My initial reaction to this year‘s Eisner Awards ballot, with special focus on the young readers’ categories: www.kindercomics.org/blog/eisner-...

Tomorrow, Mon 5/11 @ noon Eastern, the street sign for the rechristened Jack Kirby Way will be unveiled! NW corner of Essex & Delancey, steps away from Kirby's birthplace! Kudos/thanx to Roy Schwartz, @klg19.bsky.social & everyone else who pushed for this! Deets: kirbystudies.org/2026/05/10/j...

Up @KinderComics today: my belated, updated best-of-2025 list! Please visit and let me know what great comics from 2025 I’ve missed! www.kindercomics.org/blog/favorit...

@CSUN tomorrow (Sat) — our Book Arts Festival! Come celebrate the book as an art form, a technology, & a way of connecting w/ each other! Browse art books! Make a zine! Make a comic! Free & open to all! library.csun.edu/events/csun-...

Tonight @artcenteredu in Pasadena: a panel, a visual feast, a serious chat about Kirby & his groundbreaking 4th World saga! Delighted to join ace moderator @mchldooley.bsky.social and Kevin Dooley, Alonso Nuñez, Tony Puryear & Jim Thompson for this epic convo! kirbystudies.org/2026/02/03/f...

Last night @ Laemmle Royal I loved watching Sook-Yin Lee's PAYING FOR IT, based on Chester Brown's graphic memoir, and hearing from Lee & Brown in Q&A. Angelenos into indy film or comix, it's playing Glendale Laemmle tonight (Wed), again w/ Lee & Brown in Q&A, + they're signing at @theshq tomorrow!

Up @kindercomics today, my review of Jose Pimienta's very smart GN "Halfway to Somewhere," one of last year's best middle-grade books. www.kindercomics.org/blog/halfway...

Up today at KinderComics: another book from 2025 that I missed until now: Daniel Miyares' "How to Say Goodbye in Cuban": www.kindercomics.org/blog/how-to-...

Happy 2026! Kindercomics ushers in the new year with a belated review of a book that SHOULD have been in my recent Best-of list for TCJ: Ngozi Ukazu's graphic novel FLIP! www.kindercomics.org/blog/flip

Once again, proud and happy to contribute to The Comics Journal’s best-of-year list! www.tcj.com/the-best-com...

Getting ready for @comicartsla.bsky.social tomorrow ❤️

Prepping for tomorrow’s in-class zinefest (Disability in Lit & Culture). #disabilityzines #comicspedagogy #olddognewtricks Thinking of a dear departed friend at the same time.

Up today @KinderComics: my long-delayed take on a much talked-about book: www.kindercomics.org/blog/cartoon...

This coming Thursday, Sep 18, join us at CSUN for a free talk with graphic novelist and Arvo Pärt biographer Joonas Sildre! www.csun.edu/humanities/c...

This coming Thursday, Sep 18, join us at CSUN for a free talk with graphic novelist and Arvo Pärt biographer Joonas Sildre! www.csun.edu/humanities/c...

Happy Kirby Day! A quick birthday toast to the great Jack Kirby, and an update about how I’m teaching Kirby this semester: kirbystudies.org/2025/08/28/k...

RIP to the great singer, songwriter, and band leader Dave Cousins, who fronted The Strawbs and created some of the UK’s best folk rock and progressive rock. ❤️

Up today @KinderComics: my reviews of this year’s Eisner nominees for Kids! 3rd and last in my annual Eisner series. www.kindercomics.org/blog/2025eis...

Up tonight @KinderComics: my reviews of this year’s Eisner nominees for Early Readers! Second in a series! www.kindercomics.org/blog/2025eis...

Up today @KinderComics: my reviews of this year’s Eisner Award nominees for Best Teen comics. First in a series! www.kindercomics.org/blog/2025eis...

Now up @KinderComics, the first in a series of posts about this year's Eisner Award nominees in the young readers' categories: www.kindercomics.org/blog/eisner-...

#KirbyLives @skirball.bsky.social — just go. ❤️

Opening this week at @skirball.bsky.social, the career-spanning exhibition, "Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity"! Curated by the amazing team of @djpatrickareed.bsky.social and Ben Saunders. Read my latest blog post for the deets: kirbystudies.org/2025/04/29/h...

