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Erik Burnham 💬
@erikburnham.bsky.social
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Comics writer and sometimes artist; known for Ghostbusters, TMNT, Red Sonja, and more.

Currently on: TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures, Battle Nexus

http://www.burnhamania.com
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Getting weird here at Twin Cities Con.
A cartoon of a labubu and a monchichi. The Monchichi says: “let’s topple a government”
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Stop looking at me, swan
A 19th century south Asian processional carving of a large swan at the Minneapolis institute of arts. I would’ve never guessed it was a swan. Thank goodness for signage.
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Yessssss. #LunchtimeAtVictors1959
Ropa vieja (stewed meat), black beans, rice, and plantains on a plate. Because I’m having Cuban food for lunch and I am over the moon about it.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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In honor of me tabling at a con this weekend, here's a Christmas comic strip I drew last year.
A four panel DOWNSIDE comic strip. In panel one, an incredulous Santa Claus says to Joey, a bottle blond man in a brown shirt: "Presents? HA! I've SEEN your browser history!" In panel two, Joey argues to Santa, saying "Oh, it's not THAT bad." In panel three, Santa and Joey react to an off-panel speaker saying "Uh..." In panel four, the speaker is revealed to be the Devil, sitting at a desk with Joey's laptop, looking horrified. The Devil says: "You need to delete this."
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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I, too, will be at TCC next week! I had planned to print up something new for the show but deadlines got away from me. Whoops.
A photo of writer/cartoonist Erik Burnham, who will be at Twin Cities Con November 7-9. I’m not going to describe what Erik—that is, what I look like; you don’t need further trauma.
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Out TODAY— TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures #27!
Cover to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #27. Drako, a dragon in a business suit, is featured prominently on the cover, staring down the reader. Also on the cover, Ninja Turtle Michelangelo is wearing a multicolored suit of armor. (Only 17 years too late to latch on to that Iron Man movie buzz.)
July 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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You’re gonna end up like this.
Painting of a woman holding a pet squirrel in her hand. It is leashed. This is probably not Katie’s experience, but it COULD be.
May 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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I missed whatever cultural reference Dr. Boat is, but as for leverage, I just love the light comedy adventure stuff.

Even when they came for me and my ilk.
Screen capture of the TV show Leverage. A long haired man with his arms folded over a chair looks on as a blonde woman explains that a person whose name is “Erik with a K” is evil. As my own name is Erik with a K, I’m unsure how to deal with this breach of secrecy.
May 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Man oh man. I haven’t seen Butch Guice in at least a decade. Had some good conversations with him. Always amiable. Always crushed his pages. Life well lived, sir.
From the first C2E2, a photo of Butch Guice holding up a t-shirt with the words “who died and made you Butch Guice”
May 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Got a peek at Gwenpool #1 from @cavan.bsky.social and his merry band. When you start off like this book did, you know you’re in for a wild ride. It promises fun, so get a copy. FOC April 14!!
Gwenpool #1, FOC April 14 2025
April 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Just saw the mock-up for TMNT Saturday Morning #25.

I wanna share some of what we got coming!

Tokka! Rahzar! Lotus Blossom! (Who will be revealing her real name!)

Preorder and join us as we try to continue on for another 25 issues!!
TMNT villains Tokka (a wolf mutant) and Rahzar (a turtle mutant) looming menacingly in the foreground while an old man cowers behind them. Lotus Blossom, a female ninja from the 1987 cartoon, has her arms crossed in the TMNT lair.
March 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Every bag I have, two places in my car.
This Screencap from the legend of Zelda features the hero, Link, in an old man’s cave. The man says: “It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.” In the game, the item is a sword. This image instead features a bottle of aspirin in the sword’s place.
March 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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If you look long enough you can find all kinds a nonsense at MOA.

@danslott.bsky.social talked it up enough I decided to try it.
Erik skeptically eyeing a can of Irn Bru
February 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Always fun to spot a friend’s work prominently displayed at MOA. @katiecandraw.bsky.social
A photo of the second volume of Katie Cook’s “Nothing Special” on the shelves at a bookstore in the Mall of America. The placard reads “A Muse, a Fairy, and the ghost of a radish walk into the woods…”
February 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20

Doom does not follow your rules.
The cover to Doctor Strange and Dr. doom: triumph and torment. Doom, wearing his classic green tunic stands next to Doctor Strange. They are blasting demons with magic. Mephisto, a.k.a., the devil, floats behind them, watching. This is the Doctor Strange sequel I wanted to see. The cover to the Emperor doom, graphic novel. In the foreground, the avengers – from left to right – star fox, Mockingbird, tigra, Iron Man, in his silver centurion armor, Hawkeye, Captain America, wonder man, submariner, the wasp, vision, and Scarlet witch. In the background is a representation of Dr. doom floating above them.
January 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Yeah, I’m not even leaving the handle now.

For all the good it does, @erikburnham is gone from Twitter.
Twitter account deletion.
January 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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My teepublic shop is on sale in case anyone needs a shirt, button, or sticker of this newly timely design for the next con.

www.teepublic.com/user/erikbur...
Shirt design: Jack Kirby Hated Nazis—white text on red background Shirt design: Jack Kirby Hated Nazis—red text on yellow background
January 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19
The cover to dinosaurs for hire number one. There are four anthropomorphic dinosaurs. A triceratops fires two guns straight at the reader. Tyrannosaurus fire as a grenade launcher just behind him. A pterodactyl is hanging on the tyrannosaurus‘s shoulder. The tyrannosaurus is saying “it’s great to be back in full color“ finally, between the triceratops and the tyrannosaurus, is a stegosaurus with an eyepatch. He is saying “shut up and help me reload“
January 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18
A pocketbook cover of The Untold Legend of Batman. Silver Age Batman, in a gray bodysuit and blue cape, leaps toward us, soaring just past a fire escape the sky is colored red because why not.
January 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Spider-Man peeking out of a cardboard box
January 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17
Cover to Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke. Parker is sitting on a bed next to a dead woman. The bedside lamp is knocked over. Parker wears a suit and holds a gun.
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16
Cover to X-Men Annual #12. The X-Men (Wolverine, Dazzler, Colossus, Psylocke, Havok, Rogue, Longshot, and Storm) exit a round portal at center of cover. Behind them are the villains High Evolutionary and Terminus. Since I’m not describing how they look, it’s almost worthless. Two armored villains and some superheroes! Also, on bottom of cover, fat alien Mojo faces child versions of the X-Men.
January 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Uffda.
Screenshot of weather app. Currently temp reads -30° Fahrenheit with windchill bringing it down to -39° Why post this? Because I’m living in it.
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15
Cover to Spider-Man: spirits of the Earth. Painted artwork by Charles Vess depicts Spider-Man, crouching on architectural ruins in the Scottish Highlands underneath a moon lit and cloud covered sky.
January 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14
Superboy #1, from the 90s. The clone Superman from the Reign of the Supermen flying over Hawaii.
January 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM