Travis Nichols
@travisnichols.bsky.social
Writer & illo-er of books & stuff for kids & post-kids. The Terribles (Random House), The HECKADECK (Chronicle), etc. Uhhh, gardening/permaculture (PDC-ified), clown, clay, and witchy stuff.
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Oh cool. They’re rebooting Vine?
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Oh cool. They’re rebooting Vine?
Just realized that saying “let me be frank” or “frankly…” is the same thing as “keeping it 100” cuz of who’s on the $100. Okay off to bed!
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just realized that saying “let me be frank” or “frankly…” is the same thing as “keeping it 100” cuz of who’s on the $100. Okay off to bed!
That feeling ten minutes before they open the doors to let attendees in to the comic convention of *oh no I’m not in the mood for this*.
Anyway, it’ll pass and I’ll see you at W12 at SPX.
Anyway, it’ll pass and I’ll see you at W12 at SPX.
September 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
That feeling ten minutes before they open the doors to let attendees in to the comic convention of *oh no I’m not in the mood for this*.
Anyway, it’ll pass and I’ll see you at W12 at SPX.
Anyway, it’ll pass and I’ll see you at W12 at SPX.
And the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Falling Sparks goes to Alien: Earth
August 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Falling Sparks goes to Alien: Earth
I had a hard time getting into superhero comics as a kid because of the multi-book, multi-series, multi-universe, ever-growing web of expected knowledge. And now… I mean, I’ve watched and will watch it all, but lordy.
August 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I had a hard time getting into superhero comics as a kid because of the multi-book, multi-series, multi-universe, ever-growing web of expected knowledge. And now… I mean, I’ve watched and will watch it all, but lordy.
Wanna hear a BUNCH of phones blasting at full volume all at once? Go to a urologist’s office.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Wanna hear a BUNCH of phones blasting at full volume all at once? Go to a urologist’s office.
<buys 150 plums at a market>
Clerk: Those look yummy! Making jelly?
<buys 1 bag of prunes>
Clerk: Bro, this dude can’t poop. Gross!
Clerk: Those look yummy! Making jelly?
<buys 1 bag of prunes>
Clerk: Bro, this dude can’t poop. Gross!
July 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
<buys 150 plums at a market>
Clerk: Those look yummy! Making jelly?
<buys 1 bag of prunes>
Clerk: Bro, this dude can’t poop. Gross!
Clerk: Those look yummy! Making jelly?
<buys 1 bag of prunes>
Clerk: Bro, this dude can’t poop. Gross!
Jurassic Park doing the same thing over and over again, failing more and more spectacularly each time, is the DNC. In this seven-part essay, I will
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Jurassic Park doing the same thing over and over again, failing more and more spectacularly each time, is the DNC. In this seven-part essay, I will
Something that shook my skeleton (again) this week was (re-)discovering (again) that some of the most successful, celebrated comic folks are (still) making sooooo very little from their books (still).
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Something that shook my skeleton (again) this week was (re-)discovering (again) that some of the most successful, celebrated comic folks are (still) making sooooo very little from their books (still).
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When the web is a gutter choked with untested inedible AI generated recipes, all of you will look to my cooking blog and shout "SAVE US with your tested home-cooked recipes!"
And I'll look down and whisper "No. In 2003 my dear husband I visited a charming boutique in Martha's Vineyard..."
And I'll look down and whisper "No. In 2003 my dear husband I visited a charming boutique in Martha's Vineyard..."
June 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
When the web is a gutter choked with untested inedible AI generated recipes, all of you will look to my cooking blog and shout "SAVE US with your tested home-cooked recipes!"
And I'll look down and whisper "No. In 2003 my dear husband I visited a charming boutique in Martha's Vineyard..."
And I'll look down and whisper "No. In 2003 my dear husband I visited a charming boutique in Martha's Vineyard..."
Yeah I don’t like how aggressive dude pigeons are to lady pigeons but I guess I’m just sensitive like that
June 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yeah I don’t like how aggressive dude pigeons are to lady pigeons but I guess I’m just sensitive like that
Every time I see infighting on the left, I think to myself, “Mayor Cuomo.”
June 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Every time I see infighting on the left, I think to myself, “Mayor Cuomo.”
oops oh no I might spent the next chunk of life pursuing the holy fool oh no help
June 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
oops oh no I might spent the next chunk of life pursuing the holy fool oh no help
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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
June 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
Everything is the world is a little bit worse all the time. Even Roku City. Billboards that break the color scheme? EW.
May 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Everything is the world is a little bit worse all the time. Even Roku City. Billboards that break the color scheme? EW.
Paywalled news… nope. Don’t like it.
May 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Paywalled news… nope. Don’t like it.
I wrote about commodifying hobbies on my substack. And I commodified another hobby.
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Commodifying a(nother) Hobby - OH NO!
Will selling a thing kill the love of doing the thing?
hereliestravis.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I wrote about commodifying hobbies on my substack. And I commodified another hobby.
hereliestravis.substack.com/p/commodifyi...
hereliestravis.substack.com/p/commodifyi...
If I go to a FIFTH local hardware store in Brooklyn and they don’t have what I need, New York City is officially dead, and I’m moving to the burbs.
April 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If I go to a FIFTH local hardware store in Brooklyn and they don’t have what I need, New York City is officially dead, and I’m moving to the burbs.
As you watch the new Love on the Spectrum, listen to the weird editing choice of pretending James’s call from the speed dating event coordinator is a conversation rather than an obvious recording.
April 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
As you watch the new Love on the Spectrum, listen to the weird editing choice of pretending James’s call from the speed dating event coordinator is a conversation rather than an obvious recording.
Hug them. Kiss them. Cherish them. Daisy forever and ever and ever. 🧡✨
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hug them. Kiss them. Cherish them. Daisy forever and ever and ever. 🧡✨
I am going to smash my printer with a hammer. Every single time I go to print something, one of the cartridges is dry. And yeah, you still need magenta ink to print black in 2025. Paper load errors, flashing lights. Everything is junk. If you need me, just follow the screams coming from the woods.
March 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I am going to smash my printer with a hammer. Every single time I go to print something, one of the cartridges is dry. And yeah, you still need magenta ink to print black in 2025. Paper load errors, flashing lights. Everything is junk. If you need me, just follow the screams coming from the woods.
The best character in The Boondock Saints in the guy in the end credits who says, “I’m ready get buuusy *too*.” I think of him often.
March 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The best character in The Boondock Saints in the guy in the end credits who says, “I’m ready get buuusy *too*.” I think of him often.
Planes crapping out, pilot & ATC shortages, FAA cuts, jet stream collapse, elected reps drafting anti-“chemtrail” legislation… there’s a non-zero chance that commercial aviation is gone in ten years.
Need to get overseas? Better pack a few books!
Need to get overseas? Better pack a few books!
March 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Planes crapping out, pilot & ATC shortages, FAA cuts, jet stream collapse, elected reps drafting anti-“chemtrail” legislation… there’s a non-zero chance that commercial aviation is gone in ten years.
Need to get overseas? Better pack a few books!
Need to get overseas? Better pack a few books!