The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’ “Cozy gaming” offers emotional comfort, community and a sense of control through low-stakes, repetitive play. It also features worlds where relationships are transactional.

The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’
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I'm developing a project on culinary comics and illustrated cookbooks and love this assignment! Building a bibliography over next few months and will share when ready, Len Deighton is a legend.

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Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em> This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...

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Wherever the majority of your students are majors so a. They can find you, your courses get fit into their schedules, and they get credits towards their major and b. The department has incentive to take you in and support you!

Had two of these emails last week

Can we take a minute to appreciate this guy's perfect peemanship?

On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon.

If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.

Thank you 🫶🏻

Time to spend one zillion dollars at DreamHaven Books!!! I buy almost all my new giant art books and pulpy used books from them. Also I secretly sign books there whenever I stop in for a treat.

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

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Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

ICE OUT Cartoonists against ICE Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities! *4-panel comics* *3:4 Instagram format* Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy * Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

Comics friends! Please look at what @trungles.com and a bunch of other comics people are doing and join in! #IceOutComics

FAU professor, suspended over Charlie Kirk comments, will not be reinstated ahead of spring semester Florida Atlantic University professor Kate Polak, placed on leave in September over social media comments she made about Charlie Kirk, will remain suspended heading into the spring semester.

She is the only public university professor in Florida to remain on leave over her comments, which have now prohibited her from teaching for a full academic year:
FAU professor, suspended over Charlie Kirk comments, will not be reinstated ahead of spring semester
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You definitely need this

Omg that exact one was on Winnipeg marketplace last year and I still regret not buying it because "I don't need it"

A cartoon drawing of two puffins in black ink on white paper in which the left hand puffin appears to be doing some kind of surgery on the right hand puffin, either spelunking it its guts with forceps or drawing out some viscera with its wing, it’s not entirely clear but it has a speech bubble saying ugh and the other has a speech bubble saying ouch

Another perfect diagram of Sunday evening/Monday morning vibes by Jill McDonald from a 1968 Puffin Post

What? NOOOOOOOOOOO. The mass market paperback is the best kind of book!

This sucks, and suggests physical books are going to become an expensive prestige thing like vinyl records. Ereaders are fragile and centrally controlled. Paper books are just better.

2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...

Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN!

If you're a comics critic, please apply!

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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

Girl Guides of Canada Inclusion makes Girl Guides of Canada stronger. It ensures that girls and youth have a place to build confidence, develop the skills to thrive and connect with a community that sees them for who they truly are. Girl Guides of Canada welcomes all girls - cisgender and transgender - as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in spaces that focus on and are driven by the experience of girls. Learn more about our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility at girlguides.ca/inclusivity

Girl Guides logo with a trans flag ribbon in one corner.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

My parents and my aunties are currently traveling abroad to visit family, and I’m making them text me their whole way there and while they travel back just in case, and you’re out here with your little Spotify Wrapped, like they didn’t just double down on doing business with ICE.

Stop using Spotify oh my GOD

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

This is so good!

Such a beautiful essay about lost family memories

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS PUTTING ON HER COAT AS SHE LISTENS TO THE RADIO… RADIO ANNOUNCER: AVOID FLU GERMS---NEVER SIT NEXT TO ANYONE WITH A COLD P2- WE SEE THAT NANCY IS GOING TO THE THEATRE, BUT SHE IS CARRYING A LARGE SACK ON HER BACK P3- NANCY IS SITTING IN A THEATER SEAT AND ON EACH SIDE OF HER SHE HAS DOLLS AND STUFFED ANIMALS IN THE THEATER SEATS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 28,1963

The cover of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind includes a panel from a graphic novel.

Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration I’m participating in the Graphic Refuge book panel event with Dr Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind on 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.

This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge