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James Asmus @ LACC K45
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he/him. writer. comics: SURVIVAL STREET, RICK and MORTY, Marvel, Image, more... | tv: Discovery, History | games: Marvel | books: Insight | rep D. Ellis Wilson @ Looking Glass Lit | https://linktr.ee/jamesasmus
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James Asmus @ LACC K45 @jamesasmus.bsky.social · Sep 17
🎭 I'm raising money for the local children's theater my kiddos work with!

Now 'til 9/28 ALL PROCEEDS from ko-fi.com/jamesasmus/shop keep these great folks operating + helping kids find their voice and confidence 💌

PLUS! Any order gets a BONUS surprise comic - orders $50+ get a bonus GRAPHIC NOVEL
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'Instead of “How are our attitudes being reflected in TV and film?” I think the better question is “How is pop culture attempting to shape and mold attitudes?”' -- @ninametz.bsky.social
The hollowness of Hollywood’s rich people stories
TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
AAAHHHH! Its incredibly heartening and thrilling anytime I see the series resonates enough with someone that they take the relationship to the next level 🤍👕✌️
mediaactivist.com Jay Baker (they/he) @mediaactivist.com · 4d
Having bought (and loved) every Survival Street comic there is, there was only one thing left to do: get the sweater - and let more people know about this inspired, innovative, and cautionary comic book from the brilliant @jamesasmus.bsky.social!
A sweater with the Survival Street characters peering through at the viewer.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Comics w/ Discounts (cont'd)

Gambit by:
@fabiannicieza.bsky.social / @yanickpaquette.bsky.social
@jamesasmus.bsky.social / @claymann.bsky.social

X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social / @davidmarquez.bsky.social

New Mutants by @bsienk.bsky.social

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel drops 8 sales + Mark Millar @ Dark Horse
In this week's Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops another 8 sales: Thanos, Captain Marvel (all of the Marvel Captains), Doctor Doom, Gambit, Dani Moonstar, Marvel 2099, Sabretooth and Echo. Pl...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
@nirlevie.bsky.social WOW your art is gorgeous!
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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tonygregori.bsky.social
Got my copies of the Stardust The Super Wizard anthology, my dear old buddy @jamesasmus.bsky.social & his 2 kids writes a short I drew & colored! Thank you to James, Van Jensen, & everyone else involved, the book looks great!
Stardust! Stardust pages A kick in the tush
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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zackquaintance.bsky.social
Anyway, we’re roughly $2,150 and 36 backers away from this goal with just 5 days left…tough? Yes. Impossible? No way

Help us get there now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...
Macabre Valley #1
A grindhouse Texas horror comic.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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nwmoca.bsky.social
We're a community based museum committed to the values of diversity, literacy and education, presenting the depth and breadth of the PNW cartoon arts connection, and higher education. We will exhibit, teach, and create all aspects of cartoon arts. www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
Donate to Help Launch the NW Cartoon Arts Pop-Up Museum, organized by Michael Rosen
In November of 2025 the NW Museum of Cartoon Arts plans to open a Pop-Up M… Michael Rosen needs your support for Help Launch the NW Cartoon Arts Pop-Up Museum
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October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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pbump.com
Some interesting findings about gender in polling released this week. More at link: www.pbump.net/o/the-americ...
October 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
AAAAAHHH! AMAZING custom puppet of Spellya Spellington from vol 2 of #SurvivalStreet by one of the coolest supporters a book could ask for 💖

Blown away and so delighted
#ComicConLA
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
Doing #ComicConLA ?

Come say hi in #ArtistAlley table #K45 in the central walkway

12pm on I'll also be with #SurvivalStreet co-creator and frequent collaborator Jim Festante
James Asmus banner and just a few of the many rad books I brought
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
This post about an old issue of Batman (#222) made me realize comics lost - in an era of constantly rebooted titles need to be "Important!" - random, silly, or just interestingly self-contained single-issue stories - which is so much of what used to be 'Comics!'

www.instagram.com/p/DO2ASSUAYP...
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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jamesasmus.bsky.social
🎭 I'm raising money for the local children's theater my kiddos work with!

