Stopping in just to say RIP Handyman Joe Negri. Bless him for his days on Mister Rogers, and bless him for his incredible jazz guitar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhX...

Good idea. Adios!

Today's drawing.

This isn't The Question, though.

Surprised to find that I almost turned into one of those dads who starts fights after their kid's baseball games tonight.

RIP David Burke The first of two excellent Watsons (the other being Edward Hardwicke) who played opposite Jeremy Brett’s iconic Holmes in Granada’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes series.

The board consists of three semi-literate car dealers who were the state’s top GOP donors. Their top priority is fighting wokeness in the Potato School by putting up a statue of the confederate general who owned the largest potato farm in the state in 1859.

This is the money paragraph for me.

for @southwestreview.bsky.social's winter issue, I wrote about John Sayles's perfect noir-tinged neo-Western Lone Star - an essay you can now read online with stunning artwork by @studioralston.bsky.social

Character portraits for a noir project that I will likely get 1/3 of the way into before ADHD leads me astray. One of the best things about being OK-but-not-great at art is using reference and not worrying about it being too close to the real person. Here's a first set. Can you guess the "casting"?

[Roger Daltrey "YEAHHHHHH!" yell]

Let me tell you, gang, it fucking sucks to try to teach media literacy these days. Just handing students an inflatable vest and kicking them out of the plane and saying good luck out there.

Few new sketches on paper. Been a while.

Once applied at a record store that asked in the interview which artist/band I'd want to be stuck on a desert island with. I said Brian Setzer Orchestra because you could divide labor and eventually eat them. Guy who got the job said The Smiths. Three days with Morrissey and I'd walk into the sea.

The definitive Xennial song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn...

The definitive millennial song:

Eisenhower!

And unlike those other data centers, my brain is under-hydrated.

I have not read zines regularly in 20 years and when I see posts about zines now, they look like immaculate, polished little chapbooks. I need suggestions for good zines to read so I can break my concept of zines being dirty little photocopied things that I found out about via Maximum Rock n' Roll.

Happy Birthday to the great John Brown, born 226 years ago today

I thought younger Jon Bernthal was as visually good of a Blueberry as you could get without going back in time for Belmondo.

I've been going with my kids to the Scholastic Book Fair the past decade and it feels to me like 94.7 percent of children's picture books are cartoon tie-ins that repurpose frames from the shows with the most factory-line paragraphs of story floated in whatever whitespace the publishers can find.

Taking classes in basic art theory is the only way to understand Truth in the future.

Unbelievably, I'm still running the crowdfunding for my latest book: My Gifts Are Hungry. It's about running away from home and houses that are more than what they seem, as are the ghosts within. Plus bonus Siouxsie and the Banshees. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

Folk and blues fans! Newly digitized from Arhoolie Fndtn.: House parties at the home of social worker Phil Huffman, featuring: Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Mance Lipscomb, and Lightning Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, more! archive.arhoolie.org/collections/...

Years ago, I was lucky enough to chat at length with the great Tony Stella about Once Upon a Time in the West on the Wrong Reel podcast. I can't believe he's gone. wrongreel.com/podcast/wr55...

I had missed that Nedra Talley-Ross passed last week. The Ronettes were a perfect group who are enshrined in the stars based in part on the production talents of a murderer and abusive son-of-a-bitch, but largely also because them girls could flat out f-ing sing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QA...

RIP Tony Stella, a great artist and a great source of film knowledge. See more at www.tony-stella.com

Holy cow, this is gorgeous and delightful. Just when you think you've seen everything, a new little world is discovered hiding in a bush. I've been poking around for much too long when I should have been getting work done.

If you haven't seen this yet, it's worth your time at least to explore until you visit space world: www.vaskange.world

I’ll never stop thinking about how Musk and his buddies destroyed the nutritional paste production. Insanely cheap mush meant for starving children. It saved so much suffering and death and was comically cheap compared to the dumb shit we waste $ on but these evil fucks get off on suffering.

Another outstanding work from Alisha. I have always been perplexed at how many cis men react to the film of IN A LONELY PLACE; they seem to regard Dix as a tragic hero. But it made me uneasy the very first time, and it's exactly this, the sense women develop about how dangerous men can be.

Juliette Lewis as Magenta?!

Alan Dershowitz is such a gigantic piece of shit.

Tina Fabrique singing "Reading Rainbow" to the audience of The View two days ago. Inexplicable why they didn't have her perform this on the actual show (unless they did and it just hasn't trickled down to me, in which case, apologies The View).

Ben Platt wore Rusty Lake Hotel to the Met Gala.

I once caught the last 3/4s of Operation: Thunderbolt as an impressionable young man and seeing Sybil Danning as the real-life hijacker in that film is the reason I still find gigantic sunglasses attractive.

@upmississippi.bsky.social is doing a big 56% off sale today through May 15th. That means you can preorder the paperback of PEACEMAKER: SATIRIZING THE AMERICAN MACHISMO *right now* FOR EIGHT DOLLARS AND EIGHTY CENTS. Please share and preorder today! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/P/Peac...

Jedi and Sith aren't really the Star Wars religions people follow, and we shouldn't allow them to register as such. The actual Star Wars religions are based on how much of the canon you believe in: Jedaism (original trilogy), Chlorianity (prequels), and Latter Day Snokes/More-Ren-ism (sequels).

That he did. And around the same time -- again, when he's riding off the Power Station and "Addicted" and etc. -- he throws in, you know, a cover of this live. Just, what! Someone should have sat him down in the 1990s just to talk about how he kept his ears open. This was an SST era Husker cut!

Personal Me: cartoonist Nicole Hollander has left us. Her work got me through some rough times. ❤️RIP and thank you, Ms. Hollander. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

This looks like I'm the star of a sitcom where I'm the old man. Oh shit. That's actually just my life, isn't it?

Oh no. That's what it does. We are live, folks! My Gifts Are Hungry fundraising campaign is active at Kickstarter. Not all houses are haunted by the dead. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

Take your shirt off, twist it round your hand, spin it like a helicopter!

Quoting makes it look like I'm stealing: Twin Peaks Sandbaggers Get A Life But also: Thick of It Prisoner Joe Pera Veronica Mars Batman:TAS Lodge 49 Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Over the Garden Wall Justified Nightengales (Robert Lindsay) Rocky & Bullwinkle Pennies From Heaven/Singing Detective