My parents are moving and I came across the only copy of an Oscar winning director’s early film. Made while he was in high school.

The worst take in music courtesy of Apple Music.

SKETCHES ON THE SIDEWALK #2 JACK KIRBY was written by my long-time comics collaborator and brother-in-arms @fredvanlente.bsky.social. Art and lettering by me. It's always a pleasure to do work for the Civics For All Comics Group and always an honor to pay tribute to The One True King of Comics.

I think these are my two most 'Ringo worthy comics from 2025. GROWING UP FARLEY (art & lettering) www.wpr.org/news/graphic... SKETCHES ON THE SIDEWALK #2: JACK KIRBY (art, color, lettering, cover) www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re... Feel free to nominate me and my co-authors!

Death to Pachuco is now in LCS like Golden Apple! I signed their stock! Get yours today! bindings.app/read/WqFIoucR

Not enough people know about Dolores Huerta's incredible life. That's why I made this comic in 2024. www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

In light of today’s news, even prouder NYC chooses to center Dolores Huerta in teaching the history of the farm workers fight. For more, Civics For All Comics Group’s Historias de Resistencia #1: Dolores Huerta and the Plight of the Farm Workers & Union Organizers: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Your elected officials use their voices to shape your everyday life, however, your voice matters too! #CivicsWeek is the perfect time to learn who represents you, how local government works, and how to make your voice heard.

Love this! This is a work of #GraphicMedicine in the expansive understanding of the term not as about the institution of medicine but about social & political remedies that create healing & access.

To mark today’s anniversary and to celebrate NYC’s Civics Week theme of Voices Then, Voices Now, a poster of the Capitol Crawl. This poster was developed for Civics Week 2026 by the Civics for All Comics Group and was illustrated by Kaz Lee. Download: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

ACTION REPORTERS #1 by myself and @fredvanlente.bsky.social is out now! Our latest collaboration with The New York City Department of Education, this comic explores the real histories Ida B. Wells, Upton Sinclair, and Nellie Bly. Read it for FREE here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

NYC educators! Join Department of Social & Civics x TeachRock for an upcoming professional learning, Voices Then, Voices Now: Exploring Social Movements Through Music, 3/11 @ Brooklyn Bowl! All attendees get lessons, lunch, & tour poster! Register: nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/voice...

NYC educators! Join Department of Social & Civics x TeachRock for an upcoming professional learning, Voices Then, Voices Now: Exploring Social Movements Through Music, 3/11 @ Brooklyn Bowl! All attendees get lessons, lunch, & tour poster! Register: nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/voice...

We are so damn grateful that the word is out: Team Death to Pachuco landed the plane. The surge of new readers, retailer support, and collectors giving this series incredible legs in the monthly comics market. Still time to preorder the TPB! bindings.app/read/WqFIoucR

Yo @henrybarajas.bsky.social! Just picked up the LAST copy of Death to Pachuco #5 at Midtown Comics. Forbidden Planet was already sold out last week! #SoldOutinNYC

Have you seen the latest FREE non-fiction comic from @fredvanlente.bsky.social @ryandunlavey.bsky.social and the Civics For All Comics Group?! 100% TRUE tales of Ida B. Wells, Upton Sinclair and Nellie Bly!! 100% FAKE tales of talking dogs!!! Get it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Jersey City in the snow.

Hey, more awesome stuff from @fredvanlente.bsky.social @ryandunlavey.bsky.social and the NYC DOE Civics for All Comics Group!!! FREE DOWNLOAD!

Available for free *right now*: ACTION REPORTERS #1 by me & @ryandunlavey.bsky.social focusing on media literacy and journalistic ethics, a joint venture with the DOE and the News Literacy Project. Download now: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Proud to announce Civics For All Comics Group comic Action Reporters #1! NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics collab w/ @fredvanlente.bsky.social @ryandunlavey.bsky.social along w/ @newslit.org to bring this comic history of journalism to print! Download: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Last issue of Death to Pachuco is out now. Find a LCS near you! bindings.app/read/WqFIoucR

Learning of the passing of Jesse Jackson, a reminder his 1984 Rainbow Coalition speech at the Democratic National Convention should absolutely be taught in US history and US government courses! www.americanyawp.com/reader/29-th...

The last issue of Death to Pachuco will hit comic shops in 2 weeks! You can read the first issue for FREE in a number of ways. The B&W version is free to read on Image's website. imagecomics.com/read/death-t...

