WE GET IT, YOU'RE STILL JENNY FROM THE BLOCK

drawing comics is labor intensive and exhausting but at least it also does not pay

It's hard to imagine YouTube's core business being displaced by AI, but at the same time, 20 years ago it was hard to imagine everyone would turn to YouTube as a foundational reference library

free story idea: someone should write "what AI companies advocating for UBI can learn from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend"

I wrote about the recent Oscar-nominated short Retirement Plan. A very nice 7 min watch-along! joshkramer.substack.com/p/retirement...

We don’t have to stand for Big Tech turning our neighborhoods into “crime blotters with ads.” We need better digital tools that build trust, instead of eroding it. From our Co-Director @eli.bsky.social at @creativemornings.bsky.social

Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details: www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...

Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with residents of the District demanding what should have always been ours: the right to govern ourselves. He showed up for D.C. because he believed the people of the nation’s capital deserved the same political power as every other American. Rest in power.✊🏾

This guy knows how to live

I mean, there's no topping this, is there? www.weschlers.com/auction-lot/...

General strike tomorrow

All respect to his nephew, etc., but public domain this stuff already

Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!

US-backed regime change has been a fear for a long time

I didn't play a lot of games this year but we did finally play Disco Elysium, which I can honestly say the hype is true, the hype is real, this game fucks. I am simply astounded on every level. Also I didn't expect it to be so incredibly funny?? Maybe the most well written game I've ever played

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...

New York's hottest club is...

Incredibly good joke

📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️ A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks

The Wind Rises vibes

Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public: “When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”

DC statehood now.

In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things. I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷 www.robinsloan.com/fish/

I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷 In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.” What (IRL or online) do you love to return to? www.robinsloan.com/fish/

James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder. I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.

New comic! What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬 www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...

It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later. However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary: docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....

join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?

AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne

Amazing thread

love finding these colorful little guys while tide pooling!! 🌊💕

"We must have fast, frequent, reliable, and dignified transit from east of the river to downtown through the H Street and Benning Road corridor." Hell yes

There's something about the idea of two billionaires sniping at each other from, as the NYT put it, "their own social media platforms" -- that is, the platforms they each own -- that encapsulates something deeply deeply off about the current era

You can enjoy Mountainhead without a deep dive into the tech world its enmeshed in, but there’s a lot of fun stuff to unpack. So let’s dive! Also, I offer my guesses for who everyone is supposed to be in real life.

Yes, there's so much to learn from Mon Mothma

Is google cal using AI? It interpreted a receipt from my library, which included a book titled "Southwest road trip : drive the loop from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, visiting 8 national parks along the way" as a new calendar event called "Train to Santa Fe" complete w/ a fake departure and arrival time

Excuse me, I'm not paying for these... 🎁 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

What happened to Ratatat? That Kid Cudi song rips

Ok so actually Greenland's flag ...rocks? Can someone make this a t-shirt, where the bottom half of the shirt is red?

Are you a cartoonist who makes mini comics and hasn't had a solo work put out by a publisher? Apply to the CAKE Cupcake Award for a chance to win a free 1/2 table at the con, $400 to print a mini, and a cool party. Apps close on 3/28 so get it in! www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-award

me at the post office: hell yes I want to spend $14 on the new Dungeons & Dragons stamps

Good news. Comics creator Rebecca Burke has finally been released by ICE after two horrific weeks in one of their gulags and is on a flight back to the UK. Don't come here. Not for awhile, maybe years and years.

Kyle Rayner, GREEN LANTERN

Do data privacy first

Today’s the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday— a pivotal point in the Selma movement for Black Americans’ freedom rights, directly resulting in the necessary pressure for passage of the Voting Rights Act, crippled by SCOTUS in 2013. There’s a straight line from that decision to today’s hell. 1/x

We’re an R&D lab focused on reimagining social media, and we’re hiring! We are looking for all kinds of specialists, including researchers, team leaders, and culture-building experts. Your time is now: newpublic.org/jobs