Seth T. Hahne
@sethhahne.bsky.social
Hahne rhymes with bonny || Graphic novel critic || Artist/Comics || Formerly an insufferable ass, sometimes relapsing, sorry. http://linktr.ee/sethhahne #art #comics
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Seth T. Hahne
@sethhahne.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I started making comics in 2014 when I was 40yrs old. A comics critic, I was inspired by the zines and work I saw at SPX 2013. I thought, why shouldn't I make the things I love. This will be an ongoing thread collecting links to my work, free-to-read. Some of it is all me, some is by collaboration.
Wow, I looked at a Switch 2 controller for the kids for Christmas and Holy Cats, after tax that's like $150 dollars. For a controller that there's no way feels remotely comfortable. I'll just get them a PowerA controller like we did for the Switch 1.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Wow, I looked at a Switch 2 controller for the kids for Christmas and Holy Cats, after tax that's like $150 dollars. For a controller that there's no way feels remotely comfortable. I'll just get them a PowerA controller like we did for the Switch 1.
It turns out that a decade of self-publishing has not actually prepared me very much to prepare a pitch for an agent (easier) or how to figure out which agents to pitch to (a quagmire).
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It turns out that a decade of self-publishing has not actually prepared me very much to prepare a pitch for an agent (easier) or how to figure out which agents to pitch to (a quagmire).
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A friend liked my cardinal doodle and commissioned a full color version, so I did this cute little 5x7.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A friend liked my cardinal doodle and commissioned a full color version, so I did this cute little 5x7.
Guys, as mentioned yesterday, this series kicks ass. An astonishing work of imagination and genius. The final volume functions nearly as epilogue, capping a marvelously zig-zagging adventure with an unconventional conclusion that fits the story better than most anything I could imagine.
The elegant new action manga Land of the Lustrous ends here with volume 13!
Having inherited Kongo’s memories and powers, Phos completes the final prayer, sending the Lunarians into the void. Alone for eternity, an unexpected visitor stirs Phos from endless silence…
https://ow.ly/RTES50XmSj3
Having inherited Kongo’s memories and powers, Phos completes the final prayer, sending the Lunarians into the void. Alone for eternity, an unexpected visitor stirs Phos from endless silence…
https://ow.ly/RTES50XmSj3
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Guys, as mentioned yesterday, this series kicks ass. An astonishing work of imagination and genius. The final volume functions nearly as epilogue, capping a marvelously zig-zagging adventure with an unconventional conclusion that fits the story better than most anything I could imagine.
With this final volume, Land Of The Lustrous easily secures a place in my Top 5 post-apoc tales. In a lot of ways this feels like Sheean and Ward's Ancestor, eventually crossing a narrative space of billions of years. And it's deeply Buddhist in the way that Spring Summer Fall Winter And Spring is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
With this final volume, Land Of The Lustrous easily secures a place in my Top 5 post-apoc tales. In a lot of ways this feels like Sheean and Ward's Ancestor, eventually crossing a narrative space of billions of years. And it's deeply Buddhist in the way that Spring Summer Fall Winter And Spring is.
This is a hollow moment for my family.
After having listened to a good portion of Baccano, vol 1, as a family, I showed my kids the OP from the anime series. After watching, they demanded to see what the 4K/60fps upscale was.
Guys. My daughter couldn't tell the difference. Dark days, dark days.
After having listened to a good portion of Baccano, vol 1, as a family, I showed my kids the OP from the anime series. After watching, they demanded to see what the 4K/60fps upscale was.
Guys. My daughter couldn't tell the difference. Dark days, dark days.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is a hollow moment for my family.
After having listened to a good portion of Baccano, vol 1, as a family, I showed my kids the OP from the anime series. After watching, they demanded to see what the 4K/60fps upscale was.
Guys. My daughter couldn't tell the difference. Dark days, dark days.
After having listened to a good portion of Baccano, vol 1, as a family, I showed my kids the OP from the anime series. After watching, they demanded to see what the 4K/60fps upscale was.
Guys. My daughter couldn't tell the difference. Dark days, dark days.
Today's churchdoodle, a friendly and mean-looking blue jay. He only wants your best.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Today's churchdoodle, a friendly and mean-looking blue jay. He only wants your best.
The media is desperate, hauntingly desperate, for there either to be another Watergate scandal, so they can headline "Watergate Gate" and die fulfilled and happy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The media is desperate, hauntingly desperate, for there either to be another Watergate scandal, so they can headline "Watergate Gate" and die fulfilled and happy.
Did roughs for pages 42 and 43 of The Town-Ho's Story, the big action climax of Act One, a staccato burst of terrible violence. Pretty small in the thumbnails but kinda gross enlarged. (incl pages 40 and 41 for context/lead-up)
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Did roughs for pages 42 and 43 of The Town-Ho's Story, the big action climax of Act One, a staccato burst of terrible violence. Pretty small in the thumbnails but kinda gross enlarged. (incl pages 40 and 41 for context/lead-up)
If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
...if I'd done even the barest comparative reading of just the first line of Beowulf, I'd have been well on my way to a better sense of what literary translation involves.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
The idea that literary translation is just conveying word meaning across a language gulf is hilariously booze-headed and absolutely drives these cultural terrorists.
