A student asked about the biggest codex and you know what? I did know! It’s the Codex Gigas. But my favorite fact about this behemoth is that it took a lot of asses—160 donkeys to be exact—to produce this one book. Now that is a true book assessment 🫏 www.loc.gov/item/2021667...

this kind of band-aid packaging would've had me, as a kid, proudly punching trees and pavement like i had something to prove. it's not masochism, it's Battle Ribbon

Just saw an object in motion come to rest with absolutely no outside forces involved whatsoever

when i contemplate the home depot 12 foot skeletons, i reflect on the trials of people making comics, books, textiles, music and i remember no one i'm aware of is making 12 foot skeletons for fame and profit, so i wonder who is

just thinking about all the 12 foot home depot skeletons, just a couple per residential area...in repose, hibernation....pieces in a garage or warehouse, waiting

hold on i gotta take this

when i was little my dad took me to suncoast video, bought a vhs i didn't know about and told me "You gotta see this movie, this guy cuts his own hand off" and that day i watched Harold and Maude with no further info and rapt attention for the first of many times. RIP Bud Cort

The PriceMaster wasn't the first freelancer, in fact he gives all indication of being confidently salaried, but he's been an inspiration for everyone terrified of being asked 'what is your rate' since that fateful day

Dick Miller :)

My Robot Plants from Alarming Tales No. 5 by Fred Kida

ok so next weekend is the 26th roggabogga with stuff i actually care about being broadcasted right?! 3 hours of watching venus flytraps make catches and snails drink drips of water, sound provided by sensitive microphones recording those things

Psyched that the Crown got snatched, impressed that it deflated and flattened, jealous that now Crowners are getting the chance to repair it for big bucks, I love Crown News

no 21st century movie has matched the practical effects of a charming tornado, the anger of an apple-throwing tree, the physical change from sepia to technicolor, much less the implications of synchronizing all of it to pink floyd

when im in tha dumps, morton feldman speaking voice (including striking of matches for cigs) is asmr

These bookshelves failed me, they’re mocking me here, but I did test their limits, they had every reason to fail and now they’re just yucking it up

apparently if you have a pack of notecards on your desk plastic wrapped, in your peripheral vision, you will mistake it's reflection of light for a phone notification once per hour and by this you will know you have been trained

no matter where you're waking up, it's Spaghetti Night somewhere!!!

Guinea pigs have a very aerodynamic shape despite being unable to fly

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

did not know this is what that Bird Pattern is called. Huizenga did it in comics, it happens when i've tried to animate dots and lines without deciding they'd be a figure. Murmuration is natural and I reckon happens when any semi-sentient grouping is in synch

On Purgatory panter made his own sigil, signatures are common but I think it’s worth considering, for any artist, can make a stamp of it too, it’s Ukiyo-e coded

everyone talks about the imaginative nature of Nemo, but they disregard him being able to draw him faceless, tiny, barely part of the strip sometimes. and also: curving all the panels. Curves must've costed at least 5 cents in 1910, had to order them from france, or trace the edge of a can of beans

Open call for my friends to post more . Selfies , food , pets , mom when she was young , vacations , home decor , arts & crafts , event & birthday announcements , merch for sale , movie recs , quotidian stuff , "solid" posts ... all welcome

as a consumer i have seen enough rage-posting against the common enemy of AI that i am now pleading that you bring more practical effects back to bluesky, i'm saying every time you are mad at something show me what your lunch was, new pair of socks, hell, maybe a drawing without context

Caught the blinds winking at me

yeah absolutely, lets check in with the crunch bunch

My Favorite video from 2025, more goofy and less fear than other speleological videos, i find it calming, shout out Brinkman fans www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8s...

Beast

sometimes i feel funny that i relied on loud, dark drone music to get me through a project for a year, isolating myself, which is still ongoing but has morphed, and then i think huh, i worked on a creative project and didn't sign up to be a fuckwad bootlicker with violent intent, things must be ok

working last night i listened to the knausgard book about edvard munch. it was nice, it covered the bases, but funny that after hours of reflection it ends with "you should probably just look at the paintings, but visiting norway helps too" like, no shit karl ove

if you see me carrying an inordinate amount of shells this year, know that i'm simply rallying 'round the family. and if you're reading this, it means you are the family, and i'll rage against anyone who says you are unworthy of true love, with the brute force of shells, coated in white cheddar

the 2026 Jim Woodring art calendar has birthdays of his favorite people in history listed for every day, but it does not include minor holidays, or notes on the moon cycle!! So looks like I'll be getting another basic themed calendar from the grocery store. Last 2 years were Orchids and Baby Goats

Hey folks, it’s Clock Day again, aka the Time holiday, aka Midnight Night, a perfect day to tick off

i feel a growing need to be insane

Gen Z sees what was taken from them

a visit home for holidays is a chance to escape my hoard of books and stuff, only to see the collection of younger me, and my mom's collection, then dad's. all the good stuff is back here, rubbermaid buckets in the garage...not a plea for less physical media but for more square footage in dry rooms.

Wrote about some comics from the homies @crepusculine.bsky.social @jessemcmanus.bsky.social @kartalopoulos.bsky.social

dont draw like this unless you wanna wrestle with the girl next door when she steals your rapidograph

surprised more cartoonists aren't into richard serra, he's as grumpy as most comics people, has really stubborn, brass tacks beliefs about what "drawing" and "art" are, and he traffics almost exclusively in big rectangular shapes. maybe its cuz much like bob ross, he never does a face or a figure

This town doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle a slight breeze, and it was windy last night…power went out and I got a few hours of candlelit drawing time…and this Shape from the melting past the mug with 5 candles stuck in it

Elizaveta Porodina, “The Wall People” 2025

Drew Lerman

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room