Erik Missio

@erikmissio

A real piece of work in progress. Comics and music and wrestling and soccer and nature and, look, probably family stuff. Almost Toronto. (he, him)

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Erik Missio@erikmissio· 15d

The only thing sadder than a pink-wrapped, straw-ready grocery-store coconut is how much i enjoyed it.

My hand holding a coconut that is wrapped in Pink Pink Pelican Tropicals branding, with a plastic straw and tap affixed.

The now unwrapped coconut (it’s brown husk already removed, leaving a smooth beige exterior, with a plastic tap and straw at the top

Erik Missio@erikmissio· 16d

This is lovely. Comics doesn’t always, always break your heart. (Added alt text.)

Dear Alec:
Your Mother tells me that you are in bed and are unable to work.

She also indicates that you are concerning yourself unnecess-
arily over your deadline.

When a guy is healthy end on his feet and doesn't produce his
work, we raise hell. But when he is flat on his back, that's another story.

It seems to me that the more you disturb yourself thinking about deadlines, the longer It's going to take you to get well, so relax and forget about it. National Comics will still manage to produce magazines. Of course, we will produce better ones when Toth is producing, but Toth won't produce until he relaxes, so relax.

If you run short of money, have your Mother give me a ring
and I will shoot over a check.

Your assignment for the moment, however, is to get better and
as quickly as you can. Everything else takes second place.

Sincerely,

Sheldon Mayer, Editor

NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· 19d

Also, parked across this kick-ass snapping turtle mural. 🐢

An alleyway garage door in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood with a cool-looking snapping turtle in a swamp with a red sky

Erik Missio@erikmissio· 19d

Goodbye, thank you, make someone else happy.

A big black rubbermaid container (or ikea knockoff) and black backpack filled with comics. They’re on the ground near a parked car and ready to be sold for very little mo ey that i promptly used to buy more comics as the beautiful cycle repeats

Erik Missio@erikmissio· 23d

This comic will heal me. (Very relatedly, does anyone know WHEN Joe Kessler’s A Caravan for a Queen is coming out from NYRC so I can finally over that one time where I could’ve bought Donkey from him at TCAF and failed to do so?) www.joekessler.co.uk/donkey

Double-page comics spread by Joe Kessler: kids playing in the bath while adult is helping

Double-page comics spread by Joe Kessler: someone one a horse! reds and greens and yellows like you’ve never seen

Double-page comics spread by Joe Kessler: bright yellow background as a herd of donkeys drink at an oasis

Double-page comics spread by Joe Kessler: Musicians and dancers and sis boom bah

Erik Missio@erikmissio· 28d

Loud backyard tenant makes an appearance.

A chipmunk on a rock surrounded by hosta and peony plants.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 13

My backyard has been blessed with a crow. Forced my family to eat dinner inside so we didn’t disturb our corvid friend. 🐦‍⬛

A beautiful black crow perched on the wood stairs leading to a pool. green foliage in background

A crow perched atop a blue umbrella in front of tall cedar bushes. you can see the reflection of pit lights in the image because o am taking this through my kitchen sliding door

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 12

Ok, mid-toast, i was reminded tomorrow is our 29th dating anniversary and our wedding anniversary is later this month. Anyway, my son looks like the personification of Argentina threw up on him.

My kid in the kitchen; he is wear Argentine socks, short, jacket; he is carrying a homemade AFA flag and pillow.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 12

Anyway, it’s our 21st wedding anniversary tomorrow. When Switzerland causes an upset even without Manzambi it’s possible my mouth will mean i am back on the market, though, I guess.

A photo of two people, immediately after getting married. The bride is in white and carrying a red bouquet. The writer of this alt text is in a tux and has more hair than he does 21 years later

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 9

My family isnt phased by much, but is absolutely terrified of our house centipedes. Still, they accept these guys are under my protection and forbidden from being messed with. So there will be a loud scream when one appears in a newly lit room & I run over to take a pic before it disappears again.

House centipede, hypnotic-lookibg chaos god, on a white wall

A tiny house centipede (juvénile or different species) on grey tile

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 8

not enough of you liked my carpenter bees pics, so here: enjoy a boring photo of a pair of water striders as punishment

Two little bugs, on the surface of the Rouge River, strutting about like arthopodic jesuses (jesii?) thanks to a combination of physics and magic.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 5

Went for a bike ride in between World Cup games and stumbled upon the neighbourhood’s new resident home-builder. (I always forget how huge beavers are.) 🦫

A beaver gnawing a fallen tree in front of the Rouge River in Markham, north of toronto. He’s obscured by trees and branches but also unmistakably a beaver

Beaver with his face obscured by a tree. Narrow river behind him. He’s in the trees.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 5

I forgot a day. I’ll double up with a zebra jumping spider and what the Seek app tells me is a black vine weevil and maybe no one will notice.

