th— here’s an illustration I contributed for their “Drawn To Freedom” campaign!

I’m not the ALA, so let me be plain and unrestrained with my language: there is an actual fascist takeover occurring in real time in the US, intent on permanently breaking democracy, overturning fundamental constitutional rights, stripping down and selling this country for parts in order to achieve total social control over our lives, public and private. Libraries are fundamental to a free society, and are true community centers. Their resources and benefits extend far beyond checking out books— and anyone who uses the library knows this.

Don’t take for granted what it means to live in a free society. That existence is quickly being disappeared. Protect everyone’s access to information and resources by learning more here.

Upcoming TMNT cover!

I’m happy to reveal my upcoming variant cover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #11, which will hit stands this July from IDW— you can reserve one through your local comics shop.

This was such a fulfilling side quest—as a third-grader in Alabama, I stumbled into TMNT in the months just before all the licensing and cartoon launched in 1987. After grabbing a one-off TMNT martial arts guide, I spotted some Eastman/Laird/Lawson/Bode issues right around the “Return to New York” storyline. This was the first comic that actually looked dirty and gritty to my young eyes— really, I was seeing the cartoonist’s hand at work for the first time. Changed my life! I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Kevin Eastman (who’s a fan of our work on March) several times over the years, and he’s always been a kind and generous fellow to me.

60 years since Bloody Sunday.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday— a pivotal point in the Selma movment for Black Americans’ freedom rights, directly resulting in the necessary pressure for passage of the Voting Rights Act, crippled by the Republican-led Supreme Court in 2013. There’s a straight line from that decision to our fascist takeover today.

I’d like to highlight that the March 7, 1965 protest was in direct response to the police murder of 26-year-old Army veteran Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was hunted and killed during a peaceful protest in Marion, Alabama two weeks prior. Malcolm X was assassinated three days later.

At Jackson’s funeral, the idea emerged to march from Selma to Montgomery to place Jimmie Lee Jackson’s body at the steps of the state capitol.

Another point I’d like to highlight: dozens of racist state troopers who beat peaceful protestors on Bloody Sunday were accompanied by dozens more deputized white supremacist civilians— an actual fascist body of thugs— and the American Nazi Party had been present multiple times in Selma to counter-protest voting rights actions there.

Do you see? Fascism is what we’ve been fighting against for over a hundred years in the US. Stay in the fight and SHOW UP to salvage what we have left. A future self-determined, still in pursuit of multiracial democracy.

(All artwork is from our National Book Award & Eisner Award winning work March: Book Three— written by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, drawn and lettered by me. Learn more here, and order signed copies directly from me here if you’re interested. Thanks for standing up for our work, keeping it in classrooms and libraries, and contributing to its survival.)

"The Language of Comics" poster + Scholastic Art combo pack available

Because so many educators & librarians wanted a way to get this poster: it’s the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of Scholastic Art magazine all about comics (including an interview with me, the cover illustration, and a “Language of Comics” spread I did), a giant 30” x 20.5” color poster of “The Language of Comics”, and Scholastic’s digital resource guide to the issue. I’ll sign the magazine too! Just selling them cheaply to give people access to the materials— Order directly from me here.

I think I only have about 30 of these available, so hop on it if you’re interested. Thanks!

Happy birthday to 'FALL THROUGH.'

Fall Through was released one year ago today, and I’m immensely thankful for the deep personal and emotional responses people have had about it, and about its exploration of our fragile free spaces in a world insistent on codifying, flattening, and mythologizing what we create together.

An earnest plea: if you enjoy my work, please buy a copy of Fall Through and/or have your library order a copy— I worked my ass off on this thing. Thank you!

There’s more to the story coming in 2026.