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Daniel Elkin
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EIC/Publisher @solrad.bsky.social Communications and Engagement Director: @yubariverpeople.bsky.social He/Him Sandwiches. Yes, Sandwiches.
Unpretentious local pickle vendor
Name your fav character archetype
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The Circuitous Route Toward Authenticity: Aria Baci's review of WANDERING SON with thoughts from creator Takako Shimura - SOLRAD
Today on SOLRAD, we feature Aria Baci's review of WANDERING SON with thoughts from creator Takako Shimura
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Every copy sold goes straight toward supporting SOLRAD, our three-time Eisner-nominated, ad-free, paywall-free comics magazine. Grab your copy + support SOLRAD: crowdfundr.com/support_solrad To see more of Andrew's work, check out @whitecomics.bsky.social
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I know nobody wants to hear this right now, but today is a nice day.
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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Spotlight: I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME by MariNaomi -- @marinaomi.bsky.social -- now just $15 crowdfundr.com/support_solrad
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NOW AND OTHER DREAMS collects a decade of Daryl Seitchik's surreal, unclassifiable comics, made between 2012 and 2022. Grab your copy + support SOLRAD: crowdfundr.com/support_solrad @darylseitchik.bsky.social
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The Fieldmouse Press Warehouse Sale is LIVE on Crowdfundr: crowdfundr.com/support_solrad We're clearing out our shelves to keep our three-time Eisner-nominated comics magazine, SOLRAD, alive, and you get the deal of the year because of it. Every Fieldmouse Press book for 2021–2024 is 50% off!
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. 🧵
Known at local sandwich shops as "The Explosive Diarrhea"
lettuce, mixed greens, pickles, sun dried tomato, pastrami and greek yogurt on baguette
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.
Honest question: Would the answers given by "comics critics" be similar to these? embedded.substack.com/p/will-music...
Will music criticism survive?
Mano Sundaresan, Rob Harvilla, Danyel Smith, Robert Christgau and more on the future of media’s most endangered form.
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Sometimes a man must show off his sandwich as the world falls apart around him.
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
I'm stoked to share the cover of Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes! Slithering your way January 2027 @clashbooks.bsky.social Cover by Matthew Revert. It's live on NetGalley until 12/11/26: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... 🐍 🤎 🚽