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jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

Trying to explain supply chain instability to my cats.

January 22, 2026 at 4:38 PM

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Margaret Killjoy

@margaret.bsky.social

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM

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jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

If you'd rather check out what the sketchbooks are like first, all previous years are available for pay what you want on ko-fi.

ko-fi.com/jammyness/shop

Thanks for your support! 🎉

Visit jam's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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January 21, 2026 at 3:44 PM

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jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

It's available now when you join Patreon for $2/mo. That gets you all comics *way* in advance, special events (bonus art), a monthly newsletter so you don't miss a thing with a phone and desktop wallpaper.

If that's not your thing, it's also $3 one time www.patreon.com/posts/148741...

2025 Patreon Rewind | Jam

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January 21, 2026 at 3:43 PM

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jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

It's here! The 2025 Annual Sketchbook is now available :) This one has a lot of comics and studies, as well as fanart and research work.

Check out the public recap here: www.patreon.com/posts/jammy-...

Cover of the annual sketchbook: "Jam's 2025 Patreon ReWind", featuring an illustration of a Dandelion

Sample page of the sketchbook featuring landscape studies in gouache and digital painting

Sample page of the sketchbook featuring a lot of thumbnail work for some illustrations

Sample page of the sketchbook featuring photo studies from reference

January 21, 2026 at 3:38 PM

jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

It's here! The 2025 Annual Sketchbook is now available :) This one has a lot of comics and studies, as well as fanart and research work.

Check out the public recap here: www.patreon.com/posts/jammy-...

January 21, 2026 at 3:38 PM

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

@katbaumann.bsky.social

My contribution (a little late) to the #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMPLS comic posts. My experience with ICE in my city so far, keeping the language as vague as possible to protect the groups on the ground helping people here.

Digitally-drawn comic panel in tones of blue, showing a map of southern Minnesota with several cities marked: St. Cloud, Willmar, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Mankato and Albert Lea. Boxed captions say "We're an hour south of MPLS, a blue dot in the MN valley with a large immigrant population."

Digitally drawn comic panel in blue hues, showing an angry crowd of city residents in the foreground, silhouetted, a police officer sitting at a table and shrugging in the midground in medium blue, and a semi-circle table of council members sitting in front of 3 limp flags in light blue in the background. Captions say "After ice pepper-sprayed civilians in old town last week, we packed a 3.5 hour city countil meeting, begging the head of police to use their $2M budget to stop kidnappings."

Panel showing a person looking around on a street while removing a paper grocery bag from the back seat of a sedan, with captions saying "It basically feels like we're on our own. But we're tenacious. People are taking part in mutual aid and filling needs as they arise, regardless of weather."

Panel in various blue hues, showing the view from the driver seat of my car with my gloved hand resting on the bottom of the open window; an elderly person has reached out and placed one mittened hand over mine while the other holds a whistle. The elderly person has a speech bubble saying "You're here to help?" My speech bubble says "yeah" and theirs responds "me too." The captions say "I ran into myn neighbor, who I rarely see, when several of us were keeping watch at our local elementary school. Things feel scary, but not lonely."

January 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM

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Katherine Lam

@katherinelam.bsky.social

graph. on x axis: engagement. on y axis: happiness. the line starts high and goes down

January 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books.
I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out.
My current project frustrates me.

But a few things in my routine have changed.

Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters?

Me: Oh, good.
Yeah. Okay, that's good.
I'll call you later.

Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.

My friends check in from time to time.

Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch.

Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay?

Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay.
I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left.

I’m worried all the time.

Very little in the news feels encouraging.

Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota

St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026

And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons.
Nothing else feels real or important right now.

But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet.

Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything.

Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods!

Text: Me too!

Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.

January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM

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𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝕸𝖆𝖍𝖑𝖊𝖗

@heathermahler.bsky.social

F*ck Ice

Illustration done by me of a woman tattooed holding their right arm up with a plant sprouting out, and a pencil floating above. A shadow we will figure looms behind her / part of her. Speech bubble coming from the pencil says f*ck ice. Color palette tan, black, white, and orange.

January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM

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floating in lotus position

@gallantdimwit.bsky.social

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Jennifer Petitt @jenniferpetitt.bsky.social · 4d

This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.

