(or try this if the other one doesn't open?)

www.4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

reboosting for those who missed it

(pub date of the collection reviewed is TOMORROW)

"Cool precision broken up with all-black pools of ink, dramatic silhouettes, faces lit white in noir lighting, flows of impenetrable troubled evil." 4Columns takes a close look at Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories by Jaime Hernandez--out Tuesday! https://ow.ly/uXrl50YqxIp

Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

Hey* comics people! Go read @dubdobdee.bsky.social unpacking the many layers of Locas and the lives it contains

4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

*(all together now) Hay’s for horses, ass bite!

Humble Comics Bundle: Love and Rockets and More: The Collected Hernandez Bros. by Fantagraphics Love and Rockets, Maggie the Mechanic, Psychodrama Illustrated, and more! You choose what you pay for the full Hernandez brothers library and support the ACLU!

humble bundle is doing a v good deal if it's not all been snapped up: a fairly comprehensive aggregate of PDFs

www.humblebundle.com/books/love-a...

this colossal brick of a book takes you about a third of the way into one wing of the project (xaime's) 😇

there's a beto brick due out in sept

that will get readers from 1981 to 1996 (the most recent issue dropped 3 weeks ago)

Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

here's my love & rockets review (xaime mix) for 4columns

4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

‘Looking at the billboard, we don’t understand what we face: is it a gothic ironist’s forbidden craft or the malevolent bludge of a context-collapse machine?’

Mark Sinker (@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social) on Kingston upon Thames’s divisive AI mural, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

‘Was this a commercial art blunder, lazily unpoliced, or an art prank, bad by trolling design? “There’s clearly something political about it,” the manager of a local restaurant said, “but nobody knows what it is.”‘

@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social on an unsettling mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

‘Was the mural in Kingston ever meant to be looked at carefully, even? Or was it a bogus inkblot test intended to be misread in multiple ways?’

Mark Sinker on a disturbing festive mural:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

‘Imagine a whole army wading ashore at you through the snowmelt, writhing fused limbs and non-Euclidean torsos, every zoomed-in detail a hideous AI patchwork. The chicken-dogs were even worse.’

Mark Sinker on Kingston upon Thames’s festive AI mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

(ambushed by unexpected post from professional account, sorry i wz reading skeets from political midwits i have blocked in DDD world)

i feel -- like jacques brel but unlike e.g. peter sarstedt -- he is very much identifying a bit and then committing to it

may be unfair to sarstedt who i recall a bit of a pasting on POPULAR back in the day

rolling stones day: these lads were all p silly ppl* but the noise they made is good not bad

*(maybe not charlie RIP)

lol what a skeet to append to my official professional account I STAND BY THIS TINY JOKE

nu metal > metal

(bcz newer QED)

also ogunrecords.blogspot.com with which I am especially pleased thus far!

DEPECHE MODE: Ultra (#569: 26 April 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Barrel Of A Gun/The Love Thieves/Home/It's No Good/Uselink/Useless/Sister Of Night/Jazz Thie...

many happy returns @djpunctum.bsky.social !! ppl shd all be reading all your BLOGS:

nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/01/depe...

uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com

funthirty.blogspot.com

(this is only some of them!)

its also in the USBOURNE BOOK OF VENN DIAGRAM OVERLAPS i believe

microfiche and microchips! <--- no one ever made this joke before surely

the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby")

(@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

Mark Sinker | Hello Bluesky As the microblogging site proposing to supplant Twitter, Bluesky at first ignited pundit suspicion, with columnists...

but opening that door was their job!

meanwhile here's my job, its_the_same_picture.jpg

(caveat: occasional, also some material no doubt dated): www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...

toying with the notion of blocking no one at all on this my professional thread -- like those guys in CHERNOBYL (2019) who open a door and find themselves straight into the blue hellish heart of the core meltdown

what happened to those guys? it wasnt good! they literally melted themselves!

now im two real bluesky posters

lol i wrote abt megacity one (here) vs the cursed earth (also here)

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitt...

my @4_columns review of the science fiction show at the science museum is up :)

https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/science-fiction

it me (writing abt tove)

https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson

i wrote about twitter for the LRB (where i've also written about nigel kennedy and the beano, so a pattern is surely emerging)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november/goblins-r-us