this discourse is insane. "their hits are more popular than the rest of their songs" is not a take, it's a dictionary definition

The Comics Journal has an interview with Linnea Sterte by Gina Gagliano that delves deeper into Sterte's inspirations and process.

Occasionally need to repost this Astro Boy panel where Dr. Ochanomizu's butt looks like the Bernie Sanders logo.

Even when (TRISTRAM SHANDY REFERENCE) there is a marbled page, the marbling, if you look close, is made out of text, and every word belongs to a character

And sometimes they *fight*

OK BUT THEN ALSO the characters can do magic, and that also happens in fonts. Basic magic is large size AM Panama, like so

ok so I want to do two threads about @blipstress.bsky.social PLASTIC PRISM VOID and this is the first and it is about BOOK DESIGN so if you are a NERD then buckle up.

My basic positon, as the dummy who got roped into typesetting this book, is it is an amazingly rare thing: something actually new.

Like, Derek Ballard is just operating an a whole other level. This shit is sublime

The Music Video Is Dead, Long Live The Music Video (Season Premiere) YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems

Really dug the latest video essay on music videos (specifically the music videos - to - filmmaking pipeline) by @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. Insightful, surprising, and often hilarious.

Check it out - youtu.be/pQB2mvUvROw?...

saw Cave of Forgotten Dreams and those 30,000 year old cave paintings. today reading passages from Beowulf in Old English and Classical Chinese texts on Zhuangzi, over thousands of years old. so comforting in turbulent times to try to connect with long-ago humans also trying to figure out just what the hell is going on

During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

It's such a missed opportunity for this administration to have cut the public library budget in the preliminary budget rather than to have come right out of the gate making a significant commitment to libraries and using the library as a way to discuss public goods in the city.

what more can be said

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Eleanor — Alkemie

attention: new but also medieval queer opera in new york next weekend www.alkemie.org/eleanor

Evangelical leaders return to Oval Office to pray over Trump – Baptist News Global Evangelical leaders gathered around Trump in the Oval Office March 5 and prayed over him and for U.S. success in the war against Iran.

Yeah, they’ve done this several times now
baptistnews.com/article/evan...

Presidential bar mitzvah

Because @theotherjude.bsky.social is teaching a class on it in June thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

*tome, ugh

The Cultural Front by Michael Denning: 9781844674640 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced Disney animators and proletarian novelists alike, alo...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233114... I just learned about this book and I do NOT need another massive time to add to my to-read list, so I am choosing to internalize its thesis sight unseen

illustration is a cover image. on a bright red background stands a lifeless suit of armor being overtaken by a strange moss like plant that's all roses and twigs.the title of the comic is Pocket full of posies, by Ripley ash

now live! a new short, experimental dark fantasy comic about a strange new plague that happened during the Middle Ages

skullingway.itch.io/pocket-full-...

Panel of two women sitting opposite to each other in a room with a window to the sea, by DaNi & Hollingsworth, and Rucka from Batwoman #1

i like the things not carved out

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

Everybody dunked on that recent tweet about naming craters on the moon, but it’s worth thinking about the ideologies driving all the various actors in space exploration. The guy talking the loudest about colonizing Mars is also the guy most loudly nostalgic for apartheid South Africa.

I was just wondering if anybody had written about “decolonizing space,” and behold

Is there any footage of the miniatures team from Power Rangers doing all the Dinozord effects shots? I would watch hours of that

I did it! I submitted my work for the Ignatz Awards! Now to have a cup of tea and shove my imposter syndrome into a cupboard so I can carry on working on new comics! 😅

@smallpressexpo.bsky.social 💗

Voyager 1! We’re still getting science from a probe launched in 1977 but your ten-year-old Kindle can’t download books anymore.