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My first ever comic book cover, for Sweet Paprika: Open For Business #5, drops on June 25th. Head to your local comic book shop, or catch up with me on tour to grab a signed copy. You can see my upcoming schedule at https://effinbirds.com/appearances, and you can find out more about the comic at https://eatf.art/dog.

You should buy lots of copies so that I get to do more of these.

June 6th, 2025

Unbound, my former UK publisher, owe me a lot of money.

What’s worse, though, is that during their collapse, it came to light that they were underreporting my sales and shorting my royalty payments.

So, I haven’t been paid for the last 18 months of book sales, and when they were paying me, they were underpaying by a lot. It was gutting to hear that my second book had flopped in the US, selling under 1000 copies. Two years later I found out that it actually sold over 10,000 copies and the reason that it was selling no new copies week to week was because there were no copies left to sell.

John Mitchison, Unbound’s publisher, posted a heartfelt apology yesterday, announcing that he was stepping away from the business because authors are not getting their money. I feel a lot of empathy for John, because he, too, lost his dream to Unbound’s financial mismanagement. But the act of destroying a creative person’s confidence to hide the company’s monetary losses is unforgivable.

It took me two years to get over the feeling of rejection that came from a book that, it turned out, was successful and should have had a second printing.

That fucking sucks.

p.s. go ahead and buy my books at your local bookstore. It’s impossible to know which copies I got paid properly for and which ones I didn’t, so don’t penalize your local shop. And if you’re feeling extra generous, come see me at an in-person event or grab something fun from my Threadless store.

For my 2026 Day To Day Calendar, we’re doing something different: every weekend you get to make your own Effin’ Birds comic, fill-in-the-blanks style.

Preorders are live at good bookstores right now! Call your local shop or visit eatf.art for some online ordering options.

Fill in the blanks and watch magic happen.

I won the 2025 People’s Voice Webby Award for Social Media: Weird. Follow along at @thewebbyawards on social or webbyawards.com tonight at 7 to see all the best moments from the awards show.

An important Webby Awards outfit detail.

Tune in Monday night to see the awards show and hear my five word speech.

Express your displeasure with how fucked up all this dystopian shit is for just $12. Sale ends tomorrow. https://eatf.art/fuds

Your pal Effin’ Birds is nominated for a Webby Award.

Vote for me as the best Weird account on the internet! Or vote for Zeppelinmoon, just keep the brands out of Weird. Weird is for the people!

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/social/general-social/weird

Your pal Effin’ Birds did a cover for issue #5 of Sweet Paprika: Open For Business, out June 4th from Image. Tell your local comic book shop that you want Cover D, aka the Dog In Heaven cover, order code 0425IM410. https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/mirka-andolfos-sweet-paprika-open-for-business-5-of-5

Huge thanks to Steve Orlando for wanting me on this project, and to Mostafa Moussa for his inks that pulled the whole thing together.

Here’s me ‘n Mos at Dragon Con last year, when he delivered the finished inks. Feel free to identify my excellent cosplay.

Here’s the lucky Effin’ Birds fan (whose name I do not remember and I feel really bad about it) who snagged the original just hours hours after I saw it for the first time.

And here’s a photo from last summer at Freddy Beach Fan Fest in New Brunswick, Canada, where, if you look closely, you can see me figuring out the dog.

computer, enhance

TECH NERD SHIT: Someone is gonna ask, so that’s a ReMarkable 2 with a Staedtler Mars Lumograph Digital stylus. This was my go-to combo for both writing and drawing until recently when I upgraded to a ReMarkable Paper Pro. It’s an upgrade in almost every way: colour, storage, speed, battery life. I’m a little bummed that the Paper Pro uses a proprietary stylus, though, because one of the joys of the 2 was this wide world of input devices that have different feels in the hand and different tactile feedback (harder and softer tips, different barrels, etc). The combo of the Staedtler barrel, a hard Mitsubishi / WACOM tip (stolen from the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni Digital stylus, my second-favourite, just a little too short for my big hands), and the pebbled glass of the ReMarkable 2 convinced my body that I was working with a pencil on paper and made me instantly comfortable.

expectations kicking your ass? yeah, mine too. find this button (and dozens more) at https://effinbirds.threadless.com

I’m not even joking. Scully the parrot is turning 30, so on March 13th we’re taking over The Raven Gallery in Toronto to celebrate. RSVP and more details: https://eatf.art/30

First drink is on Scully, but the bar is what’s paying for the event, so please feel free to have more than one. BYOB (bring your own bird).

Please note that I will not be selling merch or signing at this event. You can check my appearance page for details on where I’ll be doing that next. Toronto Comicon starts the day after Scully’s birthday, and I’ll be there all three days at table P112.