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Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

Anyone else squinting at how long-haired Elordi monster looks a lot like long-haired Kinnear monster?
#deltorofrankenstein #pennydreadfulfrankenstein

November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

@cartooncrossroads.bsky.social

Friday!
Snacks! Beer! Fun! And, in honor of our manga guests, Seventh Son will be featuring a specially-brewed CXC Japanese-style koji rice beer, “Tokidoki”!

September 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

If you whisper "onions have layers, ogres have layers" five times, Dark Shrek will appear behind you and whisper "donkaayyyy" in your ear

August 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

C-3PO-1 = B-2ON

August 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Madeleine Vasaly

@madeleinevasaly.com

My convenient @bookshop.org list of Eisner-winning books about comics is now updated with this year's additions!

#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards

Eisner Award–Winning Books About Comics

An incomplete list of books that have won the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book or Best Academic/Scholarly Work, in reverse chronological order.

bookshop.org

August 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

I gotta start taking more selfies with people, I think it may be 1/3 of self promotion.

August 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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Eddie Robson

@eddierobson.bsky.social

This graphic novel by @maassive.bsky.social and @plutarian2.bsky.social, based on a chamber opera written in a concentration camp, is terrific: a surreal story of defiance in the face of totalitarianism, told with wit and heart.

A graphic novel called "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis". The image shows a walled city with a light coming from a tower in the centre, behind which is the face of Death himself.

July 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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Daniel Ambord, PhD

@daniel-ambord-phd.bsky.social

Outstanding panel on Dark Horse’s 2024 graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” by Dave Maass and Patrick Lay (pictured) at SDCC.‬
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@plutarian2.bsky.social
‬‬@maassive.bsky.social

Projected slide with a photograph and drawing of an old, square loudspeaker/radio.

Projected slide of a stage production and a comic panel each depicting slight streaming down between buildings to illuminate a standing figure on the ground below.

July 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM

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Dave Maass 🔦

@maassive.bsky.social

@plutarian2.bsky.social and I are supremely grateful to Andy Konopak, Hannah Benson and Alice Del Simone for lending their voices and passion to our panel.

July 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

I'm waiting to board for #sdcc and here's the thing: Godzilla in Minus One is not a metaphor for survivors guilt. That's the straight up text of the movie. The metaphor is self-annihilation, particularly militarized self-annihilation. I'm tired.

July 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

One of the things no one tells you in undergrad is eventually "research" becomes reading a thousand things you already know on the chance there's something in there you don't.

July 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

Catch @maassive.bsky.social and I on Friday from 12p-12:50, signing Death Strikes and being charming!

Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · Jul 15

Our #SDCC25 signing schedule is here! Stop by the Dark Horse Comics booth #2615 to meet some of your favorite creators and get your hands on some free swag, such as comics, pins, posters, and more! Details: bit.ly/4lUh47Z

More details to come!

Graphic for Dark Horse at SDCC 2025. The Dark Horse Booth will be Booth #2615

July 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM

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Broken Frontier

@brokenfrontier.bsky.social

News! Fieldmouse Press @fieldmouse.press Ask Us to Fight Queer Censorship with Their New Comics Crowdfundr Campaign. www.brokenfrontier.com/fieldmouse-p...

Fieldmouse Press Ask Us to Fight Queer Censorship with Their New Comics Crowdfundr Campaign – Broken Frontier

Our fine colleagues over at SOLRAD/Fieldmouse Press certainly piqued our interest with the declared intent of their latest crowdfunding campaign. With a rallying call to fight queer censorship, at a.....

www.brokenfrontier.com

July 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

HOLD ON, THERE IS A MRS. COLUMBO? WITH KATE MULGREW?

July 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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Ramon Villalobos

@ramonvillalobos.bsky.social

made a little comic last year but posting it today for fun

June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

I'm pleased to announce that I will be teaching Comics & Narrative Practice full-time at Columbus College of Art & Design. The Comic program here is incredible, built w/care & passion by @laurennmcc.bsky.social and stewarded by equally passionate faculty. Most importantly; our students are the best.

July 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Patrick Lay (he/him)

@plutarian2.bsky.social

In 2010 I posted "Judy Dench would kick your ass for a nickel" through Facebook for Zune and that's basically primary source now, you know?

June 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Cat Farris

@cattifer.bsky.social

Rose City Comic Con is doing an affiliate link program this year. Every time someone buys RCCC tickets from my link, the Hero Initiative gets $5!
If you're looking to buy tickets, please use my link instead of going straight to the RCCC website: checkout.conventions.leapevent.tech/eh/Rose_City...