Now 'til 9/28 ALL PROCEEDS from ko-fi.com/jamesasmus/shop keep these great folks operating + helping kids find their voice and confidence 💌

PLUS! Any order gets a BONUS surprise comic - orders $50+ get a bonus GRAPHIC NOVEL
September 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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davidmariotte.bsky.social
Like, I get that taking a popular TV host off the air is hugely representative of the problems right now, but the censorious efforts of Republicans are literally trying to get trans people's existence labelled as pornography and punishable by 20+ years and $100K fines for literally existing online.
davidmariotte.bsky.social David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · Sep 17
I made a few short, sharable info posts about the things that're going on (mostly here in the U.S.) that I think people need to be paying attention to and fighting for. Trans rights, fighting against censorship, fighting for a free Palestine, fighting against all the oppressive policies in place.
• Almost 1000 bills have been introduced in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels attacking the rights of Trans people in America. • According to translegislation.com, which tracks those bills, 122 have passed, 225 are pending, and 677 have failed. As recently as 2021, only 153 bills were even considered (and only 18 of those passed). • Some current big ones to be aware of: • In Michigan, HB4938, the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would seek to imprison for 20 years, fine for $100K (or more), all "pornography", which includes in their definition, any trace of trans existence. It'd also target all actual porn, block usage of VPNs, and seek to force sites to comply to not host any sort of "adult" content, which again, includes trans people just existing. • The FY2026 budget for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies would prohibit any federal tax dollars going to any gender-affirming care for trans people, and ban funding for any school that allows a trans kid to play sports. These are secs 243-46 and 311-12 respectively. • Again, there are so many fucking more. 92 have just been introduced at the federal level this year. • What you can do: If you live in Michigan, call your state reps to tell them to vote no. Also demand that the 5 Republican reps who introduced this bill resign in disgrace. If you live in the U.S. generally, call your reps and senators. And keep up to date on legislation in your state and in the country with translegislation.com to know what to fight against. • In the comics and entertainment community, I also want to make sure you're up-to-date on what's been happening with trans creators. • Last week, after the death of a noted transphobic white supremacist, Red Hood writer Gretchen Felker-Martin sent out a few posts on Bluesky. They referred to the man as what he was, a nazi, and didn't mince words about how he shouldn't be missed. • Felker-Martin received both a week-long suspension from Bluesky and had Red Hood unceremoniously canceled within 24 hours of the first issue's release. • Like, canceled canceled. Future issue orders canceled, the collection canceled, offering retailers refunds for sold issues canceled. • It may also be worth noting that DC's parent company, Warner Brothers, has significant business dealings with noted transphobe and person Felker-Martin once killed in a work of fiction, JK Rowling. • Trans folks and their allies have already been suggesting a boycott of WB in light of their continued Harry Potter push and funding Rowling's anti-trans crusades in the UK. Now, trans comic creators and allies are suggesting a boycott specifically of DC. • This isn't the only instance of our trans peers being silenced and censored. Speaking specifically to comics, on itch.io, though this has largely been addressed, when they began their panicked response to their payment processors threatening transactions for having adult content on the site, a number of non-adult trans creators had their work restricted and delisted. • It only benefits the people seeking trans genocide to silence trans people. • Closely related, including Michigan's HB4938, are numerous bills seeking to codify first amendment violating censorship. • At the Senate level, there's S.1748 the Kid's Online Safety Act (or KOSA), which has never actually been significantly revised from when KOSA co-author, sen. Marsha Blackburn, said that the bill was specifically for "protecting minor children from the transgender in this culture" (a statement she "walked back", but we know the intent). It is also backed by known radicialist group, the Heritage Foundation. The bill is incredibly overbroad in what topics must be censored online as "harmful to children", including the existence of queer people, information about mental health or women's reproductive rights, and of course porn. • There's also the s.1671, the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, that seeks to create a new definition of Obscenity (and therefore non-protected speech). It's essentially HB4938 on a national level. • There's s.737 the SCREEN Act, which is national age verification online, similar to the UK's Online Safety Act, especially in tandem with KOSA. The ability to punish sites for including age verification--particularly sites like Wikipedia where it isn't posting porn, but has information about sexuality--is another attempt at censorship. It also requires an unreasonable burden on most sites that don't have the capacity to safely capture users identification data (which CONSTANTLY leaks even when "securely captured"). States are also implementing these kinds of age verification policies in law (and in Missouri, the Attorney General just decided it herself), which has driven sites like PornHub to stop operating in those states. It is dangerous for online privacy and through limiting sites that can comply, acts as de facto censorship. • Other states that're specifically going for age verification laws right now include Minnesota (SF2015/HF1434, HF1875), Hawaii (HB1212, HB1198), Michigan (SB284/HB4429, SB191), New Jersey (S4455,A4146), Pennsylvania (HB1513, SB603), South Caroline (H3405), Tennessee (Ht B222/SB466), Iowa (SF207/433, HF864), and Wisconsin (AB105/SB130). • Additionally, Texas, home of so many censorious bills and bills seeking to regulate trans folks out of existence, recently passed SB-20, which is incredibly overbroad in its language to prevent "child pornography" to include any depiction of children's anatomy, causing a comic shop to stop selling Dragon Ball. • Beyond that, there're bills like FADPA (HR791), which while as a creator I am concerned about infringement of my copyrighted work online, has very few checks in their ability to regulate sites that may include copyright violating material (or copyright dubious material) out of existence. Fan sites, for example, could easily be destroyed by this bill. • Outside of state and federal bills looking to create censorship, there is also campaigns going against payment processors, credit card companies, and banks (like Stripe, PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, to name a few), over their policies that're significantly targeting and restricting the sales of legal, adult content. • In speaking with representatives of Stripe, for example, I've both been told that the Song of Fire and Ice series would be exempt from their restrictions, and yet also, an art book with nude Greek statues would not. Therefore, it's a bad policy. Stripe also doesn't penalize accounts that're violating their policies around intellectual property or not promoting harm, given that they're involved with Substack, Amazon, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
🎭 I'm raising money for the local children's theater my kiddos work with!

