Josh Kramer
@joshpkramer.bsky.social
JoshKramerComics.com
Writer // Illustrator // Cartoonist
Head of Editorial, @newpublic.org
Writer // Illustrator // Cartoonist
Head of Editorial, @newpublic.org
This guy knows how to live
February 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This guy knows how to live
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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General strike tomorrow
January 29, 2026 at 10:06 PM
General strike tomorrow
All respect to his nephew, etc., but public domain this stuff already
January 30, 2026 at 12:11 AM
All respect to his nephew, etc., but public domain this stuff already
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Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!
ONLINE CLASS: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy: An Adaptation from Novel to Graphic Novel (2600)
One Thursday: January 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
politics-prose.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!
US-backed regime change has been a fear for a long time
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
US-backed regime change has been a fear for a long time
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I didn't play a lot of games this year but we did finally play Disco Elysium, which I can honestly say the hype is true, the hype is real, this game fucks. I am simply astounded on every level. Also I didn't expect it to be so incredibly funny?? Maybe the most well written game I've ever played
December 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I didn't play a lot of games this year but we did finally play Disco Elysium, which I can honestly say the hype is true, the hype is real, this game fucks. I am simply astounded on every level. Also I didn't expect it to be so incredibly funny?? Maybe the most well written game I've ever played
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS
Amazon.com: S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS: 9798275808681: Bissette, Stephen R., Bissette, Stephen R., Masztal, Mark A.: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
New York's hottest club is...
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
New York's hottest club is...
Incredibly good joke
BLUESKY PRISON BLUES
There's Bluesky elders postin'
with fancy blue-check names
They're probably dunkin' on headlines
and sharin' lefty memes
Well, I know I had it comin'
I know I can't be free
But those people keep a-skeetin'
and that's what tortures me
There's Bluesky elders postin'
with fancy blue-check names
They're probably dunkin' on headlines
and sharin' lefty memes
Well, I know I had it comin'
I know I can't be free
But those people keep a-skeetin'
and that's what tortures me
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Incredibly good joke
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📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
The Wind Rises vibes
Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff from October 17, 1943. Known as “the Pilot’s Creed” or “the Creed of the Pilot,” this Sunday installment was read into the Congressional record on that day.
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Wind Rises vibes
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Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
Open Technology Institute Lightning Talks: “Reconnecting Public Media to the Public”
YouTube video by New America
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
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DC statehood now.
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DC statehood now.
In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
July 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
New comic!
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
New comic!
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
docs.google.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
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join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?
July 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?
AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne
July 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne
Amazing thread
Thread of Robin Hood characters drawings!
First up: Robin Hood! "Unfairly/trecherously displaced noble" Robin is a later invention to make the stories more palatable to a moneyed audience; in the best versions he's a charismatic yeoman (i.e. commoner not legally tied to a noble's land) trickster.
First up: Robin Hood! "Unfairly/trecherously displaced noble" Robin is a later invention to make the stories more palatable to a moneyed audience; in the best versions he's a charismatic yeoman (i.e. commoner not legally tied to a noble's land) trickster.
July 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Amazing thread
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love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕
June 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕
"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor."
Hell yes
Hell yes
OPINION: "The District has, for two decades, slowly backed away from almost every project meant to address the problem of poor connectivity in this corridor, leaving riders waiting unsheltered in the rain for overcrowded and slow buses."
A manifesto for a “next-generation streetcar”
View this post on ggwash.org
ggwash.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor."
Hell yes
Hell yes