Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Author of Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and the comic SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
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New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer...
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
I do think I've observed in basically all creative fields that celebrity is dangerous, because really good craft takes time, and you just can't do it if you're doing nonstop interviews and articles and things. Like a lot of authors' second or third works feel generic/under-researched.
Put another way: at some point comedians go from laugh lines to applause lines. Problem is applause lines are easy and boring. Laugh lines are very hard. To my mind an ideal life as a writer or researcher is you do that sort of hard when you're young and a different (sustained) sort of hard later.
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I do think I've observed in basically all creative fields that celebrity is dangerous, because really good craft takes time, and you just can't do it if you're doing nonstop interviews and articles and things. Like a lot of authors' second or third works feel generic/under-researched.
Have you noticed this thing where comedians, as they age, start moving from telling jokes to just complaining and editorializing? I wonder why. Possibly, if you have a 20+ year career you basically just no longer have relatable life experiences, so you go for applause instead of laughs?
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Have you noticed this thing where comedians, as they age, start moving from telling jokes to just complaining and editorializing? I wonder why. Possibly, if you have a 20+ year career you basically just no longer have relatable life experiences, so you go for applause instead of laughs?
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The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social poses a fun activity: add “hundred” to a book title.
A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
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A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
www.smbc-comics.com
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hundred
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hundred
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December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social poses a fun activity: add “hundred” to a book title.
A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
www.smbc-comics.com
A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
www.smbc-comics.com
Big news. SMBC is expanding into the romance genre
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big news. SMBC is expanding into the romance genre
Was listening to a Francophone podcast on the history of French antisemitism and learned about the "Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv'" mass arrest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9...
There's something about it being the local velodrome that gives it a creepy tangibility lacking in other similar stories.
There's something about it being the local velodrome that gives it a creepy tangibility lacking in other similar stories.
Vélodrome d'Hiver - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Was listening to a Francophone podcast on the history of French antisemitism and learned about the "Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv'" mass arrest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9...
There's something about it being the local velodrome that gives it a creepy tangibility lacking in other similar stories.
There's something about it being the local velodrome that gives it a creepy tangibility lacking in other similar stories.
Some guy orders a sex bot, sees it leaving the bedroom like this
Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Some guy orders a sex bot, sees it leaving the bedroom like this
my cat girls are exquisite
This is serious and important but also I love the thought of someone horny enough to turn to Zach Weinersmith for sexy fan art.
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
my cat girls are exquisite
Hearing more and more stories about gig-work vanishing from artists in favor of AI. This was probably the low-hangingest fruit once you had pretty good image-gen AI, because it's often simple, not suuuuper creative work. But this sort of work is the backbone for a lot of arts careers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hearing more and more stories about gig-work vanishing from artists in favor of AI. This was probably the low-hangingest fruit once you had pretty good image-gen AI, because it's often simple, not suuuuper creative work. But this sort of work is the backbone for a lot of arts careers.
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The only down side is that in the bio pic there's a 45 minute musical montage as he prepares to battle the aliens.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The only down side is that in the bio pic there's a 45 minute musical montage as he prepares to battle the aliens.
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PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
TIL about Tolkien's best named character: tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Teleporno
Extra funny because even if you imagine he was innocent of pornography, he surely knew the Greek roots would indicate something like far-prostitute.
Extra funny because even if you imagine he was innocent of pornography, he surely knew the Greek roots would indicate something like far-prostitute.
Teleporno
Teleporno is a Telerin name meaning "Silver-tall".
tolkiengateway.net
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
TIL about Tolkien's best named character: tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Teleporno
Extra funny because even if you imagine he was innocent of pornography, he surely knew the Greek roots would indicate something like far-prostitute.
Extra funny because even if you imagine he was innocent of pornography, he surely knew the Greek roots would indicate something like far-prostitute.
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Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine chat about how mosquitos find us, and the science and ethics behind new tools we have for controlling mosquito populations.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Daniel, Kelly, and Katrine chat about how mosquitos find us, and the science and ethics behind new tools we have for controlling mosquito populations.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Hey medievalists, question:
So I once, on the bird site, got someone mad at me because I referred to "Anglo Saxon literature" as opposed to "Old English literature." The claim was that these people never called themselves Angles and Saxons, and that the usage was a later Euro-nationalist thing. BUT
So I once, on the bird site, got someone mad at me because I referred to "Anglo Saxon literature" as opposed to "Old English literature." The claim was that these people never called themselves Angles and Saxons, and that the usage was a later Euro-nationalist thing. BUT
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hey medievalists, question:
So I once, on the bird site, got someone mad at me because I referred to "Anglo Saxon literature" as opposed to "Old English literature." The claim was that these people never called themselves Angles and Saxons, and that the usage was a later Euro-nationalist thing. BUT
So I once, on the bird site, got someone mad at me because I referred to "Anglo Saxon literature" as opposed to "Old English literature." The claim was that these people never called themselves Angles and Saxons, and that the usage was a later Euro-nationalist thing. BUT
So a lot of people are saying Google's space-datacenters idea is stupid, but have you considered that every time something like this gets proposed, I see an uptick in sales of my book on space?
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
So a lot of people are saying Google's space-datacenters idea is stupid, but have you considered that every time something like this gets proposed, I see an uptick in sales of my book on space?
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This #GivingTuesday, use your voice to give back to science 🔬
Join the Voices for Good Challenge to vote for your favorite podcasters and the organizations they are supporting. Thanks to @dandkuniverse.bsky.social for supporting AAAS. Vote now! https://bit.ly/4pDhh18
Join the Voices for Good Challenge to vote for your favorite podcasters and the organizations they are supporting. Thanks to @dandkuniverse.bsky.social for supporting AAAS. Vote now! https://bit.ly/4pDhh18
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This #GivingTuesday, use your voice to give back to science 🔬
Join the Voices for Good Challenge to vote for your favorite podcasters and the organizations they are supporting. Thanks to @dandkuniverse.bsky.social for supporting AAAS. Vote now! https://bit.ly/4pDhh18
Join the Voices for Good Challenge to vote for your favorite podcasters and the organizations they are supporting. Thanks to @dandkuniverse.bsky.social for supporting AAAS. Vote now! https://bit.ly/4pDhh18
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Sometimes I do a comic just to confirm that I am not in any way optimizing for social media algorithms.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sim-3
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sim-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Sometimes I do a comic just to confirm that I am not in any way optimizing for social media algorithms.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sim-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sim-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Challenge: come up with a fake name that sounds faker than this real name: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Papworth transplant pioneer Sir Terence English dies at 93
Tributes are paid to the renowned surgeon who carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Challenge: come up with a fake name that sounds faker than this real name: www.bbc.com/news/article...
So, there's this burgeoning movement that reminds me of Tolkien and Chesterton, in that it's a combo of conservativism (in the older non-populist sense of institution-preservation) with nationalism and Christianity. What I don't understand is how people like Thiel fit in?
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So, there's this burgeoning movement that reminds me of Tolkien and Chesterton, in that it's a combo of conservativism (in the older non-populist sense of institution-preservation) with nationalism and Christianity. What I don't understand is how people like Thiel fit in?
What did the doctor have to do after a man about to be married barely survived a grenade?
Debride the groom!
Debride the groom!
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What did the doctor have to do after a man about to be married barely survived a grenade?
Debride the groom!
Debride the groom!
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I know you're out there somewhere, disgruntled Disney animator. This is your moment.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I know you're out there somewhere, disgruntled Disney animator. This is your moment.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/daisy
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/daisy
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Incidentally it is killing me that I didn't read this soon enough to have a quotation to open the section on the Moon in A City on Mars.
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Incidentally it is killing me that I didn't read this soon enough to have a quotation to open the section on the Moon in A City on Mars.
Top quality poetic opening
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Top quality poetic opening
Kind of grimly funny: Iona and Peter Opie were giants of research into children's literature and lore. They worked together for a long time, but he predeceased her by 35 years. A result of that appears to be an Amazon listing specifically for Dead Peter Opie
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kind of grimly funny: Iona and Peter Opie were giants of research into children's literature and lore. They worked together for a long time, but he predeceased her by 35 years. A result of that appears to be an Amazon listing specifically for Dead Peter Opie