It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

The Women's Professional Baseball League has announced team names and branding ahead of its inaugural season, which begins August 1. They are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells (elaboration on meaning/inspo in this thread).

We are delighted to announce the awardees for our third CAG Mini Grant!! Please click through to read more about each of them -- you might just find a new favorite cartoonist. c: comicsadvocacygroup.org/2026/07/08/c...

THE ACKROOMS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 97,1948

When I was starting out, before discovering comics but trying to figure out how to do the image + text work that was in my bones, I was told by an advisor/mentor to stop drawing because my writing was better.

A living rejoinder to everyone who insists you have to go along to get along

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

Listening to John Prine, just baked a Texas sheet cake, doing puzzles with my kids: so much love that I cannot hide.

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

Happy Independence Day

Larry has chosen meaning over results. He digs his unproductive holes everyday. That is not failure. That is literature.

Félix Vallotton, Fireworks, 1900

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

The highest stretch goal in this campaign means Chris will gift a copy of the book to every public library in Kentucky, plus every middle and high school library that wants one. How can you not be romantic about indie comics?

children's rights, trans rights, and women's rights are inescapably bound together because all of us are types of people socially defined by the dominant order based on what makes us "not cis men" and thus how we may be owned and exploited by cis men in the production of their own status as "not us"

Aaaaand that's enough news my headspace can take for the day.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 25,1964

Even the pope wants you to finish that screenplay

This Saturday from 10-10:30am, @sagecoffey.bsky.social and I will be at the @silversprocket.net booth (3229-F) in the exhibition hall at ALA to sign copies of Abortion Pill Zine. Please stop by the booth to say hi! #alaac26

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Nancy 6/21/26

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Very proud to have a comic published in Shenandoah Literary Magazine: www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-nu...

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline

Kim and Kelley Deal turn 65 today.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

RIP, Marjane Satrapi

Made little prairies for teacher gifts

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

workin in another short comic.

We are past discussing the cost of living. We are talking about the cost of survival.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Lines but fast

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Wrote a little rant about AI open.substack.com/pub/marniega...

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jon (2017) (1/3)

Last week to get your applications in for the Non-Fiction Comics Festival in Burlington, VT (November 14, 2026) Oh and how cool is this, if you're a Vermont resident and you're accepted to table - it's FREE, no table fee for you! www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/apply