Reissue of Creep Highway's 2014 s/t tape, out today on Bandcamp. creephighway.bandcamp.com
Reissue of Creep Highway's 2014 s/t tape, out today on Bandcamp. creephighway.bandcamp.com
this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try
Adam Tooze linking to Tetsuo: The Ironman in a Chartbook . . . i see you
why can’t every movie poster go this hard … what’s the excuse
Lots of baby brained stuff to unpack here, but describing coups, political assassinations, arming nazis, etc as “shady” puts it over the top
The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/gaza...
Did Patreon’s update retroactively fuck up the formatting on older posts for anyone else?
poster for Peking Opera Blues at Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema - one of the greatest movies ever
this is a drawing of me and my cat when he hears a scary noise outside
Hard Boiled poster - another for the Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema's HK Cinema Classics screenings
small batch of Sunbird shirts up from Soft Hand, last to be printed in a while - 100% of proceeds going to direct aid to Gaza softhand.bigcartel.com/product/sunb...
anyway last time i was at one of these "community hubs" it was to interrupt one of her recent speaking events and cops slammed me into a self-help shelf. i love books!
Canadian media keeps writing about Reisman like she's some spunky lady and not a far right zealot who directly finances foreign mercenaries, settler extremists, Islamophobic idealogues, and homophobic evangelical churches bsky.app/profile/mich...
Toronto Star offering more free publicity to genocidal psychopath Heather Reisman Indigo - a monopoly that gutted Canadian bookselling and basically holds independent Canadian publishers hostage - is a "community hub"???
(this is how I wrote about it myself on Patreon a few months ago)
I liked Andor fine enough, but this articulates something I found troubling about the way it flattened historic atrocities and revolutionary movements into a sci-fi/action-adventure mishmash without engaging with any of them meaningfully: "the general idea of resistance, the aesthetics, the vibes"
poster for Bullet in the Head screenings at the Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema
Still posting blog posts on SAME HAT in the year 2025?? Yes... Yes, I am. www.samehat.com
doing posters for the Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of screenings at The Fox and Bytowne - here's one for City on Fire
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STAND TOGETHER - BE HEARD - MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Air Canada Component of @cupenat is holding solidarity rallies tomorrow! All CUPE Ontario members are invited to join @AirCanada flight attendants tomorrow at T1, Toronto Pearson, 9-11am #unpaidworkwontfly
In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
was a pleasure to work on this key art for Gawlo, an upcoming feature film from director Aicha Diop www.instagram.com/p/DNX_FMAtCK...
i think what a lot of directors misunderstand about Alien is that it's fundamentally a movie about really cool drawing
look, it's not too late for someone to let me make an Alien movie
“More like Barry AVERAGE” is a joke I would make if this guy was a better director
NEW: Four branches in the Toronto and Hamilton area have had their windows broken and graffiti written on them this summer, calling out Scotiabank’s large investments in Israeli weapons during the Gaza genocide.
these two
A short Pile and Ren comic that's exclusive to Patreon subscribers: www.patreon.com/posts/pile-a...
drive.google.com/drive/folder... this poster and others like it is available to print for agitprop purposes, of course
Heather Reisman, Gerald Schwartz, and their many genocidal investments www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/who-received...
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NEW: Subsidizing The Occupation is a major project from The Maple explaining how you and other Canadians have helped fund Israeli violence. www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca
Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act makes it illegal to recruit for foreign armies on Canadian soil, yet Israeli military recruitment has taken place here for generations, often in plain sight. The law is clear. The political will to enforce it is not.
periodic post to remind people I have a Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/michaeldef... This month, I have notes on the Aesthetics of Resistance (book), the aesthetics of resistance (generally speaking), behind the scenes work, and some “from the archives” art made for shelter hotel organizing
last October, I wrote about the ways the Giller Prize and Indigo Books have suppressed pro-Palestinian speech in and outside our industry. this includes the role they've played in propping up criminal charges against activists and organizers canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
we're talking about a literary prize that benefits a small sliver of authors once a year, and a gala that benefits no one except the person in charge of booking the conference room at the Four Seasons. if people truly believe this is some load-bearing pillar of Canlit, we're fucked
you'd either have to have no soul or no brain to characterize the Giller Prize's *hypothetical* demise as a "casualty" in the context of an ongoing genocide archive.is/6OtzL
hey kids, what time is it? yeah, that’s right: it’s time for Michael DeForge!
My dude
poster design for this program from Alfredas Cinema and Diamon Fisher www.bam.org/film/2025/al...
Check out my @undertheradar.bsky.social review of @michaeldeforge.bsky.social’s great new graphic novel, Holy Lacrimony, from @dandq.bsky.social: www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/holy...
in Toronto, an astroturfed business lobby can run an inept public messaging campaign, unite an entire neighbourhood against it, make itself the source of citywide ridicule, and still succeed. we can't even get some rinky dink shit like bus lanes man, this city's going to hell
sticker design for @cine-matographe.bsky.social @
poster for the upcoming Black Gold screening of Naked Acts in Toronto! paradiseonbloor.com/movies/naked...
got to draw some art for @cine-matographe.bsky.social's Blu-Ray release of A New Leaf, a movie I love dearly: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
I could not be more proud to present the world 4K UHD debut today of Elaine May's iconic 70s rom-com A NEW LEAF via @cine-matographe.bsky.social which has been a true labor of love for me Featuring gorgeous new art by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social and hours of extras, new and old.
