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Lee Post
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Alaska’s Dad. Illustrator, art educator and graphic recorder in Anchorage, Alaska. Former tiny crime fighter and current community advocate. Social links: https://postmarks.graphics/links

https://Postmarks.graphics
Perfect execution.
This is great: MTV Rewind allows you to watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, etc. 33,000+ videos in all. Nostalgia bomb. [kottke.org]
MTV Rewind
MTV Rewind is an interface through which you can watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, Headbangers Ball, and the first
kottke.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Orphan-crushing machine is “a shorthand way to respond to human interest stories that myopically praise people’s good deeds while completely ignoring the insidious problems that create the need for such over-the-top goodheartedness in the first place.” (Abraham Piper)
52 things I learned in 2025
The news (to me) this year.
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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McSweeney's has a way of cutting through the nonsense and finding the truth.

"I will pay anything to deny this reality, even if it makes me objectively worse off. That’s why I’ll give up everything I own to save my home, and absolutely nothing to save both my home and the homes of my neighbors."
December 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Here are a few back of the napkin stats for cold in Alaska this month. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Coldest since 2010:
Anchorage, Talkeetna, Homer, King Salmon, McGrath

Coldest since 1980:
Fairbanks, Bettles, Eagle, Delta Junction

Coldest since 1964:
Juneau
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Famed crime author Dashiell Hammett--also a middle-aged, alcoholic Communist--wound up serving in the remote Aleutians during World War II. Even Army brass then seemed surprised by it. One of my best articles of the last year dove into that experience: www.adn.com/alaska-l...
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It’s very pretty though. #Juneau #Alaska #akwx
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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I don't know how 2026 will pan out, but at least I'll be able to use my 1976 Super DC Calendar through February 28. Then the lack of a leap year will break it.

What are YOU planning to celebrate Matter Eater Lad's birthday?
December 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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A reminder or insight: neither of these two mad lads could fix an engine, and one of them had an entire five hours of flight time.
In part 2 of 2, I finish the tale of the silly men, two Ivy League grads who decided to spend a 1930 vacation flying from Boston to Alaska for some hunting. My latest article, available here: www.adn.com/alaska-l...
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!
December 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.

10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Interested in making the public meeting process better in Alaska? Better Public Meetings, perhaps?

Take a community survey anytime in January and spread the word.

survey.alchemer.com/s3/8480295/A...
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator.

Shame on you for this.
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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more frog, again. seasonal frog
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?
A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?
A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This might be the best Humble Bundle I’ve ever seen. Just a loaded collection of comics from a loaded time at Image.
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time in Paper Girls Vol 1 - 6.

The Image in the ‘10s comics bundle supports Binc | https://bit.ly/4adULaG
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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"Gosh and golly, it's the Call and Molly Holly Jolly Almost Solstice Singalong!"

I AM PLAYING A BANDCAMP HOLIDAY SHOW WITH @mollylewis.wtf!!!!

YOU CAN WATCH IT ANYWHERE ANYTIME*

Tickets: mariancall.bandcamp.com/merch/call-m...
Call & Molly's Holly Jolly Almost Solstice Singalong! from Marian Call
Live Stream from Marian Call.
mariancall.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Congrats to @maryshyneonline.bsky.social, whose debut graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books for teens for 2025. We're featuring a selection of pages from the book now in our Emerging Artist Showcase. Come check it out.
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
On the subject of income, I don’t think I’ve changed my rates much in a decade or (more), but the past two years have been the first that clients have balked at the cost for commercial art and graphic recording.
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
The one about comic book page rates – again
News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Canada Post releases stamps to celebrate country’s Graphic Novelists

Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
Canada Post releases stamps to celebrate country’s Graphic Novelists
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Yall should check out the Cartoonist Co-op survey too. They’ve been trying to make more sense of how cartoonist are surviving in this mess. Hoping to get more people to fill it out for next year, so keep an eye out. bsky.app/profile/cart...
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My biggest question starting out was, “What am I even doing?”

My second question once ignored that first question was, “How do I pay taxes on all this nonsense?”

Answers to your practical questions and some of of the existential ones 👇
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Go Canada - very cool!
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
Que bacana, mais selos canadenses homenageando quadrinistas do país 🇨🇦 Depois de Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth e as primas Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki em 2024, agora foi a vez de Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley e Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 📬
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM