My dog just won a bigger ribbon than any I’ve ever received (and he deserves it).

Firmly of the opinion that everyone should have a car book (the book you fit into otherwise empty time—waiting rooms, between errands—that you’d otherwise spend on your phone). Mine, currently, is Fitzgerald’s Beautiful and Damned.

Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory

Just going to repost this photo of my boy whenever I think the world needs it.

Richie, a golden little curly-haired dog in a purple harness, looking at the camera with love and confusion as he sits in the back seat of a car

It’s been a hard couple of days, and just in case that’s true for you too, here’s a picture of my dog.

Famously an influence on Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie. I write about Flenniken, Webster, and Clare Briggs in this, forthcoming in August:

The New Old Style - Nebraska Press The New Old Style explores how the deliberate use of cartooning styles that mimic those of the early twentieth century has paradoxically become one of the mo...

Available for pre-order now, publishing in August! The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics.

Mariners underperformed two of their first three games so I got rid of the beard and now they’re up 6-0. The universe is telling me something.

Poppleton the pig wearing a red hat, blue oxford, and green sweater. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

Poppleton the pig wearing a blue necktie, white oxford, and brown sweater with a checkered pattern. He is showing off a yellow sunflower. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: the only fashion inspiration you need comes from children’s books.

Yes, this experiment has been humbling.

Me, a middle-aged white man with a mostly gray beard, wearing a teal Seattle Mariners cap

Marking the start of a new season with a new M’s hat. Let’s see what they do this year.

I love everything about this.

Kieth was incredible. Completely singular style and vision—eccentric, beautiful, strange. Awful to lose him.

Registration for the Weird Modernisms conference opens in ONE week. In the meantime, if you're looking for info about conference registration, hotel costs, and travel to Loughborough you can find it here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Check back in one week to register/ book your hotel!

Hey MSA Members! Travel grant applications for the BAMS/ MSA conference are now open. All are welcome to apply but priority is given to advanced grad students, contingent faculty, and those without institutional funding. You can find the application on our website: www.moderniststudies.org

My elementary school did regular trips to the Cincinnati Zoo, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Fort Boonesborough. My kids’ school goes to Yellowstone, and I’m envious.

Stacked paperback books: Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life; and Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris.

Most recent three book purchases have all been doorstops.

I grew up on the Kentucky side of the river, just next to this town, and to this day I’m grateful for the fact that my elementary school history teachers took pains to explain to us the significance of where we lived.

Manchester University Press - What the dresses know What the dresses know - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of What the dresses know by Sophie Oliver

Speaking of forthcoming books, I’m exited to see Sophie Oliver’s, on modernism and clothing, on the Manchester UP website!

Proof copy of the title page of my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics

Proofs! Coming in August from @univnebpress.bsky.social

The MLA Comics & Graphic Narrative Forum invites proposals for papers for 3 panels at the 2027 convention in LA. Abstract deadline is Monday, March 16.

Hey modernists! Planning to go to MLA next year? Want to be part of this conversation? mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

The deadline is just a few days away for this wonderful CFP for MLA 2027 in LA!

Just a reminder that proposals for “Modernism in Ephemeral Print,” an MLA 2027 panel co-sponsored by @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org, are due by Friday!

Just a reminder that proposals for “Modernism in Ephemeral Print,” an MLA 2027 panel co-sponsored by @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org, are due by Friday!

Looking down at a pair of cross country skis and poles in the middle of a snowy set of tracks

We finally got snow, so a good day to take the plunge and try cross country skiing. Highly recommended.

It’s okay! It happens. But thanks for correcting!

A great review of Comics and Modernism, and a nice mention of my piece in that volume. My name is misspelled, but the praise of Jonathan Najarian’s editorial hand is entirely correct.

Child’s drawing of a “wash musheen” with tiny dots, aggressively labeled “crums,” underneath it.

My kindergartener, learning the letter U, was asked to illustrate the concept of “under,” so naturally the first thing that came to her mind was crumbs under the washing machine.