America would not exist if George Washington didn’t inoculate the Continental Army from smallpox

If I played poker, I'd say that blinking was a tell

What a quote

Steve Gilliard!

As I've aged I've gotten the sense that the decade of zero interest rates, vast shadow banking, and wild $ supply growth have led to sloshing oceans of capital looking somewhere, anywhere for a return, including all-sizzle-no-steak assets like crypto. Wile E. Coyote wealth effect somehow goes on.

It must be so lonely sitting in your quarter million dollar RV given to you by a billionaire with business before the court, ruminating on all you've sacrificed for the principles of the founding fathers.

Wow and wow again.

This intensely edited video essay on the state of play is news junkie heroin. Unbelievably dense and engaging.

Enter the first class of Jack & Roz Kirby Award winners! Enter the first class of Jack & Roz Kirby Award winners!

What a great job Ghanbari and Soca did creating the the physical Kirby award. www.comicsbeat.com/enter-the-fi...

Check out my discussion with @brookegladstone.bsky.social (!) about Trump and Madman Theory on @wnyc.org's @onthemedia.bsky.social

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

Base cover of Concrete: Stars Over Sand issue #1, illustrated by Paul Chadwick

Variant cover of Concrete: Stars Over Sand issue #1, illustrated by Paul Chadwick

Reminder: @paulchadwick.bsky.social's Concrete RETURNS in a brand new 5-issue series, 'Concrete: Stars Over Sand', beginning on June 17th with issue #1!

More details: https://bit.ly/4tZcydo

No One Will Believe You — Paul O'Connor A broke New York gig worker is robbed at gunpoint by the world's most famous movie star.

In "No One Will Believe You," a penniless New York gig worker is mugged at gunpoint ... by the world's most famous movie star.

Published in print, digital, and Kindle Unlimited by Mystery Magazine!

#crimefiction #mystery

Opinion | Overdose deaths are plummeting. Here’s what worked. Efforts to disrupt the supply of fentanyl are paying off. We cannot back down.

Genuinely great news.

In a policy initiated in the Biden administration and continued today, they attacked the finances and availability of precursor chemicals. Street fentanyl is now weak. Deaths are much rarer.

Scientific policy works.

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You don’t expect these guys to be so online but they surprise you. Next they’ll weigh in on Lindy West.

Great essay and good to see you revisiting this point now that events are bearing out your earlier (somewhat besieged) argument. Or at least they seem to be (don’t want to jinx it!).

the way this ends in a cartoon is Iran setting up a Hormuz tollbooth and getting the US to withdraw by offering Trump personally a cut

Of course both were to some degree echoing Peter Max. More Hinge:

Highly influenced by Mike Hinge, whose portfolio The Mike Hinge Experience Steranko published.

Hinge had a moment in the seventies when he did several TIME magazine covers but I read that he died in poverty, alas.

Let me know if you need a house sitter

A well dressed and bespectacled man, no longer young, sits in the shadow below a tree and reads a book. He faces left in the picture. To his right snoozes his dog. Sunlight plays on the leaves around them.

The Favorite Place / Der Lieblingsplatz, by Carl Spitzweg, c.1840.

A 4 foot tall+ bookcase filled with old paperbacks such as 70s annual collections of fantasy and horror, Len Deighton titles, Bond novels, TLOTR, Conan & Tarzan titles etc

My recipe for a splendid holiday afternoon:

1. buy an old bookshelf for pennies
2. clear out a space for it
3. Open some boxes of old books
4. stack them while smiling

Hurrah!

Kamandi, a semi-naked blonde boy, is shown round a huge museum filled with monolithic statues of sentient tigers. Lincoln’s statue from his Washington monument is being winched into place by humanoid tigers.

Nine huge fast-moving beach bikes driven by masked creatures surprise Kamandi as he drives a much more prosaic vehicle across the sands.

A patrol of four humanoid lions are berated by their leader for mocking a winded Kamandi.

A cavalry charge by armoured humanoid tigers meets furious resistance by a mass of enraged humanoid gorillas as the war between the two continues.

Four more of Jack Kirby’s remarkable double-page spreads from 1973’s “Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth” (#4-7). Mike Royer inked & lettered the issues.

Another 2 page spread from FULL TILT.
#comics #art

How come Larry Hama and Trina Robbins didn't co-star in a tv show about fighting crime in 1960s New York?

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

🤗 🦇 🇫🇷 🦇 📚

Did not know you lived in Sweden

jacket for Francois Caradec's book "Dictionary of Gestures" over a background of B&W sketches of gestures.

Here's a gem from the archive — an illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254799...

Title: Easter Egg Hunt techniques inspired by great detectives Panel 1: Sherlock Holmes. Deduce the exact location of every egg from seemingly unrelated details without leaving your room. Send your amazed sidekick to fetch them. Panel 2: Jack Reacher Hit the garden hard and fast. Take no prisoners Get back on the road. This approach results in a thrillingly intense hunt, but very few intact eggs. Panel 3: George Smiley Meticulously assess documents, people and motives. Then scrupulously collect the eggs and dejectedly wonder if any of it was worthwhile.

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com