A month of running around to conventions every weekend is over, and now it's time to write some goddamn comics. A preview of art from SAVAGE TALES, news recommendations (@damemagazine.bsky.social & @marisakabas.bsky.social) and the usual navel-gazing. Check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/week-3...?

How I arrived on Bluesky.

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

This morning Trump said we’d just use the bases in Spain anyway and they couldn’t stop us.

Pictured: Bluesky doing it right.

Post the wins.

Really great thread on the treachery of Ai images, to paraphrase.

Passed 17K followers while posting too much from inflight wifi. If any of you folks want to follow or subscribe to the Patreon of a pulp fiction hack who sometimes posts about politics, take a look… www.patreon.com/DavidAvallon...

I rarely get the inflight wifi but I can’t sleep. So you’re stuck with me for another hour until I’m a couple hundred feet over Sepulveda Blvd.

Another open-book test of spine and moral backbone that will be failed en masse by the people who are supposed to be watchdogs of democracy. You turn down invites from Nazis, kids. It’s the easiest call to make. Imagine if Trump walked into a room empty aside from ten Fox News clowns.

Trump is the FDR of internment camps and refusing to take Jewish refugees. Bibi is the Churchill of Gallipoli and India. But the analogies end there…

Rubio said, out loud, Bibi made Trump panic and clowned him into precipitously starting a war. Wild stuff.

Say it with me: Fuck AI.

This is fantastic.

Weird Tales is foundational for me so it's exciting to see that a graphic novel project adapting these classic pulp stories is live on Kickstarter. We have all the details ⤵️ and an EXCLUSIVE peek at @davallone.bsky.social's adaptation of his father's story. www.comicbookyeti.com/post/monstro...

At Long Island Convention of Horror this weekend. Ran out for supplies. I may have reduced myself to my essence: coffee, donuts, dried fruit, ham sandwich, sushi, vodka.

THREAD 🧵The Epstein Files exposed hundreds of mentions of rich, powerful people who were close with Epstein. These include President Trump, his closest allies, and appointees. Here's what we know:

Welcome, new followers! I do talk about politics a lot, but I also make things. You can check that out here. Free subscription gets the newsletter and the occasional essay and/or video. Paid subscriptions get more reading material, including my WIP book on comics writing. Thanks for the follow!

“I’d argue horses became a lot more free…” The “freedom” to be turned into dog food and glue, because they no longer served the economy as transportation. He actually stumbled into a solid analogy without realizing it.

I blocked this one person without interacting, because their lists are clearly just “this person made me mad.” They put me on a half dozen, accusing me of every crime you can imagine. The second person I’ve actually interacted with. Positively. In conclusion, Bluesky is a land of contrasts.

I want to meet the author of this article. Clearly it is their first day on planet Earth and they will need help with a lot of things, like not walking into traffic or stepping into an open elevator shaft.

Some Democrats aren’t attending. I hope some who are have had this thought:

This week’s newsletter! My convention this week in New York, pics of and with talented friends, and James Urbaniak reads a chapter from Fante’s ASK THE DUST! More namedropping than usual! Take a look! www.patreon.com/posts/151477...

Just watched @maddow.bsky.social and @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social discuss a new, more appropriate name for Trump’s DOJ. I’m suggesting “the Messtapo.”

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman: "I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.” www.tcj.com/the-2020-rep...

This week’s newsletter! My convention this week in New York, pics of and with talented friends, and James Urbaniak reads a chapter from Fante’s ASK THE DUST! More namedropping than usual! Take a look! www.patreon.com/posts/151477...

Some moral tests are open-book, and people will still fail them.

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races. This is a great way to do that:

You can sign up for the linked Patreon for free… BUT if you sign up for a paid subscription, rhe price is as low as $1/month and that still gets you access to exclusive stuff, like my in process book about writing comics… which won’t be available anywhere else for quite some time!

Three — count them, three! — Elvira trades out this winter, and two have already come out! Please excuse a little excitement and hype… on the free side of the Patreon, with some fantastic art! www.patreon.com/posts/151260...

I know Roberts is an abject toady for MAGA, but you have to wonder how he feels about Trump calling him a traitor on television. Wonder when he’ll realize he has the job for life and owes the GOP exactly nothing.

Proud of my hometown. Hub City rocks.

The most New Jersey thing ever. Proud of my home state.

It’s @rylendgrant.bsky.social’s birthday, and you should celebrate him by checking out his upcoming Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryl...

Mechanical Turks. Every single time.

I have an awesome story, drawn by @catstaggs.bsky.social in this… And you should totally back it.

Fellini’s 8 1/2. Because no one is cooler than Marcello.

When I left the theater after MAN OF STEEL, I walked across the street and bought a SUPERMAN (1978) Blu-ray. To wash the rancid taste out of my mouth. Likewise, Baz Luhrman’s GATSBY and Jackson’s first HOBBIT made me reread the books.

My trip to @sfwc.bsky.social, a bunch of cool Kickstarters, and I tell the story of that one time Robert Duvall hugged me, in this week’s newsletter! Read for free! Subscribe if you dare! www.patreon.com/posts/week-3...?

if you’re not a creative i think you likely don’t know how much almost all of us in the US are constantly struggling or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills imagine valuing art and artists! IMAGINE

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

You should vote for Barbra Dillon. For Queen of the Universe (we’d all be better off,) and also for this comics award. No one is more deserving.

Join Fanbase Press for the ‘Comics & Coffee’ Meetup on February 21, 2026, to Bridge the Convention Gap for Industry Pros

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

This Weird Tales book contains a posthumous collaboration between myself and my late father: I adapted his 1953 Weird Tales story to a comic script, now being beautifully drawn by @roberthack.bsky.social.

Today’s free newsletter, complete with Robert Duvall anecdote. Take a look!

Thanks for the kind words, Leroy!

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further