New interview with Art Spiegelman in The Guardian. Nice to see a photo of his drawing table. I wish he would make more comics. I'm glad he speaks out about Trump. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America
theguardian.com
I want to be annoying and ask why this strip breaks the 180° rule, I’m hardly a stickler but this is such an unexpectedly jarring sequence in direct consequence
Raul Mora@raulm77.bsky.social · last wk.Sluggo can read between the lines
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
I don't give a shit about football, but I just heard my favourite stat about this World Cup. Every single country taking part has universal healthcare... Except one. Can you guess ?
Hayley Campbell interviews Idris Elba for GQ www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/idri...
Idris Elba is flying solo
After decades playing cool guys and superheroes – from The Wire’s Stringer Bell to Man-At-Arms in this year’s Masters of the Universe – Idris Elba has shifted his focus to what matters to him offscree...
gq-magazine.co.uk
I'm at CAKE this weekend. almost forgot to mention it. On my way there now. www.cakechicago.com/cake-2026
Info — Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE)
cakechicago.com
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
"We will vote like men and not be sold as slaves" - When Kate Carew drew this cartoon in 1912, women were still being denied the right to vote. Now, the best hope for democracy is that women will vote... but that they will NOT vote like men. Book: "Kate Carew" by @eddiecampbell.bsky.social
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
I'll be at C2E2 in Chicago this Friday, Saturday Sunday. Find me in Artists Alley at table G-16!!
now there's an old-style political cartoon, with a string of connected parts.
Steve Morgan@steveve.bsky.social · 6mo ago
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, a heartbreaking statement from the victim’s parents.
Scotsman in Chicago. What am I looking at here? Goes across the backyard and up the side of the house. That's my boot and I'm a size 11. (Should I lock the doors?)
This is why I support freedom of expression. Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing. Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10mo agoAbsolutely brutal.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
“Spineless Leaders Of Democracy - Stepping Stones To Glory.” Honestly, I have no idea at all as to why this magnificent anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low from July 8th 1938 should have come to mind in October 2025.
I'm tabling at the Pretty Good Zine Fest in Chicago on Saturday if you're in the neighborhood. I've even printed a zine, all new. prettygoodfest.com
Pretty Good Fest: Oct. 4, 2025
A comics and small press festival in Chicago for cartoonists, small press publishers, book artists, and zine-makers. Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 11am-6pm.
prettygoodfest.com