A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

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Holy SHIT this is incredible

I do this to an extent. If i get bogged down or stuck I will just tell myself “just type. Don’t worry about if it’s dumb or repetitive. You can fix it on the next go-round”

Ew, gross

I am now going to buy a monocle, just so I can say “as a monocled human person …”

< r/comicbooks ... Frank Quitely's Penguin is captivatin... 2k upvotes • 64 comments IsitUnderrated• 4y Right eye-fitting monocle attached to the left lapel. Ridiculous choice. ALSO: What is everyone's problem with the non-monster Penguin? Why does Devito's supercede the original regular person with a bird affinity? As a monocled human person, I am drawn to the character as he appeared before Burton. I enjoy the fact that Penguin is one of Batman's non-insane villains and am constantly rebuffed for that fact. ••• 个 -2 Cjbthgy • 4y Hopefully Mr Monopoly becomes a part of Batman's rougues ... IsitUnderrated • 4y Pennybags has never had a monocle. IsitUnderrated • 4y Thanks for downvoting my opinion and not answering my question, you fat nerds. ••• T -1

Reddit is so great

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

And here’s a gift link to the remarkable story about the FBI Director from @theatlantic.com.

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Things anti-trans policy and propaganda is:
- hateful
- fascist
- eugenicist
- deadly

Things anti-trans policy and propaganda is not:
- a luxury belief
- a difference of opinion
- a polling issue
- a matter of salience
- a distraction

RIP Frank Stack, who worked on my favorite one shot comic ever, ‘American Splendor: Transatlantic Comics.’ THE best, in my opinion, American Splendor artist.

Frank Stack, artist, underground cartoonist and revered MU professor, dies at 88 He was among the first to popularize the graphic novel and used the pseudonym Foolbert Sturgeon for his comics.

R.I.P. legendary cartoonist Frank Stack, aka "Foolbert Sturgeon"

It will never not make me sad how unknown jiri trnka is. literally my favorite puppeteer ever. if there were any justice in the world he'd be held up on a pedestal as high as aardman or laika

great popular science fiction is always weirdly horny. there are no exceptions to this rule.

Comics folks: if you know anything about the round of layoffs at Marvel today, feel free to send me a message on signal: ZRabiroff.73

Fuck target. I mean. For a lot of reasons. But this is a straw even past the last straw. Awful company.

The book Inside UPA is a visual tour of one of the greatest animation studios of all time. With its author's permission, we've shared the whole thing online for free.

Our latest issue dives into the book and UPA's place in animation history: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

Breaking:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...

Several important nuggets in here:
• Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope
• One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%"
• His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

MUST READ with a lot of new info: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Stories - The Comics Journal Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 2026) reviewed by Tom Shapira.

"Home is the sailor, home from sea / And the hunter home from the hill"
Wherein I review the new edition of Corto Maltese on @comicsjournal.bsky.social.
It's great!
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Using AI for your art references not only gives you a skewed & inaccurate view of the world, it also puts resource providers like myself & all these awesome people out of work!

Using REAL photo references is what levels up your art AND supports the stock/resource community! ❤️💪

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

An exceptional tribute to the late, great Sam Kieth by Andrew Farago for @comicsjournal.bsky.social!

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Sam Kieth, Jan. 11, 1963 — March 16, 2026 - The Comics Journal Andrew Farago pays homage to the late Maxx creator, who died back on March 15.

The Comics Journal published their Sam Kieth obit www.tcj.com/sam-kieth-ja...

handout photo of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, wearing a white button down, with flowers behind him.

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to.

Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unlike, say, Broadway the Hard Way

Comic Book Confidential (1988) Underground Comics documentary YouTube video by Val Preston

Comic Book Confidential.

Was that the one where Wacko is scared of clowns?

This was the key to MST3K’s success for many years

I always assumed it all takes place in the same universe.

Maybe they just objected to the overuse of Photoshop