Mario is a cop

if you're about to adapt one of the most important books in history, you should be well informed about its home base, i.e. boldly go where no graphic novel has gone before

Pegagoat. Another digital charcoal, a sort of companion piece for the unidonk. I think I might have gone a bit overboard with this one, trying to channel some Nika Goltz with the background. Prints: www.inprnt.com/artist/print...

Best and worst thing about Thought Bubble is that literally everyone is here, almost all people you don't see from one year to the next. Have spoken to roughly 25,000 people, but none for more than a minute or two. No time for real conversation. Like speed-dating but for opinions about 80s 2000AD.

David Bispham as Alberich in the Opera Siegfried (1902) by Aimé Dupont, from Harvard Theatre Collection. Source: @harvard.edu / Wikimedia Commons https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2fe01411-4bcd-4232-967d-d5ff600b2296 #makeup #theatre #art #publicdomain

In 1963, at the height of his popularity, Rockwell made a significant career shift. He left The Saturday Evening Post and joined Look magazine, where his focus changed dramatically. Rockwell embraced themes of social justice, leaving behind his previous artistic style.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Always a good time to consult @annamerlan.bsky.social on this evergreen topic flaminghydra.com/what-was-the...

addendum to agree with this. yes the writer is attempting to do the NYT patented knowing, above-it-all house style. it just is a) exceptionally ill-judged b) done poorly in any case c) coupled with a glamorous, high-status photo shoot and a plug for the book bsky.app/profile/davi...

the story the NYT has written, of course, is instead part of the proof that this effort succeeded spectacularly. a woman grotesquely violated every standard of journalistic ethics and was handsomely rewarded in spite of--or because of-- it

Here's why

Say what you will about Chris Claremont and the X-Men, but "GOD LOVES, MAN KILLS" remains one of the best titles of any kind of book ever

Basically Trump's promise, from The Apprentice to his campaigns, has always been "I'm going to share all the secrets of the elites and yeah the systems rigged but my success in that system means I know how to rig it for you." Epstein, combined with the quasi-recession, blows that up

I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

frank n furter (feeling woozy and about to faint): I see you shiver with antici- audience (unaware of behind the scenes drama): SAY IT! understudy (unsure of lines): -faction

Congratulations to Seattle on becoming the new New York, taking some pressure off old New York while we figure out what we’re gonna be

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

donald mcintyre rip 😭

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Happy make-believe birthday to Diana, born on this fictional day in 1971. A richly contradictory creation, libertine and controlling, earnest and secretive, oddly fun, neighbor to the abyss, beautiful and strange.🖤

That in our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, greater than the might of atoms, magnified a thousandfold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

Anyone Comics to hold HANDS OFF NYC Anti-ICE zine event www.comicsbeat.com/anyone-comic...

Whale fall mug with a fall backdrop 😜🐋🦀

I’m going to write an opera about Rossini’s friend Jerry, who slipped on a banana peel off to the left an instant before this famous photo was taken

The only thing a 15-year-old is “barely legal” for is buying a ticket to a Spider-Man movie

SO COOL!!!!

worker: we have two options, X and Y. which one do you want? X has these benefits and Y has these. (i spent weeks compiling this info and thousands of jobs are at stake which you know but neither of us will acknowledge) executive: yeq ___ sent from my iPhone

One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

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Okay this one I’m actually mad about because number 12 is a theory I have been working with for years

The big Thought Bubble debut is my latest poetry comic with @chrissywilliams.bsky.social which is riso printed in 4 colours and looks absolutely lush (though I may be biased). You can read an unbiased review of it on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social here: www.brokenfrontier.com/i-know-the-w...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

it's becoming clear the epstein was a manosphere guru for the richest and most influential losers alive

what if, as a thought experiment, we imagine leadership class that isn't addicted to basement-tier incel whining

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Same guy! Just a coincidence! www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-tim...

Amazing how this was a email exchange with a NYTs journalist and didn't once see the light of day till now

🍂𝔚𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔰🍂

ya-ha-ha

The children’s picture book, “Strega Nona, An OldTale,” celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola penned the book about the Italian “grandmother witch.” (via @mprnews.org)

I didn’t (and still don’t) know enough about how musical life in Germany and occupied countries was eviscerated under the nazis through the systematic targeting of jewish musicians. A harrowing read, but important and sadly increasingly relevant… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you see this, post your bird art!