Mark Conner
@librarycobwebs.bsky.social
Comics librarian in Pennsylvania
He/Him
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I guess it was @scottmccloud.bsky.social Day for me at the comic shop today!
May 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I guess it was @scottmccloud.bsky.social Day for me at the comic shop today!
It would mean a great deal if you could share this information about the importance of the SNAP-Ed program which is facing elimination from the federal budget.
#SNAPEdWorks
#SNAPEdWorks
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It would mean a great deal if you could share this information about the importance of the SNAP-Ed program which is facing elimination from the federal budget.
#SNAPEdWorks
#SNAPEdWorks
Reader me really likes the paperback of Paranoid Gardens because it reminds me of the cut out on this Star Wars paperback.
Librarian me knows it's going to get destroyed SO quickly.
Librarian me knows it's going to get destroyed SO quickly.
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reader me really likes the paperback of Paranoid Gardens because it reminds me of the cut out on this Star Wars paperback.
Librarian me knows it's going to get destroyed SO quickly.
Librarian me knows it's going to get destroyed SO quickly.
But she is also an amazing connection to the golden age of comics working as an assistant to artists like Hal Foster and Tex Blaisdell. She wrote an incredible tribute to this era with her revival of Joe Kubert's Viking Prince.
March 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
But she is also an amazing connection to the golden age of comics working as an assistant to artists like Hal Foster and Tex Blaisdell. She wrote an incredible tribute to this era with her revival of Joe Kubert's Viking Prince.
After this I sought Marrs' other Star*Reach stories like Stark's Quest a masterpiece that needs to be collected in a nice hardcover edition. This story in particular shows off her comix influenced cartooning, imaginative scope, and poignant characterization.
March 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
After this I sought Marrs' other Star*Reach stories like Stark's Quest a masterpiece that needs to be collected in a nice hardcover edition. This story in particular shows off her comix influenced cartooning, imaginative scope, and poignant characterization.
I was a teen growing increasingly frustrated with these tropes when I read issue 5 which features Waters of Requital, completely written and drawn by Marrs. Now, it reminds me of a classic EC morality story but at the time it felt like such a fresh feminist tale among all the damsels in distress
March 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I was a teen growing increasingly frustrated with these tropes when I read issue 5 which features Waters of Requital, completely written and drawn by Marrs. Now, it reminds me of a classic EC morality story but at the time it felt like such a fresh feminist tale among all the damsels in distress
Larry Marder's Beanworld: "a most peculiar comic book experience"
Me: wow this is really peculiar!
Me: wow this is really peculiar!
February 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Larry Marder's Beanworld: "a most peculiar comic book experience"
Me: wow this is really peculiar!
Me: wow this is really peculiar!
One neat perspective on this is Jay Jackson's Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, a collection of Chicago Defender comic strips from the 40s, which draws a direct line from the treatment of enslaved people to Jim Crow to Nazism to a projected segregated future. That line is authoritarianism
February 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One neat perspective on this is Jay Jackson's Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, a collection of Chicago Defender comic strips from the 40s, which draws a direct line from the treatment of enslaved people to Jim Crow to Nazism to a projected segregated future. That line is authoritarianism
I can't explain exactly why but this subtitle is driving me crazy. What do you mean "of sorts"? It's just a memoir!
February 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I can't explain exactly why but this subtitle is driving me crazy. What do you mean "of sorts"? It's just a memoir!
Barnaby by Crockett Johnson, July 28, 1942
February 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Barnaby by Crockett Johnson, July 28, 1942
This was really wonderful! Of course fans of This is How You Lose the Time War are going to like this but I'd also recommend it if you like The Last Unicorn, Joanne Harris' Honeycomb, John Crowley's Little, Big. A beautifully told fairy tale.
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This was really wonderful! Of course fans of This is How You Lose the Time War are going to like this but I'd also recommend it if you like The Last Unicorn, Joanne Harris' Honeycomb, John Crowley's Little, Big. A beautifully told fairy tale.
Four comics you love, with female leads
January 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Four comics you love, with female leads
The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch
Post your favorite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only.
January 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Post your favorite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only.
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby reading about the apparent death of their characters, the Boy Commandos, in Boy Commandos #1
January 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby reading about the apparent death of their characters, the Boy Commandos, in Boy Commandos #1
Start the new year off right!
I'm so thankful for the Mark Evanier's of the world who work so hard to preserve and promote the work of others.
I'm so thankful for the Mark Evanier's of the world who work so hard to preserve and promote the work of others.
December 31, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Start the new year off right!
I'm so thankful for the Mark Evanier's of the world who work so hard to preserve and promote the work of others.
I'm so thankful for the Mark Evanier's of the world who work so hard to preserve and promote the work of others.
I resent comics and graphic novels being called genres but they're certainly what I read the most this year.
Next year I'm continuing my goal to read all the books I already own. Looking forward to more reading!
#storygraph
Next year I'm continuing my goal to read all the books I already own. Looking forward to more reading!
#storygraph
December 31, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I resent comics and graphic novels being called genres but they're certainly what I read the most this year.
Next year I'm continuing my goal to read all the books I already own. Looking forward to more reading!
#storygraph
Next year I'm continuing my goal to read all the books I already own. Looking forward to more reading!
#storygraph
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December 7, 2024 at 11:40 PM
hehehehahehehoho
A lot of good stuff in the quotes but didn't see this mentioned yet!
November 28, 2024 at 9:11 PM
A lot of good stuff in the quotes but didn't see this mentioned yet!
Happy birthday Doctor Who!
It was really surreal to meet two former Doctors at NYCC this year. It's a show I've loved for so long and always find myself returning too.
It was really surreal to meet two former Doctors at NYCC this year. It's a show I've loved for so long and always find myself returning too.
November 23, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Happy birthday Doctor Who!
It was really surreal to meet two former Doctors at NYCC this year. It's a show I've loved for so long and always find myself returning too.
It was really surreal to meet two former Doctors at NYCC this year. It's a show I've loved for so long and always find myself returning too.
If we're talking characters that debuted in the 1990s: Bone
But if we're talking 90s Comic Character™ it's gotta be Grendel-Prime
But if we're talking 90s Comic Character™ it's gotta be Grendel-Prime
November 19, 2024 at 12:35 PM
If we're talking characters that debuted in the 1990s: Bone
But if we're talking 90s Comic Character™ it's gotta be Grendel-Prime
But if we're talking 90s Comic Character™ it's gotta be Grendel-Prime
What it's like trying to eat cereal in this house
November 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM
What it's like trying to eat cereal in this house