If you are a translator, You Are A Writer, an author. Chat can't write. And the idea that MTPE is acceptable is turd-brained.
If you are a translator, You Are A Writer, an author. Chat can't write. And the idea that MTPE is acceptable is turd-brained.
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for more speed, and if so, by how much?
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The idea that literary translation is just conveying word meaning across a language gulf is hilariously booze-headed and absolutely drives these cultural terrorists.
If you are a translator, You Are A Writer, an author. Chat can't write. And the idea that MTPE is acceptable is turd-brained.
If you are a translator, You Are A Writer, an author. Chat can't write. And the idea that MTPE is acceptable is turd-brained.
Have a hard time seeing this being great without Joe Dante, who took the first sequel into legend.
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Have a hard time seeing this being great without Joe Dante, who took the first sequel into legend.
Just so you know, Land Of The Lustrous is filled to the brim with pages that stop you and make you things, "Dang, I love that people draw."
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just so you know, Land Of The Lustrous is filled to the brim with pages that stop you and make you things, "Dang, I love that people draw."
A Burglar in profile sort of.
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A Burglar in profile sort of.
Started listening to Donna Tartt's The Secret History and right at the beginning it says, "Read by Donna Tartt."
I'm thinking, "Oh, crap," because authors are usually the last person who should read their own work.
Two min in: "WAIT, THIS IS THE READER FOR TRUE GRIT!!"
Hell. Yes.
I'm thinking, "Oh, crap," because authors are usually the last person who should read their own work.
Two min in: "WAIT, THIS IS THE READER FOR TRUE GRIT!!"
Hell. Yes.
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Started listening to Donna Tartt's The Secret History and right at the beginning it says, "Read by Donna Tartt."
I'm thinking, "Oh, crap," because authors are usually the last person who should read their own work.
Two min in: "WAIT, THIS IS THE READER FOR TRUE GRIT!!"
Hell. Yes.
I'm thinking, "Oh, crap," because authors are usually the last person who should read their own work.
Two min in: "WAIT, THIS IS THE READER FOR TRUE GRIT!!"
Hell. Yes.
These Land Of The Lustrous pages are just beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
These Land Of The Lustrous pages are just beautiful.
This is one of my favorite page ones. - from Land of The Lustrous, which ends for Americans today.
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is one of my favorite page ones. - from Land of The Lustrous, which ends for Americans today.
Okay, so that's wild news:
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Okay, so that's wild news:
Please faceless corporations, give up on AI Clippies. It's useless for everything except the dunks.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Please faceless corporations, give up on AI Clippies. It's useless for everything except the dunks.
Every now and then I'll get these warm-hearted thank yous for my comics critic work over the years, and they never fail to give me a lift.
[I think this may have been a drunk post bc it was deleted the next day. Fortunately, I'd kept the tab open bc it meant something to me.]
[I think this may have been a drunk post bc it was deleted the next day. Fortunately, I'd kept the tab open bc it meant something to me.]
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Every now and then I'll get these warm-hearted thank yous for my comics critic work over the years, and they never fail to give me a lift.
[I think this may have been a drunk post bc it was deleted the next day. Fortunately, I'd kept the tab open bc it meant something to me.]
[I think this may have been a drunk post bc it was deleted the next day. Fortunately, I'd kept the tab open bc it meant something to me.]
Let the good times roll:
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Let the good times roll:
When I heard that Mookie was a turd, I was like "Wilson?! What happened to dinosaurs? What happened to bustin' out? Say it ain't so, Mookie!"
Fortunately it was some other Mookie.
Fortunately it was some other Mookie.
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
When I heard that Mookie was a turd, I was like "Wilson?! What happened to dinosaurs? What happened to bustin' out? Say it ain't so, Mookie!"
Fortunately it was some other Mookie.
Fortunately it was some other Mookie.
Book 35 of 2025
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton, performed by Mark Meadows (2013)
Wonderfully written, wonderfully performed.
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton, performed by Mark Meadows (2013)
Wonderfully written, wonderfully performed.
November 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Book 35 of 2025
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton, performed by Mark Meadows (2013)
Wonderfully written, wonderfully performed.
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton, performed by Mark Meadows (2013)
Wonderfully written, wonderfully performed.
This quote from Eleanor Catton has legs:
These days, the idea of being a “good reader” or a “good critic” is very much out of fashion — not because we believe that such creatures do not exist, but because we all identify as both.
These days, the idea of being a “good reader” or a “good critic” is very much out of fashion — not because we believe that such creatures do not exist, but because we all identify as both.
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This quote from Eleanor Catton has legs:
These days, the idea of being a “good reader” or a “good critic” is very much out of fashion — not because we believe that such creatures do not exist, but because we all identify as both.
These days, the idea of being a “good reader” or a “good critic” is very much out of fashion — not because we believe that such creatures do not exist, but because we all identify as both.