I live in hope that the DC FINEST collections may also do some humour volumes so we get STANLEY AND HIS MONSTER back in print too.

It’s hard to talk about problems in the comics industry without people taking it personally, but the prevalence of Substack is a big one. This is NOT a “vaguepost” about anyone specifically, but it’s not easy to keep seeing good folks keeping a bad platform going.

Sometimes I feel the need to say that there are *so* many of you doing such excellent work that we haven't got around to covering at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social but, in a perfect world, would have loved to. Not hearing back from us doesn't mean you're not on our radar so keep submitting, folks!

My weekend so far has been mostly spent sitting by a hospital bed of sorts in a corridor and looks like that’s going to be the same tomorrow too. So Broken Frontier posting may be a bit more limited next week. Sorry! Priorities!

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Set up a page of fundraisers for victims of ICE in NYC. Please do check it out! comixaction.com/nyc-fundrais...

We now have a new 'Indigenous Peoples' list of comics resources on our Broken Frontier Resource Lists page. It is very much a work-in-progress as we tag past relevant coverage and we *will* do more in the months ahead to make it more comprehensive. www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis...

I live in hope that the DC FINEST collections may also do some humour volumes so we get STANLEY AND HIS MONSTER back in print too.

Went to the @goshcomics.bsky.social launch party for @katrionachapman.bsky.social’s THE PASS from @fantagraphics.bsky.social and managed to take zero photos except for this one in the pub after and Kat’s not even in it! Lovely night though - reminded me of the old London comics Booze Britannia days.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Went to the @goshcomics.bsky.social launch party for @katrionachapman.bsky.social’s THE PASS from @fantagraphics.bsky.social and managed to take zero photos except for this one in the pub after and Kat’s not even in it! Lovely night though - reminded me of the old London comics Booze Britannia days.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Review! Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation – Paul Peart-Smith @paulpeartsmith.bsky.social Brings this Vital Text to the Comics Page. @beaconpress.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/roxanne-dunb...

Sometimes I feel the need to say that there are *so* many of you doing such excellent work that we haven't got around to covering at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social but, in a perfect world, would have loved to. Not hearing back from us doesn't mean you're not on our radar so keep submitting, folks!

Will be making a rare public appearance these days at this tonight at Gosh.

Just discovered 1970s sci-fi comedy COME BACK MRS. NOAH with Mollie Sugden, the supposed "worst sitcom ever made", is available on YouTube and yes I will be watching that thank you very much.

At my time of the life the chance of me ever seeing WHITE BOAT #3 before I shuffle off this mortal coil seems ever more unlikely. (More seriously... to hell with Diamond for all the carnage they've caused.)

let me be perfectly clear. #ICEOUT

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Reviews of #137 and #138 coming next week.

Rather than putting your money in the pocket of Frazer Irving I'd suggest donating it to a refugee charity instead. This is absolutely horrific.

I could drive in a whole ton of traffic by posting the Marvel press release with the covers from the Spider-Man/Superman crossover on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. But I'm spending the evening creating a new BF resource list on comics dealing with Indigenous Peoples instead. Priorities are important.

Creating opportunities behind-the-scenes for #BF6toWatch artists is one of the best parts of my "job".

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

Support for Tommy Robinson, funding Graham Linehan, general predatory awfulness… depending on your point of view this has been either a month of surprising revelations or just business as usual in the world of Terrible White Men in Comics.

At my time of the life the chance of me ever seeing WHITE BOAT #3 before I shuffle off this mortal coil seems ever more unlikely. (More seriously... to hell with Diamond for all the carnage they've caused.)

Review! mini kuš! #136: Rain in Tears – Mao Explores Ideas of Evolution and Environment in this Creepily Atmospheric Short. @kushkomikss.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/mini-kus-136/

I could drive in a whole ton of traffic by posting the Marvel press release with the covers from the Spider-Man/Superman crossover on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. But I'm spending the evening creating a new BF resource list on comics dealing with Indigenous Peoples instead. Priorities are important.

Creating opportunities behind-the-scenes for #BF6toWatch artists is one of the best parts of my "job".

Just discovered 1970s sci-fi comedy COME BACK MRS. NOAH with Mollie Sugden, the supposed "worst sitcom ever made", is available on YouTube and yes I will be watching that thank you very much.

Yippiee yippiee yahoooo!!! I'm so excited to meet and draw with you guys :D

We'll have a number of #BF6toWatch artists at the Gosh and Broken Frontier Drink and Draws IN-PERSON this year. The super-talented @rein-lee.bsky.social is the first.

Today I learnt that, strictly speaking, the most accurate plural term for the octopus is neither octopuses or octopi but, instead, octopodes. So there you go.

Reviews of #137 and #138 coming next week.

Rather than putting your money in the pocket of Frazer Irving I'd suggest donating it to a refugee charity instead. This is absolutely horrific.

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

You know whose comics are also extremely good? @jasonchuangart.bsky.social Jason Chuang's. That's whose. You should buy them all and you can do online here: www.jasonchuangart.co.uk/category/gra...

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Support for Tommy Robinson, funding Graham Linehan, general predatory awfulness… depending on your point of view this has been either a month of surprising revelations or just business as usual in the world of Terrible White Men in Comics.

Christ on a bike! That thing where you think you know you're clued up on something and then you do a little digging and discover you had only scratched the surface of someone's absolute, indescribable awfulness.

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

Realising about a decade ago I was on a comics panel with someone who hits 'like' on posts by people like Tommy Robinson, Ethan Van Sciver and Laurence Fox is giving me the serious chills.

The #Comics4Liam press release! We will *always* find time to run stuff like this at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. What a fantastic initiative! www.brokenfrontier.com/comics4liam-...

If you are at all interested in world comics of an experimental and/or alt nature then the mini kuš! range is for you. An absolute treasure trove of minicomics magic.

Have deleted my reskeet of that post about Frazer Irving being homeless after being pointed to his support for Tommy Robinson. He's a great artist, and nobody deserves homelessness, but there are a million more deserving people for your spare cash than a fascist.

Out today! Words me! Art @chlowski.bsky.social Out on @oni-press.bsky.social story architect Daniel Noah #newcomicbookday #ncbd

I nearly wrote "the TB team" here but self-edited. Do I get brownie points for this @okaychloegreen.bsky.social?

Oh look... there's a photo of me on the Caption entry on Wikipedia, sitting with the #BF6toWatch speakers before I chaired the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social panel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caption...

Realising about a decade ago I was on a comics panel with someone who hits 'like' on posts by people like Tommy Robinson, Ethan Van Sciver and Laurence Fox is giving me the serious chills.