Tiny black and white spider climbing the sheer face of a wood post

The striped rump of a zebra jumping spider on a wood post

A black weevil on the photographer’s finger

Black and white little spider on wood. it’s a bad photo but these guys are fast and, like, i am just doomscrolling on a phone here; it’s not like i have macro photography equipment, gimme a break already

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 4

The thing about David v Goliath stories is that David does win. (i know it’s the hope that kills you, but also that hope is free. Allez les rouges.)

Bad closeup selfie of me in a Canada Soccer t-shirt in anxious preparation for the #CanMNT match against magnificent Morocco in today’s FIFA World Cup knockout match. on y va.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 4

And here’s my loudest.

Dashiell, a very hairy brown havanese dog, in my mudroom. He’s a good pup.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 3

Anyway, please look at Fifi, my most-quiet dependant. 🐢

The submerged head of a ouachita map turtle, cool yellow markings aplenty, peering at the viewer. She’s on her basking raft looking below underwater

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 3

My daughter’s collection: Bombito, Larin, Oso, Schaff, Max. i am only slightly envious.

Assorted blind-bag #CanMNT figures. Adorbs.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 3

Literally two minutes after we got home, the sky just opened up and pelted the street

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 3

Convinced my kid to bike with me to the library to pick up a bunch of comics in a heatwave after Dan Berry’s new podcast with Michael Lark convinced me (i’ve only read his Terminal City!) 🚲 Twenty minutes later, i am sweat-soaked to the bone and she’s back in her air-conditioned room on Instagram.

Im taking a selfie on a bicycle, wearing a black helmet cut off in the pic, a backpack, and a bright orange shirt with a turtle constellation and the words “Every child matters.” Background is trees, gravel path, and my daughter on a bike and in a teal helmet. It is really, really hot outside

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 3

Mentis.

A praying mantis (i am not smart enough to know my European from my Chinese species) looking green and resplendent on a grey floor

My fingers gingerly holding a mantis. In the background is a blurry green background from Rouge National Urban Park in Markham

A mantis on the gravel with shadows. These bugs are so weird looking

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 2

In deeper reflection, it was likely a long nose gar. Still: super exciting! (Please enjoy this correction which is absolutely meaningless to everyone else but was eating me up inside. As a reward: another photo of the Outlet River, connecting East Lake and Lake Ontario in Sandbanks Provincial Park.

River view from a standup paddleboard. Lined with reeds and lilly pads; trees along the shore.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 2

A chonky woodlouse isopod and a brown-lipped snail, posing like mismatched cop partners who just can’t get along but still get the job done in an 80s action movie.

A pillbug/woodlouse/rolypoly back to back with a much bigger yellow snail among black mulch

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jul 1

Masked hunter, unmasked hunter.

A masked hunter nymph (weird-shaped bug), covered in dust and dirt for camouflage (which is currently ineffective as it is on a bright red towel).

An adult masked hunter insect, an assassin bug, in the corner of a white/grey floor.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 30

Kicking off with two immortal enemies right beside me, locked in a death dance. Wasp v fly; choose your fighter.

Yellowjacket biting (?) and stinging a housefly.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 30

Have spent much of the last few days living the life aquatic. Guys, underwater > being on land. 🛶

My son, in a yellow PFD and Argentina bucket hat, paddling in a canoe on Macdonald Lake in Haliburton. We’re seeing him from my vantage point at the back of the canoe. he needs to j-stroke twice as hard because his lazy dad is taking photos. My wife and daughter are in a red canoe further ahead

A red canoe, with my wife and daughter, paddling Macdonald Lake in Haliburton. Trees alive and dead line the water’s edge

My son, on an inflatable standup paddleboard, on Mountain Lake near Minden

Me, yellow PFD and black rhino bandanna on my head, doing a selfie in a red canoe on Macdonald Lake in Haliburton. My son is also in the canoe, yellow PFD and Argentina bucket hat.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 22

🐢 🐾

Front right paw (?) of my ouachita map turtle, fifi, underwater, hanging off a float in her aquarium.

Front left paw/foot of a ouachita map turtle on a fake rock raft.

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 22

Kitties! 🦝

Two raccoons, the lower bigger one is probably non, in a leafy tree in my neighbour’s backyard in Markham, Ontario

Raccoon watching me from a leafy tree, north of Toronto

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 21

Been reading comics for more than four decades and still get surprised by pages that make me gasp in awe, in delight. Thank you, @kondoh-akino.bsky.social; thank you, @glacierbaybooks.com. glacierbaybooks.com/product/box-...

Full-page spread from “The Ladybug’s Requiem,” a short comic in the Kondoh Akino collection, Box Garden Beetle, published by Glacier Bay Books. A girl has climbed up a utility pole with stylized constellations in the night sky above. This large panel is separated vertically from the next by a string of buttons. The girl is in the lower panel, with a cat. “That continued for many days until: “This is the last one.”

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 15

Her team won a bronze for their division! I ended the game by going to Kensington for donuts and a comic book! We are BOTH champions. ~FIN

A big box of Krispy Kreme donuts and also a copy of the first volume of Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat that i picked up at The Beguiling

Erik Missio@erikmissio· Jun 14

“good morning” has given way to “awful afternoon.” Freezing in a downpour.