Space Squid

26/05/2025

We have just put up new t-shirts based on FIRST THEY CAME anti-Nazi poem, encouraging people to fight for the rights of others and the othered. We don't usually get political, but these are abnormal times. 100% of profits will be donated to the ACLU. Light and dark variants on 100% US-made slavery-free cotton. Share if you feel so inclined - contact us at [email protected] for details or partnerships. https://space-squid.printify.me/

26/12/2024

Your AI overlords demand that you visit https://www.spacesquid.com right now to read our 3 new FREE stories and enjoy our new Star Wars cartoon! (Click on BODY BLOWS.) Happy holidays! (No AI was used in the creation of the actual stories and art but we had to share this disturbing vid.)

21/12/2024

New Squid AI video. We don't know what's funnier - the way the companion squid morphs into the helmet of our gallant space soldier, or the burping frogship that photobombs the whole affair.

Talk about AI hallucinations... I feel dizzy!

30/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving, Squid Nation!

MY CABBAGES!!!

01/09/2024

Also, if you want to make SURE you get one of our limited run of our annual best-of-the-year full color print issue, aka ISSUE TWENTY, go to https://ko-fi.com/thespacesquid/commissions and preorder your copy. We're only printing 50 this year, and some of those have to go to our editors and writers.

Ko-fi Commissions Open! Click to see Space Squid's commission menu.

01/09/2024

Did you say you want ISSUE 20 T-SHIRTS?!?

As requested by NYT bestselling author Jack Conner... we've got new t-shirts to celebrate Space Squid issue 20 and ArmadilloCon Convention! Only $15 plus shipping at https://www.ebay.com/itm/335556300477 (note that we won't have any of these in stock at Armadillocon, but we'll have other shirts).

26/08/2024

Are you guys ready for a little bit of an ArmadilloCon Convention in Austin, Texas?
We might be getting there. This will be issue 20 of the Squid. Cover preview right here.

26/08/2024

There's an amazing new story from Squid favorite Kelly Luce (Pull Me Under, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail) at our website! https://www.spacesquid.com/funny-stories/ugliest-girl-story/ Read it before it goes away!

Need funny stories 4 brainhole? Free scifi weird tales? Maybe some w**d scifi-horror? Read "The Ugliest Girl at Marcy’s Wedding Pavilion!"

31/05/2024

Anybody wanna be a movie extra at Willie Nelson's Spicewood ranch next week? Or at Austin city council? It's a movie about Austinites fighting back against greedy developers. Email [email protected] for details.

16/05/2024

New stories are live! https://www.spacesquid.com/funny-stories/nascent-magic/

Including a great tentacle-themed cartoon from 3x Bram Stoker-award winner Christina Sng.

And the stories? Funny stories 4 brainhole u need? Got 2 stories yes. One, bad summoning means weird growth. Two, bad egg means weird growth. Wootz!

Funny stories 4 brainhole u need? Got 2 stories yes. One, bad summoning means weird growth. Two, bad egg means weird growth. Wootz!

26/03/2024

I asked my Google dumb speaker to "play the most danceable songs you've got" and this was the very first song it queued up

Pink Floyd - Comfortably numbIt's obviously not my song , so i am not going to take any creds for it ..I know the song isn't from the dark side of the moon.I...

11/03/2024

I wrote this book with Nicky Drayden, it's about Austin and the upcoming eclipse. I would like you to buy it, which you need to do now, because maybe the sun won't come back after the eclipse (you can't prove that it won't), and this will help you to cope with that.

You too can own a copy of the first novella in the Deep Austin series (The Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky). Now available as an ebook! You can get it for the special eclipse-themed price of $4.08 (get it?). How low is that price? It’s less than half the price of the cover charge […]