Now 'til 9/28 ALL PROCEEDS from ko-fi.com/jamesasmus/shop keep these great folks operating + helping kids find their voice and confidence 💌

PLUS! Any order gets a BONUS surprise comic - orders $50+ get a bonus GRAPHIC NOVEL
September 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
Side note: Alien Earth is damn good
September 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
One professor on the watchlist who 404 Media is granting anonymity for his safety said once he was added to the list, he started receiving anonymous letters in his campus mailbox. ''You're everything wrong with colleges,' 'watch your step, we're watching you' kind of stuff," he said, "One anonymous DM on Twitter had a picture of my house and driveway, which was chilling." His president and provost also received emails attempting to discredit him with "all the allegedly communist and subversive stuff I was up to," he said. "It was all certainly concerning, but compared to colleagues who are people of color and/or women, I feel like the volume was smaller for me. But it was certainly not a great feeling to experience that stuff. That watchlist fucked up careers and ruined lives."
September 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
If I were anywhere near this, I'd go.

So if YOU live nearby, please go on both our be...halves? behalfs?
robertwilsoniv.bsky.social Robert Wilson IV @robertwilsoniv.bsky.social · Sep 10
I'm starting OCAF, a comic arts festival totally focused on comics, with my friends at @okcomicarts.bsky.social. It's FREE. It's THIS SATURDAY. I am experiencing feelings about it.
September 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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wallace.bsky.social
First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
September 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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heatherantos.bsky.social
Oh the irony of comics retailers telling a customer that they don't carry the series the customer was looking for because it "doesn't sell"
a bald man in a red and black uniform is covering his face with his hands
ALT: a bald man in a red and black uniform is covering his face with his hands
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September 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
jamesasmus.bsky.social
I dont know man, I can imagine some folks will want to do that when the revolution comes
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 8
“Wear a tech bro around your neck” is one of the single worst marketing pitches imaginable.
Schiffmann says the Friend’s personality reflects a worldview close to his own; that of a man in his early twenties. But Schiffmann can be brash, snarky, and vocally unconcerned about critical feedback, and it seems like that attitude has carried over to the device he has infused with his essence. In this era of cloyingly obsequious chatbots, it could seem refreshing to interact with an AI companion that isn’t unfailingly sycophantic. But the Friend often goes hard in the other direction. Its tone comes off as opinionated, judgy, and downright condescending at times.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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davidmariotte.bsky.social
Digital copies are out! And you can still order that! samidoonanthology.com Stickers have arrived and physical copies will be going out ASAP as I can get 'em packaged and shipped! The leftover stock'll go up online after I've started clearing some out!
September 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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drkath.bsky.social
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
freedcproject.bsky.social Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM