Paul Morton / Saul Salt
@paulwmorton.bsky.social
Writer on comics, animation. If you've never heard of what I'm talking about, I'm doing my job.
My new essay about my fav FF comic, just in time for the new movie. reactormag.com/a-realistic-...
A Realistic Take on a Fantastic Family: Revisiting James Sturm & Guy Davis’ Unstable Molecules - Reactor
While the movie promises a bright 1960s aesthetic, we're looking back at a darker take on the team's origins...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My new essay about my fav FF comic, just in time for the new movie. reactormag.com/a-realistic-...
If you know any Columbia alumni — any school, any year — please ask them to sign this petition.
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Alumni Letter to Columbia University's Administration and Faculty Regarding Mahmoud Khalil and Yunseo Chung
We, members of Columbia University’s alumni, write to condemn the unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil, as well as the threatened deportation of Yunseo Chung. The threats facing Mr. Khalil and Ms. Chu...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you know any Columbia alumni — any school, any year — please ask them to sign this petition.
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Here is my remembrance of Jules Feiffer, who I got to know very well at the end of his life, while writing a book about him for Fantagraphics.
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“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer
In the summer of 1946, Jules Feiffer, then 17, determined to make a career in comics, entered the studio of his hero Will Eisner. At 29, Eisner was an eminence in an industry that had just moved on…
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February 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is my remembrance of Jules Feiffer, who I got to know very well at the end of his life, while writing a book about him for Fantagraphics.
lithub.com/this-will-be...
lithub.com/this-will-be...
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Libraries are awesome. They are way more than just a place to borrow books from. They are community centers and also usually safe places for a lot of people to go. They help with GEDs, they are voting centers, they teach so many things!
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Libraries are awesome. They are way more than just a place to borrow books from. They are community centers and also usually safe places for a lot of people to go. They help with GEDs, they are voting centers, they teach so many things!
Mind blowing fan theory: Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan exist in the same universe.
December 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Mind blowing fan theory: Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan exist in the same universe.
Twenty books that influenced/stayed with me: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Hero of Our Time, Fathers and Children, The Brothers Karamazov, A Sportsman's Notebook, War and Peace, Disgrace, American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, The Plot Against America...
December 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Twenty books that influenced/stayed with me: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Hero of Our Time, Fathers and Children, The Brothers Karamazov, A Sportsman's Notebook, War and Peace, Disgrace, American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, The Plot Against America...
Patti D'Arbanville was in Warhol's movies in the 60s. In the 90s, she played a tough Republican lieutenant on New York Undercover, mentor of hot af detectives. 2004: a mafia boss on The Sopranos.
This is one of the most eclectic acting careers in history, and I am waiting for her next big moment.
This is one of the most eclectic acting careers in history, and I am waiting for her next big moment.
December 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Patti D'Arbanville was in Warhol's movies in the 60s. In the 90s, she played a tough Republican lieutenant on New York Undercover, mentor of hot af detectives. 2004: a mafia boss on The Sopranos.
This is one of the most eclectic acting careers in history, and I am waiting for her next big moment.
This is one of the most eclectic acting careers in history, and I am waiting for her next big moment.
FWIW: I lived on a dorm floor with a communal, gender-neutral bathroom from 2000-2001. No one died.
November 23, 2024 at 3:25 PM
FWIW: I lived on a dorm floor with a communal, gender-neutral bathroom from 2000-2001. No one died.
I'd like to introduce myself to my hopefully more professional/friendlier social media home. This one is the high school questionnaire.
Class of: 1999
Did you know your current love: No.
Type of car: A green Ford Escort with a six-CD changer, filled with Dylan.
Class of: 1999
Did you know your current love: No.
Type of car: A green Ford Escort with a six-CD changer, filled with Dylan.
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 AM
I'd like to introduce myself to my hopefully more professional/friendlier social media home. This one is the high school questionnaire.
Class of: 1999
Did you know your current love: No.
Type of car: A green Ford Escort with a six-CD changer, filled with Dylan.
Class of: 1999
Did you know your current love: No.
Type of car: A green Ford Escort with a six-CD changer, filled with Dylan.
5 authors of whom I've read 10+ books:
Philip Roth
Edmund White
Ursula K. Le Guin
Samuel Delany
Judy Blume
Philip Roth
Edmund White
Ursula K. Le Guin
Samuel Delany
Judy Blume
5 authors of whom I've read 10+ books:
Frank Herbert
Arthur C. Clarke
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Andrew Vachss
R.A. Salvatore
Frank Herbert
Arthur C. Clarke
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Andrew Vachss
R.A. Salvatore
Five authors of whom I've read 10+ books:
Lois McMaster Bujold
Iain Banks
Ursula Le Guin
Roger Zelazny
Ian Watson
Lois McMaster Bujold
Iain Banks
Ursula Le Guin
Roger Zelazny
Ian Watson
November 18, 2024 at 2:16 PM
5 authors of whom I've read 10+ books:
Philip Roth
Edmund White
Ursula K. Le Guin
Samuel Delany
Judy Blume
Philip Roth
Edmund White
Ursula K. Le Guin
Samuel Delany
Judy Blume
Alan Hollinghurst has a new, wonderful book out. Here is the interview I conducted with him 13 years ago.
themillions.com/2011/11/the-...
themillions.com/2011/11/the-...
The Millions Interview: Alan Hollinghurst Answers his Critics
"I was so hoping that we could get beyond the whole gay writer thing now, which I feel stuck in."
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November 16, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Alan Hollinghurst has a new, wonderful book out. Here is the interview I conducted with him 13 years ago.
themillions.com/2011/11/the-...
themillions.com/2011/11/the-...
I just joined, and I wanted to introduce myself with a thread featuring my recent work. Get ready for a lot of 80s/90s nerdstalgia, and some assorted weirdness in between.
November 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
I just joined, and I wanted to introduce myself with a thread featuring my recent work. Get ready for a lot of 80s/90s nerdstalgia, and some assorted weirdness in between.