🗣️NYC Educators!!! Join NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics and TeachRock for ¡Wepa! Latinos in Pop Music at MCNY this Friday, February 6! Limited spots still available! Register here: nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/wepa-...

Truly grateful and appreciative for the opportunity to hold our first teaching the Grateful Dead professional learning day this past November. Good to know that so many NYC educators will help to teach the legacy of Bob Weir and the Dead to future generations.

Educators, you can bring Bob Weir into the classroom using his profile from NYC’s Hidden Voices: Americans with Disabilities in United States History. You can download it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

An opportunity to honor the memory of Bob Weir in the classroom. Here’s a lesson from NYC’s Department of Social Studies and Civics and TeachRock, Getting on the Bus with the Grateful Dead. You can download it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Jack Kirby's boyhood home, in what was then the squalid Lower East Tenement District. Still standing. The brick building, 147 Essex St. "I hated the place," remembered Kirby. #Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby

My annual plea, egg nog should be an all winter drink.

Yay! Well deserved, King!

You know a great way to celebrate this news… Read all about King Kirby in the Civics For All Comics Group comic, Sketches on the Sidewalk #2: Jack Kirby by @ryandunlavey.com & @fredvanlente.bsky.social! Download a FREE copy: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9

A reminder that there are other comics out there that isn't Marvel and DC. Next time you're at a LCS or scrolling any of the digital spaces, try a new idea. For example, Death to Pachuco #3 by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social, Lee Loughridge, and myself will be out this Wednesday. bindings.app/read/388LyCnO

As part of our Day of Teaching the Grateful Dead professional learning event with @teachrockorg.bsky.social, the NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics released a collaborative lesson plan, Getting on the Bus with the Grateful Dead available here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Learn more ancient history this weekend. It will put the present issues in perspective. Every past was once a future. #afrofuturism

What a fantastic way to open @nycschools.bsky.social’s Department of Social Studies & @teachrockorg.bsky.social five session Let The Music Play Professional Learning Tour, A Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead at Brooklyn Bowl. Truly one of the highlights of my 27 year career!

To get home to New York from Camelot, time lost baseball fan Danny Landau is going f---ing MEDIEVAL. Issue #1 is out TUESDAY from me, @alexcormack.bsky.social @sarahstarlitt.bsky.social & @comixology.bsky.social Originals. 🔗 PREORDER: amzn.to/4nTBI9h 🔗 INFO: www.neilkleidbooks.com/books/medieval

Thinking about Jamaica and the future of freedom. #afrofuturism

I'm sending my next newsletter tomorrow morning. This is the best way to get all the happenings in my neck of the woods, and photos I do not upload to social media feeds. buttondown.com/latinxpress

“[Portnoy] had considered Jersey City or Hoboken as alternative locations for Barstool HQ.” Let me be tbe fist to say Jersey doesn’t want you, Dave! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Donna had been contributing so much to the “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast” podcast recently and I'm really gonna miss that too. Her insights into the Europe 72 tour were so amazing. www.dead.net/deadcast/eur...

I am a huge fan of NYC voting signage! Taken at 52 Chambers, NY NY (right behind City Hall).

Had a great time with Bill Carbone of TeachRock talking with @dgans.bsky.social & Gary Lambert on Tales From the Golden Road about NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics & @teachrockorg.bsky.social’s Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead, coming up this Friday at Brooklyn Bowl!

Thanks @losangelesblade.bsky.social & Joel Medina for this wonderful article about the Queer History 101 Book Club that @peppermint247.bsky.social and I run for Allstora books! www.losangelesblade.com/2025/10/30/p...

Hanging out for Halloween with Snoopy & Bernie!

At Comic Con, @peppermint247.bsky.social and I talked with icon @georgetakei.bsky.social about his "two incarcerations" - the internment he suffered at the hands of the US Gov't during WWII (for the "crime" of being Japanese-American), and his decades in the closet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQL...

Still a few seats left for NYC Ts for NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics & @teachrockorg.bsky.social for A Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead! This PL, 11/7, at Brooklyn Bowl is first stop in our Rock & Roll Classroom 25-26 Tour! Register: nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/day-o...

Death to Pachuco #1 is now in stores! Go to your local comic shop and demand a copy! BTS: we started recording right before the NYCC artist alley floor closed! Preorder 👉🏽 bindings.app/read/2Ff3kNs7 #noir #comicbookart #truecrime #imagecomics #topcow