Kristen Haas Curtis
@hellomizk.bsky.social
Cartoonist, Chaucerian (Dr.!), pigeon enthusiast. Co-founder of @guildmedmak.bsky.social
a society for medievalist makers and creatives. Hi!
a society for medievalist makers and creatives. Hi!
Pinned
Less than two weeks until @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social and I’ve spent the weeknd excitedly preparing! I’ll be at Table C12a in the Comixology Hall and also hosting a Saturday panel on comics and medieval texts (SWOON). I’ll have copies of a new book and some other fun stuff for you, so say hello!
So I have been listening to Suede since like 1995 but never seen them live. Turns out they are playing a TINY venue in Zurich in March and I nearly hyperventilated buying tickets. Interrupted my bath to place to order (serious business!!).
December 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So I have been listening to Suede since like 1995 but never seen them live. Turns out they are playing a TINY venue in Zurich in March and I nearly hyperventilated buying tickets. Interrupted my bath to place to order (serious business!!).
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Also we need more alt/small press/self-published comics from outside the UK submitted for review at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social PDFs are fine (and those of you who sent us stuff post-Thought Bubble may well be on the list for early 2026 coverage.) www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/
Contact us – Broken Frontier
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December 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Also we need more alt/small press/self-published comics from outside the UK submitted for review at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social PDFs are fine (and those of you who sent us stuff post-Thought Bubble may well be on the list for early 2026 coverage.) www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/
Merry Christmas and happy cat-wrangling! Can’t share this year’s card until they have gone out in the mail, but here’s a previous card that still feels true today!
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Merry Christmas and happy cat-wrangling! Can’t share this year’s card until they have gone out in the mail, but here’s a previous card that still feels true today!
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
Want to teache young people creativitye? Problem-solvinge? Teamworke? Awarenesse of the power and influence of language? Wayes of workinge thrugh the beautiful and terrifyinge and complex contradictiouns and ambiguities of thys worlde? Teache them poetrye. Teache them a lot of poetrye.
December 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Want to teache young people creativitye? Problem-solvinge? Teamworke? Awarenesse of the power and influence of language? Wayes of workinge thrugh the beautiful and terrifyinge and complex contradictiouns and ambiguities of thys worlde? Teache them poetrye. Teache them a lot of poetrye.
@drisaac.bsky.social Is this you just hanging out in the OED?!? SO COOOOOOL.
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
@drisaac.bsky.social Is this you just hanging out in the OED?!? SO COOOOOOL.
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New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.
New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.
I will be there! So looking forward to this!
'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow
A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I will be there! So looking forward to this!
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Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂
Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂
You look like you could use some cozy in your day…
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
You look like you could use some cozy in your day…
Looking for a little upbeat reading with your morning coffee/tea/wheat grass/flat soda gulped right from the bottle (wait, that’s just me?!)? Check out what the Guild has been up to!
As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Year in Review: 2025 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
On the 27th of April 2024, Eleanor Baker and I (Kristen) met at Oxford’s Vaults & Garden cafe to start scheming (image above taken from my comic diary). Laura Varnam joined in the scheming not lon...
www.guildmedmak.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Looking for a little upbeat reading with your morning coffee/tea/wheat grass/flat soda gulped right from the bottle (wait, that’s just me?!)? Check out what the Guild has been up to!
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
SUCH a thrill to read this! I’m so proud of the community that we have built- huge thanks to all who have joined us!!! 🥹💞💪 And huge thanks to Kristen & Eleanor for inviting me into the scheming! @hellomizk.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Year in Review: 2025 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
On the 27th of April 2024, Eleanor Baker and I (Kristen) met at Oxford’s Vaults & Garden cafe to start scheming (image above taken from my comic diary). Laura Varnam joined in the scheming not lon...
www.guildmedmak.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
SUCH a thrill to read this! I’m so proud of the community that we have built- huge thanks to all who have joined us!!! 🥹💞💪 And huge thanks to Kristen & Eleanor for inviting me into the scheming! @hellomizk.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).
Over the moon about our glorious @guildmedmak.bsky.social ! What a first year we’ve had (and in only eight-ish months?!?)
As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social.
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉
Year in Review: 2025 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
On the 27th of April 2024, Eleanor Baker and I (Kristen) met at Oxford’s Vaults & Garden cafe to start scheming (image above taken from my comic diary). Laura Varnam joined in the scheming not lon...
www.guildmedmak.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Over the moon about our glorious @guildmedmak.bsky.social ! What a first year we’ve had (and in only eight-ish months?!?)
Good moooooorning!!
December 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Good moooooorning!!
I have accomplished approximately one million tiny tasks today. Hurrah!
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I have accomplished approximately one million tiny tasks today. Hurrah!
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
L'imposteur - ça avance cette thèse ?
Une BD sur l'expérience doctorale
fr.ulule.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
L'imposteur - ça avance cette thèse ?
Une BD sur l'expérience doctorale
fr.ulule.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer...
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer...
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?'
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Fredman — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...
www.guildmedmak.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?'
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇
Reposted by Kristen Haas Curtis
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A great gift for your favorite doodler AND FOR YOURSELF!
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December 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A great gift for your favorite doodler AND FOR YOURSELF!
@aavrilart.bsky.social Hi - any chance you can send me a quick DM? Having problems emailing!
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@aavrilart.bsky.social Hi - any chance you can send me a quick DM? Having problems emailing!