Kees van Dongen, Modjesko, Soprano Singer, 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135023
Chris Mautner
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Editor at @pennlive.bsky.social. Co-editor at @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Putters around here and there.
Hey Pittsburgh-area journalists! Are you looking for a newspaper gig? Do you possibly want me as a boss? We have four openings right now out there: two part-time social media creators, a full-time food and dining reporter and a full-time high school sports reporter. Threading the links below. 👇
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?
Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.
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Katie Skelly’s new book HEAVEN sees the cartoonist at her sharpest and most introspective. For TCJ, I spoke with Skelly about the book’s origins, the correspondence between art and life, and everything she’s been up to since 2020:
'Survival is Aspirational': An Interview with Katie Skelly - The Comics Journal
The promotional copy for Katie Skelly’s graphic novel, Heaven, informs us that the new book is Skelly’s first outing in six years. In other words, it tells us: Katie Skelly is back. Of course, to thos...
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Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.
His Name was Harvey Pekar
Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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Here's me looking at Cram Comics #5 for @comicsjournal.bsky.social: www.tcj.com/reviews/cram...
Cram Comics #5 - The Comics Journal
Lillian Ansell’s cover art to the fifth issue of Cram Comics gives us a partial idea of what to expect: a nude Bacchus sings while drunkenly slouching amidst a pastoral scene, all rendered in a loose ...
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Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Brand new at @flaminghydra.com : in the latest in a series of interviews with writer Alan Moore, we talk about rock and roll, magic, and Joe Meek in his novel I HEAR A NEW WORLD.
Crouching in the long grass
Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff
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The federal government is protecting the AI child porn apps and Google goes after someone wearing cat ears whispering into a mic while eating cereal
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
While a Latino Christian National Network board member said that the Assemblies of God pastors came to the US legally and hold valid R-1 religious worker visas, ICE reportedly threatened them with prolonged family separation in order to pressure them into signing documents agreeing to self-deport 👇🏽
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Trump regime’s mass deportation agents continue to detain faith leaders. Following the abduction of Sister Letty last month, ICE snatched up two pastors who were traveling to an event hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/catholic-n...
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d agoi don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
there is no good-faith argument for keeping trans kids out of sports. the numbers are vanishingly tiny, the impact also vanishingly tiny... except on the kids, who flourish because they get to be who they are and also play sports the rest is bigotry. if you think trans people are icky, just say it
Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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To quote Kyle Baker in my interview for The Comics Journal: "Can you eat a thank-you card? Is my kid gonna pay for college with the thank-you card? Will my doctor take that? 'You got a thousand dollars?' 'No, I was in the thank-you card!' I don't give a shit!" bleedingcool.com/comics/offic...
Official Comics "Special Thanks" Credits In Spider-Man: Brand New Day
All the Official Comics "Special Thanks" Credits from Spider-Man: Brand New Day, out in all cinemas tomorrow
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when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue
Gil Kane’s Blackmark (Bantam Books, 1971); script by Archie Goodwin
We were poor growing up so we had to buy abridged manga. I only got to read The Gist of The North Star
Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Art by Barbara Remington for the 1965 Ballentine edition of the Lord of The Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Big news here. After Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE agent, *someone* leaked that a search warrant for the van showed FBI thought they might have seen drug baggies in it. The family said it was drink powder. Apparently the substance was tested and the family was correct.
Tom Shapira Is my name @comicsjournal.bsky.social is my nation Old comics are my dwelling space And Stars My Destination www.tcj.com/rr-the-stars...
R&R: The Stars My Destination might not be comics exactly, but it's still great - The Comics Journal
Tom Shapira considers what might have been in comics with a look at Byron Priess and Howard Chaykin neglected adaptation.
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I wrote a eulogy for the best comic book store in the world at @comicsjournal.bsky.social I would appreciate it if you'd take a few minutes to read it. www.tcj.com/heartaches-b...
Heartaches: Bizarro-Wuxtry, The Remarkable Athens Comic Shop, is Up For Sale - The Comics Journal
The most wonderful comic shop I've ever seen, Bizarro-Wuxtry in Athens, Ga is for sale, Robert Newsome gives thanks.
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i’m at the taco bell i’m at the urgent care i’m at the combination taco bell and urgent care