January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM

jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

I'm about halfway through compiling my 2025 art summary... I did a surprising amount of work last year! Hopefully will be able to finish it tonight or tomorrow 🙏

January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM

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himbobottomus.bsky.social

@himbobottomus.bsky.social

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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Rosemary Mosco

@rosemarymosco.com

Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics

An image of a volleyball against a blue background. The text says: In my home state of Massachusetts, ICE is hunting a man who has an expired visa. They find the man’s car, but the driver is just the man’s son, a teen heading to volleyball practice. ICE arrests the teen.

A conversation between two people in speech bubbles: “Do you know why you’re under arrest?” “No.” “Because you’re illegal. You’re an immigrant.” “Ma’am, I was seven years old.” Then, text at the bottom says: The teen is put into a concrete cell with 35 men.

The community rallies behind him. There's an image of yard signs with the smiling face of the teen that say Free Marcelo. Some quotes from locals: “He’s one of our brothers. Without him, it just kind of feels like a dark, empty room.” -volleyball team captain. “This administration isn’t keeping us safe by putting 18-year-old honors students in prison.” -MA Rep. Moulton

In the cell, the teen helps translate for those who don’t speak English. Many are ill. After 6 days, he’s released. There's an image of a hand and arm, with a crinkly foil bracelet tied around the wrist. Wearing a bracelet that another detainee made him from one of the thin mylar blankets they were given, he says: “ I don’t want to cry. But I want to say...nobody should be in here.”

January 18, 2026 at 2:10 PM

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Jim Keefe

@jimkeefe.bsky.social

Here's to all the Minnesotans working in the school district who are just trying to keep our kids and families safe. The stress is constant and the job is thankless. My heart goes out to you.
#ICEoutmpls #ICEoutcomics

January 17, 2026 at 11:13 PM

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Ari Grace

@arigraceart.bsky.social

defend612.com

#IceoutBloomington #Iceoutrichfield #Iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

January 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM

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kc green

@kcg.bsky.social

i like unlocking ONE (1) of my daily sketchbook comic posts a week. Here's the one people liked the most from the past week www.patreon.com/posts/147975...

January 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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Shelby Bennett | Storyboard Artist Looking for Work

@skelotan.bsky.social

Things are genuinely awful & overwhelming in America (and the world in general). It's hard not to doom scroll my entire day away.

January 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM

jam

@jammyness.bsky.social

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 6d

Grok is so much worse than you think.

January 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦

@maks23.bsky.social

🇩🇰🇬🇱 Protests in Denmark and Greenland against US plans.

January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM

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Blue Delliquanti

@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social

Five minutes, twenty degrees, a dozen people. #IceOutComics #IceOutMpls

January 16, 1 pm, Richfield (just south of the Minneapolis border)

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"Oh, jeez."

A van with tinted windows pulls into the parking lot of the strip mall, with a few cars on its tail.

This intersection's full of potential targets, even with all the locked foors and closures.

Cafe, restaurant (closed), grocery store, school (went virtual this week).

This isn't a crisis that ends at 60th Street.

But the observers show up here, too.

To my knowledge, the van drives off after five minutes without taking anyone.

January 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM

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Sina Grace

@sinagrace.bsky.social

#iceoutlosangeles #iceoutLA #iceoutmpls #Iceoutcomics

January 16, 2026 at 9:51 PM

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Amanda Wong

@amandawtwong.bsky.social

Anyone in Vancouver looking for (non-artist) work? Titmouse Vancouver is looking for a Production Coordinator

CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 6d

This way, recruits! Titmouse is currently searching for a Production Coordinator working #Hybrid in #Vancouver. Interested? Visit the direct link below.

Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.

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January 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM

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bigbigtruck | mcmento morimori

@bigbigtruck.com

StickerMule has been rotten for ages, as has ULINE, but as with a lot of small-art-business inside-baseball stuff, I don't expect people to automatically know. But now you know.

Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 6d

I stopped using sticker mule absolute ages ago because of the owner’s bullshit. The owner is still on his bullshit, so if you use sticker mule, maybe don’t. StickerAPP is a good alternative, and also there’s most likely a local sticker printer near you (Sticker Ninja in Portland, for example).