What do you do?

• I'm a cartoonist! For 12 years I published a weekly webcomic, first Finn and Charlie Are Hitched and later Muddlers Beat; I have recently resurrected Muddlers Beat to add occasional comics. I also make minicomics from time to time; recent ones include my collection of mini memoirs, Teeny Tony and my story of grief, That Night (This Must Be the Place)
• I'm a DJ! I help to run a community radio station called CHIRP Radio. You can listen online, you can play us over a smart speaker (just say, "play chirp radio on tune in"), you can listen through our phone apps, and you tune in at 107.1fm on Chicago's north side. (We have what's called a Low Power FM license, which mean our terrestrial signal does not stretch very far.) I DJ a weekly radio show at CHIRP Radio every Friday morning from 6-9am.
• I'm a Product Designer! I design software, and lead teams designing software. I love this work, esp[ecially complicated stuff.
• I'm... a Linguist? Well, at least, I have a master's degree in linguistics. While I'm not working in academics, I do still read about language for funsies, and Linguistics very much informs my professional work.

Anything else?

I'm a widower&emdash;after 24 years together, my husband Eric died of cancer in 2015. I'm not afraid to talk about grief; we all go through it and it's important to talk about that. I live with my boyfriend Joe in a cozy cottage on the edge of Ravenswood in Chicago, and keep myself enormously busy.

I make a really good pie. If you're lucky, you'll get to eat one.

The best place to see what's up with me is Bluesky (@tonybreed.bsky.social). You can also find me on Instagram (@tonybreed); you can follow my comics on Facebook. I even occasionally post to Mastodon (@tonybreed.mastodon.social)

I used to have a newsletter, but then Tinyletter shut down and took my mailing list with it. Someday maybe I'll start a new one. I promise I will definitely forget to update this site. Why, right now I am updating it for the first time in 15 years! (Dec 17 2025)

The future is uncertain and it is folly to predict.

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