Hey @jessethorn.bsky.social, I thought your recent Put You On with @dieworkwear.bsky.social was really fantastic, and I genuinely would listen to a whole series with your evergreen advice for getting started building a menswear wardrobe!
Josh Kramer
@joshpkramer.bsky.social
JoshKramerComics.com Writer // Illustrator // Cartoonist Head of Editorial, @newpublic.org
@wmata.com Hi, why are you taking the bike racks at NoMa station? The sign just says you are taking them but not why
@cmzparker5.bsky.social do you know what's up with the power outages in Trinidad and near by? There have been four in the last two weeks — it was just out for the last out.
Our Not-At-Comic-Con Sale is on now: use code SDCC at checkout to save 25% off all our books (including the illustrious works of Daniel Clowes) on Fantagraphics.com! (Art from The Complete Eightball 1-18)
drawing comics is labor intensive and exhausting but at least it also does not pay
It's hard to imagine YouTube's core business being displaced by AI, but at the same time, 20 years ago it was hard to imagine everyone would turn to YouTube as a foundational reference library
New_ Public@newpublic.org · 3mo agoWe did an analysis of which social media apps are vulnerable to being replaced by AI. See which apps have less exposure to AI disruption, and which are, as the kids say… cooked.
free story idea: someone should write "what AI companies advocating for UBI can learn from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend"
I wrote about the recent Oscar-nominated short Retirement Plan. A very nice 7 min watch-along! joshkramer.substack.com/p/retirement...
Retirement Plan
⏱️ Going deep on an animated short
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We don’t have to stand for Big Tech turning our neighborhoods into “crime blotters with ads.” We need better digital tools that build trust, instead of eroding it. From our Co-Director @eli.bsky.social at @creativemornings.bsky.social
Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details: www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...
Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with residents of the District demanding what should have always been ours: the right to govern ourselves. He showed up for D.C. because he believed the people of the nation’s capital deserved the same political power as every other American. Rest in power.✊🏾
Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!
ONLINE CLASS: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy: An Adaptation from Novel to Graphic Novel (2600)
One Thursday: January 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
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US-backed regime change has been a fear for a long time
I didn't play a lot of games this year but we did finally play Disco Elysium, which I can honestly say the hype is true, the hype is real, this game fucks. I am simply astounded on every level. Also I didn't expect it to be so incredibly funny?? Maybe the most well written game I've ever played
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS
Amazon.com: S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS: 9798275808681: Bissette, Stephen R., Bissette, Stephen R., Masztal, Mark A.: Books
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📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️ A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public: “When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
Open Technology Institute Lightning Talks: “Reconnecting Public Media to the Public”
YouTube video by New America
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In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things. I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷 www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷 In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.” What (IRL or online) do you love to return to? www.robinsloan.com/fish/
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder. I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
New comic! What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬 www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
