Mike Dawson
@mikedawson.bsky.social
Cartoonist https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-dawson The Hidden Dominion of Geordie James (2026) 🗞️ News http://mikedawson.substack.com 📔 Comics Club http://patreon.com/mikedawwwson 🏫 School Visits https://www.cartooninglessonswithmikedawson.com
I rate every book I finish reading 5-Stars on Goodreads, (bc having written a book that another human being finished reading is a 5-Star accomplishment), but I think I’d like to give How To Read A Book an *extra* strong 5-Star rating, as it’s super engaging and hitting me with all kinds of feelings
Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
We’re numb to it, but this guy would rather see innocent people put in jail rather than admit his stupid pool wasn’t installed right
Pirro Meets With Trump at the White House After He Said She ‘Choked’ in Reflecting Pool Case
President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
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Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.
I’d think for a virtual comics festival to work, it’d *have* to appear exclusive, curated and professional, otherwise it’d just be like browsing a Gumroad page. It seems pretty important that you give “attendees” the feeling they’re taking part in something special
If it was “vote blue no matter who” when it was a centrist, it’s gotta still be “vote blue no matter who” when it’s a progressive
PUBLIC POST: I am bummed, to say the least, to announce that I've decided it's time to shutter my Patreon 'Zine Club. But rather than dwell in my sadness, here's a post showcasing many of the covers to many of the comics I've published over the past five years. www.patreon.com/mikedawwwson...
Shuttering the 'Zine Club - Public Post | Mike Dawson
I am... bummed, to say the least, to share the news that I've made the decision to shutter my Patreon 'Zine Club for the time being. I phras
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Adults freaking out about “boys playing in girl’s sports” (a non-problem) don’t understand what they’re actually reacting to is the exorbitant cost of higher education (a massive problem)
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agothe obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Small reason for optimism in very pressing times: at the exact moment slop threatens to drown us all, people start rewarding human ideas and effort again. The Odyssey, Obsession, Backrooms… audiences still crave original ideas and trying
Thanks to everyone who gave this a view and a like, my son mentioned this morning that he feels motivated to start making a second episode
Mike Dawson@mikedawson.bsky.social · 5d agoMy son has been figuring out how to animate. Here’s his first attempt that’s more than a few seconds long. Would it be a lot to ask to give it a like? I would love for him to keep going with this, and I know from firsthand experience how getting internet high-fives can motivate you to keep trying
My son has been figuring out how to animate. Here’s his first attempt that’s more than a few seconds long. Would it be a lot to ask to give it a like? I would love for him to keep going with this, and I know from firsthand experience how getting internet high-fives can motivate you to keep trying
B.F. Episode 1: The Arrival
YouTube video by CherryOSC
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struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...
Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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I apologize, I know complaining about pop culture is among my worst most tedious Nerd Impulses, but I was pondering about how this charge sticks to Avatar, yet James Cameron has made a ton of very memorable movies with some extremely memorable moments. We know he can do it!
Exterminador Futuro: Arnold Schwarzenegger 'Volveré'
ALT: Exterminador Futuro: Arnold Schwarzenegger 'Volveré'
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Mike Dawson@mikedawson.bsky.social · 6d agoI know the joke that "Avatar is the most successful movie franchise of all time but nobody can remember the names of the characters" is a bit played out, but are we sure that Avatar 3 ever got released?
my older sister and her sweet dog Starry were viciously attacked by a neighbor’s dog that got under the fence in their yard. my sister is a single mom who also takes care of our elderly mother with dementia. they need some financial help. gofund.me/e5dffb87f
Donate to Help Us Heal After Starry’s Attack, organized by Krista Dalrymple
Help Us Close This Chapter After Starry’s Attack Some of you may have followed… Krista Dalrymple needs your support for Help Us Heal After Starry’s Attack
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This kind of cuisine, combined with two pack a day smoking habits, is why historically all the men on the Scottish side of my family had heart attacks by age 60. Delicious breakfasts tho…
Hillbilly Highlander@hillhighlander.bsky.social · 5d agoMy wife and I went to The Robins Nest Tea Room for brunch. I had the "Full Scottish Breakfast": from 12 o'clock, black pudding, sauteed 'shrooms, a sunny side up egg, toast, a banger, Lorne sausage, back bacon, tattie scone and haggis with beans in the middle.
Plus Backrooms and Obsession have the kids excited about movies again!
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 5d agohonestly, a middle-brow (complimentary) director doing a big splashy Classics adaptation that’s sold out for a month at the IMAX and there’s an ongoing debate about it with one of its en vogue translators is probably the healthiest the culture has been in a long time
Not to be all “this is gendered”, anecdotally I recall seeing lots of takes during the Kyrsten Sinema era arguing she was doing the things she was doing bc she “craved attention”. I don’t feel like I see the same assessment of John Fetterman, but I wonder if it could be chalked up to the same thing
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
I know the joke that "Avatar is the most successful movie franchise of all time but nobody can remember the names of the characters" is a bit played out, but are we sure that Avatar 3 ever got released?
I think I may be a little bit wrong on this. The term "Resistance" comes from The Force Awakens which came out in 2015. In Rogue One they're still referring to "The Rebellion". I'm thinking now we were all still buzzing about TFA a year later, and Rogue One was a hit, and it all got a bit conflated
Mike Dawson@mikedawson.bsky.social · 6d agoA photo I took at the January 2017 Women’s March in Atlanta Georgia (where I’m pretty sure I saw John Lewis speak… from very far away). It’s a curious fact of history that the term “resistlib” was coined simply because Star Wars Rogue One had just come out that past Christmas
