If you can believe it, January 1, 2026 marks ten years since the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For Portland Monthly, I wrote about how the ensuing decade was dominated by anxious men and a culture of lawlessness. www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

Microsoft Word forcing me to stare at this bullshit AI thumbnail while I edit is a cruel and constant reminder that they’re actively trying to take my job from me. Thanks, gang.

This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.

What a loss. Mass market paperbacks are the ideal novel format.

I’m giving up on streaming entirely and reverting to mp3 players for my on-the-go listening. I already have a ton on vinyl and buy digitally on bandcamp, and I can get more from artists directly and the library. Fuck this shit

Books with Pictures is a sacred place for me. It has shaped and fostered my love for comics (and literature at large), and beyond the personal, it is an incredible community space run by incredible people. I cannot understate its impact.

I think @matthiasellis.com called it the first time around but Jesus Christ, man

God bless the workers of the world

GOOD THINGS ARE POSSIBLE MOTHERFUCKERS

Lynda Barry is literally the best to ever do it.

BEGGARS, @thriceofficial.bsky.social (2009)

Talking during movies isn’t just rude, it’s the mark of a deranged sicko and a nation in decline. Disruptive theatergoers should be sent to live on an island with the people who yell at bands like they’re best friends and the people who refuse to use headphones in public.

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

The streets of Portland speak the truth.

always love these anecdotes where Pynchon’s New Yorker roots come through……

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Matte and newsprint are superior

I dunno, obedience isn’t really better than blind obedience so this is just an endless inward and outward fart session.

This is how I pose with all the library books I check out knowing I’m only going to read like two of them before they’re due.

Our youtube channel is BACK! Here’s a handsomely-produced and edited video about the making of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, with @mattfraction.bsky.social & @stevelieberart.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4u...

Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation. Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.

Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.

The foundational (but often overlooked) Portland painter Isaka Shamsud-Din has died. A survivor of the Vanport floods, Shamsud-Din is the artist behind many of the city's best loved murals. He was 84. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It’s easy to feel disheartened when you encounter cowardice like this at every turn. I dunno how many times we need to see that acquiescing gains nothing other than delayed harm as a best case scenario, but it sucks.

The fact that we have to make the case against starving, bombing, and massacring children seems to be a pretty damning point of no return for our collective well-being.

It's pretty cool that the biggest paper in my area had its staff gutted, locks public safety articles behind a paywall, and now is turning to AI slop.

Saying “doubles down” like not wanting kids to suffer and die in an unfolding genocide is a bad or questionable thing. It’s disgusting framing and any resistance to “don’t hurt children” is fucking evil.

Matt is legitimately the smartest person I know, and he’s the type of academic I wish I could have been if I saw it through. $65 for a class from him is a steal!

I wished I believed in a hell awaiting ghouls like this but I’ll settle for nobody giving her or projects she profits from time, energy, attention, and money ever again. We will get to the other side of this and she’ll be just another name in a list of monsters we left behind.

Art by • Ian Miller

FML is my favorite thing I’ve read in a very long time. I’m consistently surprised and wowed, and every issue is an absolute treasure (Also, the one thing I can consistently look forward to in 2025?). I cannot rave enough about what @kellysue.bsky.social @davidlopez.bsky.social and team are doing.

Please read and share the full statement from R.E. Burke’s family downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

NEW PTA, BABY

Someone is selling Alex Toth's 1991 Harvey Awards Ballot; which, if it's real, is a thing of BEAUTY

Art Spiegelman Is “Learning How to Do This Comics Thing Again” / hyperallergic.com/995959/art-s...

This is your brain on The Atlantic.

Look at the bullshit in my kid’s book.

Cartoonist R. E. "Becky" Burke is still detained by ICE because of Visa issues over how she was supporting her trip www.comicsbeat.com/more-details...

It’s wild to me that Portland has a Tesla dealership and an ICE building essentially right next door to each other. It’s so on the nose someone who despises subtlety must have planned it.

Some thoughts on Art Spiegelman and living under the shadow of fascism. www.thenation.com/article/cult...