tyler page
@tylerpage.bsky.social
Eisner nom'd cartoonist + educator in MPLS
Creator of EXTRA LARGE (NEW!) and BUTTON PUSHER (both from First Second)
ADHD, science, education, social + civic issues, etc.
Rep: Britt Siess
Links and Other Stuff: https://linktr.ee/tylerpagecomics
Creator of EXTRA LARGE (NEW!) and BUTTON PUSHER (both from First Second)
ADHD, science, education, social + civic issues, etc.
Rep: Britt Siess
Links and Other Stuff: https://linktr.ee/tylerpagecomics
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tyler page
@tylerpage.bsky.social
· Mar 19
📚NEW INTRO POST📚
I'm a Minneapolis-based cartoonist and educator. I've cartooned about my experiences growing up with #ADHD in RAISED ON RITALIN and BUTTON PUSHER.
My newest book, EXTRA LARGE, deals with bullying, body image issues, and gendered expectations.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I'm a Minneapolis-based cartoonist and educator. I've cartooned about my experiences growing up with #ADHD in RAISED ON RITALIN and BUTTON PUSHER.
My newest book, EXTRA LARGE, deals with bullying, body image issues, and gendered expectations.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Books for you or your kids or your nephews, nieces, second cousins, etc.
EXTRA LARGE: we all dealt w bullies and we all feel weird in our bodies at one point or another.
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BUTTON PUSHER: growing up w ADHD.
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EXTRA LARGE: we all dealt w bullies and we all feel weird in our bodies at one point or another.
bookshop.org/p/books/extr...
BUTTON PUSHER: growing up w ADHD.
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Free shipping from Bookshop.org!
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Books for you or your kids or your nephews, nieces, second cousins, etc.
EXTRA LARGE: we all dealt w bullies and we all feel weird in our bodies at one point or another.
bookshop.org/p/books/extr...
BUTTON PUSHER: growing up w ADHD.
bookshop.org/p/books/butt...
Free shipping from Bookshop.org!
EXTRA LARGE: we all dealt w bullies and we all feel weird in our bodies at one point or another.
bookshop.org/p/books/extr...
BUTTON PUSHER: growing up w ADHD.
bookshop.org/p/books/butt...
Free shipping from Bookshop.org!
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Ai Slop should be reframed as pollution
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Ai Slop should be reframed as pollution
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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My special Thanksgiving toon for CALÓ News. Please share, and support CALÓ News at calonews.com/donate and get my 2026 Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com .
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My special Thanksgiving toon for CALÓ News. Please share, and support CALÓ News at calonews.com/donate and get my 2026 Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com .
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Beths
Neko Case
Dillinger Four
Rilo Kiley
Steve Miller Band
The Beths
Neko Case
Dillinger Four
Rilo Kiley
Steve Miller Band
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Danger (twice)
Clark
Cosmo Sheldrake
Devotchka (twice)
Coachella 2010
Danger (twice)
Clark
Cosmo Sheldrake
Devotchka (twice)
Coachella 2010
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Beths
Neko Case
Dillinger Four
Rilo Kiley
Steve Miller Band
The Beths
Neko Case
Dillinger Four
Rilo Kiley
Steve Miller Band
The AI bubble needs to burst soon, I just hope it doesn’t take the rest of us with it. No slop! No sloppers!
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The AI bubble needs to burst soon, I just hope it doesn’t take the rest of us with it. No slop! No sloppers!
I noticed yesterday over in the "prose authors" section of BlueSky they're also talking about this and the answer is "most authors have day jobs."
Lots of good talk lately about how making comics is funded. Do you have a spouse with a good job? Family money? A supportive national arts culture?
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I noticed yesterday over in the "prose authors" section of BlueSky they're also talking about this and the answer is "most authors have day jobs."
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Continuing from @pioneerpress.bsky.social article above.
1) When cops/agents attack calm politicians and reporters, you know something is wrong.
2)The apparent level of violence on display is alarming. What happened right before this arrest that requires immediate hospitalization?
📸: John Autey
1) When cops/agents attack calm politicians and reporters, you know something is wrong.
2)The apparent level of violence on display is alarming. What happened right before this arrest that requires immediate hospitalization?
📸: John Autey
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Continuing from @pioneerpress.bsky.social article above.
1) When cops/agents attack calm politicians and reporters, you know something is wrong.
2)The apparent level of violence on display is alarming. What happened right before this arrest that requires immediate hospitalization?
📸: John Autey
1) When cops/agents attack calm politicians and reporters, you know something is wrong.
2)The apparent level of violence on display is alarming. What happened right before this arrest that requires immediate hospitalization?
📸: John Autey
Fire and prosecute.
Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fire and prosecute.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
I love the solution of combining two ideas that aren't quite there. Your ideas/concepts don't always have to stand alone!
Early drawings of Ollie! The first two are for a different pitch about a girl who adopts a hedgehog. I wanted her design and personality to also be hedgie-like.
I shared that with my agent alongside an autobio idea that wasn't quite working. She said, "well, what if you combined them?"
I shared that with my agent alongside an autobio idea that wasn't quite working. She said, "well, what if you combined them?"
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I love the solution of combining two ideas that aren't quite there. Your ideas/concepts don't always have to stand alone!
Here's a tip: you shouldn't be running a business if you can't (or don't want to) pay your staff (freelancers, etc.) a liveable wage.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Here's a tip: you shouldn't be running a business if you can't (or don't want to) pay your staff (freelancers, etc.) a liveable wage.
What a bunch of losers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What a bunch of losers.
What sort of a person carries water for an acknowledged murderer? What benefit do you get from that? If you plan and carry out a brutal murder of an innocent person that should be the first thing ever mentioned about you for the rest of time.
Assuming this is related to Ben Smith I was honestly shocked by this, an astonishing bit of bootlicking from top to bottom
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What sort of a person carries water for an acknowledged murderer? What benefit do you get from that? If you plan and carry out a brutal murder of an innocent person that should be the first thing ever mentioned about you for the rest of time.
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Math is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Math is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
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Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics
August 3, 2023 at 11:17 PM
Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics
As a direct comparison, my wife is a picture book author/illustrator. My advance for EXTRA LARGE (208 pages, 18+ months of work) was about the same as she typically gets for a 32-page book that she'll finish in 3-4 months.
The math doesn't make sense.
The math doesn't make sense.
"Let’s say 20 years ago the rate for a page of pencils was $150. People still get paid that."
My work is largely in the book market, buuuut yeah.
BOOM! recently reached out to offer an IP gig with the following rates:
script $50/page, pencils&inks $150/pg, colors $50/pg
My work is largely in the book market, buuuut yeah.
BOOM! recently reached out to offer an IP gig with the following rates:
script $50/page, pencils&inks $150/pg, colors $50/pg
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As a direct comparison, my wife is a picture book author/illustrator. My advance for EXTRA LARGE (208 pages, 18+ months of work) was about the same as she typically gets for a 32-page book that she'll finish in 3-4 months.
The math doesn't make sense.
The math doesn't make sense.
I can't overstate how important this St. Olaf College program was. Meeting @wardsutton.bsky.social and other artists like him shaped a lot of my thinking about what I wanted to do as an artist... 1/
A program that provides an up-close look at art in action in New York City
For four decades, the New York Art January Term program has enabled Oles to meet with a wide range of professionals — from painters and printmakers to graphic designers and museum curators — and ex…
wp.stolaf.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I can't overstate how important this St. Olaf College program was. Meeting @wardsutton.bsky.social and other artists like him shaped a lot of my thinking about what I wanted to do as an artist... 1/
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Miss the livestream event with Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden '16? You can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/LCiBsFg...
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Miss the livestream event with Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden '16? You can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/LCiBsFg...
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If you ever want to see more of something you read but don't feel like you can do anything about it because you're not an influencer or a publisher or a journalist, even just leaving a five star review online moves the needle. Even telling a friend "you'd like this too"!
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you ever want to see more of something you read but don't feel like you can do anything about it because you're not an influencer or a publisher or a journalist, even just leaving a five star review online moves the needle. Even telling a friend "you'd like this too"!
Lots of good talk lately about how making comics is funded. Do you have a spouse with a good job? Family money? A supportive national arts culture?
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Lots of good talk lately about how making comics is funded. Do you have a spouse with a good job? Family money? A supportive national arts culture?
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
OR
Maybe you the cartoonist is the one with the fulltime job? This is something I don't see talked about a lot and it's the position I'm in. So... 1/
Did a roundtable workshop at the @ncte.org conference where I presented this lesson on making a mini comic as a simple and disarming way to get students into storytelling and writing, along with a few suggested prompts. Link in bio! Download a print-quality PDF for use in your classrooms.
#ncte25
#ncte25
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Phones also default to having every notification on, constantly asking for your attention. Turn them all off!
People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.
We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Phones also default to having every notification on, constantly asking for your attention. Turn them all off!
Find out who they are, charge them, convict them. Please.
ICE's actions in Minnesota this last week are deeply disturbing. Masked agents in Northfield pulled a father out of a car at gunpoint and arrested him in front of his son. After, ICE claimed he attempted to drive over agents despite the fact that he was in the passenger seat.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Find out who they are, charge them, convict them. Please.