Joshua W. Cotter
@joshuawcotter.bsky.social
ND Secular Humanist ♾️ Cartoonist w/Eisner and Ignatz Noms ✍️ Fix Your Hearts or Die 🫀 https://www.joshuawcotter.com/ -or- https://bio.site/joshuawcotter
Amazing strip from Laura Park in the New Yorker about the French heat wave: 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.
newyorker.com
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
My folks lost their home to an electrical fire a couple weeks ago. My dad built it himself one summer when I was a kid & they lived there for 40 years. Fortunately they’re unharmed & getting past the shock. I’m on the other side of the world & can’t do much to help out, so I made this for them.
SPX (Small Press Expo) is the official book launch of THE DISSIDENTS in fact! Attendees this year will want to check out the panel about THE DISSIDENTS, hosted by Mr. Warren Bernard, SPX head poobah, comics historian, and a guy who played a key role in bringing this book to life.
Small Press Expo@smallpressexpo.bsky.social · 2w agoHey, look! Derf (@derfbackderf.bsky.social) is BACK and as a SPX 2026 SPECIAL GUEST! Derf’s latest graphic novel, THE DISSIDENTS, published by ABRAMS, will debut at SPX 2026!
"Before you were a fascist; you were a bully and an asshole."
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
Maxwell House Coffee illustrations by Moebius In 1989 Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) was hired by the Paris office of Young & Rubicam to create illustrations for Maxwell House. The French magazine ads promoted four flavors of instant coffee. #moebius #youngandrubicam #advertising #frenchart #illustration
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic: 🎆 A Scarry and Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC's Freedom 250 Celebration - Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including long-time member Evan F. and new member Bev Ball. JOIN US TODAY at patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership - See it right here, folks:
Reposting because they still have a ways to go to meet the goal. This is horrifying bullshit on top of a lot of already horrifying bullshit.
Evan Dorkin@evandorkin.bsky.social · last mo.Throw some money in if you can. I did. We're all we have. gofund.me/4df4cf2cd
Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!
原爆ドーム, the ‘Atomic Bomb Dome’ in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park. May the hate-mongers who have seized control of our world be put in check before we repeat the catastrophic mistakes of our past.
Okay this is the last one for real, we PROMISE. Designed by @drewwise.bsky.social #dailytees theyetee.com
“Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.”
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
These kinds of folks used to just become HOA presidents and stalk yards to complain about lawn lengths. Now they have the power to talk social media accounts and narc to the government about thought crimes.
Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · last mo.Someone just reported me to the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, State Department, and TSA for... (checks notes) linking to zines on Bluesky. He has asked them to deny me entry to the US, a country of which I am a citizen and have no plans to visit anyway. Anyone have any good zine links?
We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘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
theguardian.com
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...
english.elpais.com
Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · last mo.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.
‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol
this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...
Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind
Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!
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Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · last mo.A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
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
theguardian.com