Because conversations about comics and academic sources are going around, here’s a look at some of what went into the most recent finished chapter of #Nostos #Unflattening 2. (I actually was about to post sources for the new chapter when I get a chance to organize it to take a picture…).

The controversy over the Charity & Sylvia GNs has raised many issues about historical research and how non fiction GNs should handle citations, but the idea that it is a "rip off" is grossly unfair to Tillie Walden. I picked up a galley at ALA and this is 250 pages of densely reimagined storytelling

I just completed a work titled “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavers Redacted” for America's semiquincentennial.

I ave to stress what a huge accomplishment this is. Normally people will go to something that's free no matter how wretched. But even the marks must see how barren this squalid carbuncle is on what should have been a great celebration of America.

We're being played.

World Cup playing Elvis as the game ends. I miss that America.

Not now, universe

Supergirl broke new ground in many ways. Yeah. I said it. Thanks to @greggkatzman.bsky.social for the op ed.

Well, that's that. The old Diamond Retailer site is no longer accessible. I was still using its database for shipping reference/item availability for the blog, but I guess that's done now. Ah well. retailerservices.diamondcomics.com

Fan Expo tried to launch a new show, @fanexpoanaheim.bsky.social, and I wasn't there but that won't stop me from having some thoughts! www.comicsbeat.com/fan-expo-ana...

Ah, yes, a hatred of the poor stranger, as instructed by my faith in- Wait, just a moment, I am being handed a Bible

Holy shit Schumer taking this as a victory and not a disaster narrowly averted by a woman who follows a radical religious cult but believes in the Constitution…unsurprised but this is how we got here!

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

OH yeah and don't forget, the Supremes also ruled trans people are not people. Miserable fuckers.

After all this talk for years from Fox News about "radical judges overturning the original Constituion" we now have actual activist judges overturning the original Constitution. And you'll never guess what side they're on!

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

The plain language of the 14th amendment is incontrovertible. This should have been 9-0. The fact that it was not, supports court expansion and, frankly, impeachment of the conservative justices.

This is terrifying and gives you an idea of how little this court follows actual written law in the constitution. Only fucking John Roberts can read the 14th amendment.

Still think we don’t live in a plutocracy?

I’m not an expert, but I don’t think this is normal for end-June weather.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 27,1957

On my flight home last night a woman sat next to me in full mask and proceeded to wipe down her seat and tray with an alcohol wipe. “Oh she doesn’t like germs!” I thought. She then proceeded to do this. She wiped things down because she knows people are monsters!!!!! Because she is one!

Brazil-Japan such a classic. It's a shame only one can go through.

Tonight starting at 5:30pm join us as we celebrate the first ever GNCRT Outstanding Comic Awards!

Well I noted it took me two hours from landing to hotel at O’Hare but also two hours from landing at LGA to home. I could have shaved that in half for $100.

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Sickos at O’Hare put asparagus on a sandwich.

Ben Applegate and Chris Butcher talking about Search and Destroy another GNCRT award winning book based on Tezuka’s Dororo about a warrior who sells of his body parts and goes in a quest to get them back. Tesuka had a lot of rage after growing up in WWII and Kaneko adapted it to the current moment.

Announced: Briana Loewinsohn has signed for a third YA graphic novel from @fantagraphics.bsky.social. It’s about four friends who go on a mission. #ala150

There's an entire cottage industry that's developed around being intensely hateful toward female led supe/action movies. They're held to impossible standards on purpose, subjectivity doesn't exist, and then the ragebait grift begins.

Ross is content working on company owned IP because new stories like The Boys or Invincible play on existing tropes and he can tell his stories in the existing universes. “It’s all one stew,” he says. #ala150

Marvel Dimensions is meant to look like a “secret origins”Marvel, but then Ross came up with a second story and thought “I wonder if I combined these would it work. Dimensions is both a human origin and stepping into another dimension.” #ala150

Ross and Darnall deep diving on Marvel historical trivia like Hank McCoy’s father undergoing a terrible radioactive industrial accident and anaylizing individual punches. Ross says that Green Goblin and Spidey’s fanboys Gwen battle took place on a real corner and that made illustrating it difficult.

@stevedarnall.bsky.social and a very rare public appearance by @alexrossart.bsky.social at #ala250 to discuss the Marvels novelization and Ross’s Marvel Dimensions.

Five powerful graphic novels about genicide and cultural erasure discussed at #ala150 with @derfbackderf.bsky.social Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges, JIm Terry, and Dana Mashoian Walrath. “We are in a calcified society,” says Hedges.

Ouch.

FUCK this is good.

Today is the birthday of the legendary Alex Toth (June 25, 1928-May 27, 2006.) Most known for his very influential work in comics and his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera.

20 minutes of taxiing at O’Hare. It is been a long time since I visited the brobdingnagian Midwest.

A page of original Space Ghost art from DC Comics' Cartoon Network Starring #4, written by @amerrill2.bsky.social and drawn by the late great C. Martin Croker. (The page has a velum overlay, so the lettered sound effect could be printed as a color hold without black outlines.)

I am running a brand new comics festival! Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo (MAKE) is a 3 day celebration of comics makers across Victoria and wider Australia! 🤩 In addition to organising, I designed the branding and this year's poster! Check us out: makecomics.com.au

Last year I consulted for a company developing AI screenwriting software that would walk writers through character development, track details, help visualize casting, assist in building out scenes for pre-vis artists, and manage locations and budgeting. The concept was sound. The execution was not.

I had a lot of fun with SUPERGIRL, despite it borrowing from a ton of movies and comics.

My review incoming at noon.

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

People calling leftist candidates radical are acting like abolishing ICE, taking on corruption, and stopping genocide are a bad thing

That's what's up:

Forget about the fucking algae. This is the real disaster and the real danger. And the Supreme Court has forgotten the Constitution exists.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.