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Cartoonist, comics educator, Trekkie, cat-petter (He/They) Rep'd by Alexandra Weiss at Azantian Literary Look for my middle grade graphic novel “Reel Life” coming from Scholastic Graphix this May! https://www.kanelynch.com/pre-order
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The days keep coming and they don’t stop coming. REEL LIFE - Page 6! Available 5/20 from Scholastic Graphix!

“WHERE IS THE SLUG, KYLE?” REEL LIFE - Page 5! Available 5/20 from scholastic Graphix!

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

REEL LIFE - Page 4! Written and drawn by me, colored Maddie Sackett! Available 5/20 from Scholastic Graphix!

REEL LIFE - Pages 2 and 3! Available 5/20 from Scholastic Graphix!

Happy May Day

Happy May Day, friends! My graphic novel REEL LIFE debuts on May 20th from Scholastic Graphix, so I’m going to post a page a day till the week of the launch! Here’s Page 1, with a bird’s eye view of San Luis Obispo.

Tomorrow is International Workers' Day and for this I want to remind you that generative ai in the arts is a fascist tool and when you care about workers rights and human rights you also have to stand against generative ai!

I've seen dedicated feeds for Bodega Cats and Bookstore Cats, I should see if there's one for Studio Cats. #WinkyThePirateGirl #LazyAssistant

Attention San Luis Obispo friends! My graphic novel Reel Life debuts in a few weeks, and we're having a launch party at the SLO Library downtown! My hope is that this can be a fun event for kids, with prizes and other rad stuff AND an interesting art event for adults w/ a deep convo about the book.

So on saturday a huge tragedy happed at the Lapu Lapu street festival here in Vancouver when someone drove through the festival. Among the injured was one of my co workers from Titmouse, so if you can, please donate if you can, or share the gofundme for him www.gofundme.com/f/gofundme-f...

Nice review of my book Reel Life in the School Library Journal! www.slj.com/review/reel-...

Co-sign the letter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1gpf...

16 years ago (!) my mom gave me a customizable coffee tumbler, and I asked @ironspike.bsky.social @erikamoen.bsky.social @lucyknisley.bsky.social and @derekkirkkim.bsky.social to draw on it at Stumptown Comics Fest. I think Derek drew me as an astronaut first, and everyone riffed off that.

Tagged along with my dad to a philosophy conference and it turned out to be a block away from Moe’z, a bootleg “Simpsons” pop-up bar.

Florida! Rise up! Our friends @flfreedomread.bsky.social have made it easy for you to contact your representatives! See their post below!

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

I've been thinking about this all week. There was no ICE before 9/11. (Truly, GWB does not get enough heat for me.)

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

If this made you mad a week or so ago and you're a Harper Collins author, please consider signing this letter @michaelleali.bsky.social put together. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

The televised Oval Office meeting with Bukele is mockery. They’re mocking the press, their opposition, the courts, and the entire concept of justice. They’re mocking everyone who isn’t them. The abuser’s playbook yet again.

“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”

I used the “action figure with accessories” shtick in a comic called “My Parents’ Exes” published by Oregon Humanities and The Nib in 2020. 5 years later, a similar gimmick is an AI meme, while the same tech ghouls that champion AI have taken over the government and defunded Oregon Humanities.

Happy new year to all the Southeast Asians who celebrate the April New Year! As always, here is my annual tradition: posting the Conan Songkran video.

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Omg, so cool! Thanks @ryanestrada.com !

Postum-Modernist.

Unboxing time! I just got my copies from Scholastic Graphix — REEL LIFE is reel-y here! And it’s coming to you May 20th! I’ll have more to share leading up to the launch, including info about IRL events, but you can pre-order now. 🎞️💬😺 www.kanetoons.com/graphic-novels

R.E. "Becky" Burke talking w the Guardian UK. Updating for my comics pals. I feel this so hard: imprisoned at the detention center she borrowed a pencil and paper & made free portraits for the other prisoners. “They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families.”

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Food Stamps: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/food-st...

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Happy #transdayofvisibility Hi, I’m Dana. I’m the first out trans person to be a syndicated cartoonist. Your kids think I’m cool. I stay visible because I have that luxury. In particular, I want trans kids who are struggling to look at me and see that you can grow up and be yourself and be happy.

I remember seeing a few really great hand drawn anti-NaziTruck stickers, but I neglected to bookmark them. Anyone got any favs?

TIL if you yell “You’re a bad person!” at a Cybertruck driver, random strangers will stop to congratulate you. Sometimes “and then everyone clapped” is real!!

There it is. How I feel about it put perfectly.

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

"The report found that more civilians were killed in the first week of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign than were killed in the 12 months of US- UK strikes on Yemen that were conducted under the Biden administration from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025." The Signal chat was bad. This is worse: