People think of Saturday Morning as this monolith but in reality it really came together gradually and didn’t last that long as the primary source of kids TV. The first year you can truly say SatAM was a force was 1966, when you saw shows like Space Ghost show up. That’s actually pretty late!

Almost ten years of development and thousands of hours of rigorous cartoon watching. Proud of this little guy. robobonobo.co/smg/index.html

A Public Service Announcement

Superheroes are a virus, and I'm infected. Mask up. greatish.substack.com

Possibly my favorite doodle ever. A dinosaur walking into a wall.

The death of the Monoculture means soon all jokes will be inside jokes, like that time Corbin bought too many fish fillets from that one guy.

Birth. I don't get these references. I get some of these references. I get all of the references. What are these new references? People are missing my references. No one gets my references. I don't get these references. Death.

Note to headline writers: Weird AI and Weird Al are indistinguishable in most modern typefaces but mean two very different things.

If Marvel starts publishing Vertical Scroll comics, it's likely to lead to the end of the comic book form as a popular medium. Unlike webcomics, which could take any form, but were often easily formatted into books, Webtoons don't fit the format without revision. The beginning of the end.

Disney and Webtoon's Partnership Is Leading to a Massive New Comics App

Digital comics is getting a major new player as Disney prepares to invest in the webcomics platform.

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It only feels like magic when someone else is doing it.

James Gunn and Dan Harmon are better when they are constrained. Community>Rick and Morty. Superman>Peacemaker. Not because of freedom, but because of constraints. MHO

Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, I want them to discuss the thing they made. Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made. I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and they never finished it.

Money can't buy happiness, but you can subscribe to it. Rates rise yearly as do the number of advertisements. But what else can I do? Make myself happy?

The future is unwritten, but I think we can get ChatGPT to autofill it for us.

Knowledge is power. But power is not knowledge. It's kind of a "square is a rectangle" situation.

Very sad to hear that Christopher H. Bidmead has passed away. His name will always be burned into my mental pantheon, not just for his time as script editor on the classic series, but for the novelizations of his stories that I read and reread again and again in the time before VHS and DVDs.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

A wonderful visual storyteller and an incredibly nice guy. Loved working with Don on Defenders.

Comics in the Golden Age@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Today is the birthday of artist & writer Don Perlin (Aug. 27, 1929-May 14, 2024). His began his long career during the Golden Age of comics & his cocreations include Marvel’s Moon Knight & Valiant’s Bloodshot.

"Hamlet: Denmark being one o’ the worst. R: We think not so, my lord. Hamlet: Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison." -When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.

Mercutio died laughing. Be like Mercutio.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

[August 3rd, 1985] Alan Moore received the Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer for his work on "Swamp Thing" from Jack Kirby himself at the San Diego Comic-Con, held at the San Diego Convention Center

Everyone is stupid but me is, like free will, a lie that you can't help but believe in order to function.

I understand that studios care about movies making money. I get that completely. I just wish fandom in general didn't care so much about box office returns, as if that necessarily says anything about the quality of the film.