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

Obligatory repost

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?

Over $8000 raised to get clean water to people that need it. You get comics I’m very proud of. Only a couple days left. Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity. @darkhorse.com @humblebundle.com @oeming.bsky.social @david-mack.bsky.social

#GVerse #Bravo - In an epic trolling, California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov's office posted a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting #Shitface’s Truth Social post about L.A. Let’s blast this to space! Repost!!!

If you watched Andor, you know what's going on right now in Los Angeles.

The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves.

As the federal government conducts chaotic immigration sweeps across the country, the state is deploying additional CHP to maintain safety on Los Angeles highways to keep the peace. It's not their job to assist in federal immigration enforcement.

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With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

We’ve raised Over $7000 to get clean water to people who need it. Thank you to everyone who has participated in this @humblebundle.com If you haven’t yet, I promise you it feels great. You get some of my favorite work AND you’re doing something helpful! please repost far and wide!

They should make Kenny Omega skins for every single character in the game.

This is it. The Most Important Picture.

I don't want to be associated with this comic, and won't receive money if you buy it, so please boycott.

Hey! one of my favorite artists, and collaborators, @davidmarquez.bsky.social has created a brand new series and when someone THIS GOOD rolls up their sleeves and brings you something new, I think that deserves an automatic pre-order from your local comic book shop. Everyone, meet The Unchosen.