Four (4) little write-ups from me on @comicsbeat.bsky.social’s wonderful Best Comics Of 2025 list • Ancestral Recall by Jordan Clark & Atagun İlhan • Dimwood by Richard Corben • Mafalda by Quino • Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy www.comicsbeat.com/best-comics-...

Yooooooooooooooooo! Ancestral Recall ( @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social ) is one of @comicsbeat.bsky.social 's best comics of 2025. This is an incredible honor. Thank you so much to @thsheridans.bsky.social for the love and to all the readers who supported us.

It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025 The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.

Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I vividly remember a talk we hosted at Orbital where someone asked (pleaded with) Trina Robbins, “But wasn’t there something clever and subversive about the problematic stuff in Crumb’s work?” Robbins replied with a simple and unequivocal “No.”

I am respectfully asking people not to platform Joel Meadows / Tripwire magazine. He has made clear his support for Israel's actions, as well as his contempt for people who are appalled by Israel's actions in Gaza and beyond. I am hoping there are others in the comic community who feel the same way.

Reminder that I run a comic book website called @shelfdust.bsky.social and it’s full of weird and unique essays about comics. I’d love for more people to take a look! www.shelfdust.com

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here! Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only! And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

Delivering a rare slice of comics journalism: I spoke with @jrsosa18.bsky.social about Black art and Black history in a time of erasure I’m really glad for it to be a public conversation I also love when an artist makes the thing they really mean to make, and ANCESTRAL RECALL is absolutely that

Just seen a piece promoting Jung Chang’s new book. First sentence does an orientalism

I am glad to go on record calling this thing what it is And I’m grateful to @andywpoliver.bsky.social for being someone who is unafraid to harness @brokenfrontier.bsky.social as a space for unequivocal, values-driven advocacy

If you've written for Shelfdust before and you're thinking "I'd like to write about comics MORE" then please get in touch with me! I'm looking for essays to add to the site from October onwards....

Absolutely vile piece in The New Yorker recently by Louis Menand on James Baldwin

Bad news: you’re not immune to propaganda, bias, or perpetuating harmful -isms. Good news: Once you accept this, you can reject harm & join liberation movements! It’s not too late to put on an n95. To oppose genocide. To divest from fascist corps. To demand climate action. To protect trans people.

I don’t know how to say this in a way that isn’t cringe or soppy, but if there is a single name that should be associated with an Eisner win for comics journalism, it’s Heidi MacDonald I am so, so moved to be part of this one

Some beautiful sentiments in this thread, and a reminder to look beyond the outer edges of horror

Important info for everyone attending SDCC or any large event in the US right now to know! Good on the Beat for making it central to their coverage of this year's con! www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-what...

We currently have 20-plus reviews/features up at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social on the comics available at @ldcomics.bsky.social Online Comics Fair. And lots more to come! You're not going to find more comprehensive coverage anywhere else so take a look here: www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/ldcomics...

1/2 Hey, all! We're going to start running our series on the impact of AI "art" on the comics community this month and we've had lots of great contributions. Know what we are lacking though? Thoughts from actual comics *artists* which is obviously a great, glaring hole in the coverage.

Now Showing: THE STACKS Episode 1! David Brothers ( @iamdavidbrothers.com ) & Chip Zdarsky pick their favorite comics off the @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social shelves & discuss. Watch The Rest Here--> youtu.be/Ww3n_9Z1KZE?...

Wear a mask. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. 😷 Not just at protests! At the grocery store, at the farmer’s market, at the museum, LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. Especially as mask bans become more common, get back into the swing of wearing one to protest fascism and show solidarity with disabled people! Mask up!

“His insistence on being superior is what leads him to his humbling and violent death” A great slice of comics criticism from @stevewmorris.bsky.social that reads very well at this particular moment in time

Check out me and Gianni’s new series over at Biff! Bam! Pow!

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Happy Pride, y’all!

🗣️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Queer comics people!! If you’re a queer person with a queer comic/graphic novel coming out soon, please tell me (and everyone) about it!!!

TONIGHT! Please share! #GoshBFDD See you here at 7.30pm BST.

sooooo i wrote half this list. i def put some romance in there, some resistance, but mostly what i was interested in showcasing was queer comics made with unorthodox and creative techniques. comics pushing the medium forward. enjoy!

Since its final week of Eisners voting!

Heard you were looking for some queer comics for Pride…!

Paging UK friends petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The Comics Courier Issue 2's Kickstarter is wrapping up in just THREE days! So if you're the type of person for whom a print newspaper format journal of comics criticism sounds intriguing... head over to our Kickstarter page today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

For my 35th, I launched @fatfwdbooks.bsky.social with @binderybooks.bsky.social and I have big, big plans! If you want to know more about #FatForwardBooks, check out this post and subscribe to the page (for FREE). I'd love to hit 50 subs my June 1. Please share to help make it happen! 💙📚 🌈📚

LOOK WHAT'S UP FOR PREORDER! TAROT OF THE DIVINE COLORING BOOK!!!!! Get from me Here >>> yoshiyoshitani.store/collections/...

Okay, comics folk... if you expressed an interest in our series on comics and generative AI "art" we have three very basic discussion points we can send you for consideration if you have a paragraph or two in you.

Really, really state of the landscape piece from @andywpoliver.bsky.social for @brokenfrontier.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/comics-journ...

My latest everyone.

Cowards overestimate the cowardice of others

Yeah dude people love it when nonwhite folks win awards, they’re terrified of not handing us awards even

I’ve said this privately, but the Graham comic is Great Replacement x Comicsgate for the Fantagraphics crowd

The @goshcomics.bsky.social & @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Drink and Draw Online is tomorrow (Thurs 22nd) night! Do join in wherever you are in the world. Three drawing rounds, post your work here on Bluesky, and explanations on how to take part here: www.brokenfrontier.com/drink-draw-m... #GoshBFDD

Hello! Shelfdust here, sentient comic book website. I: * Pay people to write about comics * Cover comics nobody else covers * Publish a new essay every week * Feature the widest range of critical opinions ANYWHERE in comics * Fly far under the radar: so follow us on Bluesky! www.Shelfdust.com

✨love to see it✨

the beat has been nominated for the 2024 comics journalism eisner and, for your consideration, i covered a number of graphic novels and manga, reported on news and events within the community, and started a column on academic works aimed at enriching public comics literacy:

A new slice of comics criticism (wealth! class!)