Dirk Deppey
@deppey.bsky.social
Former Comics Journal guy.
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Basically marking the account to remind of myself of the last time I was here, the next time I'm here...
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Basically marking the account to remind of myself of the last time I was here, the next time I'm here...
A new laptop led me to go through my old collection of my TCJ writings for the first time in fifteen years. Holy shit: Including the Journalista entries, I wrote over a thousand pieces for The Comics Journal in eight years. No wonder I was exhausted by the end of it.
March 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A new laptop led me to go through my old collection of my TCJ writings for the first time in fifteen years. Holy shit: Including the Journalista entries, I wrote over a thousand pieces for The Comics Journal in eight years. No wonder I was exhausted by the end of it.
Christ on a bender, I stop following comics for just fifteen short years and Diamond Distributors files for bankruptcy:
www.tcj.com/a-new-chapte...
www.tcj.com/a-new-chapte...
A New Chapter (11) for Diamond - The Comics Journal
A follow up to Diamond's January 14, 2025 chapter 11 filing.
www.tcj.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Christ on a bender, I stop following comics for just fifteen short years and Diamond Distributors files for bankruptcy:
www.tcj.com/a-new-chapte...
www.tcj.com/a-new-chapte...
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as promised/threatened, a new essay from me. this one is on hüsker dü's new day rising, and it's about finding joy in the midst of a frozen winter. music keeps us warm ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
Finding Joy in New Day Rising
New Day Rising woke something in me. Every song brought with it a swell of resurgence, and of the need to feel everything deeply.
ihavethatonvinyl.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
as promised/threatened, a new essay from me. this one is on hüsker dü's new day rising, and it's about finding joy in the midst of a frozen winter. music keeps us warm ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
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Oh no! We forgot to learn from history
February 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oh no! We forgot to learn from history
One would hope that whoever was producing the lame sitcom currently being filmed in the White House would at least hire better writers...
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report
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February 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One would hope that whoever was producing the lame sitcom currently being filmed in the White House would at least hire better writers...
Two hundred dollars? I swear I didn't intend to create a collectible. Hell, in my last issue of the print version, I wrote the most complete history available of how collectibles almost destroyed the comics industry in the 1990s, but here we are.
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stuartngbooks.com/products/the...
The Comics Journal #269
The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. This shoujo manga issue is devoted to exploring and explaining the "Girls don't like comics" phenomenon. Includes an interview with pioneering shoujo cartoon...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Two hundred dollars? I swear I didn't intend to create a collectible. Hell, in my last issue of the print version, I wrote the most complete history available of how collectibles almost destroyed the comics industry in the 1990s, but here we are.
stuartngbooks.com/products/the...
stuartngbooks.com/products/the...
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Feiffer always knew
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Feiffer always knew
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The iconic Ming the Merciless (not yet named) first appeared in week 3 of "Flash Gordon" on January 21, 1934:
January 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The iconic Ming the Merciless (not yet named) first appeared in week 3 of "Flash Gordon" on January 21, 1934:
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We don’t talk enough about post-nut stupidity. The first thing I want to do after sex is get on a skateboard and I don’t even know how to skateboard.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We don’t talk enough about post-nut stupidity. The first thing I want to do after sex is get on a skateboard and I don’t even know how to skateboard.
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I had the honor and the pleasure of interviewing Jules Feiffer in 2008 www.avclub.com/jules-feiffe...
January 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I had the honor and the pleasure of interviewing Jules Feiffer in 2008 www.avclub.com/jules-feiffe...
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Jules Feiffer completely innovated political cartoons, expanding beyond one-panel punchlines and visual tropes by featuring ordinary people, often in monologue, being riled, resigned, grousing—and dancing.
Straight up one of the best to ever do it.
Straight up one of the best to ever do it.
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Jules Feiffer completely innovated political cartoons, expanding beyond one-panel punchlines and visual tropes by featuring ordinary people, often in monologue, being riled, resigned, grousing—and dancing.
Straight up one of the best to ever do it.
Straight up one of the best to ever do it.
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Shouting out this piece on Defector. Absolutely keep supporting independent journalism. defector.com/the-trans-sp...
The Trans Sports Ban Portends Something Much Darker | Defector
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban trans girls and women from every level of sport, in every state in America. The text of the cynically titled “Protection of Wo...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Shouting out this piece on Defector. Absolutely keep supporting independent journalism. defector.com/the-trans-sp...
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ICYMI yesterday:
New episode of my podcast is up!
In it I discuss the first thirty years of the Brazilian comic book industry & its first comic book, O Tico-Tico. Also talk about Richard F. Outcault, always hustlin'; a science fantasy version of "Little Nemo"; and Eric Hobsbawm.
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
In it I discuss the first thirty years of the Brazilian comic book industry & its first comic book, O Tico-Tico. Also talk about Richard F. Outcault, always hustlin'; a science fantasy version of "Little Nemo"; and Eric Hobsbawm.
www.patreon.com/posts/500-is...
500 Issues, Episode Eleven: "The Placid Shores of the Ipiranga": O Tico-Tico #1 | Jess Nevins
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January 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
ICYMI yesterday:
Christ. Please tell me that I wasn't absolutely correct about the eventual fate of the Direst Market, doomed to a slow death by servicing the remaining comics fans from the 1990s and no one else, as explicitly predicted in The Comics Journal twenty fucking years ago. Please tell me I was wrong...
Chris Claremont and Damian Couceiro return to a classic with WOLVERINE AND KITTY PRYDE. A return to the original story from the 1980s. #Marvel #Comics #Classics
Chris Claremont is back with WOLVERINE AND KITTY PRYDE
Chris Claremont returns with artist Damian Couceiro for WOLVERINE AND KITTY PRYDE, a continuation of the ’80s Kitty Pryde and Wolverine.
www.comicsbeat.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Christ. Please tell me that I wasn't absolutely correct about the eventual fate of the Direst Market, doomed to a slow death by servicing the remaining comics fans from the 1990s and no one else, as explicitly predicted in The Comics Journal twenty fucking years ago. Please tell me I was wrong...
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you review, cover, and criticize a blitzkrieg of anti-American totalitarianism? One order, one law, one executive act at a time. Pace yourselves.
January 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you review, cover, and criticize a blitzkrieg of anti-American totalitarianism? One order, one law, one executive act at a time. Pace yourselves.
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Transcript of a 2007 talk with Jules Feiffer (originally published in the International Journal of Comic Art): ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-e...
An Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007
The great cartoonist Jules Feiffer has passed away. IJOCA ran this interview in print in Fall 2008. An Evening with Jules Feiffer By Alan ...
ijoca.blogspot.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Transcript of a 2007 talk with Jules Feiffer (originally published in the International Journal of Comic Art): ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-e...
If you seriously believe that Donald Trump will be the last Teddy Roosevelt that voters put in the White House, I don't know what to tell you.
[File under "Why I'm a limited-government libertarian." See also "growing up gay in Arizona at the wrong time." Idiots get power from time to time, y'know?]
[File under "Why I'm a limited-government libertarian." See also "growing up gay in Arizona at the wrong time." Idiots get power from time to time, y'know?]
January 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you seriously believe that Donald Trump will be the last Teddy Roosevelt that voters put in the White House, I don't know what to tell you.
[File under "Why I'm a limited-government libertarian." See also "growing up gay in Arizona at the wrong time." Idiots get power from time to time, y'know?]
[File under "Why I'm a limited-government libertarian." See also "growing up gay in Arizona at the wrong time." Idiots get power from time to time, y'know?]
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BREAKING: Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.
This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.
#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/x0HurT2s
This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.
#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/x0HurT2s
January 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
BREAKING: Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.
This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.
#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/x0HurT2s
This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.
#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/x0HurT2s
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Seeing this going around makes me update an old line from the late P.J. O’Rourke, and propose a rsting scale for posts of Dumb, Very Dumb, and Naomi Wolf.
January 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Seeing this going around makes me update an old line from the late P.J. O’Rourke, and propose a rsting scale for posts of Dumb, Very Dumb, and Naomi Wolf.
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