📊 45% of Conservatives in Canada approve of Trump. Every other party? Under 7%. That’s not coincidence — it’s alignment. Supporting Conservatives today means importing Trump’s chaos into Canada. This is why we need CBC — the last firewall against MAGA-style disinfo. 👉 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

Since my current open call for submissions for Forgotten Ground Regained is for (English) poems in Norse and Icelandic forms, due October 1st, I figure this is a good to tell people about some of those forms! Read this thread for a quick introduction. alliteration.net/call-for-sub...

Roman Borisov is six hours into a full, live performance of Erik Satie's Vexations, courtesy of the truly enlightened Deutsche Welle!!! Eight hours to go, long live DADA! www.youtube.com/live/cPqIULs...

Edwin Frank (NYRB), Barbara Epler (New Directions), Michael Reynolds (Europa), Jillian Kravatz (Archipelago) will be discussing upcoming French translations at Villa Albertine TODAY at 3:30pm. Edwin will be talking about Mattia Filice's Driver, which we are excited for you to read.

The Toronto Public Library system (& all libraries in general) is rocking the free world. They're re-inventing themselves, quite forward-thinking stuff: where there are books, certain humans feel safer. Librarian @msamandafrench spells it all out, go team French! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The Raven is a newspaper that satisfies the darker side of the imagination. Stories, Comics, Movie Reviews & More--all of a creepy and spooky nature. Co-edited with a column by me (The Editor's Coffin). It comes out quarterly: akidandacomic.com From A Kid and A Comic #TheRaven #AKidandaComic

McDonalds passed up an opportunity to build a Statue of Liberty out of hamburgers because they didn't understand modern art as well as they understood feeding slop to pigs. Or maybe it's postmodern art, maybe that's the problem, trapped in a Pompiers Burger Mode, couldn't grok the hah-ha of it all.

I can see a potential doctoral thesis in popculture studies: Adventure Time as Pilgrim's Progress. Discuss amongst yourselves. I snuck a lot of art history goodies in Adventure Time

Finally, after finding a lost cache of author and blogger interviews these are all up on the blog and the author interview series now stands at 112 interviews If you want to be involved please read the page at the below link #BookSky 💙📚 #authors #writers bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...

Once the lawyers are done with this, that number's decimal point will have moved three spaces to the left. Maybe more.

Roger Langridge (a confirmed Carrollian) and Hagai Pavlesky did some cool comix. Roger's inking is impeccable, as always, and Hagai's story gave it all a bit of a Rick Geary feel, at least in the sample pages.

For our friends, Beethoven; for our enemies, lawyers. youtu.be/nSpa-XR44PE?...

Labouring over perspective of a square marble-tiled floor, realizing that usual doping it out by eye wasn't sufficient, I resorted to my 1857 1st edition of Ruskin's Elements of Perspective. The illustrator who gave me this book is long dead but the foundation he gave me still serves me.

saving this for later and for the benefit of other typesetters

Everything is real, nothing is permitted, suckers! #penandink #duotone #firesigntheatre #bookillustration #USA #politicalart #goodpoliticalartdoesnttalkpoliticsjustdrawshumansbeingthemselves

※ Snark is legitimate conflict, which even can be a heated debate. ※ Boojum ist lethal. «L.C. forgot that “the Snark” is a tragedy and [should] on no account be made jovial. h.h.» (Handwritten note by Henry Holiday on a page from a letter by C.L. Dodgson.) snrk.de/the-snark-is-a-tragedy

Worth a look, at least for literary schadenfreude

Every Carrollian must insinuate themselves ever deeper into industry, government, military, public institutions, etc. Time to take back this planet! Back to the trees! Get off my lawn! #TheHuntingoftheSnark #LewisCarroll #GN #PenandInk #PearlsBeforeSwine #MelvilleHouse

it's also a sign that the AD understands the value of building mutually beneficial relationships instead of focusing on short-term gain win-win is the best

I'm a teetotaler so I can't drink myself to death, only keep drawing while the mob outside Festung Singh runs amuck. #comix #penandink #illustration #RotlandPress #JGPosada #hatching #northamerica

Not yet started on S. Kohli interview but @brianlarossa.com lays down some good shoptalk on contemporary art directing and illustration. I've witnessed cover meetings where chairs were thrown and punches traded. Brian's system works much better.

Coming up soon at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social I'll be celebrating this new collection by award-winning poet @henricole.bsky.social. Come join us in person or watch us on zoom.

Kaamika. Done in my salad days when sandstone lay to hand like a handy, stony thing. Hard on the tools though. #sculpture #beefsteak #draftsmanship

master technique to throw it away

The Xi Putin Kim parade live feed is a parade of missed opportunities to do a serious Leni Riefenstahl. Agitprop ain't what it used to be. Is nothing sacred?

Dos Passos is a must-read for modern youth in the USA

Pipe man mouse picture

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

QRP your favourite portrait you've drawn!

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” illustrated with original engravings on wood by Lynd Ward. Post 1 (of 4).

This is a very cool story, must-read for anyone who's worked in newspapers or newsmagazines. Or just admires all humans who labour for the common good. Even if the composing room has to write it out by hand, this paper never misses deadline. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

"The phonographs of hades in the brain Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love A burnt match skating in a urinal — " --Hart Crane, "The Tunnel"

This must be the 4th or 5th class-action lawsuit I've been in and like all the others, it'll end in tears. Ad astra!

"… the city was mostly inhabited by the impoverished descendants of African slaves. Their owners' descendants were too polite to harp upon the subject, but they felt the federally mandated evolution of their property into human beings had been insufficiently appreciated by the latter …" 1/2

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

New blog post: Inspiration, a film by Karel Zeman

“#Myth does not take off from facts or historical events. It takes off from shared insoluble human problems. But it enters the same cloudy territory of human emotion that history and legend have to plow through with similar distortions.” Wendy Doniger:

Get yer pledge in to help hatch a symphony! 😀 MIKE BATT: A "UKRAINE" SYMPHONY www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-ukraine-...

Behind every cassock is a Cossack who just wants to have fun. #penandink #bookpub #illustration #bookillustration

Adding tags to this call for poetry submissions to make sure more people see this call for poetry in Norse and Icelandic forms. #CallForSubmissions #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #submissions #poetrysky #BlueskyPoeys #poetsonbluesky #medievalsky #Norse #Iceland #viking #alliterativeverse

One of the greats, fantasy or otherwise

Pitch art for Rosny's The Death of the Earth, was hoping to work it up into a GN/YA-trade but there was no interest at that time, Wesleyan bought one image. Rosny wrote crackalackin' SF. Anglophone fans of early classic SF, check him out. #illustration #penandink #FrenchSF

Had the honour of doing the cover for this excellent translation. A 1911 Franco-Belgian science fiction classic with a black hero, The Dead Earth, plus some short stories. Rosny also wrote prehistoric romances, one of which was adapted into the 1981 fillum, Quest For Fire.

Kirchner is always good