I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

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Since I have lot more followers on here now, let me repost this and stir up some more trouble again.

Digital comics platform @sweetdotdev.bsky.social Shop announces beta launch with 24 publishers www.comicsbeat.com/digital-comi... @comicsbeat.bsky.social

The newly elected mayor of New Yorl, Zohran Mamdani, was live for Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson at AEW Grand Slam!

And here’s a few tips of my own for non-artists who are new to writing comics. It’s a post on my *website.* Remember those? Kind of like a social media thread but not broken up into arbitrary little bits. Wild! www.stevelieber.com/tips-for-non...

Also, in the aftermath of the HFBS situation, I asked Kathy Kennedy if LFL had ever turned in a finished movie script for greenlight to Disney and had it rejected. She said no, this was a first.

‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive]

Apparently, one of those “average rates for comic pros” things is going around again, and they are… BAD. At BEST, they highlight how underpaid the industry is. At WORST, they embolden publishers to pay less. The response to these things should be posting what the industry SHOULD be paying. 🧵

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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I know there are a million writers and artists who want to be able to speak publicly about this, but due to the power dynamic of the publisher in question cannot. Jobs in comics are already hard to come by, let alone livable page rates, so if you can speak up, please do.

Imagine thinking Labor Day of all days -- as one of the highest editorial positions at a premiere publisher -- was the day to announce use of AI in art was "unavoidable" to your audience of primarily artists and other creatives. Talk about completely disrespectful and out of touch.

That 38-day gap, and what happened around it, is one of the periods of comics history I most want to see written up in detail. It’s covered in STUF SAID, but without much detail, and it’s a hugely important part of Marvel/Kirby history.

Behind the scenes of the new Triangle of Madness entrance video! It was a BLAST filming with Julia, Skye, and Thekla! Such an honor!!🖤

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

A devastating and thorough analysis of the damage done by Trump, RFKJ, Vought et al. Thanks to @anniewaldman.bsky.social @propublica.org for this work. Must read 👇 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal... #FireRFKJ

I've been working on this one for a bit, and it was a real treat getting to tell the story of BONE's time in Disney Adventures magazine back in the 1990s, with insight from the key players involved in Jeff Smith, Marv Wolfman (!), @comixace.bsky.social (!!), and @cliffchiang.bsky.social (!!!).

Wow... I remember there being a lot of vague, non-specific online chatter a while back about something being awry with Cadence. Here you go:

One of my biggest takeaways from Weapons is I want Nick Creggor (along with Jordan Peele) to be one of the folks who reboots/restarts LOST. And I know I’m not the only who has been thinking about this for nearly 15 years.

GALACTUS

For those looking to present their portfolios at San Diego Comic-Con, here’s the nearly annual repost of my “Guide to a Perfect Portfolio Review”. Feel free to ask me any additional questions here.

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For those looking to present their portfolios at San Diego Comic-Con, here’s the nearly annual repost of my “Guide to a Perfect Portfolio Review”. Feel free to ask me any additional questions here.

#SDCC! IS! THIS! WEEK! Where I will be paneling:

Mamdani has actually increased his lead a bit in the latest update, to 8.3%. That's roughly 826K ballots... roughly 75% of the expected vote. Mamdani leads Cuomo 43.9% to 35.7%.

We already have an additional 90,000 ballots from my post two minutes ago. We're already at 580K ballots! That ought to be roughly half of the vote. The margin remains 8% in Mamdani's favor: —Mamdani: 43.4% —Cuomo: 35.4% —Lander: 12.1% —Adams 4.2%

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

KOTA IBUSHI IS BACK IN AEW! #AEWCollision is LIVE on TNT and max

It was rather funny to see how many fans saw Catalina for the first time and said "WWE gonna swoop in and get her." They had her. They brought her to the main roster with no plan, fired her, and she had so sell all of her belongings within a month before her visa expired

I'm very excited to be working with these five, extremely talented editors on top of the five extremely talented editors I'm ALREADY working with at BOOM!. www.comicsbeat.com/whoa-boom-hi...

Whoa! Boom hires Fougner, Girner, Miller, Osajyefo, and Valdez: Boom! Studios has hired an editorial director, a special projects director and three executive editors, and they are all well known in the community

bindings.app/shelf/qyDOIAv5 With multiple distributors in play, there isn’t a single catalog like Previews. So we’re trying an experiment with Bindings shelf feature for books that need to be ordered this month. Here is a sample with FOC today for FML 5 and The Power Fantasy.

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Minnesota advanced a new paid family and medical plan. See below for an article on it when it passed the Senate. Hortman later described the bill as her "most rewarding". www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

Minnesota restored the voting rights of tens of thousands of people in mid-2023: boltsmag.org/minnesota-vo...

Perhaps most famously—in that it became more of a national story when Walz ran for VP last fall—Minnesota made school meals free. Here's the House writing about it when it passed it: www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily...

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?