It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I’m so excited this is finally in the world!
A one-panel comic by Glauco Villas Boas. A group of people stand against the corner of a wall. One reaches around the corner and uses a long stick to push open a door labeled 2025.
This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).
NEW YEARS RULIN'S 1 WORK MORE AND BETTER 2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE 3. WASH TEETH IE ANY 4. SHAVE 5. ТАКЕ БАТН 6. EAT 600D - FRUIT - VEGETABLES 1. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY 8. WRITE A SONG A DAY 9. WERR CLEAN CLOTHES - 200K 600D 10. SHINE SHOES 11. CHANGE SOCKS 12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN 13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS 14, LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT MILK 15, LERRN PEOPLE BETTER 16, KEEP RANCHO CLEAN 12. DONT GET LONESOME 18, STAY GLAD 19, KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING 20, DREAM 600D. 21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY 22. SAVE DOUGH 23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DONT WASTE TIME 24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY 25, PLAY AND SING GOOD 26. DANCE BETTER 27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM 28, LOVE MAMA 29. LOVE PAPA 3O, LOVE PETE 31. LOVE EVERYBODY 32, MAKE UP YOUR MIND 33, WAKE UP AND FIGHT
Counterpoint to Woolf: Woody Guthrie’s list of #NewYearsResolutions for 1943
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
Praise be for week long breaks from these teens.
Spending the day with my Crooms high school kiddos at District Thespian competitions. I’m really starting to love this job.
Officially deleted my Twitter. I don’t think I’ll miss that cesspit.
Abstracts for this are due tomorrow!
I'm so excited to share the following call for abstracts on Indigenous comics for a special issue of Inks. Share far and wide! Kate and I also want to make sure to thank Lisa Tatonetti, Susan Bernardin, and Chadwick Allen for their support and guidance!
Check out the link to the call here:
For those of you interested in hearing the presentation on Comics in the Digital Age, the video is now live on our LibGuide featuring
@margaretgalvan.bsky.social @retrosofa.bsky.social Josh Kopin and Bryn Ziegler at Swarthmore Library 📚
Eila Dean started VPK today! Still cannot fathom how she is old enough.
I can’t even describe to you all how much I loved hanging out with @marinaomi.bsky.social at the Comics Studies Society conference. They are great great great peoples!
A sign reads “I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”
My brand:
Weekend reading:
today’s reading
I am enjoying this platform. I wish more of my peoples were here, but i suppose minimal access is what makes it an enjoyable place to be.
Don’t agonize, orcanize 🐳
Me on this app trying to re-find everyone I've ever known and loved
“Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.” -Babel, by R.F. Kuang
Y’all, this book was astounding.