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Mostly Frogs
@rysellscomics.bsky.social
a comic shop masquerading as a writer

or

a writer masquerading as a comic shop


I also make zines and other cool things.

Please take a look via the links below :)

https://bio.site/mostlyfrogs
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newsletter and shop update is live! some big runs and (at least in the shop) A focus on some of the indie comics in my collection. Please share and give a look!
Frog Talk 2
What a weird fucking book this was. I recently put together a run of the Claremont issues of that book (1-34 including the fill-in issues and a one-shot)...
buttondown.com
hi. I have become a digital hermit and life is better. still, I just published a newsletter and updated the webshop with a ton of books. please take a gander and a browse.

idk why it says august 8th

buttondown.com/TheComicList...
Frog Talk 004
bronze age reprints, budget graphic novels, and genuinely rare collectors items. this one has it all
buttondown.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Pages from a Hansel & Gretel comic by Alberto Breccia, using collage, embroidery, ink, paint, and who even knows what other media lives in these panels
July 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I do think not enough people know this - everything after a question mark in a URL is garbage. You can delete it all and the URL still works fine. Strip that shit out when sharing anything.
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
what a day for embarrassingly bad takes on this app
July 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Wow. They've literally reproduced my cover from "Fantastic Four: First Family"! C'mon, @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social , that's got to be worth a couple of free tickets.
July 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!
July 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years).

cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)
The reason it's really important to leave substack NOW is their relatively new social networking features. Substack is creating a walled garden that you *have* to share with white supremacists.

They want to keep you on substack where all the Nazis are and force you to share your revenue with them.
February 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Y'all I literally just use Wordpress dot org and pay 15 bucks a month to host the fucker at Bluehost, been doing that for six years running now and it's been fine. you don't need to use substack
Instead of Substack, consider: starting something called a "website"
July 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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aha, i have learned 'accountability sink' is a recent term given to an idea i have been thinking abt constantly for the past 2 years (re: gen-ai in particular) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Una...
July 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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How fucking sick and evil do you have to be to zip tie people in wheelchairs.
June 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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People love reading comics. That includes people in prisons.
Buy a comic requested by incarcerated people, and have it delivered to their libraries courtesy of the Prison Book Project, Hub Comics, & Boston Comic Arts Foundation!
Give Jojo to the people!

www.bostoncomicarts.org/prison-book-...
Prison Book Project | BCAF 7/10
www.bostoncomicarts.org
June 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Almost forgot to post.

Brand new street art in Pilsen just dropped: 18th & Western

#Chicago
June 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is notorious for its poor DVD release. A year or two ago, someone sent me 4 of the home laserdiscs releases. Here's the first of four that I am uploading to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Teen...
June 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Finally got this out the door last night, another newsletter about newsletters. Please subscribe or listen to @pastduepodcast.com, where we talk about this stuff all the time!
June 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Our fellow comics creator, Ron Regé, Jr., had a bad accident, and he could sure use your help! Please donate whatever you can.
#Altcomics #RonRegéJr

gofund.me/8c21d6a3
Donate to Help Ron Regé Jr recover from serious injury, organized by Ron Regé Jr
On May 30, I accidentally knocked over a large, heavy mirror in my apartment.… Ron Regé Jr needs your support for Help Ron Regé Jr recover from serious injury
gofund.me
June 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
i cannot overstate how empowering it is to write your own code for your own website. everyone should do this!
I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
June 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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This is Cyclops from the X-men after he stops paying child support
Meta just announced Oakley smart glasses. They start at $399, and they'll be available later this summer www.theverge.com/news/690133/...
June 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I'm elated about this weekend!

Check out myself & @stephwilliams.bsky.social as we discuss #Disability in #Comics at Heroes Con!

This is my first time going, & I can't wait to be there!

If you’re attending, check us out tomorrow!

#DisableComicsCreators
#DisabledCharacters
June 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
reading some ff reprints before i put them up on the web shops and just gonna dump some stray thoughts here as i go 🧵
June 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The only way in which "America" is possibly redeemable is if you reframe it as a story about Black Americans fighting to make themselves — and, crucially, everyone else — more free, in the face of unspeakable odds

Happy Juneteenth
June 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM