Hey friends! The A.I. Moratorium for NYC Schools is holding a rally against “A.i.” in the schools at City Hall on Tuesday at 4 pm — and I’m gonna be there with Comix Action! Please do show up if you’ve got the time and inclination! A little bird tells me that Ilana Glazer is also gonna be there, if that’s an incentive!
Full deets here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/aim-coalition-cityhall-rally-june-2026
A photojournalist named Angelina Katsanis was injured at Delaney Hall, then blocked from the police from going through their line to find her equipment. She now has a GoFundMe. Please consider kicking something in.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-angelina-after-delaney-hall-attack
You can see video of her below.
Freelance photojournalists are taking enormous risks to bring us news that ICE and the police and politicians don’t want out there. Please do consider supporting Angelina!
![April 30 * 7-8:30 pm ET * online
MAY DAY EVE CANCEL PARTY
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Hang out with fun comics creators & cancel unneeded services & software from billionaire-owned companies!
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Hey, friends! I’m thrilled to report that I’m moderating the May Day Eve Cancel Party co-hosted by Comix Action and Indivisible Brooklyn this Thursday, 4/30!
It’s an online event featuring awesome comics creators – we’re gonna talk about how to cancel software and services from billionaires we don’t feel like giving money to any longer! Should be fun and funny and very helpful!
Please do click through, check it out, and register! A swell time will be had by all!
I had the pleasure of photographing the Rally for an A.I. Moratorium in NYC Schools yesterday. Pictured above is Brad Lander speaking to the crowd. High five to Climate Families NYC, the A.I. Moratorium Coalition and others for organizing.
For more photos, check out the post on Instagram and thread on Bluesky.
Yesterday the CBC reported that school divisions in Alberta, Canada, just banned 160 books, including two volumes of the FIREFLY series I wrote for BOOM. Here’s a quote from Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides:
“This isn’t censorship,” his statement said. “It’s a common‑sense standard to keep explicit sexual images out of school libraries, and we delivered exactly that.”
To be clear, there are zero “explicit sexual images” in any of the FIREFLY books I wrote. FIREFLY was a mainstream direct market monthly comic based on a 2002 Fox TV show. No one even uses a curse word stronger than “damn.”
It’s also unclear which books they’re actually mad at. They list “Firefly Vol 1” and “Firefly Vol 2,” but we did multiple arcs with multiple volumes, so “Vol 1” and “Vol 2” could refer to several different story arcs. (Welcome to comics, censors! Correct titles are important!)
But again, no “explicit sexual images” in any of the books. There’s not even any nudity that I can recall.
Things they could be mad about:
Anyway, censorship is for weak losers and bigots.
When I saw pictures of Liam Conejo Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. So I’m thrilled to be part of the Comix Action call for artists to draw pictures for Liam and point people towards his fundraiser and funds and groups working to protect thousands of other immigrants like him.
Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to find out what you can do to help.
Late last night artist Karla Ortiz posted the terrible news that the San Diego Comic-Con’s art show was allowing “A.i.” images. Ortiz also very clearly laid out why this is a horror for artists and provided the email to voice your opinions to the SDCC. Today, ComicsBeat wrote about the story here.
The great news? The SDCC has now changed its rules to disallow “A.i.” images from its art show.
Huge, huge thanks to Karla Ortiz, who did the entire comics community a great service last night, and to everyone who emailed to voice their opinions.
For posterity, here’s the email I sent last night. If any other comic book convention similarly considers allowing “A.i.” images, this letter applies to them as well.
Greetings. I’ve been working in comics for 21 years and I’ve never seen a more pernicious attack on the values of our industry than generative “A.i.” So I was shocked to learn that the guidelines for your art show includes this clause:
(3) Material produced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be placed in the show, but only as Not-for-Sale (NFS). It must be clearly marked as AI-produced, not simply listed as a print. If one of the parameters in its creation was something similar to “Done in the style of <specific artist>,” that information must be added to the description. If there are questions, the Art Show Coordinator will be the sole judge of acceptability.
Please understand that allowing “A.i.” art at all is an insult to every comics creator whose work has been stolen by “A.i.” companies for their databases without compensation. Please further understand that subtly encouraging applicants to generate “A.i.” garbage in the style of specific artists is an even greater insult. I have trouble even articulating how terrible it feels to see it.
Please save your institution from shame and stand up for actual artists’ rights and for the human joy of actually creating instead of “generating” art.
Please delete this terrible clause from your guidelines and ban “A.i.” materials altogether.
Thank you for your consideration. The courtesy of a reply would be appreciated.
If you’re so inclined, please feel free to follow Karla Ortiz on Bluesky here and thank her for helping us all out this week.
To everyone I know:
If you still post on X, which is allowing users to generate and distribute non-consensual sexual images of women and children, please know that I am judging you.
Leave X. Stop supporting the Nazi and pedophilia site for Nazis and pedophiles.
No more excuses.
And yes, this applies to politicians and journalists and artist and writers. EVERYONE. Get off of that evil site. It endangers us all.
To be clear: because of the risk of impersonation, not everyone feels safe DELETING their account. Totally understand that! But I STRONGLY encourage deleting all your posts and NEVER POSTING THERE AGAIN.
https://www.thecut.com/article/elon-musk-grok-sexual-images-ashley-st-clair.html
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/governments-grapple-with-the-flood-of-non-consensual-nudity-on-x/
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/855832/grok-undressing-children-csam-law-x-elon-musk
https://www.ft.com/content/0747a53c-19b6-4ed9-8eea-88c327f27fe6
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/elon-musks-grok-ai-posted-csam-image-following-safeguard-lapses/ar-AA1Ts96l
I got to photograph the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani at City Hall in NYC today, and it was pretty darn incredible. Click through to see a giant thread of photos on my Bluesky account (and yes I know I misspelled Rama Duwaji’s name and screwed up the year in the first post in that thread, aaaaaagh).
Today, Twitter’s “A.i.” text generator “Grok” went full Nazi with a slew of inexcusable, reprehensible antisemitic posts.
I’m not going to quote them here. But you can see some of this trash for yourself in this NBC News article and this Rolling Stone post.
I’m begging you to delete your Twitter account right the hell now and deny Elon Musk any of your attention and money. It’s hate site that’s making the world worse every second, and it’s poisoning your brain if you visit there with any regularity.
Just get the hell off of Twitter, please.
For what it’s worth, I’m on Bluesky and I like it.