Greg
@gregaubry.bsky.social
Photographer, musician & live sound engineer. Lapsed fine artist & comic creator. Engaged dog dad of three. Oldtaku. He/him. Metro Detroit.
I think I have too much executive dysfunction to keep up with multiple social media platforms. I don’t know how people do it. I look at FB almost daily but forget Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, Tiktok, etc even exist.
April 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I think I have too much executive dysfunction to keep up with multiple social media platforms. I don’t know how people do it. I look at FB almost daily but forget Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, Tiktok, etc even exist.
Very smart! The whole thread is worth reading if you’re a creator (or have one in your life that you could share with).
The author advice I give that no one follows...
Google your books regularly, with "last 24 hours" or "last week" selected.
Many major awards and booklists DO NOT TELL YOU you were selected. Publishers give your book a marketing bump when you do, but often only know if YOU TELL THEM.
Google your books regularly, with "last 24 hours" or "last week" selected.
Many major awards and booklists DO NOT TELL YOU you were selected. Publishers give your book a marketing bump when you do, but often only know if YOU TELL THEM.
February 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Very smart! The whole thread is worth reading if you’re a creator (or have one in your life that you could share with).
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Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Man, I haven't made a comic in forEVER. This is great though.
I've been thinking a lot about comics lately and the craft and calling of making them. So I wrote myself a comics manifesto. Please comment, share, steal, or disregard.
February 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Man, I haven't made a comic in forEVER. This is great though.
Dad and I are home (his house) and he’s doing great after a low-risk procedure. Now I’m sitting on Ticketbastard’s website waiting for Nine Inch Nails tickets to go live.
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Dad and I are home (his house) and he’s doing great after a low-risk procedure. Now I’m sitting on Ticketbastard’s website waiting for Nine Inch Nails tickets to go live.
Been a while since I’ve bothered to take a self-portrait, so here’s me as I appear on January 28, 2025. Holed up in a hotel room while my father has a minor overnight surgical procedure so I can drive him home in the morning.
January 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Been a while since I’ve bothered to take a self-portrait, so here’s me as I appear on January 28, 2025. Holed up in a hotel room while my father has a minor overnight surgical procedure so I can drive him home in the morning.
I have a blind spot with ‘60s/‘70s #anime. Trying to work on that.
The reverse is also true: if you think there’s no current stuff worth watching because everything was peak when you were 14 you’re also probably not much of a fan. I find a few shows to like every year at age 47 w/30+ yrs’ fandom.
The reverse is also true: if you think there’s no current stuff worth watching because everything was peak when you were 14 you’re also probably not much of a fan. I find a few shows to like every year at age 47 w/30+ yrs’ fandom.
There's always been good anime and there's always being bad anime from all eras and I think it's important that anime fans have broad interests, interests that go beyond just the time that they became an anime fan. Honestly if you can't watch anything older then you're probably not much of a fan.
January 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have a blind spot with ‘60s/‘70s #anime. Trying to work on that.
The reverse is also true: if you think there’s no current stuff worth watching because everything was peak when you were 14 you’re also probably not much of a fan. I find a few shows to like every year at age 47 w/30+ yrs’ fandom.
The reverse is also true: if you think there’s no current stuff worth watching because everything was peak when you were 14 you’re also probably not much of a fan. I find a few shows to like every year at age 47 w/30+ yrs’ fandom.
What’s your #comicsdna? The comics that were formative for you?
January 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What’s your #comicsdna? The comics that were formative for you?
Post your phone’s lock screen? Okay, then!
(Mine rotates so this will change in a few hours.)
(Mine rotates so this will change in a few hours.)
January 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Post your phone’s lock screen? Okay, then!
(Mine rotates so this will change in a few hours.)
(Mine rotates so this will change in a few hours.)
Younger Gen X, cosigned. I try to make myself browse the web in equal or greater ratio to social media.
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Younger Gen X, cosigned. I try to make myself browse the web in equal or greater ratio to social media.
Been going through my Blu-ray backlog today. Watched Belladonna of Sadness for the first time. Wild stuff. The limited animation and rough sexual content makes it less “accessible” but it’s a worthy meditation on power and corruption.
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Been going through my Blu-ray backlog today. Watched Belladonna of Sadness for the first time. Wild stuff. The limited animation and rough sexual content makes it less “accessible” but it’s a worthy meditation on power and corruption.
I enjoyed reading through this thread; very smart perspective. Tl;dr, acknowledge the horrors when you need to, then go back to enjoying your life. Don't make your life about savoring the horrors.
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I enjoyed reading through this thread; very smart perspective. Tl;dr, acknowledge the horrors when you need to, then go back to enjoying your life. Don't make your life about savoring the horrors.
I blocked more people on Facebook in the last year than I did in the previous fifteen. Your social media experience doesn't need to be homework. It doesn't have to be a fight. You're allowed to just interact with or follow people who are fun to interact with or follow.
BEST ADVICE: Don't suffer fools. Block. Delete. Do not engage. We lived this once. This works best. ANY fuel you give them just keeps them going. They thrive on wasting your time because it muddies the waters and only helps them. You know what you saw. DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS WHO PRETEND OTHERWISE.
January 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I blocked more people on Facebook in the last year than I did in the previous fifteen. Your social media experience doesn't need to be homework. It doesn't have to be a fight. You're allowed to just interact with or follow people who are fun to interact with or follow.
A sobering look at the potential impact of the possible upcoming tariffs on the already-hardscrabble comics publishing industry. Spoiler alert: none of these scenarios are positive.
What will potential tariffs mean for comics publishers in 2025? 'We'll likely have less customers' - The Comics Journal
Gina Gagliano talked to a host of comics publishers to get a sense of what the potential effects of increased tariffs from the new Trump administration could be.
www.tcj.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A sobering look at the potential impact of the possible upcoming tariffs on the already-hardscrabble comics publishing industry. Spoiler alert: none of these scenarios are positive.
Propaganda from the Singles/Wayne’s World/Reality Bites/Empire Records Industrial Complex!
wish my life was like a 90's movie where all my friends work in record stores and bookshops and coffee shops and we see really cool bands in small little clubs and get breakfast together and like hang out on roofs and shit
January 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Propaganda from the Singles/Wayne’s World/Reality Bites/Empire Records Industrial Complex!
FINALLY. For anime nerds of a certain generation, our first exposure (or at least an early one) to the medium was the syndicated cartoon series Robotech. Macross was its launching point for a multi-generational narrative that adapted and rewrote three unrelated shows with a similar visual style.
January 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
FINALLY. For anime nerds of a certain generation, our first exposure (or at least an early one) to the medium was the syndicated cartoon series Robotech. Macross was its launching point for a multi-generational narrative that adapted and rewrote three unrelated shows with a similar visual style.
In your personal “golden age” of becoming a #comics fan, what were your top 5 must-have books? What filled out your top 10?
For me, this would have been from roughly 1989 to 1998 or so. The first comic I regularly tried to get every month was Marvel US Transformers.
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For me, this would have been from roughly 1989 to 1998 or so. The first comic I regularly tried to get every month was Marvel US Transformers.
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In your personal golden age of becoming a comics fan, what were your top 5 must-have books?
And shoot - what filled out your top 10?
Me:
Earth/Universe/Paradise X
Exiles
Fables
Savage Dragon
Negation
Noble Causes
Invincible
Route 666
Bone
2000 AD
And shoot - what filled out your top 10?
Me:
Earth/Universe/Paradise X
Exiles
Fables
Savage Dragon
Negation
Noble Causes
Invincible
Route 666
Bone
2000 AD
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 AM
In your personal “golden age” of becoming a #comics fan, what were your top 5 must-have books? What filled out your top 10?
For me, this would have been from roughly 1989 to 1998 or so. The first comic I regularly tried to get every month was Marvel US Transformers.
(Cont)
For me, this would have been from roughly 1989 to 1998 or so. The first comic I regularly tried to get every month was Marvel US Transformers.
(Cont)
Kenji Kamiyama used to be one of my favorite #anime directors. Then he went down a bad 3DCG rabbit hole & I mostly lost interest. When I did come back for SAC_2045 it was a HUGE disappointment. But if he's channelling his Moribito era sensibilities this could be GREAT. Fingers crossed!
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Extended Sneak Preview
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Pictures
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December 4, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Kenji Kamiyama used to be one of my favorite #anime directors. Then he went down a bad 3DCG rabbit hole & I mostly lost interest. When I did come back for SAC_2045 it was a HUGE disappointment. But if he's channelling his Moribito era sensibilities this could be GREAT. Fingers crossed!
On the book stand: the new volume of Empowered by @adamwarren.bsky.social - long awaited! I’ve been reading this series since it began some odd fifteen years ago. It’s one of the most fun #comics out there, but for a very *specific* audience.
December 4, 2024 at 12:57 AM
On the book stand: the new volume of Empowered by @adamwarren.bsky.social - long awaited! I’ve been reading this series since it began some odd fifteen years ago. It’s one of the most fun #comics out there, but for a very *specific* audience.
It would be really nice if Bluesky doesn't inevitably "enshittify" but we're all old enough that we've seen the cycle repeat several times. I'm the dork that misses this old message-boards-as-social-media internet. But I don't miss Myspace & Twitter, feel "stuck" on Facebook.
All this is to say I predict Blue Sky will turn sour just like the rest. Nothing lasts. I only hope everyone remembers it and moves on quickly. In the dawn of the internet everything was liquid like that and we all were better for it. Facebook and Twitter (google too) have gone on too long.
December 4, 2024 at 12:26 AM
It would be really nice if Bluesky doesn't inevitably "enshittify" but we're all old enough that we've seen the cycle repeat several times. I'm the dork that misses this old message-boards-as-social-media internet. But I don't miss Myspace & Twitter, feel "stuck" on Facebook.
Turned off reposts just now and that instantly improved my experience here. I'm way more interested in seeing folks' original thoughts. Some users blithely repost wayyyyy too frequently. Now I don't have to mute people who do that. Cool.
December 3, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Turned off reposts just now and that instantly improved my experience here. I'm way more interested in seeing folks' original thoughts. Some users blithely repost wayyyyy too frequently. Now I don't have to mute people who do that. Cool.
Ten of my favorite animated features:
The Transformers: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
My Neighbor Totoro
The Incredibles
Summer Wars
Lilo & Stitch
Paprika
Your Name
Ninja Scroll
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I could roll out another three to five of these, easily.
#animation #anime #3dcg
The Transformers: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
My Neighbor Totoro
The Incredibles
Summer Wars
Lilo & Stitch
Paprika
Your Name
Ninja Scroll
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I could roll out another three to five of these, easily.
#animation #anime #3dcg
My ten favorite animated features:
Mind game
Spirited away
Wall-e
Paprika
Laputa castle in the sky
American pop
Into the spiderverse
The secret of nimh
Aachi and ssipak
Lilo and stitch
Mind game
Spirited away
Wall-e
Paprika
Laputa castle in the sky
American pop
Into the spiderverse
The secret of nimh
Aachi and ssipak
Lilo and stitch
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Ten of my favorite animated features:
The Transformers: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
My Neighbor Totoro
The Incredibles
Summer Wars
Lilo & Stitch
Paprika
Your Name
Ninja Scroll
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I could roll out another three to five of these, easily.
#animation #anime #3dcg
The Transformers: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
My Neighbor Totoro
The Incredibles
Summer Wars
Lilo & Stitch
Paprika
Your Name
Ninja Scroll
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I could roll out another three to five of these, easily.
#animation #anime #3dcg
Thanksgiving was intentionally low-key & non-traditional this year. Made tacos for my Dad & I at brunch then my partner, her adult daughter & I had Mediterranean takeout & watched a movie. No hassle. No drama. Thankful for that in 2024.
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Thanksgiving was intentionally low-key & non-traditional this year. Made tacos for my Dad & I at brunch then my partner, her adult daughter & I had Mediterranean takeout & watched a movie. No hassle. No drama. Thankful for that in 2024.
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Decades from now when there is a wave of nostalgia for the 2020s, much better AI will be used to create facsimiles of the shitty AI art we have now.
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Decades from now when there is a wave of nostalgia for the 2020s, much better AI will be used to create facsimiles of the shitty AI art we have now.
I’m either an extroverted introvert or introverted extrovert. Never quite figured out which. “Ambivert” covers this personality trait. I’ll greatly enjoy seeing friends at shows & then greatly enjoy spending the next day mostly alone (I live w/my lovely fiancee). Mostly an introvert tbh. You?
November 23, 2024 at 2:01 AM
I’m either an extroverted introvert or introverted extrovert. Never quite figured out which. “Ambivert” covers this personality trait. I’ll greatly enjoy seeing friends at shows & then greatly enjoy spending the next day mostly alone (I live w/my lovely fiancee). Mostly an introvert tbh. You?