4 stories from Black Phoenix Mystery Magazine, Issue 20

Training AI on a dead man’s work and publishing it under your ‘AI’ pseudonym?? I cannot think of anything more terrible. I feel sorry for everyone else in that anthology that has been tarnished by one dude’s need to feel cool.

My Mad magazine homage, Ape

It's launch day for Jay Stephen's The Land of Nod collection! Reprinting the entire Land of Nod saga in gorgeous red and black duotones, with the Sinister Horde, Jumbohead, Badman and Coxwell the Badly Drawn Ghost in full colour. Available in both hardcover and paperback at go.blackeye.ca/nod

Alley Oop #018 Art by Alex Schomburg Standard Comics (1949)

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

Lorenzo Mattotti

Black Phoenix No. 22 is available now! Go to patreon.com/richtommaso to get your copy!

Day one purchase. I am NOT missing this one! 😭

You know what brings me joy? Reading @richtommaso.bsky.social’s Black Phoenix comics. I just reviewed In the Garden of Earthly Delights, a digest-sized crime novella from the series. It’s gorgeous, clever, and suspenseful. You can join in the fun by joining Rich’s Patreon, too!

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Unlettered spread from Black Hammer, drawn by me and Matt Sheean. Flats by Bryce Davidson. Written by Jeff Lemire.

the first six pages of Young Shadow & The Watchdogs are previewed here:

BOLD NEW WORLD, Clip from Page 11. Drawing page 18 today--I'm on a roll here.

Good news! Just getting news in the last hour that Leqaa Kordia is free!! NICE! I’m so glad she’s still alive. Plenty of of ICE’s detainees have not made it out of the camps alive.

I'll be at Hissy Fit Comic Fest next month at SCAD Atlanta. Come by and say hello, open to the public, free to attend!

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RECENT READING Rich Tommaso, DRY COUNTY. The 1st work I've read by @richtommaso.bsky.social and I immediately want more. A '90s GenX take on a Florida crime thriller (the main character reads a Carl Hiaasen book), full of era-specific detail and "hard-boiled" doofuses in over their heads. Very fun!

Some good things still come out of America like @richtommaso.bsky.social latest issue of Black Phoenix this issue is a loving tribute to Harvey Kurtzmsn and the other Mad guys

Take a peek at some pages of Black Phoenix No. 21, the Mad issue! Subscribe to my Patreon today to get your very own copy! patreon.com/richtommaso

Name them shame them

some good news.

My t-shirt design for @vinegarsyndro.me and @cine-matographe.bsky.social

Checking to see how the French feel about America these days.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

At the printer now!

monsterus 2 #12 king kong. check out the free patreon post to see soph franz’s @baloneyfeathers.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/moster...

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Art, comics, and being a cinephile… Kicking off 2026 with a conversation with versatile artist and author @richtommaso.bsky.social on Words, Images, & Worlds! m.youtube.com/watch?v=vmvb...

Yves Chaland

new patreon post up. www.patreon.com/posts/146695...

Happy Holidays! Here's a sneak peek at what's coming from Black Phoenix Magazine in the new year!...

Ho, Ho, Ho! BLACK PHOENIX ISSUES 8 AND 9 back issues are now BOTH up on my ETSY Store. Grab 'em now--while copies last-- Follow link in bio. www.etsy.com/shop/BLACKPH...

BLACK PHOENIX ISSUE 8 back issues are up in my ETSY Store! Buy now--while copies last! www.etsy.com/listing/4420...

BLACK PHOENIX ISSUE 8 back issues are up in my ETSY Store! Buy now--while copies last! www.etsy.com/listing/4420...

Going full on Kurtzman today, with my latest creation. OWLHOOT GULCH! A Pot Shot Pete type of comic strip for the upcoming MAD issue of BLACK PHOENIX MAGAZINE.

I thought I'd add more line art and use less colors for my upcoming APE comic book cover.

Coming this week to the Etsy Shop...

APE issue in progress, coming this January.

Books With Pictures is one of the 5 best comic shops I've ever visited. Very happy to see them make their fundraising goal!

Pencils from Dick Tracy, 2018.

My April Fools joke from 5 years ago: Black Phoenix Artist Edition! 🤭

My very first comic book series published by Eros Comix, Cannibal Porn, Circa 1994.