“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

Hmmm... when I go into my Hulu account and choose a plan without Disney+, the system will briefly flash the page where I have to confirm... but instantly forwards back to the page where I choose a plan. It's almost like they don't want me to make the change...

P.S. to CVS: You may also want to reconsider your spelling of “faux”.

Dear CVS, You may want to put careful consideration into the abbreviations you choose for your shelf labels. Thank you, Nat

Remember: the medium of comics is the printing press.

Software development is not mining. If you make it difficult to employ foreign programmers in the US, you are not going to see them largely replaced with US workers. You are instead sending programming overseas, where the workers are not paying US taxes, participating in the US economy, etc.

The mighty Gerber was a creative force who helped lock my interest in comics, and then a supportive force who brought me in on writing projects. I was lucky to have known him, and the comics world is better for him having messed with expectations.

Joey Stivic, Archie Bunker's physically correct grandson, was born on All In The Family in December 1975, so he'll be turning 50 soon. The character continued on Gloria, then on 704 Hauser in 1994, making him I believe the last AitF character to have a new adventure. I wonder what he's up to now?

please send tips if you like the work i do because it does not pay very much.

Latest visit to Vegas suggests they’ve cut way back on licensed slot machines. The only comics licenses I saw were The Phantom and Hot Stuff.

"Because nobody demanded it!" is practically the About Comics motto.

Explain your @ I have been online long enough that I was able to by the family name as a dot-com. I am who I am.

Las Vegas kaiju.

About Comics may be ridiculously tiny and insignificant even within the context of comics, but at least it is owned by me rather than being a mere spare thumb of some bloated media conglomerate too big to stand up for itself. At the moment, this feels the better place to be.

That “context” is misleading. For most of 2001, Kirk was 7.

A new entry in a grand tradition of Marvel titles.

Couple on the monorail, here in Las Vegas renewing their vows while dressed as Superman and Wonder Woman. (Apparently they have an Instagram account of OurSuperheroLife or somesuch.)

Unfair! This system was not intended to escalate. It is there to take you down to the next floor, and thus is a descendor refusing to descend (probably because people cruelly misdirection it.)

Want to hear me play The Old Man (yes, that's what I'm cast as these days) in an update of the tale of Orpheus? Sure you do! The Premiere The Play series is also available through your favorite podcast app, or even that other app you don't like as much.

Robert Redford wasn't only in good films, but I never saw him fail to make a film better. My favorite film of all, The Sting, would have been lesser without him. And while he had some voice work later, his final on-screen performance was in what became the highest grossing film to date. Good run.

I wanted to use the definition of "standard" meaning "flag" to state that the President ordered us to lower our standards, but I looked it up and it only describes certain types of flags. But he's been lowering standards nonetheless.

The man who shot Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 was working on the orders of the ghost of President McKinley. (Roosevelt, knowing he'd been shot but sensing that it had not hit a vital organ, went ahead and delivered a speech for 50 minutes before allowing himself to be taken to the hospital.)

Just bought a ticket to see Ms. Jackson at her Las Vegas residency (in the relatively-cheap seats), not because I'm a particular follower of her work, but because she seems like a person who would know how to put on a show. Never saw a musician at a Vegas residency before.

ME: Oh, I need this series of old newspaper articles in text format. Luckily, OCR will save me lots of work retyping! OCR:

For the "Generative AI has a million uses, we just gotta figure out where" discussion.

Thing I do not recall owning: this issue of The Cartoonists’ Journal from 1942.

Yes, I just got three more book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. If I didn't have more than you before, I do now!

No! Do not give the eggs names!! You know not what mystical horrors they'll be able to unleash with the power of a name!!! The Packard is not worth the fate of humanity and civilization.

BOOM! Studios is HIRING!!! We're looking for a talented, organized, and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with 1-2 years in editorial or a similar field! You will most likely be working directly with me on a variety of comic titles. Please visit the link to apply! bit.ly/42ooXLq #comicjobs

Oh no! Thomas Jefferson just got kicked off of Bluesky because of what he said about the Tree of Liberty!

Desiree Rincon has been a long time Hero Initiative volunteer and been around the industry for years. I've known her going back to the early 2000s. I know it's hard times for everyone, (I've loaned money to three friends in the last four months) but help her out if you can.

I am told by someone who would know that this person has helped support the comics community in the past.

It was greatly to the advantage of the US military that sexy women knew a lot about proper maintenance of military equipment. (PS: cosplay challenge. I want to see this as San Diego 2026, people!)

I'm always bothered by the phrasing of problems in terms of relative rates. If it's a problem that there are more obese kids than underweight ones, it can be solved by making more kids underweight... but that would not be good.

Today's piece of a comics strip for you!

Coming next week: an original drama starring Holden J. Bernstein, Sara Taylor, and myself -- the latest in the Premiere The Play podcast series, now in its fifth season!

Theaters so rarely bother to tell you that they're not a burlesque joint any more. You just have to go there to be disappointed. (192)

This is particularly true on non-royatly-generating projects. Publishers: Want your flat rate writers to participate heavily in promotion (beyond, say, a few social media posts)? Either include a fixed amount of time in the contract for the price you're paying, or an additional rate for time.

Just got back from seeing Jaws... the first time since its original run when I was 10. Holds up pretty well. I thinkthis Spielberg dude may have a future in showbiz!

Dadgummit... my record is 59 seconds, and thought I might have beaten it this time. Recommended for those looking for a word puzzle to add to, or perhapos replace, their others. I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:00. 🎉 No. 397 | September 8, 2025 gisnep.com

I knew we had UCLA Bruins fans in town, but I never knew we had fans like this.

Going to SPX? This is a thing to have. (I miss SPX.)

At Wikipedia, we've had Raegan Revord's correct pronouns since April, when they posted pronouns on her Instagram header. The news media is just catching up. But it's been a bit of a ride… 🧵

Most Trump appointees are there for the willingness to echo Trump. Get rid of them, someone the same takes their place. RFKjr is different. He was appointed as reward for getting out of the election and endorsing Trump. Trump doesn't care about vax issues. Get rid of RFKjr, and some things improve.

For books that I wrote on the work-for-hire basis, I won't be part of the big AI piracy settlement. I will just have to content myself with the fact that AI has now been trained to Be More Snoopy.

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

Seems that a whole bunch of us are going to be older than a saint for the first time. (He was born in 1991.)

Fun, funny,pro-sex SF short comics stories that have been unavailable for too long.

@gailsimone.bsky.social, as a heads-up to you and yer followers, the Red Cross is currently doin' a crossover with Snoopy. Blood, platelets, plasma, etc. are always in short supply, but now's an especially great time for folks to roll up a sleeve: www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepa...

Not now. Not in November. Not ever.