Daniel Elkin

@danielelkin.bsky.social

EIC/Publisher @solrad.bsky.social Communications and Engagement Director: @yubariverpeople.bsky.social He/Him Sandwiches. Yes, Sandwiches.

My Donors Choose project needs just $187 to complete funding a classroom set of Hawkeye: My Life As a Weapon! We'll be using that text in my new comics elective in our second semester survey on the superhero genre. Every dollar helps us put these books in students' hands!

A Visually Innovative Story That Subverts Genre Expectations, a project from Mr. Stack

Help me give my students a key text in their study of the art of telling stories with words and pictures as well as the use of heroic archetypes in storytelling. In the 2026-2027 school year, I wil...

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Another reminder to creatives to be extra careful with...I don't know what to call it..."industry phishing"? Beyond the massive increase in tedious Ai spam/phishing pointed at creatives, I've gotten 3 agent/publisher phishing emails lately. All from suspect addresses. Heads on swivels, kids.

SOLRAD exists on a simple, slightly stubborn belief: comics deserve the same serious critical attention as any other art form. We're a nonprofit magazine published by @fieldmouse.press -- reviews, essays, interviews, original comics. And we pay our contributors. 🧵

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I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

I’m going to read a new novel, then see what author wrote the top-billed blurb for it and read one of THEIR novels, then see who gave THEM a blurb, and so on up the ladder until I reach the Final Boss of literature

Woke up, got my coffee, and read this: "Manziel made his MMA debut on Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and defeated social media influencer Bob Menery by first-round TKO." Pretty sure I am done for the day.

One of the foundational principles behind SOLRAD is that comics are art and that, as such, the medium deserves the same access to venues, discourse, and educational opportunities as any other art form. 1/4