Was not expecting the de Young manga exhibit to be this extensive. The first and final pages of Ashita no Joe? A room of Rumiko Takahashi originals? Huge paintings by Araki from JoJo? So impressed

@realgdt.bsky.social my friend, I had such a wonderful experience seeing the film on a big screen here in LA. Sumptuous as hell, this former Catholic altar boy and now father of a wild son was moved deeply by your vision. And the burning angel appeared in my dream the night after i saw the film.

SE’s localization work on FFXIV and FFXVI have been some of the most incredible examples of good JPN-ENG loc. SE has defined new standards for excellence in our craft. Not to mention, that good loc has been pivotal in establishing a dedicated fanbase—and good sales.

Incredible new comic by Lynda Barry, our most treasured storyteller! (Always read NYT for free on archive.is, don't give them the views or $) archive.is/XZdG6

An incredible collection of stories by one of my favorite cartoonists!!!

haven't posted here in a while but! I'll be at Lightbox Expo walking around tomorrow before our Invincible panel at 4:45pm Next show for Youth in Decline is Comic Arts LA in December and there will be a LOT of exciting news to share (Also, Naomi will have 2 new zines there: Sekiro and Music)

Family trip to Tokyo

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Wasn't able to be at RAZ today, had some family health stuff to manage. Missed everyone there!! We have copies of Naomi's new SEKIRO zine ready to go, thinking to hold it until CALA and debut alongside her MUSIC zine (as well as maybe another surprise)

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Naomi made this with a macro generator, and I have to admit it's extremely funny (Eno is her little brother)

Such an amazing resource, we need Manben on bluray someday. Urasawa is such a gem

Horrible horrible news. I'm very sorry for his loss, for his family, and for our scene. 💔

Life is more important than books, but I do want to say that I appreciate Star Fruit's place in the industry. They license such cool books that would otherwise go missed. I found Minami Q-ta thru them, and they've published Hideshi Hino too. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

naomi and i defeated Isshin, the Sword Saint (an important final step before her sekiro fanzine comes out at RAZ Fest on 9/20)

Absolute madness, and basically destroys the international zine and records and indie comics mail order ecosystem in one fell swoop Not at the top of our country's current atrocities and crimes, but god this is fucking stupid and shortsided

Suddenly remembered that Magic Leap existed as a startup, and all the millions and millions and millions of dollars (and person-years) wasted by them, Google, and Meta on VR and AR glasses that nobody ever wanted, and they never truly figured out a use case for before they started sinking resources

you can just... never use spotify (i dont) you can just... uninstall tiktok (i did) you can just... promise not to murder anyone (so far so good) you can simply... quit instagram stories (okay let's not go crazy)

not saying this for hollow congratulations but: I've never used Chat-GPT in my personal or professional life. like, no LLM usage ever - not once. ditto for image generation tools it may be my sober alcoholic mindset but IT IS POSSIBLE to just never accept them in your daily life. reject them!!!

My new favorite shirt!!!!!! Made by Enter the Night Gallery

Jesus Christ. No more direct mail order of kus!!! This is so bullshit

Still posting blog posts on SAME HAT in the year 2025?? Yes... Yes, I am. www.samehat.com

Stop!! Hibari-Kun! by Hisashi Eguchi! COVER-SPINE-BACKCOVER-OBI REVEAL! And YES, you can pre-order the book (and it comes with a pre-order gift)

Garbage move

One of the BEST serials going, Naomi and I read and love Margo!

THEY WERE FUCKING PERFECT. (Rude, as David Sitek wasn’t there.) Was going to make a joke about seeing one of my favourite cartoonists (Tunde was published in Frontier by @remoteryan.bsky.social), but then the band shouted out Michael Deforge and sang happy birthday to him.

legit heart-warming - random pulls from a bluesky search of the past months

did a quick search, yep it's still narrowly but deeply embedded

Spent part of early pandemic tracking down missing volumes of early manga-in-translation, items from 70s and early 80s? just landed one of the big ones I never had, a Fred Schodt-translated, Japan-published abridged English edition of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. more on this one soon

At work today, gen z colleagues chatting on the social channel threw out a "same hat!" in agreement with another coworker and i reply - "whoa, it's always wild to hear anyone say 'same hat' as their personal slang" them: "why did you invent that meme or something?" me: "............yes." them: 😮

“But AI art has the potential to help people who have a concept but cant make it happen, what if the greatest artist of our age is”—- Consider this: it’s not hard or impressive to have an idea

Working on something something, news at the end of summer 👀

if every single service and transaction is monitored for its adherence to fundamentalist christian ethics, and every piece of media has to go through those services or transactions, you could very quickly find yourself in a world where no queer art or publication is possible to obtain or distribute

@prozdishere.bsky.social some Naomi news for you and @tinybatparty.bsky.social

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

New post! After years I finally found it...here is shoujo manga legend Masako Watanabe's lost adaptation of the cult Obayashi flick House, scanned and translated for the first time! Read it here!! www.tsundokudiving.com/house-by-wat...

Morgan is one of my favorite writers about tech & culture, stoked to listen to this new episode!!

having a illustrator and arts educator who is a fan of Jillian Tamaki and TXT Books as First Lady of New York!?? last time I felt this proud was when Sasha won drag race

Naomi just drew the cover for her next zine... title is: UNDERTOWN: MUSIC by Naomi Sands

This is what we are experiencing in LA County. We are being terrorized. This is not an exaggeration. Summer is cancelled here. The dread is palpable.

Our Kickstarter campaign for "Slices of Life: A Comic Montage" by Qu is NOW LIVE! We're so excited to be publishing this absolutely beautiful book and can't wait for you to read it. It's our most ambitious publication so far so please share and back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Scum!!!!!! Absolutely shameful

We are back! Get your applications in for CALA 2025 at comicartsla.com before the deadline of June 30. 🌞🌴 (And please share to spread the word!!)

Proud of LA today and every day!!! Keep your California baggage to yourself, this is a city full of community-minded people that love and care (and fight like hell)

💯👏

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

The absolute first thing I would snag if I was at TCAF today!!!