The most overlooked opportunity in comics is the ALA Annual artist alley. They give FREE tables and admission to cartoonists in exchange for a piece of art for a charity auction. If you make books that end up in libraries, that is the room you want to be in, and you can do it at no cost.

Celebrate Pride Month with our friends of MICE at the Brookline Village Library for their first Brookline Queer Zine Fest on Saturday, June 20 from 11:30 AM to 4 PM! Buy, trade, collect, hoard(!?) brooklinelibrary.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

Why we do what we do.

@realfollowers.bsky.social tootles

"joint statement released this week by 5 public library organizations renews calls for the Big Five publishers to negotiate with libraries in the digital library market. Amid surging usage and a spate of library ebook bills, it just might work this time." Me: 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/with-a-simpl...

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SCARLET MORNING by @gingerhaze.bsky.social A modern fairy tale that reads like a cross between The Golden Compass and One Piece. Magic, pirates, humor, heart. A fantastic book for all ages with emotional depth to match the whimsy. Rating: GIMME BOOK TWO RIGHT NOW / 10 #BookSky 🪐📚

As advocates for comics creators and readers, we stand with over 100 grassroots and national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and professional associations in opposition to HR 7661. Urge your representative to vote NO or to not take it up for a vote at all at: tinyurl.com/hapf2m9r

Hey, friends! OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE starts one week from today! Subscribe (for free) to read it on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...

You could have asked anyone who works a public reference desk and they would have told you this lol...

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

OH HELL YES! This was my first experience with a cliffhanger and even though I hated school I could not WAIT for the fall to see what happened. All-time core memory

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

My dad died on Valentine’s Day—ever the mischievous cherub—after a decade-long battle w dementia. My essay on what it’s like to lose someone you love, before they’re even gone: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Seconding this, as a white dude who came up in the Mountain Music community: I don't know how they did it, but between Rocky Road to Dublin, Go Lassie Go, and Pick Poor Robin Clean, the songs were *wrong*. Wonderfully performed, but unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on. 1/

I finished re-watching Elementary and am not sure what I want to choose as a comfort TV re-watch next.

Just announced: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, an official Magnusverse novel by Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims, releasing October 27th and published by Random House Worlds. Pre-order now by visiting www.rustyquill.com/novel

Please enjoy my majestic black cat on this Friday the 13th.

I like a lot of things about Shrinking but my favorite is that it seems to be making Harrison Ford happy. The guy always looks like he's having a blast

So this past week I read the book "Code Name Hélène" by Ariel Lawhon, which is a WWII-era historical novel about an Australian woman who married a Frenchman, worked in the French Resistance, escaped France just ahead of arrest, and parachuted BACK in to work with the Maquis.

Always a thrill to read an essay by Betty Gilpin www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I lost my brilliant, beautiful mom Monday. She a dedicated professor of physics & astronomy, a dry wit, an adventurous cook, a strong willed force & feminist, a lover of music & art, & a supportive, loving mom & wife. A life well lived. Alzheimer’s is awful but I’m glad we got every minute we did.

Join us at the Woburn Public Library for a panel discussion featuring the best and brightest upcoming Black comics creators in the Boston area! Brittney Bourne, Ingrid Pierre, and Gabriel Joy Reid will talk about their work in a conversation moderated by Cagen Luse! Registration link below!

When I realized what they were doing with the names of the blades weapons, I laughed out loud in the theater, and from that point on I was 100% on board

Cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911- Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was nationally syndicated. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger (Patty Jo became a toy doll). #BlackHistoryMonth

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

GNCRT and the Rainbow Round Table are pleased to announce the Collaboration List titles for 2026! View press release here: bit.ly/4t4iMbl

Outstanding Comics Award for Adults announced from @libcomix.bsky.social www.ala.org/news/2026/01... Congrats to fiction winners & honors! Anders Brekhus Nilsen @jesselonergan.bsky.social @hakunette.bsky.social And nonfiction winners & honors @pkuper.bsky.social @benpassmore.bsky.social (1/3)

The Outstanding Comics Award for Children was announced from @libcomix.bsky.social Congrats to fiction winners & honors! @paigewalshe.bsky.social @galegalligan.bsky.social @charmgardens.com @raulthethird.bsky.social Elaine Bay Eleonora Bruni Rob Leigh www.ala.org/news/2026/01... (1/3)

The Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults is announced from @libcomix.bsky.social Congrats to fiction winners & honors! @juniba.bsky.social @taylor-robin.bsky.social @keezyyoung.bsky.social And nonfiction winners & honors @brianabreaks.bsky.social @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social Debbie Tung (1/2)

Librarians, Hello Sunshine just got a much deserved Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults honor from ALA/GNCRT. If we want more comics we know teens’ll love: get it on every library shelf. With our support, we’ll get sequels, & creators like @keezyyoung.bsky.social can keep making amazing work.

Exciting news! 🎉 The inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards was announced today Each award has three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and series! 🧵 for press releases Browse the Awards winners and honorees on our site www.ala.org/gncrt/awards... #LibComix

George Michael did not write the greatest coming out song ever in 1990 for you motherfuckers to claim entertainment only just got gay. youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world... I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

I will be attending this year, representing comics librarians everywhere! More news on that soon, but just look at this amazing poster.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

This is also the scene that I want to show to anyone and everyone about why this show is so magnificent.

So excited to see this picked up by 23rd St!

I would love to move to New York just so I could vote for mayoral candidate Mamdani- he speaks to me in a way that very few politicians have in recent years

Love your librarian? Of course you do! Nominations are now open for the 2026 #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Your librarian could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime. Submit your nomination online by Dec. 15! https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C ❤️ @carnegiecorp.bsky.social

The particular delight when you realize there’s a whole season of Midsomer Murders that you haven’t watched yet when you’re craving exactly that kind of show. Bring on death by giant wheel of cheese.

Svetlana Chmakova told us what she loves about comics and how excited she is about Awkward being chosen for Boston Reads Comics. Come meet Svetlana on Saturday, 7/26! Sign up at: bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6862a...

Library folks: part of my job now is making sure our adult romance collection is engaging and exciting - what are your fav review resources for romance? Any must-have authors I should add to my list to track? (Take it as a given I know about Roman taste as a trend.)

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.