This Wed, April 30. Join my X-Men class and the brilliant @andrecarrington.bsky.social on Zoom!

Next Wed 4/30, groundbreaking scholar @andrecarrington.bsky.social (The Black Fantastic; Speculative Blackness; Audiofuturism) joins my X-Men class for a webinar! Free and open to all. Scan the QR to register! #ComicsAtCSUN #XMenStudies #ImmortalStorm

Tomorrow, the brilliant Anna Peppard @sequentialscholars.bsky.social joins my X-Men class for a Zoom webinar about sexuality, gender, and... Nightcrawler! Free and open to all. Scan the QR code to register, or go to: bit.ly/uncannypassi...

Next Wednesday, April 23, the brilliant Dr. Anna Peppard @sequentialscholars.bsky.social joins my X-Men class for a Zoom webinar. It's free and open to all! Follow the QR code to register. #mutantgenders #uncannypassions #supersex #xmenstudies

Coming in late July: my CalRBS course, to be held at UCLA just after CCI! Join us to explore the social and material lives of comics: how they are made, how they circulate, and how they are archived. (We'll spend part of the course taking in and discussing the Skirball's new Jack Kirby exhibition!)

I'm delighted to announce the 2025 version of my California Rare Book School course, "The Social and Material Lives of Comic Art," to be held at UCLA from July 28 through August 1 (the week right after the San Diego Comic-Con). www.calrbs.org/the-social-a...

CSUN students of English, check out our slate of awards for this year — more than 20 prizes and scholarships, including both undergraduate and MA student awards! #csunenglishdepartment #csunenglishawards

Last-minute artistic opportunity at CSU Northridge! For artist working at the intersection of text and image!

This Monday! Join us. ❤️ For deets, see www.csun.edu/humanities/c...

Next Tuesday, on Zoom, free and open to all (but do register first!) — J Andrew Deman @sequentialscholars.bsky.social on gender in the X-Men!

Next Monday my X-Men class hosts Eisner Award-winning @sequentialscholars.bsky.social co-leader J. Andrew Deman — and you’re invited to join us on Zoom!

This Tuesday—come out for our CSUN English open house! We’ll be announcing our slate of student awards and spotlighting our students’ clubs and creative work! Free and open to all.

Hunkered down at home safely & wishing Los Angeles & SoCal fire relief. Damn. ☹️ Praise & thx to frontline firefighters.

A glorious affirmation of comics as an art form and culture: this past weekend’s CALA festival, thanks to the team at @comicartsla.bsky.social So glad to experience it again. ❤️

This weekend!

Up today on KinderComics.org, my review of Jen Wang’s latest graphic novel: www.kindercomics.org/blog/ashs-ca...

A stunning new, or rather newly translated, graphic memoir! Props to co-translator Martha Kuhlman for championing this. ❤️

Next week: the CSUN English Open House!

RIP John Cassaday. A stunner, gone too soon. My condolences to his loved ones and colleagues and many, many fans.

RIP Bernie Mireault, a wonderful cartoonist. Wishing peace and strength to all his loved ones, colleagues, and fans. 💔

Born this day in NYC in 1917, Jack Kirby (b. Jacob Kurtzberg) just keeps on giving — as generative an artist as America has ever birthed. ❤️ #KirbyLives #KirbyDay

Teaching dashboard, Fall 2024. Launching now, for next week. Once more into the breach, gang…

The latest IJOCA (25.2), the Silver Anniversary Issue, is a stunning monument to the journal’s ongoing history. Check it out! www.IJOCA.net Congratulations and endless thanks to Dr. John Lent and his colleagues for their field-defining work.

RIP Joyce Brabner 😢

Does mail get any better than this? Does comics? Another rich issue from one of America’s best poet-cartoonists. Read it yesterday and loved it. ❤️

Signing at the Jack Kirby Museum’s booth at the San Diego Comic-Con. ❤️ Photo by Rand Hoppe of @kirbymuseum.bsky.social Thanks to Rand & Lisa for their camaraderie and hosting! Shoutout to the Museum’s Tom Kraft as well!