happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

About 2 weeks left to submit toward new volume of poetry and micro-prose on themes of "modern midwest monsters"! Deadline is Jun. 2, 2026! www.middlewestpress.com/2026/03/send...

Process; pare down; let the piece reveal its self to me.

For @jeffbakerauthor.bsky.social, seeking them sub markets, & @mothmanbelievesinu.bsky.social, fellow cryptid enthusiast. Got anything in your workshop for this devilishly ppealing antho?

Process; pare down; let the piece reveal its self to me.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Ridiculous and inhumane and disgusting. Because a @fantagraphics.bsky.social comic creator is ... who the US has to watch? Now looking forward (sort of) to reading Rebecca “Becky” Burke's Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E Facility, to relessing in 2027 from US publisher Fantagraphics. 1/2

Dug listening to Under the Influence with terryoinfluence.bsky.social: Bookmarks 2026 on Podbean. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-i3qxe...

Dug listening to Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly: Bookmarks 2026 on Podbean. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-i3qxe...

For @mothmanbelievesinu.bsky.social's attention....gotmany micro-length cryptid tales?

Here’s one of the audition pieces I did of Jack Nicholson to get likeness approval for the 1989 Batman movie adaptation! Happy birthday to him!

Here is the first submission of Nicholson as the Joker, done using what pictures had been printed in Time Magazine, same as the Keaton ones. 1 of 2

Here is the audition drawing of Michael Keaton as Batman, drawn in early February of 1989, to secure a blanket “likeness approval” so each page did not have to be submitted to the actor’s reps for a go-ahead.

Last week I showed you part of the audition drawing to get Jack Nicholson to sign off on likeness approval for the 89 Batman movie adaptation. This is the one of Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne. 1 of 2

Got copies of the re-mastered Absolute Crisis edition today. Here is front and back of the book, my new inks over Perez pencils done in 1998 for Alex Ross to paint back then.

TIL the Swedish word for “speed” is “fart”.

(Sorry I’m late to the party on the a.i. thing in this category. I don’t have all the details yet, but as its anthology, my knee-jerk is not to let all the *humans* who contributed to that nominated work pay for someone else’s gross actions. But for now I’m just waiting to hear more.)

DC PRIDE in nominated for the first time in the BEST ANTHOLOGY category at the Eisner Awards! If you don’t know, the Eisners are the highest honor in comics, so to be recognized in this way is humbling. 🙏 Huge congrats to our fellow nominees—a terrifyingly formidable and worthy lot! …

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Congrats to Chris, Tyler, and the Oni crew! It’s a great book and well worth a read.

Sometimes you gotta write that phrase before it writes you, eh?

DAMN STRAIGHT 👍

For @brocktonwriters.bsky.social ... my pal in Wichita posted this....thanks, Jeff/ Mikester!

Say! I have a virtual reading in about an hour, with the @brocktonwriters.bsky.social, excerpting my collection Fear Itself & some new & old poetry. Maybe I'll see you there?

Hey! Wanna hear some of my work? You can zoom or attend a terrific free writers' series next Wed., May 13, 2026, 6:30pm when I'm reading virtually with Toronto's @brocktonwriters.bsky.social. @gladday23.bsky.social. 32 Lisgar St. Reading from my Fear Itself collection and some newish poetry. 1/2

For @ajdolman.bsky.social

If you are an author published by or submitting to any HarperCollns imprint, make sure you have a clause in your contract that opts you out of having your work used to feed "AI". Don't let them steal your work simply so you can be published by a "Big 5" publisher.

Just a PSA: my fave modern comic writer @alexdecampi.bsky.social is writing the new Dan Dare: First Contact, an all-new reimagining of the classic British sci-fi adventure strip Dan Dare with art by @marclaming.bsky.social.

Just a PSA: my fave modern comic writer @alexdecampi.bsky.social is writing the new Dan Dare: First Contact, an all-new reimagining of the classic British sci-fi adventure strip Dan Dare with art by @marclaming.bsky.social.

Here's a peek at @westonfront.bsky.social's rough for @b7comics.bsky.social 's Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel Kickstarter exclusive tpb cover. I'm sure you'll agree that it's a beauty - thanks Maestro! The Kickstarter is still open for late pledges! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

May the forest be with you. 🌲 This May 4th, join the rebellion for clean air, protected wild places, and a planet worth fighting for. The force is strongest in nature.

🤘🏼❌ #resist

I'm so excited to finally talk about UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: BLOOD OF THE WOLF MAN! This four-issue @skybound.bsky.social series dives deep into the blood-soaked Wolf Man legacy, and I'm thrilled to be joined by Leomacs and @pipmartin.bsky.social. Issue #1 comes out June 24th! More info and art soon!!

Skybound's next UNIVERSAL MONSTERS series will be BLOOD OF THE WOLF MAN, by Joshua Williamson and Leomacs.

Cover for the new series “Blood of the Wolf Man” by @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social and Leomacs ,coming from @skybound.bsky.social

Slice of SciFi 1167: Benjamin, by Ben H. Winters Writer Ben Winters talks more about BENJAMIN, the Philip K. Dick inspired graphic novel (now in a collected hardcover from @oni-press.bsky.social, and the stories he's working on next www.sliceofscifi.com/2026/03/21/s...

Is it just moi, or is this Free Comic Day Archie comic pretty randy?

Say...fellow cryptid followers...seen any good docs about cryptids in the Midwest? —Asking for a friend