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rus wooton
@ruswooton.bsky.social
eisner-nominated letterer • designer • cover artist • disabled • he/him
contact: comics@ruswooton.com
http://ruswooton.com
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If you support the Trump regime, we cannot be friends.

Unless and until you renounce your support and rebuke Trump and his acolytes, you are dead to me.
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i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Jay is one of the bravest people I know.
Here is a thing:

There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.

(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Counterpoint: they were both angels.

Abolish ICE in its entirety. Never vote for a Republican. Demand the MOST YOU CAN IMAGINE from every politician. We can do better. We must do better.
Trump on Alex Pretti and Renee Good: "He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes."
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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The go-to tactic of politicians (not just GOP but centrist Dems who don’t want to deal with it) is to brush this stuff off as “fringe leftist activism,” so the fact that it is so quickly becoming inescapably fashionable & virtuous in so many normie spaces REALLY helps. SuperBowl chant let’s goooo
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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Fire every agent who does this. Publicize their names and notify the neighbors every time they move into a new neighborhood.
During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops regularly adorned Vietnamese corpses with “death cards” — either an ace of spades or a custom-printed business card claiming credit for their kills. Now, ICE is using them. theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
February 5, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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OpenAI is Trump's biggest supporter. Just another reason to quit using all A.I. now.
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Working late, remembering my first winter in New York, driving home from WIZARD in Rockland County, on a winding road thru Harrman State Park. Already pitch dark by 5pm, it felt like midnight inside my old van, the heater struggling to warm up, and the fitting melancholy of Delilah on my radio...
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!

Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
February 1, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Auctions for the 2nd half of my Batman: The Last Halloween pages are up on eBay RIGHT NOW!
I rarely sell sequentials (& plan to keep all of Batman & Robin: Year One) so if you’ve been wanting a Batman page, this is your chance!
Apologies in advance, but US shipping only
www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 AM
The current President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump, is a RAPER OF CHILDREN.
January 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I love this so much! And it works so well as an homage to John Workman's SFX lettering. I started using it on INVINCIBLE #14, taking over lettering from, and apeing, Robert Kirkman, who was apeing Workman. 😀 I hope Pat doesn't cringe too much when I distort the font, now on BATTLE BEAST and CAPES.
I really enjoy seeing my WorkingMan font, which I designed for Blambot around 25 years ago, used so much by letterer Rus Wooton on Skybound's Invincible Universe comics! I designed this as a homage to John Workman's sound effects lettering which I've always loved.
January 29, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I.C.E. detention centers are CONCENTRATION CAMPs, many of which are privately run and for-profit. And yeah, some were there before Trump, but that doesn't make any of this okay. Trump & the GOP are guilty of human trafficking. We need to dismantle DHS, ICE, and BP and start fresh.
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Theyre taking hundreds of boxes of voter ballots from Georgia.
If Trump regime chooses to change Georgia voters ballot results he can ‘validate’ his big lie that he won the 2020 election.
January 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Abandoned food carts.
Buckets of flowers.
Pick up trucks with engines still running.
Lawn mowers roaring and manned by no one…
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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I need more people to remember that Democrats’ proposed reforms are linked to an *increase* in funding for DHS.

So no, things will not get better. Because with more funding comes more ICE, more weapons, more detention centers. There is no doubt that the harm will outweigh any good.
January 29, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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All systems of supremacy, from racism to misogyny, exist to abet corruption…DHS offering to leave Minneapolis if voter info is surrendered is an example of that.
the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime
January 29, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.

This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd
January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Bandcamp bans AI music, choosing to support human musicians.

Thanks Bandcamp.
www.theverge.com/news/861794/...
Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
Bandcamp is banning AI-generated music and won’t allow its content to be used for training AI models.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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This is testimony…

📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti.

“After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Just deleted my TikTok account.

Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS.

DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS!

You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Know the Basics. Avoid the Blunders.
www.kickstarter.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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We are not here to generate shareholder value. We are here, as Vonnegut said, to fart around.

Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 AM