It is #America250 this summer - and it is also #Colorado150.
B. Erin Cole
@berincole.bsky.social
historian, museum professional, and cartoonist. Currently working on a graphic history/memoir about nuclear Colorado. Comics: http://www.littlebraincomics.com Merch: http://littlebraincomics.etsy.com
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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if you see me at the pavement show say hi. you can’t miss me: I’m with the guy wearing the guided by voices hat
folklore is great because it includes things ranging from "if you use an umbrella for a hundred years it will become alive" to "what if there was a Really Big Skeleton"
He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.
Ruki@skiesofarcadia.bsky.social · 3w agoArt by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki
The general tech dude inflected culture of Boulder.
Boulder Vacuum store shutters, partially due to ‘entitlement’ and sexism of customers, a post reads
Vacuums R Us & Sewing Too cited economic stresses and the mental health of its workers as reasons. The latter could be a symptom of a broader issue.
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It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
You know it’s really summertime in the mountain west when it smells like an ashtray outside
okay, I am DONE arguing about citations with cartoonists and their fans and about how comics work with historians and their fans
I hope comic artists don’t think that they are creative & historians just “state facts.” There‘s so much work & creativity (not to mention $& used for archive trips) that goes into finding & bringing to life unsung figures. Read a book & want to make a comic? Cool! Pay for rights or collaborate.
It’s not that hard. If you want to do a history comic, figure out if you’re taking something that someone *painstakingly pieced together * in the archives. If so, ask to license their book OR credit them at start of book OR don’t use THE SAME TITLE as the historian you based your work on. 🗃️
Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · last mo.ultimately the fallout of all this is that cartoonists who aren't necessarily trained in academic citation, history and historiography, and don't have a background in that, will be terrified to draw anything nonfiction. and that's not on the academics who feel slighted. that's on comic publishers
Guess I'm as qualified to comment here as anyone, having made my "rep" on historical narrative. Not buying the accusation of plagiarism with which the prof and her allies are filling Bluesky, as I've detailed in other posts. But Tillie and D&Q made a few key mistakes that would have prevented this.
Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · last mo.ultimately the fallout of all this is that cartoonists who aren't necessarily trained in academic citation, history and historiography, and don't have a background in that, will be terrified to draw anything nonfiction. and that's not on the academics who feel slighted. that's on comic publishers
new stickers and my first patch - all up in my Etsy store today! #stickerartist #denver www.etsy.com/shop/LittleB...
Also, to stick up for my fellow cartoonists, there is a lot of transformative work involved in taking material from a primary or secondary source and turning it into a page of comics/sequential art that is almost impossible to reflect in a citation
B. Erin Cole@berincole.bsky.social · last mo.as a cartoonist and historian, I've seen many history comics that are VERY casual about citations. Citations are so important: they thank others for their work, tell the reader who you see yourself in relationship to and how you developed your thought, and provide roadmaps for future researchers.
as a cartoonist and historian, I've seen many history comics that are VERY casual about citations. Citations are so important: they thank others for their work, tell the reader who you see yourself in relationship to and how you developed your thought, and provide roadmaps for future researchers.
Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
It’s very telling that the most fight the centrist Democrats have shown is against the left and not Republicans
The last book you read before becoming a Silver Age superhero
Honestly I was waffling on DeGette vs. Kiros and then DeGette sent me a mailer that was just a picture of space and said "OUT THERE" and had a picture of Kiros as an astronaut. Like, no text, no message otherwise, and it pissed me off enough that I'm voting Kiros.
look what’s back in stock in my Etsy store! I am glad to see so many people loving interpretive signs! littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/4516...
I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest
I turned my interpretive-sign art into a sticker, for all of you out there who stop to read every historic marker and sign on trips…. littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/4516...
at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.
Like he lost all cred about speaking for New Mexican food when he said Colorado chile was better than New Mexican chile. No New Mexican will take you seriously ever again. Those are the rules.