Hey, y'all! Don't forget: On 8/6, I will be book-tourin' in SAN DIEGO! I'll be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with the one and only @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social! Please join us! More details at barrylyga.com/calendar! #Booktour #everyhunterishunted #ihuntkillers #booksigning

Hey, y'all! Don't forget: In one week, I will be book-tourin' in SAN DIEGO! I'll be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with the one and only @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social! Please join us! More details at barrylyga.com/calendar! #Booktour #everyhunterishunted #ihuntkillers #booksigning

A photographer spent a night on a mountaintop and got an incredible picture. You have got to see the amazing photo that resulted...and read the story of its capture! petapixel.com/2026/05/08/p...

A brilliant piece about what AI means for humanity, filtered through the lens of the fictional character Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen. This one pressed every last one of my buttons. www.personfamiliar.com/p/ai-humanit...

Not that anyone should care, but... I'm gonna take a little social media break. Some stuff is scheduled to auto-post, but I'll see y'all in August!

Om Malik was a famous and beloved tech pundit who recently passed away. I've had this piece of his -- "Velocity is the New Authority" -- stashed away in my bookmarks to show to y'all for a while now. A terrific look at how and why speed has surpassed truth. om.co/2026/01/21/v...

I want to write a Dazzler movie sooooo badly! I can see (and hear!) in my head already.

Sterling Gates@sterlinggates.bsky.social · 2w ago

My Marvel wishlist: - Darkhawk - Longshot & Dazzler - Spider-Man (or related characters) - Cable and the X-Force - Power Pack

From my #newsletter: Your #serialkiller of the month is Carl Eugene Watts! https://barrylyga.com/serial-killer-of-the-month-carl-eugene-watts/

Serial Killer of the Month: Carl Eugene Watts

There is no definitive science on what causes a serial killer — nature? nurture? — but surely the fact that Carl Eugene Watts nearly died as a child from me

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This is why heaven got a massive upgrade when Clarence Clemons died.

Jessa Sininger@jessasininger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Adding a saxophone to anything automatically makes it cool.

From my #newsletter: My old, never-drawn send-up of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice... #batmanvsuperman #frommyharddrive #newsletter https://barrylyga.com/from-my-hard-drive-batman-v-superman/

From My Hard Drive: Batman v. Superman

A silly little nothing that I wrote years ago… I was so annoyed by the overwrought promotion around the then-incipient Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (sa

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"Self-made moron" should be the fucking phrase of the decade. We are living in a world hand-carved by self-made morons.

Daniel Joyaux@thirdmanmovies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why does Musk use this rhetoric? It’s not because he’s playing chess, it’s because he can’t help himself. Because he’s dumb. He no longer possesses the capacity to understand anything he finds inconvenient. He’s become a self-made moron.

A few more pix from my LA book tour! Me with my old friend & comic book legend @barbarakesel.bsky.social, then with newer pal (and also comic book legend!) @sterlinggates.bsky.social, and finally with newest pal, author of RIOT ACT, @sarahlariviere.bsky.social! So grateful they came to my signing!

From my #newsletter: Rick Veitch's long (LONG!) delayed #SwampThing epic continues... https://barrylyga.com/what-am-i-enjoying-swamp-thing-1989/

What Am I Enjoying? Swamp Thing 1989!

Rick Veitch’s Swamp Thing 1989 continues apace, now up to its third issue. This series is an eighties-comic slap across the face, in the best way possible. Ve

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I will travel this world like Cain from Kung Fu, finding typos in every restaurant menu along my way.

“What are we even doing here, people?” @danmoren.bsky.social asking the real questions. https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/07/unauthorized-ai-biographies-are-all-over-amazon/

We should not have to live this way. He has stolen 11 years of our lives. We should not have to live every day under assault psychologically by a deeply disturbed POTUS. This is all happening because REPUBLICANS will not do a thing to check his insanity and destruction.

We would have used it as target practice.

Melanie Baker@melle.ca · 3w ago

I went to rural schools. We would have lit that thing on fire. For starters.

David Pogue asks the musical question on everyone's mind: Why the hell can't AI just admit when it doesn't know something??? pogueman.substack.com/p/why-cant-a...

Fucking goddamn elected Dems bringing a fucking muffin basket to a gunfight. These pricks are at least 50% of the reason we’re in this mess.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 3w ago

Durbin came to talk to us after meeting w Todd Blanche - said Blanche said "I made a mistake" about the weaponization fund. Durbin asked for assurances that the admin won't interfere in the midterms — says Blanche said "we won't." Also seemed pretty sure that there aren't many swayable Republicans

For anyone who wants signed copies of any of my novels, graphic novels, anthologies, etc... you can request them from my two local bookstores. (They'll let me know to stop by!). And you can also PRE-ORDER upcoming books. Click here: mystgalaxy.com or artifactrarebooks.com

I get it, Senator. He was your colleague. You want to say something nice. And I’m sure he WAS funny. But whitewash does nothing for your constituents. “Senator Graham was a genuinely funny guy. I wish he’d been a better guy.”

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3w ago

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

(Semi-unrelated, but I'm available for WFH comics work right now! Hit me up!)

Had an amazing book event last night at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social ! So grateful to everyone who showed up!

I’m part of two fantastic panels tomorrow as part of @writehive.bsky.social - Media Literacy 101 at 1:30 pm est and Protecting Your Stories from AI at 9 pm est. This is such a great conference every year. Glad to be part of it again. www.writehivecon.org

At San Diego Comic Con, I will appear the National Cartoonists Society booth which (I believe) is 1307 from Thursday at 9:30 AM to 1PM. I will have a very limited number of prints and art for sale. No books. Consider joining us this year for our 80th anniversary!

National Cartoonists Society

The world’s leading professional organization for cartoonists marks eight decades of community, craft, and growth. The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) turns 80 this year — and we’re celebrating…

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I am extremely talented. It’s not *me* saying that, mind you. I’m far too humble. But I will happily repost someone else saying it…

Sterling Gates@sterlinggates.bsky.social · 4w ago

Los Angeles! My extremely talented friend @barrylyga.com is doing a reading and a signing for his new book, EVERY HUNTER IS HUNTED, tonight at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social! 7pm! Be there!!!!

So here is a blanket request for publishing folks: Please give digital ARCs the name of the book-- and maybe add the blurb deadline date. I blew past the blurb deadline on a book I really enjoyed in part because, on my Kindle app, the file just looks like any series of numbers, and it got lost.

I spoke with Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes today, and he told me he was incredibly excited to come to Los Angeles to see me at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social to discuss my new book, Every Hunter is Hunted. You should absolutely come and join him and me!

Made it to LA despite oversleeping and having to race to the airport!