The Spirit from July 14. 1940. Art by Will Eisner & letters by Sam Rosen.

The Spirit's archenemy, The Octopus, first appeared in "The Postage Stamp," which was published 80 years ago, on July 14, 1946.

i2 Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio. Vol. 14 Núm. 1 (2026) Reseña de libro: Colin Ward (2025), El niño en la ciudad" por Clara Eslava, Magdalena Jaume : i2.ua.es/article/view...

Un nuevo informe respaldado por Naciones Unidas advierte que, cuando eso ocurra, el mayor problema no será quedarse sin internet: será descubrir cuántas cosas dependen de él. Por Noticias de la ONU en @fronterad.bsky.social www.fronterad.com/el-dia-en-qu...

The Spirit by Will Eisner from July 13, 1941. Art by Will Eisner & letters by Sam Rosen.

Your 'Godzilla El Niño derangement syndrome' quote for today: "it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...

El Museo del Prado publica el ensayo perdido de Roberto Longhi que vinculó a Pedro Berruguete con la corte de Urbino www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...

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🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

My post based on a recent talk at the reality of everything symposium open.substack.com/pub/mikejoy2...

Your 'doom quote' for today: "All these crisis, including the climate crisis, have a single common cause. They are symptoms of overshoot." www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpb...

Interview with Gert Biesta. youtu.be/V7MTwVBXe6k?...

My latest on substack, substack.com/home/post/p-...

i2 Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio. Vol. 14 Núm. 1 (2026) "John Hejduk entre disciplina y exceso: Tafuri, Oppositions y el debate sobre la autonomía (1970–1980)" por Daniel García-Escudero, Berta Bardí-Milà: i2.ua.es/article/view...

Photos by Francesca Woodman. gagosian.com/exhibitions/...

The Spirit from July 7, 1940. Art by Will Eisner & letters by Sam Rosen.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 4, 1909.

Revista i2 Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio. LA CONVOCATORIA de artículos de investigación: monográfico, “Juegos y juguetes de arquitectura” -coordinado por Marco Ginoulhiac (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)- FINALIZA 15 DE JULIO 2026: i2.ua.es/announcement...

The Spirit, originally published on June 22, 1947. Art by Will Eisner & Jerry Grandenetti, with letters by Abe Kanegson.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from June 24, 1906.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from June 20, 1909.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=74gG... @amturiel.bsky.social @aaretx.eurosky.social

Gasoline Alley by Frank King from June 10, 1923.

The Spirit from June 11, 1950. Art by Will Eisner and letters by Abe Kanegson.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 13, 1909.

The Trump administration's dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative will "tear out the eyes and ears of science in the ocean."

“We’re on this escalator towards warmer and warmer and warmer temperatures, and world leaders are not doing anything about it.”

Nearly 90 faculty and staff members at The New School have been laid off over the past week. “It’s a chilling message to all of academia … as universities act more and more like corporations,” says Jeremy Varon, a professor of history at The New School who's been forced to take early retirement.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "This is a true predicament, not a solvable problem. In this light, it makes no sense to try to save the modern world. We are living a madness and must let it go." reeswilliame.substack.com/p/mything-ou...

Region Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperatures are in record territory, approaching 3 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean, an anomaly that has never happened before in recorded history. The Climate 8-ball says: "four!"

We've crossed 1.5°C.

Here's an updated anomaly graph for sea-surface temperatures in region Nino 3.4, using the preferred color scheme. I will be updating these whenever they look crazier than the previous update. That may be daily.

Da gusto escuchar a Irene Calvé. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t0... @amturiel.bsky.social @aaretx.eurosky.social @esrebelcientif.bsky.social @saraaagesen.bsky.social @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social @actisandres.bsky.social

Otto Soglow's "The Ambassador" first appeared on May 28, 1933. (Soglow created The Ambassador while waiting for the contractual rights to his "Little King" strip to transfer from the New Yorker to King Features.) Here’s the first strip:

Here is a close up of that incredibly detailed first panel from the hardcover collections from Fantagraphics.

Today is the birthday of writer Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-Jan. 10, 1961). Most remembered today for creations like Sam Spade and Nick & Nora Charles, he also cocreated the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 (later renamed Secret Agent Corrigan) with Flash Gordon-creator Alex Raymond.

My Interview on"Communities of Resistance." Audio from an interview recorded for the forthcoming documentary: First, We Take The University. Interviewer: Owen Skeen www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFBG...

Nothing to see here, just the second hottest day on record in the Nino 3.4 region, with El Nino just getting started. Over/Under 29.5 by Nov How hot will it get? The Climate Casino is giving an Over/Under of 29.9°C by December 1, 2026. The Climate 8-ball is taking the over.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "El Niño’s impacts on harvest-bringing monsoons can lead to famines of astonishing devastation: During just one, in 1877, an estimated 18.5 million Indians perished." nautil.us/el-nio-has-e...

By @girouxh.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2PAID...

The Spirit originally published on May 19, 1946. Art by Will Eisner & Jack Spranger, with letters by Martin DeMuth.

"Educar con la arquitectura" es un taller que realizamos con catorce estudiantes de arquitectura -del 4º al 9º semestre- de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia -UNAL- en Bogotá, desde febrero hasta mayo de 2026. osamenor10.blogspot.com/2026/05/tall...

"Mariposas y arquitectura para la memoria del conflicto", entrevista con Fabiola Uribe sobre el proyecto "Casa para Mariposas". Entrevista hecha por María del Pilar Uribe Marín publicada originalmente en The Prisma. osamenor10.blogspot.com/2026/05/mari...

Will Eisner's The Spirit from May 16, 1943. Art by Lou Fine.

H.H. Knerr's long-running topper strip, "Dinglehoofer und His Dog Adolph," which accompanied his “Katzenjammer Kids,” first appeared 100 years ago, on May 16, 1926. Here’s the debut:

Charla de Enric Prats sobre sistemas educativos europeos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AK...

"Lio" by Mark Tatulli first appeared 20 years ago, on May 15, 2006. Here are the first four strips: