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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
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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/
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1h
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.
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Oh, forgot to mention that if you want to read the first chapter of the new book, it's on the site for free:

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Dunno if I'm alone in this but I've noticed that when I encounter someone who is actually, for real, straightforwardly racist... I tend to assume there's something else going on? Like surely the answer isn't simply "they hate these people." Like they're trying to be edgy or performative.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I love how it's possible to convey "you should shout this" just by arranging the symbols right on a page. <3<3<3
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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social so, confession, I bought Bea Wolf a while ago but hadn't gotten around to reading it. My son just wasn't interested and I was busy.
Cut to: this weekend. He's curious. I'm happy. But now he wants me to read it at bedtime.
Cont.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This opening makes me giggle
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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April fool standards were pretty low 80 years ago
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I finished A City on Mars by @weinersmith.bsky.social & @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. I really liked the book. As a former kid who wrote letters to NASA and dreamed of being an astronaut, I'm happy to see other space nerds agreeing on the misguided nature of the current space colonization efforts
Photo of A City On Mars. A book by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. The cover features a drawing of an underground city in what appears to be Mars.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I get this a lot ever since working on Open Borders, presumably due to my Jewish heritage. The funny thing is my position is, largely, yes.

Incidentally, I actually didn't know about this particular conspiracy before I started being accused of being part of it!
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Inflation's getting crazy. I just hope deporting millions of workers while taxing all imports will get the prices back down soon!
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This is more easily executable with a three-wish genie, but it's good to be prepared for all circumstances.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
5-panel SMBC comic update where a man catches a wish-granting talking fish. The fish tells him : "Set me free and you may have anything. But whatever you get, I will instantly give it to your neighbor, twice." The man asks for a magic box that gives him all his neighbor's money one second after he receives any money. The final panel shows the man lounging in a pile of gold saying "infinite money gliiiiitch!" to the dismay of the magic fish, that says that this is why they hate logicians.
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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New Book officially launches for preorder Monday. Wish me luck!
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Startling twist here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish-3

#smbc
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Startling twist here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish-3

#smbc
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/miracle
#smbc
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/miracle
#smbc
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I was noticing how Instagram really pushes bad habits on artists. Like, if I do broader humor, or jokes with pop culture tie in, or vaguely hot takes, I'm showered with attention. Often stuff I consider artistically better gets nowhere. But, this is how you build a corpus people care about?
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Or maybe the corpses were a feint and the original Frenchmen are still waiting to strike.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/french...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update where two men are looking into an obscured room, mentioning it's filled with dead Frenchmen and that they prefer to cover it up to avoid the paperwork. The caption reads : "Fun Fact : The statue of Liberty was originally meant as a Trojan Horse."
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/french...
#smbc
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/french...
#smbc
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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When you're at fast food drive through, about to order, do you have a standard preamble, and if so what is it?

E.g.

"Hi, could I get..."
"Yeah, I need..."
"Okay, I'll have..."
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Have you noticed that it's become really easy to put almost anything on installment payment? Like even a modest purchase on Amazon will initiate an offer both from amazon and my bank. Is this a new thing?
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Subscribe!

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/attent...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 2/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 3/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing. Part 4/4 of a 10-panel SMBC comic update where a man and a woman are walking on a beach, and the man asks "do you think it's bad how our attention spans keep falling because everyone is glued to their phone?" The woman than explains that the attention span is actually larger then ever. She suggests that as technology and population grew, attention dropped, until it crossed over past zero into negative attention span, which is the ability to care deeply about what is worthless. She then gives several examples, and the man mentions that maybe that explains the Fermi Paradox - aliens avoiding us because they are all screen detoxing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/attent... #smbc
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM