Daniel Elkin

@danielelkin.bsky.social

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

Every copy sold goes straight toward supporting SOLRAD, our three-time Eisner-nominated, ad-free, paywall-free comics magazine, keeping serious critical writing about comics free and accessible to everyone. Grab your copy + support SOLRAD: crowdfundr.com/support_solrad

The Support SOLRAD Warehouse Sale!

We need your help to keep the three-time Eisner-nominated SOLRAD running, and we're offering Fieldmouse Press books published between 2021 and 2024 for 50% off to cover the magazine's publishing expen...

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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