The teens in the dining room are blasting Lady Gaga. I might have just slipped “Baby Shark” into the queue. Screaming commencing soon…
Kristen Haas Curtis
@hellomizk.bsky.social
Cartoonist, Chaucerian (Dr.!), pigeon enthusiast. Co-founder of @guildmedmak.bsky.social a society for medievalist makers and creatives. Hi!
#87 in “Adventure Fiction About Pirates for Children” is cracking me up. We’re just going to keep inventing more and more granular bestseller lists to gratify ourselves. #1 bestseller in “Capybaras with Knives but y’know, For Kids.”
Can I even put into words how fun it is to finally link people to the page where they can preorder our book after five years of work? I can’t. It’s impossible. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/835977...
Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree by Kate Milford: 9781536220681 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A beloved New York Times best-selling fantasy writer and an indie adventure cartoonist join ranks to helm a wry, high-seas graphic series unlike any other! Welcome aboard the sloop Rodentia, where pi...
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Really feeling my toddler-brain as I try to get back to work post-NCS!
Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.
Really feeling my toddler-brain as I try to get back to work post-NCS!
Does anyone have any reading recommendations for creative-critical practice in book history (both terms broadly conceived, as they can only be)? Very accepting of the 're-'s (remaking etc) but also interested in other approaches.
I am always happy to see and hear that comicsdevices.com is being used in schools and comics-making! Nice to know my random research obsession and the time I took to design the website are achieving their purpose 🌟
Home again home again - just in time for Swiss National Day! 🇨🇭
#NCS2026 was epic! ✨ (As was my journey home- two taxis, a train, a coach, a bus & a plane!!). Now to decide where to put all my @hellomizk.bsky.social merch!! We’re very grateful that @guildmedmak.bsky.social had an official presence at the Congress & we look forward to 2028!
Today I learned that price increases in Germany on fuel happen at noon and I just watched it live. The guy with the camper van who pulled in at 11:58 but did not pick up the pump until 12:01 is about to get quite a shock.
Newest post-conference FASHION: a big bag of ice for your head.
If you're attending #NCS2026, come join @hellomizk.bsky.social for her scribal shenanigans! Add your voice to her adaptation of The House of Fame. I added a chicken, obviously. #medievalsky
#NCS2026 It’s my paper this morning at 11am! In our paired Medievalism sessions organised by the brilliant Anna Opanasenko & Philomena Wolf (2nd session is after lunch). Come along, hear some poetry, & grab one of my #TeamMargery pins!
The artist is in residence!! @guildmedmak.bsky.social co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social is cartooning the conference! And she has THE BEST MERCH! Chaucer fans! Wife of Bath pins! Come find her! #NCS2026
There are a *few* places left in ‘How to Write and Draw Jokes’, which I’m running with @hellomizk.bsky.social (Tues 2-3.30) 3/ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NCS Workshop 5H: Translating Humor: How to Write and Draw Jokes (Tuesday 28 July, 14h00-15h30)
This is the sign-up sheet for the NCS Workshop on Translating Humor: How to Write and Draw Jokes (session 5H, Tuesday 28 July, 14h00-15h30). The workshop is limited to 15 places on a first-come, first...
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And there are still places left for ‘Creating Community: Crafting a Collaborative Public Event’, which @hellomizk.bsky.social is running with Christopher Fletcher of @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! It’s on Thurs, 9-10.30am: 3/ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NCS Workshop 10H: Creating Community: Crafting a Collaborative Public Event (Thursday 30 July, 9h00-10h30)
This is the sign-up sheet for the NCS Workshop on Creating Community: Crafting a Collaborative Public Event (Thursday 30 July, 9h00-10h30). The workshop is limited to 15 places on a first-come, first-...
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So excited to be in Fribourg for the 2026 @newchaucersociety.bsky.social congress! There are still places left in our creative workshops! @drlauravarnam.bsky.social & @hellomizk.bsky.social are running their popular ‘Modular Haiku Comics’ workshop (Mon 4.30-6): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 1/
NCS Workshop 3H: The Craft So Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics (Monday 27 July, 16h30-18h00)
This is the sign-up sheet for the NCS Workshop on The Craft So Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics (session 3H, Monday 27 July 16h30-18h00). The workshop is limited to 15 places on a first-come, first...
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🚨General registration is now open for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference on Gender & Creativity in Oxford in Sept! We have an amazing line up of speakers, so please register asap to avoid disappointment! (Numbers are limited!). Link via GMS website medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
Are you heading to @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Biennial Conference in Freiburg next week? Check out (and sign up to) the creative-critical sessions that the Guild has organised and make sure to visit artist in residence @hellomizk.bsky.social! 👇
GuMM at the NCS Biennial Congress 2026 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
The upcoming New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress takes place at the University of Freiburg in Germany from July 27th through to the 31st. Early in the organization process for the Congress, t...
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One sweat-soaked American’s adventures in A.C. deprivation. www.newyorker.com/culture/arti...
Ma Vie en Rouge: Paris in a Red-Alert Heat Wave
One sweat-soaked American’s adventures in A.C. deprivation.
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Medievalist buddies: who is heading to Freiburg next week?
The Guild of Medievalist Makers@guildmedmak.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you heading to @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Biennial Conference in Freiburg next week? Check out (and sign up to) the creative-critical sessions that the Guild has organised and make sure to visit artist in residence @hellomizk.bsky.social! 👇
People who choose AI as their creative output: - hate people and having to work with them - are all hat and no cattle, which is to say, they have "ideas" but don't want to even learn the work to implement them - hate the craft itself, and care only about content, about product, about "end results"
We are SO excited to be at NCS with our Guild hats on next week! And Kristen @hellomizk.bsky.social will be artist in residence!! 🥳🥳🥳 Come find us!
The Guild of Medievalist Makers@guildmedmak.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you heading to @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Biennial Conference in Freiburg next week? Check out (and sign up to) the creative-critical sessions that the Guild has organised and make sure to visit artist in residence @hellomizk.bsky.social! 👇
I am going to be happily busy at the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress next week. I’m co-leading three different creative workshops AND serving as the Congress’s “artist in residence” where I’ll be working on a conference diary and chatting all things medieval comics and GuMM!
