Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This was really fun to work on! Thanks @smallpressexpo.bsky.social and see ya soon! 1113
Reposted by Whit TaylorRev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026the Good Lord! He Done... Up and Quit!? a CARTOONSHOW collection by Derek M Ballard is now live on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/car... If you like my work consider supporting & take advantage of the early backer discount!kickstarter.comGood Lord! He Done... Up and Quit!? a CARTOONSHOW collectiontake this job & shove it! a lean full color swan song career finale comics cache (maybe?) in 48 pages from America's #1 cartoon dad. 9291197
Reposted by Whit TaylorLowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Excellent comic about AI avatars (profiles) on Facebook, designed to appeal to particular customers but which are exceedingly problematic. Cheers to @whittaylor.bsky.social. Read: www.patreon.com/CrucialComix...patreon.comNew Comic: Off Script | Crucial ComixGrappling with AI and Digital Blackface About the artist: Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator from New 121
Reposted by Whit TaylorRadiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Congratulations to @whittaylor.bsky.social on the publication of the FINAL issue of her series, Fizzle! Issue 7 is out today, while issue 6 has been nominated for two Ignatz Awards! We're so honored to have helped get this amazing series out into readers' hands! www.radiatorcomics.com 0125
Reposted by Whit TaylorRadiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We're so excited that Fizzle No. 6 by @whittaylor.bsky.social has been nominated for TWO Ignatz Awards: Outstanding Comic & Outstanding Series! We couldn't agree more! YOU can vote for Fizzle before September 11! Request a ballot at www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-ballo... 043
Reposted by Whit TaylorSmall Press Expo @smallpressexpo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sending all of the “CONGRATS” to every Ignatz Award nominees! Click the link below to see who they are and how to vote for them. Ballots will be mailed within 48-72 hours of receiving them.myemail.constantcontact.comSPX Announces 2026 Ignatz Award Nominees and The Ignatz ArchiveEmail from Small Press Expo SPX Announces 2026 Ignatz Award Nominees and The Ignatz Archive 2026 Ignatz Awards Nominees 2026 Ignatz Awards logo by Vicky Wang For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bern 05826
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Fizzle 6 was just nominated for 2 Ignatz Awards: Outstanding Comic & Series! Very thankful! You can buy the issue @radiatorcomics.bsky.social! Voting is now open too :) 148123
Reposted by Whit Taylorthene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv... 671495624
Reposted by Whit TaylorMeg Lemke @meglemke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This season’s rockstar lineup includes Derf Backderf, Roz Chast, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Lisa Hanawalt, Joe Sacco, and James Tynion IV... and (lots) MORE www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comFall 2026 Preview: Adult ComicsThis season’s rockstar lineup includes Derf Backderf, Roz Chast, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Lisa Hanawalt, Joe Sacco, and James Tynion IV. 0135
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Just got some advance copies of our public health graphic novel, The Greater Good! Out 11/3 from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social! 37224
Reposted by Whit TaylorCartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 17/07/2026Creators at Silver Sprocket have released a public statement regarding longstanding concerns with the business practices of the company which alleges issues around payment of royalties, poor treatment of staff, and lack of professionalism. Please read their statement: cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art... 10930500
Reposted by Whit TaylorRep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak. 35798293835
Reposted by Whit TaylorRadiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026We're so excited to announce we just sent the files to the printer for the FINAL issue of @whittaylor.bsky.social's series, FIZZLE! You can catch up on issues 1-6 at www.radiatorcomics.com/series/fizzle/ 094
Reposted by Whit TaylorRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it. 2126811543
Reposted by Whit TaylorGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I can't think of anything more monumentally sad than holding your wedding as a ticketed event at a major venue. What even are you, at that point? A commercial for yourself? 1321517
Reposted by Whit TaylorJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Yup This seems to be the kind of case they’ve tied their whole existence to. They’ve already been clear on what legal matters they won’t help with, which we know why now with their history but this is one of the most egregious cases in comics history and they’re on X pushing their humble bundle deal 110344
Reposted by Whit TaylorBroken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you haven't picked up FIZZLE before you need to rectify that. 022
Reposted by Whit TaylorMary Shyne @maryshyneonline.bsky.social · 19/06/2026End of an era! Fizzle forever 052
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The last issue of my comics series, Fizzle, will be out from @radiatorcomics.bsky.social soon! Subscribe by 6/30 and you can get the complete series, a riso print, and a bonus zine 👀! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... 0114
Reposted by Whit TaylorMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings) 209118881986
Reposted by Whit Taylordaryl seitchik @darylseitchik.bsky.social · 20/05/2026id take a bad drawing by someone on your marketing team over polished ai slop literally any day 0132
Reposted by Whit TaylorComic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 17/05/2026For anyone interested, I just started a petition to get anything created using generative AI disqualified from Eisner Award consideration moving forward. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/no-ai-at-the...change.orgSign the PetitionNo AI At The Eisners 141236725
Reposted by Whit TaylorDuaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement. 20545151992
