I’m not a “Statue Guy” but I do love Jewish super heroes and for $40 I had to get this.
Jim Kozlowski
@ijimkoz.bsky.social
Jesus follower, Dad, Husband, Music Garden App creator, UX Designer, Artist, Comics, and Ravens Fan. Racism Sucks! My views are my own. (He/Him)
My Spider-Man piece to benefit The Ed Asner Family Center is available to bid on here: comics.ha.com/itm/original...
I bought the 1993 Skybox Lockheed and Excalibur team Marvel X-Men trading card 82.
for your consideration...
Just announced at nycc! Magneto: end of days. 8 issues. a sprawling epic look at one of the most complex characters in all of comics. I am reuniting with the amazing @andreasorrentino.bsky.social and the unparalleled Dave Stewart As you can see, it’s absolutely gorgeous. More to come!
If the internet is to be believed, this showed up in comic book shops on this day in 1995. Still can't believe I was fortunate enough to team these two up, not once—but twice. (Once for Marvel with Mark Bagley, once for DC with Graham Nolan.) Talk about childhood dreams coming true.
THANK you for all the Magneto love. @andreasorrentino.bsky.social @tombrevoort.bsky.social and I are thrilled so show this beautiful project to you in February. here is the press release from marvel.
Just announced at nycc! Magneto: end of days. 8 issues. a sprawling epic look at one of the most complex characters in all of comics. I am reuniting with the amazing @andreasorrentino.bsky.social and the unparalleled Dave Stewart As you can see, it’s absolutely gorgeous. More to come!
Spidey teams up with the X-Men! Loved this McFarlane cover! -Venkman007
Sigh, which IP lawyer gets to draw the short straw and write the very obvious piece on how this is absolutely still copyright infringement
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Sapp is liking holding refs accountable. Leave the emotions at home.
Another standout from this year. I wish I did more #comics essays cause they always garner some interest and seem to strike at something interesting. Enjoy! (CC @aiptcomics.com):
Unmasking comics: How an existential realignment can unstuck the industry
The industry at-large has big questions to face about identity, supporting creators, telling certain stories, and much, much more.
aiptcomics.com
Lanterns Season 1 is over, and the verdict is in: Fans say Kyle Chandler's Hal Jordan rivals Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man as one of the best superhero casting choices of all time. https://bit.ly/4y4cvO9
Broncos G Quinn Meinerz recently said he was fined $14.926 for a celebratory dice roll vs. the Rams. The NFL fined Broncos WR Jaylen Waddle the same amount of the same celebration after the same play.
Jaylen Waddle was fined $14,926 for dice roll, too
Do as we say, not as we profit from.
nbcsports.com
Tomorrow is the first day of October! I’ll be doing a Batman related piece of art, based off single word prompts I got from folks over on IG, and posting one each day of the month— I call it BATOBER! See you all tomorrow ✍️ 🦇
🚀 🎙️ It's launch day! Introducing our new podcast: Make Great Software with Chris & Gina. It's about the thing I still love the most: bringing ideas to life with code & computers. If hanging with a couple of friends talking about software is your thing, subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts.
Make Great Software with Chris & Gina
A show about making great software, with Chris & Gina. Watch, listen, and subscribe.
chrisandgina.co
I drew a cover for ABSOLUTE BATMAN #25 with help from @jockbsky.bsky.social! It's available for pre-sale at MarkBrooksArt.com starting tomorrow, so get ready!
Amazing Spider-man 1000's shorts are top notch! Maybe the best milestone issue I've read. You've got @brianmbendis.bsky.social & Stuart Immonen, @danslott.bsky.social & Marcos Martin, both A-game knockout stories! Noah Hawley will do more for sure. Even WWE's HHH has a story! Buy with confidence!
Yup. And they are bad at conversational interaction according to the principles of good conversation. Because the incentives are so out of whack, designers and technologists are failing to apply standards of quality and performance developed over decades. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
AI as Normal Technology
knightcolumbia.org
By so many fundamental HCI principles, chatbot LLMs are simply bad software. But the magic trick of plausible information extrusion makes it an exception somehow. (Not that major tech companies haven’t been ignoring a ton of those fundamentals for years anyway… but still)