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Sending a copy to my niece & nephew!
This holiday season, why not give your kid the gift of becoming obsessed with @dc.com's magical characters so they spend the first 30 years of their comic book career desperately trying to do a book with all of them and then finally getting to do that book!
DC's MISFITS OF MAGIC!
By me!
DC's MISFITS OF MAGIC!
By me!
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sending a copy to my niece & nephew!
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Just emailed Grove Atlantic with info and documentation on this scam, about which I've gotten two recent reports. It's being run by publishing scammer WestPage Press. Impersonating publishers with fake contract offers is a very common ploy for this type of scam.
ICYMI #WritingCommunity Grove Atlantic is trying to track down scammers, and if you've encountered them, they'd like your help
cc @victoriastrauss.com
cc @victoriastrauss.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just emailed Grove Atlantic with info and documentation on this scam, about which I've gotten two recent reports. It's being run by publishing scammer WestPage Press. Impersonating publishers with fake contract offers is a very common ploy for this type of scam.
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Oh wow that's a lot more than the last time I did this
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Oh wow that's a lot more than the last time I did this
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first posted this ten years ago (over *there*) and it’s haunted my notifications ever since
“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
first posted this ten years ago (over *there*) and it’s haunted my notifications ever since
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Just showed up in the mail: a proof copy of @darkhorse.com's physical collection of LAVENDER JACK VOLUME 1! I sort of can't believe how good it looks. It's HEFTY, too. They tell me FOC is Monday so if you haven't preordered yet I highly encourage it: www.darkhorse.com/books/3016-7...
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just showed up in the mail: a proof copy of @darkhorse.com's physical collection of LAVENDER JACK VOLUME 1! I sort of can't believe how good it looks. It's HEFTY, too. They tell me FOC is Monday so if you haven't preordered yet I highly encourage it: www.darkhorse.com/books/3016-7...
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Palooka-Ville #1
Drawn & Quarterly, 1991
"I Should'a Ran", by Seth.
Drawn & Quarterly, 1991
"I Should'a Ran", by Seth.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Palooka-Ville #1
Drawn & Quarterly, 1991
"I Should'a Ran", by Seth.
Drawn & Quarterly, 1991
"I Should'a Ran", by Seth.
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If you saw the sandstorm scene in Lazarus: Fallen #6 and are not sure how I created the balloon effects, I wrote out a tutorial for @rogue151.bsky.social in the thread below. Don't click if you don't want to know how I pull a rabbit out of a hat -- it's not that exciting once you see the technique.
Random comics thing that makes me happy: I’m rereading last week’s Lazarus and I love what I’m guessing @airy.bsky.social did with the speech bubbles here. It conveys in such a fun what the characters trying to talk and it getting jumbled in a sandstorm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you saw the sandstorm scene in Lazarus: Fallen #6 and are not sure how I created the balloon effects, I wrote out a tutorial for @rogue151.bsky.social in the thread below. Don't click if you don't want to know how I pull a rabbit out of a hat -- it's not that exciting once you see the technique.
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Happy Birthday to the late, great Yakima Canutt, born Enos Edward Canutt 130 years ago today
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Yakima Canutt, born Enos Edward Canutt 130 years ago today
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All Stars #1
Golden Gate Features Inc, 1965
Cover by Steve Ditko.
Golden Gate Features Inc, 1965
Cover by Steve Ditko.
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
All Stars #1
Golden Gate Features Inc, 1965
Cover by Steve Ditko.
Golden Gate Features Inc, 1965
Cover by Steve Ditko.
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In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
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I prefer Roger Zelazny's method: there's an address in Poughkeepsie he sends off to for a page of ideas, which he leaves out on the back step in the evening with milk and cookes (plus a typewriter and a ream of blank paper) and the next morning he finds a manuscript in its place.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I prefer Roger Zelazny's method: there's an address in Poughkeepsie he sends off to for a page of ideas, which he leaves out on the back step in the evening with milk and cookes (plus a typewriter and a ream of blank paper) and the next morning he finds a manuscript in its place.
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I hung out in this room, with this man, one delightful afternoon.
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I hung out in this room, with this man, one delightful afternoon.
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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DD #51 interior pages…
October 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
DD #51 interior pages…
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Mais où sommes-nous ?!
Tandis que les néo-nazis paradent impunément dans nos rues et nos media, on expulse ... une dessinatrice antifasciste qui se rendait à un festival de BD !!!
Qui exactement a ordonné cette scandaleuse expulsion ?
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
Tandis que les néo-nazis paradent impunément dans nos rues et nos media, on expulse ... une dessinatrice antifasciste qui se rendait à un festival de BD !!!
Qui exactement a ordonné cette scandaleuse expulsion ?
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
Elle serait une « menace grave pour l’ordre public français »... La dessinatrice italienne Elena Mistrello arrêtée à Toulouse et expulsée de France - L'Humanité
Invitée au festival BD Colomiers, l’illustratrice de BD a été arrêtée à l’aéroport de Toulouse le 21 novembre dernier. Elle avait participé en juin 2023 aux commémorations...
www.humanite.fr
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Mais où sommes-nous ?!
Tandis que les néo-nazis paradent impunément dans nos rues et nos media, on expulse ... une dessinatrice antifasciste qui se rendait à un festival de BD !!!
Qui exactement a ordonné cette scandaleuse expulsion ?
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
Tandis que les néo-nazis paradent impunément dans nos rues et nos media, on expulse ... une dessinatrice antifasciste qui se rendait à un festival de BD !!!
Qui exactement a ordonné cette scandaleuse expulsion ?
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
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Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
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There's a large-ish collection of his sketches posted at comicartfans. www.comicartfans.com/comic-artist...
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
There's a large-ish collection of his sketches posted at comicartfans. www.comicartfans.com/comic-artist...
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that I lived long enough to see a Julie Doucet stamp
this is great
this is great
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
that I lived long enough to see a Julie Doucet stamp
this is great
this is great
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It strikes me -- not for the first time, but, well, I'm thinking about it now -- that it's kind of astounding that DC put so much trust in Julie Schwartz in the mid-70s, at a time Marvel was eating DC's lunch and comics sales overall were declining, and Julie just didn't seem to be trying very hard.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It strikes me -- not for the first time, but, well, I'm thinking about it now -- that it's kind of astounding that DC put so much trust in Julie Schwartz in the mid-70s, at a time Marvel was eating DC's lunch and comics sales overall were declining, and Julie just didn't seem to be trying very hard.
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I've now seen things you people wouldn't believe: I was about to start watching Blade Runner when I came across this. 👌
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I've now seen things you people wouldn't believe: I was about to start watching Blade Runner when I came across this. 👌
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More Ryan sook legion to drool over. Page after page…
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
More Ryan sook legion to drool over. Page after page…
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Happy Birthday to the late Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt 138 years ago today
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt 138 years ago today
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Creepiest screen Frankenstein, weirdest Dracula, and elder statesman vampire in BLADE. A legend.
RIP.
RIP.
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Creepiest screen Frankenstein, weirdest Dracula, and elder statesman vampire in BLADE. A legend.
RIP.
RIP.