Reposted by Whit TaylorElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Defend Public Health’s full policy platform can be found below. We’ll be holding candidates’ feet to the fire on whether or not they support this platform and if they plan to fight for the public’s health.defendpublichealth.orgThe People's Health Platform | Defend Public HealthAfter a year of relentless attacks on the health of Americans from the highest levels of government, Defend Public Health believes it is critical to not just fight back against those attacks, but to a... 15219
Reposted by Whit TaylorAIPT @aiptcomics.com · 02/04/2026Big news for indie comics 🎨🔥 👀 @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and a stacked team launch BODEGA, a new Brooklyn nonprofit with a major #comics expo, creator grants, and more aimed at supporting the next wave of artists. #comicsky Details:aiptcomics.comJames Tynion IV launches new Brooklyn Comics nonprofit with major festival plansA new initiative called BODEGA aims to reshape the comics scene with a major expo, creator grants, and a push to support the next generation of artists in New York. 218778
Reposted by Whit TaylorRon Evans @crewylou.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Book #12 of 2026 completed: ‘Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment’ (2020, Little Red Bird Press) — graphic novel anthology chronicling women’s suffrage, warts and all. More that two dozen creators including @meggietheramm.bsky.social, @nomikane.bsky.social, @whittaylor.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Whit TaylorDrawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 18/02/2026A regime that can only imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever, is scared to death of the power of art to document the terror the regime inflicts on its most vulnerable. 0107
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026media.tenor.coma woman sitting in front of a window with a man standing behind herALT: a woman sitting in front of a window with a man standing behind her 190
Reposted by Whit TaylorAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism 665258387095
Reposted by Whit TaylorPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis. 2212764823
Reposted by Whit TaylorKristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.comtheverge.comI grew up with Alex PrettiThe kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend. 496171906829
Reposted by Whit TaylorKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize. 777292598479
Reposted by Whit Taylormattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/01/2026the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will 155386970
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m so excited to share the cover for our upcoming graphic novel: The Greater Good: People, Power, and Public Health. Out 11/3 from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 48633
Reposted by Whit TaylorHazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇 191229787
Reposted by Whit TaylorElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Remember that exploitative and unethical clinical trial of HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau that RFK Jr. funded? It’s been cancelled.theguardian.comControversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease 16608173
Reposted by Whit TaylorRadiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 14/01/2026We're so thrilled that @whittaylor.bsky.social's Fizzle has been nominated again for Best Periodical Series by @brokenfrontier.bsky.social! We put out two issues of Fizzle in 2025, and both were great! Please consider voting! 1105
Reposted by Whit TaylorSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/01/2026My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers" 171766483
Reposted by Whit TaylorBroken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Periodical Series' include @colossive.com, @whittaylor.bsky.social, @radiatorcomics.bsky.social, @kushkomikss.bsky.social. @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social, Sanika Phawde. Vote here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25 0198
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026That last sentence. A woman murdered by fascists and a child orphaned. And countless other lives destroyed. State sanctioned violence against civilians. Disgusting and terrifying. 1102
Whit Taylor @whittaylor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Whoah, Fizzle was nominated for a 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Periodical Series! Thank you! Voting is open! www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... 090
Reposted by Whit TaylorTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 05/01/2026For comics folks whose readership is often centered in libraries, this is important. From @ginagagliano.bsky.social www.tcj.com/books-are-go...tcj.com'Books are going to take longer to get to libraries': What Baker & Taylor's demise means for comics - The Comics JournalDiamond’s disintegration is not the only crisis facing comics publishers these days. The latest distribution company ceasing to exist is the venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor. If you’re not... 4266137
Reposted by Whit TaylorHazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 05/01/2026In 2026, let’s convince Mamdani to do like Sadiq Khan and invest in clean air for NYC schools! NY is currently in an ALL-TIME HIGH flu season. 70% of households getting COVID start with kids, usually in school. Air purifiers can drastically cut transmission! www.london.gov.uk/mayor-invest...london.gov.ukMayor invests £2.7m in air quality filters for schools to clean up air in classroomsThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today launched a new £2.7 million programme to deliver indoor air quality filters to hundreds of schools across the capital, bringing cleaner air to tens of thousa... 33512
Reposted by Whit TaylorSummer Pierre @summerpierre.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Gender affirming care saves lives. 014452
Reposted by Whit TaylorRichie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 17/12/2025richiepope.com been working on my website for months and it's finally up. check it out and hit me up at richie@richiepope.com for professional work 112444
Reposted by Whit TaylorRadiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Happy Pub Day to @whittaylor.bsky.social for issue 6 of Fizzle! This 2nd-to-last issue is PACKED full of drama and humor and great tension as Claire prepares to unveil her "Dad Pops" to friends. You can buy your copy today or subscribe to the whole series! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... 083
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a)
