Dear Friends, I have an exhibition of my artwork opening at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago this Friday, September 5th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm. It would be lovely to see you, please come!

Raven Girl in Black and White. Model: Ardis Mural: "Storm Chaser" by Justin Suarez Book: "Raven Girl" by @audreyniffenegger.bsky.social (@abramscomicarts.bsky.social, 2013) #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #womenandbooks #booksky #audreyniffenegger #ravengirl #justinsuarez #ardis

Dear Friends, I am doing a birthday fundraiser over on FB for Artists Book House's building fund. We have a $50,000 matching grant this year! It's a 1:1 match, so your donation will be doubled. Thank you! www.facebook.com/donate/18867...

Taking back control of your digital life: How to get the most out of tech while freeing yourself from the lunatics in Silicon Valley iandunt.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

Last week @eddiecampbell.bsky.social and I went to Powell’s Books’ fantastic warehouse to pick up some copies of our Bizarre Romance. @kgerleve.bsky.social helped us (we were given 36 cases of books!) and we had a great visit. Thank you, Brad Jonas and @powellsbookschi.bsky.social !

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Today I saw a high level of anger at the massive number of cops that are protecting a Tesla dealership in Chicago. Lots of chants demanding to know why they are protecting Nazis. No one is letting CPD off the hook. This is what cops do - enable and participate in fascism. #Teslatakedown.

I wrote about the very violent, very public detention of a woman for interrupting a speaker at the Kootenai County Republican’s town hall on Saturday. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places; this is a terrifying escalation.

Artists Book House wishes Edward Gorey a happy 100th birthday! Many of us here at ABH draw great inspiration from the weird, wonderful work of Edward Gorey, born here in Chicago on Feb. 22, 1925.

Trump is shutting down at midnight tonight the federal website for ordering free COVID tests (four per order). I just ordered four—can’t be easier. Last call. ------------------ covidtests.gov Please share I just ordered mine.

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

Serendipity! Saw the current New Yorker cover with vintage Rea Irvin and wistfully thought he should be appreciated more. Opened mag and saw Seth's 4-page appreciation! A traveling 21 year old Irvin of San Francisco popped up in my book The Goat Getters, drawing sports page cartoons in Hawaii.

once again, use 5calls.org — so quick and easy

thread with @aoc.bsky.social’s advice for this moment, and it involves calling your reps. not sure how? use 5calls.org (they have an app too).

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Google the Gulf of Mexico. When incorrect search results appear, send Google your feedback! It's fun and only takes a few minutes. Just click on the three little dots and send them your thoughts.

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

“I think we need to persuade them that we are anti-fascist, the same way they persuaded us they are fascist.”

I heard my people cry and lo! I have come.

As long as the world is in chaos anyway, let’s wipe blurbs off the face of the earth. I have been the recipient of other authors’ kindness (thank you all!) and I have tried to give help where I could, but blurbs are just advertising, and frequently ineffective.

the headline acts like this is a dramatic new thing but if you read the piece it is actually more like "we officially aren't going to require people to do something we already weren't officially requiring them to do" okay? cool?

Crushing fascism is actually an anti-fascist act, and often requires being just as aggressive as fascists are in their pursuit of fascist ends in order to secure anti-fascist ends, which are not the same as fascist ends. Pass It On.

Genius eggless breakfast ideas:

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I wrote about the fascist party that's taking power, the deepest natural laws that they oppose, the ways that this opposition renders them fundamentally, illegitimate no matter what power they hold, and what that means for all of us. www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-...

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them. We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read. R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.

Rest in peace, David Lynch.

Thank you, Howard! <3

Now would be a good time for Chicago to rename some streets in honor of the Haymarket Martyrs.

A terrific piece by Rebecca Makkai--it's an honor to be included. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

And go get KATE CAREW from the publisher www.fantagraphics.com/products/kat... or your fave bookshop bookshop.org/a/4669/97988...

2 days late, but new #podcast is live! @eddiecampbell.bsky.social Eddie Campbell rejoins the show for a fun talk about his fantastic new book, KATE CAREW: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist! GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Tonight! At the Newberry Library in Chicago, I’m talking punk art & design with Nadine Nakanishi (Sonnenzimmer) and Martin Sorrondeguy (Los Crudos). In-person is full (!!) but it’s livestreamed: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event…

Want to lend a helping hand to @buryingground.bsky.social? Get in touch 👇🏻

Breaking. Publishing company founders created by AI

It was a delightful evening, thank you @ignatius2u.bsky.social and @roscoebooks.bsky.social ! It was a pleasure to read with Rachel, Lois, and Rachel!

I’m going to read a chapter from the book I’ve been working on for a very long time, The Other Husband. Please join us!

I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art: “Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

I have a Roy Haynes story to tell: Some years ago, I saw him in a jazz bar in Paris. He was well into his eighties then, but was performing with a band of twenty-year olds featuring electric bass and playing funky stuff and he was killing it.

I interviewed Richard Gadd for British GQ a couple of days after he’d won three Emmys for Baby Reindeer. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/rich...

Hello everyone who has just arrived. It's heartening to see you all!

Increasingly, normal people celebrate difference, diversity, and uniqueness. Being called "weird" doesn't bother normal people, because their worldviews can handle weirdness. But "weird" is a massive problem for The Normal Ones. They *can't* be weird. Full Essay www.the-reframe.com/the-normal-o...

Dear Friends, Artists Book House has a new space, at 4207 West Irving Park Road in Chicago. I am doing a birthday fundraiser over at FB to get the renovations under way. Thanks! www.facebook.com/donate/49397...

Happy new year, friends. I hope this one will be more peaceful.

The Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery. The cemetery opened in 1839 and its spectacular architectural features were intended to make it the most attractive burial place in London and a visitor attraction from the start.

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Some lovely memories of Jon Privett - narrowboat bookseller and inspirational bibliophile www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/how-...

Useless, thieving innovation for hacks and scammers to inundate the cultural world with garbage