The next book needs to be called "Beyond Alarm." Saying "you should be alarmed" does precisely NOTHING. If people should be alarmed, what precisely are you proposing they should DO?

So glad to see @dangoldman.net's Red Light Properties get nominated for an Eisner for Best Publication Design! I just talked to Dan this week about making design part of storytelling and taking creative decisions into his own hands with Kinjin Storylab www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"Jack Kirby Gets His Due on the Lower East Side" by @cholub.bsky.social, writing for @publisherswkly.bsky.social (5/13/26): www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Most excellent new commission request! Silk, Batgirl, Robin: three Asian-American superheroines fighting the fascist forces of ICE. I drew this in the spirit & visual echo of Captain America punching out Hxtler in early 1941.

Great list! Everyone should read Fun Home by Allison Bechdel but her latest graphic novel, SPENT, might actually be my favorite

It was awesome seeing the new street sign for Jack Kirby Way unveiled at Essex Street on Monday!

Wow did you know Boys Weekend, one of the BEST comics of the century, is available for purchase???? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702852...

Fun list by @bookriot.bsky.social! I'm especially glad to see Boys Weekend by @mattielubchansky.com and The Magic Fish by @trungles.com on here, not to mention my all-time fav Monstress bookriot.com/best-comic-b...

Really telling that he cites spending $100 million as the worthy accomplishment here, and not achieving the actual political objective is fine

Joe Biden said this exact same bullshit after Republicans mismanaged COVID into an apocalypse, and I’m still convinced it’s the reason Democrats lost close 2020 Senate races in Maine and Wisconsin, thereby leaving us all vulnerable to Sinema/Manchin vetoes. Guess that’s the point!

Incredible thread. Looney Dunes!

Man, I loved Comixology in its prime. There's really a vacuum left in the digital comics space, we still don't have another easy-to-use, iTunes-like app/site that has access to (almost) every publisher

Now that the Knicks have won a nail biter, I can take a breath and just enjoy Spurs/Wolves

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Hell yes! This show rules but since it’s Peacock I was afraid no one was watching it www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

Very cool that neither Wolves nor Spurs fouled at the end and just played it out. Awesome game, this year’s playoffs rule

It’s Tyler Kolek time!!

This tracks, since there were more people at Regal Battery Park last night than I’ve ever seen there

A month after my appendix surgery in summer 2024 I was still hobbling around my apartment trying to soothe my abdominal pain, Joel Embiid meanwhile is doing behind-the-back passes and ruining every Boston sports fan’s weekend

Apparently British people are just learning about catfish and are currently going “what’s taters, Precious???!” for real

CAPITAL W 🧡💙

now playing for the new york knicks

I can’t resist a prompt like this… 10 Favorite Films, off the top of my head, 1 per director The Big Lebowski Blue Velvet McCabe & Mrs. Miller Lawrence of Arabia The Third Man Princess Mononoke Alien When Harry Met Sally His Girl Friday Miami Vice

First of all, I'm back doing comics journalism in a big way. I have recently taken over editing The Fanatic, @publisherswkly.bsky.social's twice-monthly newsletter about all things comics! The latest edition goes out at 3:30pm ET today, you can sign up here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/email-sub...

I realize that I’ve been doing a bad job of sharing my work lately. The world has been so dark and stormy that I’ve felt shy about doing self-promo, but hey, why spend all that time writing unless I want people to read my work, right? So here goes…

Animal Farm is simply not a good enough novel to have been on the national curriculum since two years after its publication to the present day, and its consistent inclusion is because the Powers That Be demand children are consistently exposed to an anti-collectivist message.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

this what a Borges story looks like in real life

Good! It's so clear by now that the people doing horrible things in public need to be punished, or they'll just keep doing them

Ohhhhh so Allbirds sold all their IP to someone else and this is a zombie company that got funding to "do AI" and use the name, got it

its so cool that literally every job now is understaffed by 30-50%. its great because i didnt want whatever it was done well or with any care at all. but please keep raising prices anyway

This is nice to see. Glad that political opposition to the Paramount takeover seems to be ramping up. Tom Steyer was the first California politician I remember to come out with a statement opposing the deal and I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts gaining some momentum in the governor’s race now too

Daredevil: Born Again emphatically does NOT have a Surf Dracula problem. It’s a show about Daredevil fighting Trump and ICE, and you better believe every single episode (especially in season 2) has at least one scene of Daredevil beating the shit out of fascist thug cops

Absolute Wonder Woman sketch by Jerome Opeña. #comics #art

Had a great time rewatching The Last Temptation of Christ this past Easter Sunday for what has become my annual tradition since the pandemic. In my latest Substack post, I wrote about why I do this cmholub.substack.com/p/why-i-watc...

News used to be better

You don’t really need to know “who” Elena Ferrante, John Le Carré, or Banksy “really” are. You already know who they are!

Oman

For the first time in his life Trump has been checkmated by an opponent who won't back down or give him an easy way out, and so he's throwing tantrums every day. But threatening to nuke a civilization is another level of horror. Are D's and R's really gonna sit by and let him get away with it?

Sounds great!

Pretty rich for Mallory McMorrow to be calling Hasan Piker an antisemite for criticizing Israel while her campaign finance chair posts about how much she loves her actual Nazi grandpa. Perfect Democratic Party centrism. Chef’s kiss!

Proud to publish the first ever guest post on my Substack: My beloved @gracieritt.bsky.social gives all her Shakespeare nerd thoughts on Hamnet! Let her teach you about the history of the Shakespearean “bed switch” and the best acting advice in Hamlet open.substack.com/pub/cmholub/...

A new bill to tax the rich's wealth isn't that interesting. Here's what's interesting: the same bill was introduced 5 years ago, & since then the revenue estimate has *doubled*. Yes, billionaires have twice as much money as they did at the beginning of the 2020s. prospect.org/2026/03/27/b...

When we fight, we don't always win. But we can't win without fighting.

Kamala Harris could’ve sleepwalked into the California governors mansion, pulled off a rare Reverse Nixon. Instead her absence has created a vacuum and a Republican might win instead! Great work as always by California Democrats

Feels like all the Lindy West outrage is how millennial women are processing the Iran war

If Moria is the prototypical dungeon then the Barrow Down Wights is the prototypical GM fudges an encounter they’ve completely misjudged to avoid a TPK.

No a single thing happening right now is "hard to message." 1. No war on Iran. 2. Donald Trump is responsible for gas prices rising. 3. The GOP has shut down the TSA. 4. Abolish ICE... etc etc etc

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP

Cure (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa