One of the best things about being the kind of comics person who can easily fall down a research hole to The Old Internet is that sometimes when you least expect it, you stumble upon a random, gut-bustingly funny Tom Spurgeon comment on a blog post.
Kiel Phegley
@kielphegley.bsky.social
Writer of comics and books for kids. Professor of Children's Literature. STRIKERS out from Lerner Books/Graphic Universe now.
They’re showing the Carson Tonight Show where he punks the shit out of Uri Geller. Maybe the most uncomfortable bit of TV I’ve ever seen.
Derf knows what he's talking about. I want to add that this was NEVER about Walden doing anything wrong. The issue is that there's only one major work of research on the subject, and that was something for agents, editors, and publishers to deal with before publication.
Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4d agoI’m ready to weigh in on the CHARITY & SYLVIA controversy. I’ve read both books and compared & contrasted them, and their sources. Is Tillie Walden’s book a rip off of Rachel Hope Cleves’ book, as the professor claims? No. It is not. #TillieWalden #graphicnovels buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
Am I the only person wondering what the hell is up with these kids' parents???
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 5d agokids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
Who knows if DC would go for an all 90's-era JSA, but maybe just this Shoegaze Sandman
WNBA players union leadership released a statement, I suggest everyone read it. This is the message of united union leaders: hate will not be tolerated and trans inclusion IS protecting women’s rights to play sports This is excellently crafted. Proud of Nneka, Phee and the rest of WNBPA leaders
Still catching up. So someone screencapped an image from a 20-something instagram gal (who loves Jordan Peterson and has never worked in publishing) using some hand-wringing story from the NY Times from like 4 months ago to stir the pot about men not reading, and everyone on this site fell for it?
The Ramones played their final concert on this date 30 years ago, so yes, once again, I must share this incredible photo of the band taken before the performance. Put this shit in the fucking Louvre!
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Read the sentence “I believe the problem is that we have lost our capacity to experience pleasure” [citation needed], and I’m officially done with the bullshit machine for a while.
We honestly need to bring back the cultural trend from when I was a kid where every mention of lawyers or the legal profession is immediately followed by a Dangerfield-esque quip about how they’re a bunch of amoral crooks.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2
"Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her. ... The result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting."
David Ambaras@borderlander62.bsky.social · 2w ago
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I understand in the abstract that Chris Eigeman has starred in many things that are not Whit Stillman movies, but seeing him at random while flipping channels always brings cognitive dissonance.
I don’t agree with 90% of the “conventional wisdom“ takes on progressive social media users (YA people are mostly nice, cancel culture barely exists), but it is true that legions of randos act like any ethical position they came to in private should basically be enforced w the death penalty. 1/2
Not that this ad doesn’t make it look intriguing, but I’m pretty sure I’d be lost since I never saw Pompe 1.
I had a dream that my Bluesky account got hacked, if you were wondering how rich and rewarding my interior life has become.
Heard through the grapevine that AIRBUD was smoking weed with fans all weekend at SDCC. Didn’t know he was that chill.
I’m biased ‘cuz this is how I spent a decade of my life & I miss it (not enough to go back, haha, but still)… But you can’t convince me that comics isn’t in much worse shape without a real press. Current sales are driven by more speculation than an expanding audience & that’s Bad, Actually.
Uzi™@uzionmain.bsky.social · 3w agowhere's the real heads sitting in panels with shitty wifi writing up what people are saying and slightly misrepresenting j michael stracyznski talking about superman earth one after an editorial pass so he calls them out personally on twitter while they're drinking bottles of stone ipa at TR!CKSTER
The underlying lesson of this screencap is that We Are Winning.
Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 3w agoNope. No, you haven’t.
Do you ever see a pinch-faced, miserable-seeming 50 or 60-something and think “There’s no possible way this person was ever a child”?
I wasn’t going to post about this because that dumb movie is going to be awful (those “X” horror movies by that guy are BAD), but Les nails it here, so I’m breaking my vow of silence.
Your ol' pal Les McClaine@lesmcclaine.com · 4w agoNo he wasn't. He was always both Scrooge and Ebenezer. That's his last name and his first name. He got them at the same time