ultimately the fallout of all this is that cartoonists who aren't necessarily trained in academic citation, history and historiography, and don't have a background in that, will be terrified to draw anything nonfiction. and that's not on the academics who feel slighted. that's on comic publishers

And that's where readers can get tripped up. They don't realize that they have read a story, a narrative, from a very specific POV, not just a collation of facts. Historians are not neutral actors. And in this particular case, narrative becomes even more important, bc the facts are enigmatic.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Anyway, here’s a better indie series about roommates needing to pay rent

Just read "Miss Don't Touch Me." Going to be digesting that one for a while. What a ride. Definitely have to believe the foreshadowing in the second part, it is not a fantasy ending.

Going down a history wormhole.

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

‘My Girlfriend, Enid,’ a 2D/3D hybrid animated musical short film has launched on Kickstarter. ⬇️ The film follows a closeted trans woman who attempts to create the perfect female clone of herself in an effort to ease her gender dysphoria.

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness

The only way for this AI "competitor" to function is by taking a bunch of work off the internet without consent. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

[Repost appreciated 🙏] Hi! I will be open for commercial and non commercial works starting July! I have done book covers, promotional art, mobile games, etc. Feel free to DM or message me over [email protected] My portfolio is here artstation.com/kidchan many thanks! 🥰

I am so happy this is doing well. It was so fun to see an unapologetically WEIRD animated movie in the theater.

Not giving any spoilers for #tadc movie but it was really funny to sit in a theater watching the merch announcement while everyone reacted. Like watching a public informercial.

had never seen this one and it's killing me

I never actually expected to Rumplestiltskin the survey company.

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

i don't envy the task, horses are damn hard. but for a lowbrow 80s kids show these things are gallopin around much better than they have any right to be. where did the horse understanders go since then

Holy shit, my friend @jeymccreight.bsky.social was beaten nearly to death on the street by a transphobe who recognized him from his LGBTQ advocacy. He started a GoFundMe to aid in his recovery gofund.me/9328f91f2

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

[looking up from a goblet of infant blood, crimson dripping from their lips] “this kind of language is so unbecoming. she must be fat and depressed”

Gorgeous comic. Checked out from the library, hot dang. Love these luscious bright color compositions.

Snake and Metal Gear Solid are two of those things that I never even considered daring to touch. I have a few of those. Stories that are such an integral part of me becoming a creative that it feels sacriligeous to even dare draw them. Fuck that, though, this is so much fun! #wip #wipart #art

Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

The "Golden Age" writers were *extremely* about having their palms crossed with silver - subsequent-era writers too. The famously extremely litigious and pugnacious Harlan Ellison would probably have driven to Meta headquarters to kick Mark Zuckerberg square in the balls. They didn't play, y'all.

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

🌱Poison Ivy Cover 47🌱 She's not done🔪

Call Mark Zuckerberg before Congress and offer him a glass of water from the site, Erin Brockovich-style

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

"There was once upon a time when friendship did not require elaborate planning. We spoke for hours... Entire evenings disappeared on hostel terraces & tea stalls and long walks taken for absolutely no reason. Friendship in youth thrived on excess time – loose, unstructured, and gloriously wasteful."

Shut up and go make some art that no one is asking for

For anyone interested, I just started a petition to get anything created using generative AI disqualified from Eisner Award consideration moving forward. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/no-ai-at-the...

We didn't win gold this time around but it was such an honor for Testament to be celebrated as a finalist. Here's the acceptance speech we had planned:

SOLRAD, the two-time Eisner-nominated literary magazine for comics criticism, is open for submissions. We publish reviews, essays, and interviews — and we pay $100 per piece.

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Any bank that allows freedom of expression, any processor that challenges the monopoly will have the world at their feet because I'm so fucking tired of this

Checked on the Free Speech Coalition credit union and they now have a website for the Opportunity Credit Union. Their goal is to be operational in 2027 I'm giving a little per month as evidence of available capital while they go through the approval process www.opportunitycu.org/frequently-a...

Trying to purge some of my junk and man, blessings be to the library and e-books.

Stardust: the magic you'll get from WSP & @bonedustpress.bsky.social new anthology collaboration! HEAVY ARE THE YEARS will be an illustrated story collection about the weight of time on our minds, our bodies, and our souls. And submissions are open! 🌟 https://www.wildstarpress.com/stardust

Pip + pottery #comic 1/8

Everyone has to have that one attempted hobby where you get a bunch of supplies, equipment, watch tutorials, and then realize you do not actually like doing that craft.

Just watched Project Hail Mary. 30 minutes in it becomes a live action Pixar movie

It’s OK to write [NAME TBD], [JARGON], or [SOLVE THIS LATER] if you get stuck, as long as you have a way to search for those spots down the line. You don’t have to stop your momentum until you crack the thing if you tend to get sidetracked or it’s making you miserable. This was a revelation.

UNDO BLENDER, UNDO RIGHT THE FUCK NOW TURN BACK.