Jodie Troutman
@longtalljodie.com
Comic Stripper & Pro Letterer • Created Lit Brick, The Gospel of Carol, Sporkman • Lettered for DC Comics, IDW, Boom, Image, Oni, Scholastic, Maverick, Mad Cave • She/Her • 2001 Webcartoonists Choice Award Winner
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Looking forward to 2026, here's our first three months. I'm not 100% certain, but there might be at least a couple books currently missing from the chart for now.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
Font Sale Day is better than Christmas, TBH.
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Font Sale Day is better than Christmas, TBH.
Sabotage was genuinely mine, so here's Weird Al's full Claymation Jurassic Park video instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4z...
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sabotage was genuinely mine, so here's Weird Al's full Claymation Jurassic Park video instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4z...
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Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
RIP Music Television, I was pretty sure you were already dead.
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
RIP Music Television, I was pretty sure you were already dead.
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
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This article is excellent, but the Cartoon Art Museum shouldn't be under the radar. People should constantly be talking about the Cartoon Art Museum. Whenever people aren't at the Cartoon Art Museum, they should be saying, "Why aren't we at the Cartoon Art Museum?"
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
SF's niche museums are somehow thriving
Cable cars, comic strips and an old-school arcade — SF’s best under-the-radar museums are unusually popular
www.sfexaminer.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This article is excellent, but the Cartoon Art Museum shouldn't be under the radar. People should constantly be talking about the Cartoon Art Museum. Whenever people aren't at the Cartoon Art Museum, they should be saying, "Why aren't we at the Cartoon Art Museum?"
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...
Tonight I'm watching @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social's special boy.
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tonight I'm watching @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social's special boy.
CD Quest Fun: the CD for The OneUps UNDERTALE EP has a hidden fourth track that's not on Bandcamp and is fully one hour long for some reason.
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
CD Quest Fun: the CD for The OneUps UNDERTALE EP has a hidden fourth track that's not on Bandcamp and is fully one hour long for some reason.
Oh, are we doing 25% off all preorders at Barnes & Noble until New Year's Day with the code PREORDER25? Sure, okay.
December 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Oh, are we doing 25% off all preorders at Barnes & Noble until New Year's Day with the code PREORDER25? Sure, okay.
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(again thinking of: bsky.app/profile/runw... ahem EXEC AT LARIAN WHO SAID THAT STUFF ABOUT AI) #bg3
i keep thinking about the games that are outsourcing "things that don't matter" to ai and & i think about all the utterly delightful tiny written easter eggs in Spider-Man PS4 & I want to scream, ppl will love *every little created thing*
ex: one of my favs from spidey ps4 was his coffee shop app
ex: one of my favs from spidey ps4 was his coffee shop app
December 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
(again thinking of: bsky.app/profile/runw... ahem EXEC AT LARIAN WHO SAID THAT STUFF ABOUT AI) #bg3
Observation from CD Quest: new CDs don't have those big annoying stickers on top anymore, or those beepy security things inside. We've advanced as a society.
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Observation from CD Quest: new CDs don't have those big annoying stickers on top anymore, or those beepy security things inside. We've advanced as a society.
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What do you mean FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE are signed up before we've even launched
Good LORD, y'all
Good LORD, y'all
A little early gift for all of you...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What do you mean FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE are signed up before we've even launched
Good LORD, y'all
Good LORD, y'all
When I'm trapped in my day job office, all I can do is just stew in my thoughts. Mostly just pondering the coming year.
I'm fairly certain it's going to dramatically change my life, a life that has already been dramatically changed multiple times recently.
In good ways, to be clear.
I'm fairly certain it's going to dramatically change my life, a life that has already been dramatically changed multiple times recently.
In good ways, to be clear.
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
When I'm trapped in my day job office, all I can do is just stew in my thoughts. Mostly just pondering the coming year.
I'm fairly certain it's going to dramatically change my life, a life that has already been dramatically changed multiple times recently.
In good ways, to be clear.
I'm fairly certain it's going to dramatically change my life, a life that has already been dramatically changed multiple times recently.
In good ways, to be clear.
Excalibur, Amazing Spidey, and - optimistically - twelve more issues of that Evan Dorkin Bill & Ted.
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excalibur, Amazing Spidey, and - optimistically - twelve more issues of that Evan Dorkin Bill & Ted.
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Reminder that you can find the greatest roll of film ever shot (25 photos of Disneyland's PeopleMover in 1992) on Parkendium!
mediagraph.io/parkendium/e...
mediagraph.io/parkendium/e...
February 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reminder that you can find the greatest roll of film ever shot (25 photos of Disneyland's PeopleMover in 1992) on Parkendium!
mediagraph.io/parkendium/e...
mediagraph.io/parkendium/e...
This is painfully difficult for a period I personally love the most of any in DC history, but I'll sub to Star Trek TNG, Batman Adventures, and Legends of the Dark Knight.
That said, with unlimited money, I'd easily be buying every Batman family book and anything in the Superman triangle era.
That said, with unlimited money, I'd easily be buying every Batman family book and anything in the Superman triangle era.
December 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is painfully difficult for a period I personally love the most of any in DC history, but I'll sub to Star Trek TNG, Batman Adventures, and Legends of the Dark Knight.
That said, with unlimited money, I'd easily be buying every Batman family book and anything in the Superman triangle era.
That said, with unlimited money, I'd easily be buying every Batman family book and anything in the Superman triangle era.
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In the mid-2000s, I colored an AvP book for Dark Horse. It was going to be printed on extremely absorbent paper. This was the first time I meticulously calibrated my monitor so I could “soft proof” the color as I went. Then the book came out printed on glossy paper instead and it looked awful!
The classic example is Weapon X. Same color information in the file. Printed on different paper. Look at the difference!
BWS colored it *for* newsprint. You want his version? You need similar paper!
Reproducing comics well requires thinking about the files *and* the paper.
BWS colored it *for* newsprint. You want his version? You need similar paper!
Reproducing comics well requires thinking about the files *and* the paper.
December 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
In the mid-2000s, I colored an AvP book for Dark Horse. It was going to be printed on extremely absorbent paper. This was the first time I meticulously calibrated my monitor so I could “soft proof” the color as I went. Then the book came out printed on glossy paper instead and it looked awful!
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I worked in a CD store around then and whenever someone came in asking for something they couldn’t remember the name of it was always, always Nickelback.
iHeart Radio's second AT40 with Casey Kasem station is currently counting down the top hits of 2002. Not my fave period of music, but far more great songs than I remember from the early aughts, but oy, that number one…
[Link to listen in next post]
[Link to listen in next post]
December 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I worked in a CD store around then and whenever someone came in asking for something they couldn’t remember the name of it was always, always Nickelback.
Thoughts: Star Trek TOS "The Apple" is just Footloose.
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Thoughts: Star Trek TOS "The Apple" is just Footloose.
Anyway, yes, as I sit here in the midst of CD Quest, I'm waxing nostalgic about music. I just got CDs from longtime fave The One-Ups, because few feelings are as warm and fuzzy as purchasing physical media from indie artists on Bandcamp. theoneups.bandcamp.com
The OneUps
A musical collective hailing from Fayetteville, Arkansas, The OneUps are widely praised for their intricate and eclectic approach to their performance of video game music. The line up has often change...
theoneups.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Anyway, yes, as I sit here in the midst of CD Quest, I'm waxing nostalgic about music. I just got CDs from longtime fave The One-Ups, because few feelings are as warm and fuzzy as purchasing physical media from indie artists on Bandcamp. theoneups.bandcamp.com