Michael Dooley
@mchldooley.bsky.social
history professor (design, comics, animation), graphic designer, author, editor, photographer
join Kim Munson, Karen Green, Danny Fingeroth, Rob Salkowitz, and me for a revealing look at Denis Kitchen's groundbreaking underground comix career, his courageous battles against censorship, and much more @kmunson.bsky.social @robsalk.bsky.social @klg19.bsky.social @dannyfingeroth.bsky.social
Matt Haley reveals his unpublished "Twin Peaks" graphic novel; Dan Barton discusses life with Lynch as his Angriest Dog in the World editor; Jeff Trexler and i connect Lynch’s comics and animation with his movies, at our San Diego Comic-Con panel. @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social @cbldf.bsky.social
are you going to Comic-Con? well then, start off the festivities with some mischievous irreverence from Jim Thompson, Rob Salkowitz, Alonso Nunez, and me. the fun begins at 11am Thursday 7/23; bring along your panel border-busters 🤣 @jamesrthompson.bsky.social @robsalk.bsky.social
Joan and i enjoyed listening and dancing to Doug Roegiers at Hawg Heaven in Pasadena; here's his "My Way"
Sylvia Rodriguez and her Rhythm Boys get happy with an Ella Fitzgerald tune at Edwin Mills
at Comic Arts Los Angeles in December of last year @comicartsla.bsky.social
one of our favorite TV series was "Bosch" (2014-2025), with Titus Welliver, and our favorite duo on the show were nicknamed Crate and Barrel. well, long/short: Barrel – Troy Evans – lives within biking distance of our home. so here we are, photographed by Joan
a few opening day shots from the Skirball Cultural Center's exhibition "Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86" @skirball.bsky.social @punkrockhistory.bsky.social #punk #johnholmstrom #punkmagazine #ramones
in the Dooley domicile, LindyHop the Cat is God (madam, i'm adam) ~ photo by Joan Dooley
opening day for "Inventing America: the Comic Book Revolution" at the Skirball Center with Patrick A. Reed @djpatrickareed.bsky.social @skirball.bsky.social
my next gig at Laguna College: a century of music’s most innovative and revolutionary graphic design work. • SEE! album covers, concert posters, marketing materials, and more. • HEAR! Can-Can, Charleston, Boogie Woogie, Cool Jazz, Acid Rock, Brit Punk, New Wave, Funk, etc. • VIEW! band performances.
Jeff Lemire, Jeff Trexler, Dan Barton, and i will explore David Lynch and his connections to comics and animation, at WonderCon this coming Saturday. come join us, won't you? • wondercon2026.sched.com/event/2IzrN/... • @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social
free at Laguna College! this Thursday! please get in touch if you're interested in joining me
L.A. folks: on Thursday, Feb 5 at 7pm i'll be moderating "JACK KIRBY'S FOURTH WORLD", a multimedia presentation with @seehatfield.bsky.social @jamesrthompson.bsky.social & others at ArtCenter College's Library in Pasadena. it's free for all, so come join us. artcenter.libcal.com/event/16190247
Pasadena fans of brilliant caricature can hear the Hirschfeld Foundation's David Leopold explore Al Hirschfeld's 82 years of illustration that defined much of 20th-century popular culture, spanning Broadway, Hollywood, TV, music, dance, etc. free! @alhirschfeld.bsky.social @davidnleopold.bsky.social
come join the fun at Comic-Con next Thursday as @robsalk.bsky.social Jim Thompson, Alonso Nuñez and i bust out of panel borders way beyond all those boring old definitions of comics. comiccon2025.sched.com/event/26wgo
are you at Comic-Con next week? come join me, @kmunson.bsky.social @sydneyheifler.bsky.social @shaenon.bsky.social and others as we discuss Trina Robbins's many wonderful, landmark books spotlighting comics and cartooning's greatest women artists. comiccon2025.sched.com/event/271Z8/...
SDCC panel: I'll be covering Trina Robbins's history/herstory books with @kmunson.bsky.social, Lee Marrs, @mchldooley.bsky.social, @sydneyheifler.bsky.social, Peter Maresca, and Bruce Simon!
join me as i explore four varieties of bad taste: schlock, camp, kitsch, and funk. i'm one of nearly four dozen free online presenters on June 24-25 during the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference in Brussels, Belgium: sign up for mine and get ’em all. bit.ly/tastesuper
newly posted: commentary on Will Eisner’s WWII posters, with bunches of wonderful hi-rez examples (starring Joe Dope) ~ ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
The Catalogue Raisonne of Will Eisner’s WWII Posters
by Warren Bernard It was clear to US Army leaders after the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940, where German tanks overran first Poland and then mo...
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read @mrfishcartoons.bsky.social 's smart, entertaining chat w/ Art Spiegelman: "Convenience makes the instinct to struggle against apathy disappear, which is why comics are more important than ever because they insist on contemplation." theindependentink.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
As fascism proliferates and the agonizing screams for mercy from genocide fill the air and the world prepares for a war to end all life on the planet, who better to talk to but the genius behind Maus
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on today's Independent Ink, check out @ mrfishcartoons.bsky.social 's engaging one-hour talking heads (no visual aids!) conversation with fellow cartoonists Steve Brodner, @anntelnaes.bsky.social and @keefknight.bsky.social
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Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social · last yr.Good to connect again with stevebrodner.substack.com keithknight.substack.com and Mr Fish! theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-indepe...
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@dailycartoonist.bsky.social ’s column on Thomas Nast cites one story with a "positive" take on the influential political cartoonist, one negative – citing his "bigotry" against Catholics/Irish – and one with "a balanced approach" to Nast, written by... me! www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
Thomas Nast – Good? Bad? Ugly?
Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper’s Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and...
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a fun preview night for the Jack Kirby exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center ~ #2 of 2 @evanier.bsky.social @seehatfield.bsky.social @skirball.bsky.social @jackkirbymuseum.bsky.social
a fun preview night for the Jack Kirby exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center ~ #1 of 2 @david-mack.bsky.social @henrybarajas.bsky.social @piratelibrarian.bsky.social @skirball.bsky.social @jackkirbymuseum.bsky.social
next Tuesday, May 6, 4pm PDT, 7pm EDT DAN NADEL on ROBERT CRUMB nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/d... have you ever wondered anything about Crumb? now's your chance to ask Dan, author of the new, critically acclaimed, 480-page bio. FREE! register now: comicssymposium@gmail.com
pix of an illuminating evening as i interviewed the marvelously multitalented artist David Mack, plus Daredevil: Born Again's production designer Michael Shaw, at ArtCenter, and the post-panel book signing (04/11) @david-mack.bsky.social @manwithoutfear.com ~ & thx to @piratelibrarian.bsky.social
On Muse set of BORN AGAIN: Mack, Charlie Cox, Hunter Doohan, & Production Designer Michael Shaw. April 11th, 7pm at @artcenteredu David Mack & Michael Shaw, speak w @mchldooley.bsky.social - FREE to public! I hope u love my MUSE ART / MURALS in the show kirbyscomicartshop.com/collections/...