Shaun Maguire of Sequoia Capital, aka MUBI's new financial partner
Smears against Zohran are only gonna get more weird. NYT’s editorial board is brainstorming new ways to be racist, and reviving obscure, outdated ways of being racist
NEW: Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Export Permits To Israel This Year. Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized new exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
The right in power is talking about denaturalizing and deporting Zohran and their only opposition in the center right, both in govt and media, are spending this time arguing that he is dangerous and demanding he renounce a statement he never made
front and back album art for Friendly Rich Sings The Nihilist Spasm Band, releasing at midnight today!
That means a lot, especially since you’ve been so generous about my work for so long
Poster for Palestine All The Time, 24 hours of Palestinian programming curated by Toleen Touq and presented at Gallery TPW www.instagram.com/p/DLVi3bxy5m...
Move follows campaign accusing Maersk of links to Israel’s military and occupation of Palestinian lands.
who has Canada Day plans
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great times with @michaeldeforge.bsky.social! Can art affect politics?, being introverted, a scene vs. a community, body horror & horror at being embodied + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDe...
started rubbing my hands together like the birdman gif while reading this
31st karaoke poster
The entire West Bank is fully under siege now. All movement restricted.
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very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...
old one
also got Holy Lacrimony, signed by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social, which was cool :)
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@torontocomics.bsky.social is in full swing! Come by booth 158-161 on the ice rink at Mattamy Athletic Centre for our signings! @dirtbagg.bsky.social @katebeaton.bsky.social @michaeldeforge.bsky.social
Full lineup now at noarmsinthearts.com All events free/PWYC!
print design for Heavy Manners Library's Spring fundraiser sale! www.instagram.com/p/DKh7P7DycN... i love Heavy Manners, support this space!
sticker design for Cinematographe! think i forgot to post this when it went up first vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
It's @torontocomics.bsky.social this weekend! Come find us on the ice rink at Mattamy Athletic Centre keeping it cool w/ @katebeaton.bsky.social @dirtbagg.bsky.social @michaeldeforge.bsky.social Guy Delisle, Maria Medem, & many more. Full schedule: drawnandquarterly.com/event/dq-exh...
if we as palestinians have not given up then you're not allowed to give up
full comic available to read for Patreon subscribers www.patreon.com/posts/june-2...
Niki de Saint Phalle's opening credits to A Dream Longer Than the Night
it's so gutting to see ahmad and his family and all palestinians be denied space to ask for help. first the dehumanising torture of the occupation, then the added slight of armchair detectives accusing them of being scammers and bots. ahmad just wants to tell you his story gofund.me/554482a7
poster and shirt design for this Black Belt Cinema screening of Encounters of the Spooky Kind! available for pre-order as well blackbeltcinema.ca/products/spo...
great reporting and great piece, thank you for writing it
idk what the count is from pre-letterboxd stats but got Johnnie To - 54 Tsui Hark - 44 Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 25 Nobuhiko Obayashi - 18 Frederick Wiseman - 17
Poster design for the second No Arms in the Arts Fest, where organizers will be talking strategy, screening films and playing music. June 13-15, full program out Monday, free Palestine always www.instagram.com/p/DKNL61fthU2/ www.noarmsinthearts.com
did some illustrations for this piece!
Shoutout to Toutoune Gallery, who has weathered their storefront getting harassed by zionists for twenty months, and now targeted by a weird anti-bus lane campaign fronted by a high end grocery chain
uh oh i hope i don't lose my job at the drawing depressing comics factory
got a threatening message from someone screenshotting my shit that was like "is your *publisher* aware they're printing someone harbouring these political views?" and it's like. yeah i'm pretty sure cat's out of the bag with that one
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For Patreon, wrote about some things I've read/watched this month. Includes notes on: - The CIA's successful tanking of a film's Best Foreign Picture Oscar campaign - Endless Cookie - some Andor skepticism - Final Destination, Ghostbox Cowboy, Vivian Blaxell, others www.patreon.com/posts/129334...
poster for karaoke, toronto, saturday
the house that balls book built has a nice ring to it though
short Pile and Ren comic up on Patreon for subscribers and non-subscribers alike www.patreon.com/posts/pile-a...
Growing reports show that Israel has been fomenting armed gangs to loot food supplies in Gaza and sow chaos — and it's killing those who attempt to stop it. But this strategy isn't new: Israel has waged a war on Gaza's civil government from the start.
thank you! your movies rock btw
saw this got put up -- cover illustration I worked on for "The Art of Solidarity" from Between The Lines Books btlbooks.com/book/the-art...
have some work up for auction alongside many other authors in support of Crips for eSims for Gaza: app.galabid.com/authors4esim... included are some signed books, zines, and a page from my sketchbook I used as a cover to one of those zines
