Well this cant be realllloh lord it is.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

Everybody in the creative industries is waiting with looming dread to find out whether the next economic crash will be a "people are spending more on entertainment for escapism" crash or a "people aren't spending anything on anything" crash

Gather round grandpappy’s knee, children, as I tell you of a forgotten, sepia-toned, mist-shrouded time known as 2009 when those of us who wrote on the internet strived to craft a punchy lede and then wrote a preview of what would follow if readers clicked to read more.

The “After the Jump” era.

was once New Amsterdam.

Did we enjoy always being the ones to report on industry creeps? No, but someone had to fuckin do it

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

“all’s well that ends well” mmm no i don’t think that’s true

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

"open the fuckin' strait you crazy bastards"-- "a whole civilization will die tonight" -- "j/k"

we can't do this for another 3 years

OK, I couldn't help it because I used to work in MSM, and the sanewashing is a strong impulse. (I did this for Nuzzi's book, too, remember?) Here's what I'd change about Trump's unhinged post. Also: Hire me to edit your non-crazy stuff!

Really tired and frustrated watching folks talk about how a nuclear strike or its destructive equivalent to Iran would endanger Americans.

people are people. Iranian children are just as vulnerable and just as beloved as ours. Iranians have as many dreams and hopes and gifts as we do.

Even by the late 80s comics were parodying the grim and gritty trend, so Ultimatum is "we've redone Miracleman 15 from the classic story 'don't redo Miracleman 15'", twenty years on. And even on those terms, it fails - Jeph Loeb and David Finch aren't actually good ultraviolence peddlers

Oh great they stole that too

David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

To this day, I love the Chosen AKA The New Guardians and wish someone would do something good with them.

Millennium, and DC One Million, both of which share the concept “What if we did a weekly series where all the heroes come together for a happy reason and stuff goes wrong?”

Oh no, Sam Kieth. I had the unbelievable good fortune to work with Sam early in my editorial career and was blown away by both his bottomless creativity and the depths of his kindness and gentle heart. I’ve never met a nicer person in this business.

Sam Kieth did not bend for comics. Comics bent to him. I won't call his manner of drawing merely a style because that implies some level of artifice. Maybe not since Kirby had mainstream comics seen an artist with less filter between his imagination and the printed page.

I remember re-reading his Zoids stuff after The Invisibles and going, "wait. WAIT."

GMo's first draft of The Invisibles.

Some more Gil Rigoulet.

Thread on mentorship and some things you as comics creators can do to share your good fortune with others in your field.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Gorillaz Revive Midcentury Animation Techniques In New Video Directors Max Taylor and Tim McCourt break down the hybrid analog-digital process behind the band’s richly textured new animated short.

If they couldn’t have done it in the 1950s, they didn’t try to emulate it in this video. Join us way inside the handmade illusion of Gorillaz’s richly textured new video for 'The Mountain, The Moon Cave and the Sad God': www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

Just learned that Tatjana Wood died recently at age 99. Her colors on things like Morrison/Truog's Animal Man, Simonson's Orion, the O'Neill/Cowan Question, and the Moore/Bissette/Everyone Else Swamp Thing left its marks on me when I was young and impressionable. A major, unsung comics legend.

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.