Chugg Forsman
@oilycomics.com
Comic strips and self hate https://themansionpress.com/en-us/collections/charles-forsman
Sorry, Nintendo. Jokes on you. I'm too poor to buy a switch 2 to play ocarina of time. Suckers.
Don't forget: Starbucks is boycotted. The company has received hundreds of NLRB rulings against it and still has 550 cases pending. Corporate is refusing to finalize a fair contract. Meanwhile, their CEO makes $14,900/hr. Baristas are asking for $17. No contract? No coffee.
Enrollment in SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) has dropped by more than 5 million people since July 2025. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump’s flagship legislation, passed in July 2025. jacobin.com/2026/08/trum...
Episode 2 of Me Here To Do The Thinking is live. @ckunzelman.bsky.social and I continue to listen to Neil Young's discography. This time we're deep in territory where many Neil nerds fear to tread: The Geffen Years. Available here: www.patreon.com/posts/166891... (and in the usual podcast places)
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Here is our official statement on Small Press Expo and the labour boycott at Montgomery County Conference Center. Please spread the word and show your solidarity in the ways you can.
Blankets meets Pet Sematary in the long-awaited comeback from Chugg Forsman: Ex Utero, a crossover horror story set in the early ’90s, in which a desperate suburban teen brings his mother back from the dead, is out 3/23/27! https://ow.ly/6lHp50ZyJEw
First time screenprinting in 19 years. Can't wait to see my comrades wearing these.
Nice surprise from The Mansion Press as all the three final editions, limited and non-limited, of @oilycomics.com 's Ex Utero have been put up for pre-order and delivery in September. Which is handy as I've not yet read the first three. (Now ordered; I plainly have faith in Chuck).
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost
RJ Palmer 🔜 RCCC F04@rj-palmer.com · 5mo agoThe way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.
“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...
UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵
Despite initial fanfare, officials now say there are no formal plans for the massive sports complex. But the city’s been busy, and some have united in resistance against a developer with close ties to the mayor. Our latest from Melissa Karen Sances, with an original illustration by Charles Forsman.
Bump, set, spike: Will Holyoke residents block developer’s proposed sports complex?
Despite much initial fanfare, residents have been told that there are no formal plans for the project. But the city’s been busy, and some Holyokers have united in resistance against a developer with c...
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LIBERALS: Why do you people always say we have to destroy capitalism, all we have to do is elect enough Democrats and they’ll reform it into something that works for everybody COMMUNISTS: A company that got rich making shackles for slaves is still in business making restraints for migrant workers
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo agoLemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.