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James Tynion IV launches new Brooklyn Comics nonprofit with major festival plans A new initiative called BODEGA aims to reshape the comics scene with a major expo, creator grants, and a push to support the next generation of artists in New York.

Big news for indie comics 🎨🔥

👀 @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and a stacked team launch BODEGA, a new Brooklyn nonprofit with a major #comics expo, creator grants, and more aimed at supporting the next wave of artists. #comicsky

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March flower patch 🌱

I’m so sorry, Sean.

Cover of the graphic novel anthology ‘Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment’ (2020, Little Red Bird Press)

Book #12 of 2026 completed: ‘Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment’ (2020, Little Red Bird Press) — graphic novel anthology chronicling women’s suffrage, warts and all. More that two dozen creators including @meggietheramm.bsky.social, @nomikane.bsky.social, @whittaylor.bsky.social

Congrats Lauren!

A regime that can only imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever, is scared to death of the power of art to document the terror the regime inflicts on its most vulnerable.

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?

ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.

I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will

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Thank you!

Thx! ☺️

Thx Mark!

Aww, thx Marnie :)

I’m so excited to share the cover for our upcoming graphic novel: The Greater Good: People, Power, and Public Health. Out 11/3 from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled $1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

Remember that exploitative and unethical clinical trial of HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau that RFK Jr. funded?

It’s been cancelled.

We're so thrilled that @whittaylor.bsky.social's Fizzle has been nominated again for Best Periodical Series by @brokenfrontier.bsky.social! We put out two issues of Fizzle in 2025, and both were great! Please consider voting!

My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers"

The covers of comics nominees in the Best Periodical Series in the Broken Frontier Awards including: Colossive Cartographies (Anthology series – multiple creators, Colossive Press) Fizzle (Whit Taylor, Radiator Comics) mini kuš! (Anthology series – multiple creators, kuš! comics) The Phoenix (Anthology series – multiple creators, David Fickling Comics) Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas (Sanika Phawde, Self-published)

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Periodical Series' include @colossive.com, @whittaylor.bsky.social, @radiatorcomics.bsky.social, @kushkomikss.bsky.social. @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social, Sanika Phawde.
Vote here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

That last sentence. A woman murdered by fascists and a child orphaned. And countless other lives destroyed. State sanctioned violence against civilians. Disgusting and terrifying.

Whoah, Fizzle was nominated for a 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Periodical Series! Thank you! Voting is open! www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

'Books are going to take longer to get to libraries': What Baker & Taylor's demise means for comics - The Comics Journal Diamond’s disintegration is not the only crisis facing comics publishers these days. The latest distribution company ceasing to exist is the venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor. If you’re not...

For comics folks whose readership is often centered in libraries, this is important. From @ginagagliano.bsky.social www.tcj.com/books-are-go...

I truly wish you had a strip. Imo your work would resonate with a big audience!

In 2026, let’s convince Mamdani to do like Sadiq Khan and invest in clean air for NYC schools!

NY is currently in an ALL-TIME HIGH flu season.

70% of households getting COVID start with kids, usually in school.

Air purifiers can drastically cut transmission!

www.london.gov.uk/mayor-invest...