Wanna take a look at a couple of Leonard Starr's notebooks? ThunderCats Concept Original Art (At Auction: Leonard Starr, ThunderCats Concept Original Art) www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

Bwa-hahahahaha

A trio of Senate Republicans from Indiana, Oklahoma, & Alabama have introduced S 4925 a copy of HR 7661- the exact same text, which would ban any book mentioning "gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. Please call your Senators to say NO to both bills! More info below

I run into this all the time, and it's wild. The "ask it how many rocks should I eat each day" still works on many of those things and plants enough doubt in people's minds to stop believing it's infallible magic.

Sure, Superman, c'mon in. *SIGH* We're just hanging out. (1984). ✒️ by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez www.comicconnect.com/item/985827

Are *you* in the market for some original 1970s art by Marie Severin for some Red Skull stickers?? www.comicconnect.com/item/1046708

A small update to my post this week about this t-shirt featuring the comic strip, Winthrop by Dick Cavalli in a French film from 1980 (scroll to the bottom): benjaminlclark.com/what-cartoon...

Anyone need a US Mail buggy? There's a huge collection of buggies and wagons coming up for auction in Napa, CA. Having worked with historical transportation like this in my professional past, I can say this stuff is hard to find! Bidding opens in October. hibid.com/lot/31252544...

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 1 1981:

New map projection just dropped

It's too hot. Here's a thread of times a Peanuts character was chilling in a bucket to cool off. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 8/12/1957

Comics page header Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York · Saturday, July 7, 1979

Yes! She was secretly the Shah, and had enough resources and help to fake her death, and thus become a New York vigilante that no one would suspect! "Is that Sylvia Plath in disguise beating up that bad guy?" "No way! She died!" It's perfect!

What is that comic t-shirt Sophie Marceau wears in La Boum? It ain't Peanuts! benjaminlclark.com/what-cartoon...

Researchers — Please don't use an LLM to write to me and ask your questions. These emails are unreadable. If you're afraid of being too informal or sounding dumb, you're not. Just ask! Like a person. If it's not clear enough, I'll ask you a follow-up question. It's a conversation, and it's normal.

PUT A LINK IN YOUR BIO If you have/do a thing and it can be found online — put a link in your bio. (I post this every time I go to a bio looking for a link, b/c that acct is posting about something they are doing online and want people to go there, but THERE'S NO LINK IN THE POST OR IN THE BIO)

LOL. I knew an old-timer in Montana who worked for the county government and all he drank all day every day was Wild Cherry Pepsi. He had to drive hours to buy enough to keep him supplied. He always claimed that if you drank water it'd "rust your guts."

I wish there was a wikipedia for newspapers. Like, interconnected articles *about* the newspapers, when they changed titles, merged, bought out, etc. Yes, @wikipedia.org has the biggies, but not even close to everything, and I would guess small papers wouldn't make the cut as important enough.

Looking at Peanuts baseball strips, and this is a funny one where Sally deploys a typicalgraphical eggcorn. But the setup caught my eye. Was there some kind of famous box score flub where it was reported that a team won 11,000 to 3? ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published July 11, 1977

Super7 revealed that they will have a special Peanuts Pop-Up location at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. #Peanuts #SDCC2026

Never heard of this one! Crazy. Only four issues, though: www.comics.org/series/13651...

Comics page header Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York · Saturday, July 7, 1979

Ripley's Believe It Or Not is on the hunt for the original drawing of one of Robert Ripley's cartoons from 1929. Have you seen it? www.ripleys.com/stories/ripl...

I don't think I've ever really thought to hang out at a marina.

Everyone knows about the Renaissance book wheel, but I only today learned about the Holloway Reading Stand & Dictionary Holder, patented in the late 19th century by an Ohio company We used to be a proper country archive.org/details/holl...

"Poor feller." ✒️Maud by Frederick Opper (detail), orig. pub. June 4, 1905.

My 11 y/o referred to a podcast I was listening to as “One of your talk shows” 💀

If anyone wants to hire me to do an archival collection of Nancy strips set in museums, I could put together a killer A-Team of contributors who would no doubt make it fascinating and fun.

Fun fact: When using polyurethane foam, keep a spray bottle filled with water nearby, so you can use it to stop the foam expanding! And you can do things after it dries to finish it so it doesn't look like snot magma leaking from a horcrux!

A cup of coffee after 2pm.

Such a great lineup in the next issue of Comics Courier. I'd take an annual subscription if there was an option to do so.

Trans rights are human rights.

Bring back slippery-looking heel-clickers.

The fourth(?) clipping sent to me of Ken Levine’s hilarious Snoopy cartoon for a recent issue of the @newyorker.com for the Schulz Museum. It’s been popular! With a bit of lunch on it from the donor it won’t go into our archives but will get good use on the museum volunteers bulletin board.

Owls are cool

When your stomach wants shrimp ... ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 4 July 1961 #shrimp

LOL. If you're not reading @chriseliopoulos.com's new(-ish) daily comic strip, you should be.

Ok, let's see everyone's favorite James Thurber cartoons. This is up there for me. His drawings are so funny, and alive. His writing still surprises, and all of it makes me laugh.

"With the Bicycle you can travel without restrictions... in complete freedom!" ca. 1950

Driving mister manners to his day camp this morning #makeaterriblecomicday2026

That Bootsie in the '50s collection is fantastic! Several people have spotted it on my desk and flipped through it, "This is great! I've never seen this!"

Phew! I was worried for a sec they were going to try and reboot Strange Brew.

This is my bird-watching

The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is auctioning some of their READ posters (including some signed ones) --- I'd really love to read/listen to a deep dive from the people who made these posters happen. Some are so great, some are so weird. I bet more than a few have some great stories attached.

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Happy Anniversary, Garfield. 📷Heritage Auctions, running right now: movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.