The pre-order page is now LIVE for *Futures of Cartoons Past: The Cultural Politics of X-Men: The Animated Series* with @upmississippi.bsky.social! I co-edited this collection with @jmcarnes.bsky.social and @margaretgalvan.bsky.social, and I am so excited to see it almost out in the world. #XMenTAS

Futures of Cartoons Past

Contributions by B Lee Aultman, Bryan Bove-Wimberley, D’Arcee Charington Neal, Gabriel A. Cruz, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Anthony Michael D’Agostino, Jay Eddin, Monica Geraffo, Eric Lewald, Julia Ewa...

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We got the approved cover for our edited collection on X-Men: The Animated Series and I CANNOT WAIT until we can share it with everyone! Soon! @margaretgalvan.bsky.social @uncannydazzler.bsky.social

Seriously. Fuck this TERF.

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.

This is complete trash. not the first time I’ve disagreed with Lucas.

Count Reckula@adamreck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

George Lucas comes out as pro-AI. Add him to the list of old rich dudes who should know better. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

Actually flawless.

On Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Today, the government is pressuring the only three eyewitnesses to sign self-deportation orders. I spent 15 years as a public defender. If anyone else did this, we'd call it witness tampering. youtube.com/shorts/-1mtg...

ICE Killed a Houston Father. Now It's Pressuring the Witnesses to Leave the Country

YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

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The "creatives" who use genAI at any part of their process need to understand I'm not desperate for new media. There is such a backlog of arts, movies, books, and games WITHOUT genAI that if nothing new was made again, I'd still need a hundred lifetimes to consume even a fraction of it.

crazy idea, maybe people with nazi tattoos shouldn’t be trusted from the jump?

New Nightcrawler sticker on my phone case. Nightcrawler is irrevocably connected to @annapeppard.bsky.social in my brain!

Great reflection on USA at 250. There’s a big omission of Indigenous communities in the historical sketch, which I think even helps makes this point more forcefully.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” -- D.H. Lawrence America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

In X-Men #15 there’s a line where Prof. X says to Angel, “It’s ok, Angel. You’re not made of asbestos.” I feel like there’s something historical in the understanding of asbestos that i’m not following there.

Captain America #130 Written by Stan Lee Pencils by Gene Colan Inks by Dick Ayers Letters by Artie Simek #Happy4th

this panel rings so strangely in 2026.

A very thoughtful thread on the Cleaves/Walden issue.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 4mo ago

I think this is a good and compassionate take from Keezy. However, publishing contracts usually contain clauses that specifically say any accusations of academic misconduct, plagiarism, inaccuracy etc are on you, the author, not on them, the publisher. Here is what I think happened--

This poem by Dan Albergotti feels like a manual, a self-help guide A metaphor for what it feels like to be trapped Rather than an escape plan it focuses on how the mind adapts to the situation by creating routine inside chaos, by trying to make sense of the extraordinary #poetry #poemoftheday

This. The whole situation is very messy. D&Q is making it so much worse (what was that statement? seriously). This whole thing smacks of a publisher not doing the work to support their artist. If they didn’t want to support the work that needed done, they shouldn’t have published the book.

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD@drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

How much is D&Q gonna defend Walden when they get sued? Many of the people agreeing that the comic is adapted from Cleves' book are concerned Walden is going to be left high and dry. That's not mob mentality 😒

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Happy 100th to this mothertrucking icon.

Mel Brooks: Say What's In My Heart

Alt: Mel Brooks: Say What's In My Heart ba bump babump babump

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Just ordered my copy to be sent to me! You should too!

Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Together we've raised over $250 for the Prairieland defendants through the sale of "Zines Are Back! : The Perennial Reemergence of the Zine Scene." Wow!!! Thank you to all for your support!! If you're at #alaac2026 #alaac26, stop by the #ZinePavilion (booth 2448) to pick up a copy for $5.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

This is shameful and dangerous behavior on the part UCF. I am so disappointed as a former faculty member. With the move toward more digital spaces there, it’s hard not to imagine a correlation—and all of this after student booed the commencement speaker who brought up AI.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Comics Scholars: I was thinking of starting an online project where comics scholars write about issues they love, unabashedly. A place to just gush and put that gushing in conversation with our scholarship. Does something like the already exist? If not, would people contribute?! #comicsstudies

You have to hand it to the Times. They're still innovating in the field of pushing insufferable capitalist propaganda and they'll surprise you sometimes. Didn't expect "Worrying about AI will cause a crash like the Great Depression, which happened because of bad vibes," but here we are.

W. Kamau Bell on what not to do.

It Is So Easy To Not Do This

Please forward this to Nate Bargatze, Alexis Ohanian, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and so many other “nice” white guys.

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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

I’m so excited this is finally in the world!

INKS Comics Journal@inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi comics folks! INKS 8.3 is now live and available to The Comics Studies Society members and to Project Muse subscribers! muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356