Chapter 13 continues! Page 116 is now live for your reading enjoyment.
Do you still need to get caught up on the story so far?
You can read the whole thing online right here on the Valley of the Silk Sky page or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Chapter 13 picks up immediately after the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Here we go! The commencement of Chapter 13 is now! You can read page 115 right this very moment.
Do you still need to get caught up on the story so far?
You can read the whole thing online right here on the Valley of the Silk Sky page or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Chapter 13 picks up immediately after the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Valley of the Silk Sky officially returns next week!
I will resume my previous practice of early access for my $1+ Patreon subscribers, and then release to the general public a few days after. On Monday, August 31st, $1+ Patreon subscribers will get to read page 115, and on Thursday, September 3rd it’ll be available to the general public across Patreon, Tumblr, and the Valley of the Silk Sky website. I’ll also post the pages here on Studio NDR as I have done in the past, but the priority goes to the other sites listed first, so if you are impatient those are your best choices!
New pages will drop on Mondays for $1+ Patreon subscribers, and on Thursdays for the general public.
So, yet another a reminder to get caught up on the story so far if you haven’t already done so!
You can read the whole thing online on the Valley of the Silk Sky website (or here on Studio NDR) or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Please note that the events in chapter 13 immediately follow the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Behold, three more installments of my series of the Most Worst Puns I am able to muster! These will be the last Taxo Unbos for an unspecified amount of time, as I will be shifting gears to coloring Chapter 13 of Valley of the Silk Sky, which I expect will keep me pretty occupied. You can keep up with my progress on that by following my Patreon!
But now, some terrible puns. Click through to their individual pages for yet more punnery and shenanigans:
Yes, I do indeed continue to inflict new Taxonomically Unbound comics upon the world! Just in case you had the temerity to forget, these are my single-panel comics featuring the Most Worst Puns I have managed to devise for your amusement and/or suffering.
I sometimes even remember to add them to this, my very own website that I have maintained since the turn of the century. But if you are, for some reason, desperate to see them as they drop, your best bet is to follow my Patreon, which you can do for free! Or you can pay me, that would be super neat, honestly. I do always appreciate folks who wanna toss a buck or two my way! But I do usually post new finished work as free posts, so feel free to follow in whatever way suits you best.
The show has a new location this year, Schoolyard, located at 1115 Acoma Street. It’s on Saturday, May 9th, and runs from 11AM – 7PM, and it’s free to attend! If you’re gonna be in the Denver area, hit us up and check out all the indie comic goodness on display.
But first, may I point you to this Patreon blog post about my 25th Tranniversary. I thought it would be worthwhile to share a piece I wrote about navigating the experience of trying to access trans health care 25 years ago, and my impressions of the dangers we navigate today based on my experiences in existing as trans for the last quarter century.
Anyhow, on to the new Taxonomically Unbound comics!
I actually made these a couple of months back and had posted them to my Patreon, but I’ve finally gotten around to adding them here on the ol’ website like it’s the early aughts. I’ve also got some new ones in the works, so there is more yet to come!
Here they are for your convenience, or hit up the Taxo Unbo page for yet more pun absurdity.
TL;DR: You can now snag a copy of my new zine from my Ko-Fi shop! Neat!
I first started making trans comics over 25 years ago, and while some have seen publication in anthologies here and there, I didn’t actually have any kind of collected print version of my very earliest works. I don’t even have them on my website anymore; I’d taken them down when I streamlined this site to be more of a portfolio and less of a giant dump of literally every comic I’d ever created. The art style of these early comics doesn’t reflect my current style, and over the years the topics I’d covered in them have drifted out of contemporary relevance.
But I’m a strong believer in archiving artifacts of marginalized communities. Jokes about binding from a quarter century ago might not be relevant to a young trans person’s experience today, but it might well be of historical interest to a young trans person who wants to know more about what trans folks of previous generations had navigated.
So I decided to put together a zine of those old comics, but with annotations to offer more context for those now-outdated topics. Explanations of deprecated terminology, cultural practices that have fallen by the wayside, and why I was mad at Norah Vincent in 2001.
You can now obtain a copy of this zine for your very own self! It’s available in my Ko-Fi shop, and, of course, at any show I’m tabling at. Hooray!
As previously threatened, I have added several new Taxonomically Unbound comics to this here website. So if you need some thoroughly frivolous puns and other silly jokes, hit up that link! Here’s one of the new ones, for your edification:
See? Utterly absurd ridiculosity.
I’ve been posting these incrementally on my Patreon, so if you’d like to see them as they come out, that’s probably the most reliable method just at the moment. I’ve been doing them as free posts, but obviously you’re more than welcome to throw me some dollars if you are so inclined. It does genuinely help push me to keep doing these.
Anyhow, I have lots more puns to make comics out of, so stay tuned for more!
I have absolutely fallen off the wagon as far as updating my website goes, but I am indeed working on new things and have slowly begun sharing them on my Patreon. I’ll add the new Taxonomically Unbound comics here as well just as soon as I remember how to do that (it’s complicated here under the hood).
I’ve also been working on a new zine, a collection of my earliest trans comics, with annotations to note the ways trans culture has shifted and changed in the quarter century since I came out. This zine will debut at Pride in Panels, a queer comics convention with free admission being held at the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch on February 15, 2026. Here, for your edification, is the cover of the new book (whose contents I am still refining down to the last typo):
ANYWAY. Sorry about the radio silence. 2025 was kind of a lot, as you may perhaps be aware if you know anything of what has been going on in America, which probably you do. It’s been hard to focus on things like “remember to update website.”
But I’m very much looking forward to the Pride in Panels show, and will try to remember to add other shows to my events calendar as they get confirmed!
From 2004-2005, I did a weekly editorial cartoon on queer topics of the day for the Texas Triangle (later rebranded as TXT Newsmagazine). In 2017 I put together a collected edition of these cartoons, mostly for archival purposes. I didn’t think a book of comics about topical issues from many years ago was going to sell gangbusters, and I was right. It’s by far my worst-selling book. But I still felt like it was important to keep this material available, especially as queer newspapers around the country went into decline and ceased publication altogether.
When I reread these comics as I assembled the collection, I was struck by how much Trumpism was merely a natural progression from Bushism. And so the value of archiving this material increased: a two-year timeline of proto-Trump Republicanism that was never going to be preserved in any fashion if I didn’t preserve it myself.
One thing the right-wing Christians who funded Project 2025 want to do is to label all mention of queer and trans people as pornography so it can be banned as Bad For The Children. These comics are decidedly not pornographic in any way, shape, or form, but it would still be fodder for the wave of censorship that’s coming.
There’s a push now to start archiving queer media as much as possible. This book is currently available both as a digital download and a print book. If you would like to do your own archiving, you can get it here: http://www.studiondr.com/comics/editorial-cartoons/
