I mean, ESAELP
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I mean, ESAELP
PLEASE
could be us, etc. etc.
Locutus musical interlude: ♫ One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. ♫
men get grace, women get blamed
I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words. "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me."
Say what you will about your belief in how real astrology is or whatever, but ask yourself "how many platforms do I communicate with the Geminis in my life concurrently on any given day?" and if the answer is more than one, well...
could be us, etc. etc.
love these birbs
Did some very sleepy (still jet lagged) pigeon scrawls whilst sitting outside the big main New York public library.
same 🥲
Just felt like re-upping this today
Oh no not the airport bookshop philosopher
Malcolm Gladwell has always been a con artist who is happy to ignore or distort the facts for his chosen narratives, so
If my napkin math about the dismal percentages of women creators in the direct market made the comic book men upset with me, wait until you see what the trends are for the outcomes of certain industry talent searches (hint: it’s not good)
like we were already fighting for scraps and even the scraps are gone 🫠
We're 8 months into 2025 and can I just say -- that along with everything else -- the vibes for creators (esp those of us from marginalized backgrounds) are RANCID and I am o v e r it.
I am so sick of women being collateral for men's stories
okay but now I need to write an Emma-Logan-Jean-Scott retelling of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
“Again?!” 😅
I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...
To whit:
Same. To me it just telegraphed who is making this and who they’re making it for
If my napkin math about the dismal percentages of women creators in the direct market made the comic book men upset with me, wait until you see what the trends are for the outcomes of certain industry talent searches (hint: it’s not good)
It’s exciting to see current comic artists doing pieces of art for the movies, but it’s been discouraging to see how much of it skews so male-centric
Nicola Scott is RIGHT there, though 😓
it would be really cool if men didn’t hold you to the standard of being exceptional when their baseline of professionalism is making exceptions for their friends
I have this
don't use worldbuilding as a replacement for plot and character development. instead use it as a replacement for interacting with other people and forming healthy relationships
I think they should still release the Epstein stuff even though the president died
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Thinking about it, honestly? The root to a lot of reactions to romance in general is people just thinking that women, especially woman they don't like, are stupid.
helms bakery, culver city, california, 1977
These three words will drive her crazy! “In select theaters”
Quite frankly, I'd rather trust people who are willing to admit they were wrong in the face of new knowledge, advancements in science, etc
back in 1947, there was a book called All-Negro Comics #1. It was the first comic by and for black folks, and thanks to the efforts of @chrisrobinson.info & crew, it's coming back from Image Comics this fall. I wrote a little bit about it. I'm very stoked. essays.iamdavidbrothers.com/2025/09/dont...
Started without any idea for a title of this thing and now I have… [checks notes] 25
We now take you live to the Trump press conference, already in progress
really hate when writers I want to follow launch exclusively on substack in the year 2025
can starship windows open
comic book men:
Incredible. 10000000/10
BWHHAHAHAAA OF COURSE!
I KNOW! I loved the explicit Columbo references in the Theroux episode, too (outside of the entire episode structure of the series and title sequence)
enemies to lovers at its finest!
great, now I have an etymological basis to ship Logan and Emma
The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.
This history of fascists using Jews to enact fascism (and then blaming us for it!) is long and disturbing, but it helps to remember that this is far from the first time it’s happened. Maybe listen to us when we tell you it’s happening this time.
I worry about saying this because I really don’t want people to tune out when Jews talk about antisemitism. It’s real, it matters, and it’s the canary in the coal mine. That’s why the right is trying to weaponize it and/or make it meaningless. Don’t stop caring. Just consider the source.
A really really great reason to use ALT text is that any words you use in them gets included in search results!!
Nepotism? In publishing? Groundbreaking.
PRETTY WOMAN & TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES went head to head at the box office in March of 1990 and even had newspaper promo ads referencing each other.
Cecil💗!!!!!! I LOVE FEMALE FURIES, this is SO COOL, our book never cease to make proud 🥹💗💗💗
"Don't be so bitter." G?d forbid a woman embodies the robust flavor profiles of coffee and sophisticated cocktail ingredients
anyway if the cool comics fellas don't like me because I've been more vocal over the past couple of years about how uncool my experience in comics has been sometimes because I'm not a fella, I'm okay being disliked for being my girlie self
These three words will drive her crazy! “In select theaters”
too much posting on this website about posting on websites. you should be posting about the extra Cat that only appears to you during your tenth viewing of CATS (2019)
“I don’t like Bluesky in 2025 as much as I liked Twitter in 2015” Tell me about it man, from an evolutionary perspective my people are supposed to be posting song lyrics in AIM Away Messages but here we are
So happy I got to see the Kirby exhibit @skirball.bsky.social and was chuffed to have the Female Furies I did with @adrianamelo.bsky.social noted in the Kirby Interpreted section! I hope you’ll read our book FEMALE FURIES which is in direct conversation with Kirby’s Mister Miracle issue 9
"... This is crime comics at their finest." - @juleschingreene.bsky.social (@popversesays.bsky.social Staff Writer) Preorder DTP #1 before FOC on 9/15! The clock is ticking! bindings.app/read/2Ff3kNs7
You should talk more about the things you love. Especially online.
So long, august
I practice pluralistic Blueskyism these days
Modern Blueskydox was my background, now I’m more Blue Egal
Sure, I was RAISED Blueskyist, but these days I'm lucky if I log on for the High Bluidays
"Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders" "Ba de ya – why does our band have all these members?" "Ba de ya – too much Drakkar might overwhelm her"
this feels like a math problem: if rudy was traveling southbound on the highway and flagged down by a domestic violence victim, why was he traveling northbound when he was rear-ended by a teenager? www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
If computers weren't invented Spielberg wouldn't make Ready Player One, he'd make an all dog parody of Battleship Potemkin where the baby in the stroller would be a poodle. Just one of many things this accursed tech ruined for us. It also made you read this joke. Sucks.
"Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop."
TURN BACK NOW ZAC SAVE YOURSELF
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I know there are a million writers and artists who want to be able to speak publicly about this, but due to the power dynamic of the publisher in question cannot. Jobs in comics are already hard to come by, let alone livable page rates, so if you can speak up, please do.
THIS. I haven't worked at Marvel in a long time, but I am still very much working in comics. Enough has already been said about how insulting the newsletter is to creators, but the power dynamic at play to even remark upon it is incredibly distressing.
the desire to be loved VS the mortifying ordeal of turning on notifications
I’m gonna teach you guys a really useful phrase: “My bad, I don’t know what I was thinking. Deleting this.”
In human history, this has been done zero times.
And they're conflating a lot of different uses... what they're using as examples are not all the same thing!
Of course tom brevoort used AI to make a damn fedora
It's FUCK Ai, but y'know what it can probably do a lot better than "create art"? Manage or "edit" a project; respond to emails in a timely manner, act as a go-between when compartmentalizing communication between collaborators (for some fucking reason), abstain from giving arbitrary notes...
ANY
Post as if you never want to become a site’s main character.
I also will do whatever my editor asks, format-wise!
I totally get that. Panel numbering is more important, but I just aim for legibility and reference as much as possible and typically there will be an adjusted document that matches with the final art before sending it on the the letterer. But this format helps me keep track of that, too
My hated followers are suffering from blueskyism
Hey, kids! Plagiarism that hastens environmental destruction is fun!