Gonna tell my top surgeon I want to have a chest like Clock Lady’s

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

EVERYTHING IS GENDER

I'm retouching strips for Hogan's Alley #25. A friend suggested I use AI to restore the work. I said no, but I was curious to see what it would do, so I sent him a sample. The top is the restored source material, and the bottom is the AI "restoration." And that, dear reader, is why I don't use AI.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

“America has always been like this” responses to “Orange Man Bad” posts annoy me. Obama didn’t post a video of him dumping his own fecal matter from a F-18 on his critics, then threaten to go to war with Denmark. That isn’t true.

What's your reading style? Over stimulated spaniel. 🐕 Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy

Today is the birthday of British comic artist Frank Bellamy (May 21, 1917-July 5, 1976).

I had an older Jewish relative make this point during the row over Green locals candidates. Everyone knows there are antisemitic neo-fascists on the right. It’s horrific, but it’s baked in. When it’s people who pride themselves on being anti-racist spouting antisemitic hate, it hits different

18 year old Garth Ennis wrote into a fanzine, and he was already 100% Garth Ennis.

Yeah, I care about Data Centers. Like when Data is the Center of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

NIXON: That Grogu is a real shifty [expletive], but goddamnit does he get results. EHRLICHMAN: Scared the hell out of the Cambodians, too. NIXON: That’s what we needed over there. Someone with some [expletive] guts. HALDEMAN: [inaudible] NIXON: He’s one of the good ones, Bob.

What non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

‘No second class citizens’ apart from the class of people you think should be quite literally segregated in hospital wards and toilets.

The real problem with modern Doctor Who is that it’s not written by total fucking freaks. To write it in the 1960s you had to be obsessed with alchemy or believe Theudebert I was descended from Jesus; now they just want you to know how to write for TV, which was notably *not* a requirement in 1968.

Rapidly vacillating between thinking this is the worst image of all time and the greatest image of all time

Comics are perfect.

Shelfdust got an Eisner nomination, so you should read their current articles like this one by @bbeatrix.bsky.social so when they get the NEXT Eisner nomination, you can brag you read it at the time

HUGE new essay from @bbeatrix.bsky.social on Shelfdust today! The Spectre destroyed a country and afterwards everybody just glossed over it…?

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Acts of God: John Ostrander’s Mission in The Spectre #13, by @bbeatrix.bsky.social 🚨 Read here ▶️ shelfdust.com/2026/05/13/a...

this is one of my favorite memes of all times. i cant quite pinpoint why. cracks me up. i got sour gummy worms today

In terms of the question "how normalised is antisemitism in the current environment?" an article implying that Nimoy replaced Horner with Rosenman because of a Jewish Cabal is basically a Five Alarm Fire

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

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The very first Doctor & two companions, from 1966’s Doctor Who Annual, by Walter Howarth. I can’t help but find this rather wonderful…

it's a shame there was never a Conan The Barbarian themed Hostess ad.

ken jennings my dms are open

Since ol' Clarence is trending:

DC Comics, Blinded by Whiteness: It has now been 1171 days since the last time DC published an ongoing series for a Black character in their mainline continuity, and it wasn’t the publisher who realized this; it was the fans.

pour one out for Gerry Conway, the last Spider-Man writer who really understood that the b-plot of any particular story should be the main character's coworker unknowingly dating a crime boss who is also a werewolf (complimentary)

RIP Gerry Conway. Thanks for all the heroes, monsters, and clones you shared with us all over the years.

RIP Gerry Conway. He wrote some of my favorite comics (and probably some of yours too.) www.marvel.com/articles/com...

Cis women get to use T to satisfy their sexual urges and it's celebrated. Trans people take T to eliminate their gender dysphoria and they're villainized and called perverts.

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

saw this pic from a Sailor Moon S VHS game that was played on a toy phone (the Terebikko), and yeah, when fireballs fail, pack heat.

This is one of the funniest fucking things I have ever seen in my life

The Disney Doctor Who deal continues to be so funny to me. Imagine being Disney and having negotiated an agreement with one of the enduring classics of sci-fi and kids entertainment and your reward being 'a lore-dense introduction and fish erotica'.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Rom: Spaceknight by Mantlo, Buscema, and Ditko (1979 – 1986)

Caitlyn Jenner complained to Tomi Lahren that her passport gender marker was reverted back to male and it has inhibited her ability to travel. Trump ignored her letter to him about this. Despite this, she says she still loves Donald Trump.

it just occurred to me that pope probably gets some kind of daily global news briefing and he likely pays far more attention to it than trump pays to his

oh really

this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing

The synthesizer is, culturally, a transgender instrument.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance