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lester bangs of comic books
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"the saviors have become settlers; the iconography of protecting the innocent is rewritten as the pioneer guarding his stake... as comics attempt to set batman in the same world as his readers, the role of violence to perpetuate the state demands to be addressed" i do not write like the others
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Critical Thinking: The World’s Greatest Detective vs. the Ghetto
This installment of Critical Thinking examines why the cultural inheritance of the World's Greatest Detective makes him the ideal pioneer.
https://www.comicsbeat.com/critical-thinking-worlds-greatest-detective-vs-ghetto/
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mitch sanders!!
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Jennifer Liao
about 10 hours ago
CB Cebulski was able to build up his professional bona fides because he wasn't fired at the time for doing something deeply racist and unethical. As always, it comes down to who gets second chances in professional spaces and who gets held to impossible standards and seen as a "risk".
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new music 7/17/26
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Pussy
YouTube video by Brazilian Girls - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU-MhdiUWtA
about 6 hours ago
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let marvel die
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cat! (kreepykulture)
1 day ago
GOODBYE LARA HAS THE SAUCE
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Lara nom
ALT: Lara nom
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LOTS of feelings about this new tricky record
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Different When It's Silent, by Tricky // False Idols
14 track album
https://tricky.bandcamp.com/album/different-when-its-silent-2
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
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Kelela - the bridge (feat. PinkPantheress) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Kelela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVGVoT339-c
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Jillian Tamaki
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There’s good stuff happening on there. Check out Ian‘s new one:
garden-variety.org/hidden-by-th...
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COOL
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every houseplant in the first volume of MAFALDA
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Sam 🐩’Rama
2 days ago
Peak Dave Kendall hosted ep. This was 8th grade & I was listening to all these bands. I was not popular.
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MTV 120 Minutes January 21, 1990 [Host - Dave Kendall]
YouTube video by Rewind Vault
https://youtu.be/0OF5TOmTSRA?is=tH1s-o3RaHiGmiRv
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there is a new ugné uma record out. if you like hiatus kaiyote/nai palm, little dragon, kelala's recent night jazz vibe- check it
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you and me, by emer feat. Ugnė Uma
12 track album
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/you-and-me
9 days ago
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Reis
9 days ago
god gits is the most awesome shit
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toe - Goodbye feat. Asako Toki + Seigen Tokuzawa / THE FIRST TAKE
YouTube video by THE FIRST TAKE
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Comicsbeat
16 days ago
Consider the format Rashomon that is reading BLIND ALLEY, from website to paperback to inside the mind of its creator
@kumerish.bsky.social
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How to Read BLIND ALLEY
If there's a story behind comic strip Blind Alley, each format it's presented in tells it differently. The author's answers? Stranger still.
https://www.comicsbeat.com/how-to-read-blind-alley/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Ian MacEwan
3 days ago
#portfolioday
here's a recent commission and a recent comic book page
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the comics journal satisfyingly rebuts itself by exploring the classic outlaw comic's death rock roots and vaudevillian flaunting of gender expectations:
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R&R: Clown Logic: The Crow Nears Forty - The Comics Journal
Rebuttals & Regrets: Looking back at James O' Barr's The Crow through Anya Davidson's response to Ng Suat Tong's Violence is Good, Says The Crow (TCJ #143,1994).
https://www.tcj.com/clown-logic-the-crow-nears-forty/
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SOBCOMIX
2 days ago
No portfolio day, just grab tricks (h/t to
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Grim Wilkins
2 days ago
No portfolio day, just kickflips
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lily hoang-zhu 🍎 @ anime expo KH2812
2 days ago
rainy days 🌧️
#kidlitart
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marcy "shivering mouse" martin
2 days ago
Queen Latifah should play Motoko Kusanagi
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Joe Sparrow
2 days ago
#69 tungsten tyrant
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rafael zaiats
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four thumbnail pages down, four thumbnail pages to going to bed now, i think
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3 days ago
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four thumbnail pages down, four thumbnail pages to going to bed now, i think
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3 days ago
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toe - Goodbye feat. Asako Toki + Seigen Tokuzawa / THE FIRST TAKE
YouTube video by THE FIRST TAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSsMG6h8k0
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Machines and Other Things, by Kid Drama
12 track album
https://metalheadz.bandcamp.com/album/machines-and-other-things
10 days ago
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Momo
4 days ago
Encounter
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Chloe "KLO-E" Maveal
3 days ago
Standing by this piece I originally wrote in 2022 until the wheels fall off. Stay grumpy, friends.
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Joe Sparrow
4 days ago
#68 butterfly hunter
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laura olin
4 days ago
"There's a lot you can do in a high viz vest."
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every houseplant in the first volume of MAFALDA
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Alexandria Stone
9 months ago
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
4 days ago
Max Roach, 1984
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Bits
4 days ago
Instant Transmission
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blistering chicago screamo ep with a female singer and an eight minute run time, what are you waiting for
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mothcub
6 days ago
Star fantasy.
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i am on one at this function
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Tade Thompson
6 days ago
Have you read THE TOMBS OF ATUAN this year? Because you should totally read THE TOMBS OF ATUAN every year.
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my take on this book seems to be different from pretty much everyone else's and coincidentally is the most correctest
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this turned out nice
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