More In-flight reading... Hahaha @sktchd.bsky.social

This video is great! And there's some snippets of Moebius concept art in it I don't think I've seen before.

In-plane reading: slowly catching up on Witch Hat Atelier. As always, beautiful art, incredible page layouts!

I often joke about Mary Worth being so slow-moving that you can bow out for a couple of weeks and it seems like nothing's happened... but just checking in after being AWOL for a bit because of CXC chaos and I'm greeted with *this*??

...and as a result now lead the AL Central (due to tiebraker)!

Been ruminating on a Corto Maltese tattoo for a while and I think I've settled on this image. Should I care that it's from Celtic Tales, one of my least favorite Corto books? Probably not!

TCJ interviews Bud Plant, our 2025 Tom Spurgeon Award Winner! www.tcj.com/bud-plant-is...

There are also a handful of Krazy Kat strips that in retrospect, with this knowledge now in-hand, that seem *very* interesting. The one that comes to mind is the one where the setup is that Krazy winds up in a flour factory and emerges white, after being covered in flour iirc.

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RIP Tsutomu "Tom" Matano, the main designer behind the Mazda Miata... and therefore the father of my metal child that lives in my garage. www.motortrend.com/news/designe...

Shout out to Car and Driver for still using (and paying) actual illustrators. #AIsucks

Gorgeous screen-tone in this page from 2001 Nights Stories (and this is old enough that it's legit actual physical screen!).

Damn y'all... the BnF musuem in Paris has aquired all 77 original pages of La Bête est morte ! and has a big exhibit! If this show is still up at Thought Bubble time, may have to seriously consider flying into Paris to see this then training it to the festival. www.ligneclaire.info/la-bete-est-...

Getting stuff signed at @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social !

Visiting group from Japan touring the Billy Ireland at @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social ...and some cool manga holdings on display, including an original Tezuka!

More brush inking today in class. Today's focus: feathering.

In the mail today!

Teaching inking with a brush yesterday. As an exercise, I'm having the students ink over a blue-line printout of some Dan Clowes art from the artists edition—specifically from Patience, I think?

Finally gave up trying to track down all the old individual Eng issues of this and am just gonna slog through it in French... Especially since the Fr edition is so beautifully done!

Kevin Huizenga zine about teaching comics. Free for students and teachers—$10 for the rest of you cretins! #SPX2025

Over at Heritage Auctions Frazetta’s Conan (Lancer/Ace,1967) just sold for $13,500,000!! Sadly not by me. ;)

I did! #SPX2025

See you at SPX in a couple of hours! #SPX2025

Damn, y'all: Calvo.

Got this for my birthday. Amazing cartooning—not to mention typography/lettering! The lack of artists crediting is making me bonkers, tho.

Bibee with a complete game shutout!! #GoGuards ⚾⚾⚾

The full issue of 2001 Kirby/Royer originals is about to go on the block at Heritage. Starting live bidding at 10K: live.ha.com/live.zx?sale...

Whoa!

Dunno if it's actual causation or just some kinda algorithmic coincidence, but it almost seems like asking prices for the old LOAC editions of Corto have suddenly dropped after the announcement that Fanta is reprinting the series.

Library holds arrived! Love the Columbus library system. These days pretty much all of my manga reading is via the library—both for financial and shelf space reasons.

Current watch

In the new Columbus Scribbler's "50 Greatest Comics Characters of All Time" feature... Like minds think alike! @klg19.bsky.social and me on Corto Maltese:

"Witch Hat Atelier is shaping into one of the great fantasy comics." #truth www.tcj.com/witch-hat-at...

"But reading that New Yorker article brought home to me once again why manga is eating US comics’ lunch: we have no system for young creators to test their wings and create a new Spider-Man." www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-th...

When you see "patriot" in someone's profile.

Hahaha, this should go without saying... but I've been to enough anime and comics events to know that there's a reason you have to.

Looking through the new Heritage catalog... Man, this BWS Weapon X page 🤯🤯🤯 Who needs TWO kidneys, amirite? 💰💰💰

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Just when I was about to write these goofballs off for the season, they start playing ball again!! #GoKwan #GoGuards ⚾⚾⚾⚾

Backstage at the 2025 Matsuricon opening ceremony!

Cool article in this morning's MLB Lineup newsletter on using Progressive Field in Cleveland in the recent Superman movie. (Why they used an actual ballpark but apparenly couldn't source a real, live dog is anyone's guess tho.) www.mlb.com/news/guardia...

Hahaha figures this happens now that I'm finally just Mu, the Lost Continent away from having the whole LOAC run. Glad I have them in B&W tho regardless. Corto color was always a bit odd--but looking forward to checking these out.

Hahaha nice shout-out to the Queen theme song from the goofy (but beloved) De Laurentiis Flash Gordon movie in today's strip:

In the mail today: important scholarly reading.

Attention, fellow Columbus weebs! I'll be at Matsuricon this weekend giving a how-to/Intro to Clip Studio talk--Saturday 2:00 - 2:45. And come on out to Matsuricon in general--it's always a great show! www.eventeny.com/events/matsu...

A crucial difference. (See also: Europe.)

Going through the Fanta store b/c they're having a 30% off sale. Whooda figured they'd be publishing this?