Back up your files. Not saying this because I learned the hard way recently, but it did in the past and it was bad. Back up your files.
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Back up your files. Not saying this because I learned the hard way recently, but it did in the past and it was bad. Back up your files.
Happy Labour Day from Peanut Butter, enjoying what remains of summer sun. I meanwhile need to clean the studio.
One of the greats and a personal favourite. I remember his Dracula scaring the pants off me, then heβd be drawing Howard the Duck. Just brilliant at everything and gorgeous pencils.
Hypothetical question: if youβre watching a film and your adult son comes in the room and looks at the screen and almost immediately asks βis that Killdozer?β and he is correct: is he a victim of child abuse?
Thanks to back to school season I started a cheap trial of Crave so Iβm catching up on Shoresy (hilarious) and watching some movies. Currently rewatching the creepy coming of age love letter to Buffy and the teenage imagination, I Saw the TV Glow.
Not all kids have those options. Book bans in schools are never good.
Back on my bullshit using a modified @hotdogsladies Hipster PDA for daily to weekly task tracking. Along with bullet journaling probably the method that has kept my attention long enough to stick for a while. My modification is to use blank playing cards w/ art board dividers instead of index cards.
Tim Meadows on Peacemaker? Hell yeah
AND ANOTHER THING Every single fucking article about AI uses pictures of goddamn robots. You know what "AI" looks like? This. This is your "AI." Rows and rows of this.
Such a big tough man lol
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Yup
So much great work since, happy anniversary
Disgusting. She is a traitor.
New Strange New Worlds is amazing as always, we are so spoiled with this series. Make sure you watch after the credits
Glad to have them!
Gotta make a plan for this fall and finally turn my life around. First, khakis
Good
We need to provide everyone with a guaranteed income that covers lifeβs necessities. To do that we have to break the power that wealth has over our democracy. There are other utilitarian and accommodative redistributions we should also do as opportunities arise. jacobin.com/2025/08/luck...
Watching the latest Alien: Earth, itβs so creepy and good.
And we have the right to put down tyrants chucklefuck
Today is the birthday of my favorite comic book writer, the very gifted Otto Binder (Aug. 26, 1911-Oct. 13, 1974). Cocreator of Mary Marvel, Supergirl, the Mighty Sampson, Kid Eternity, Krypto, Brainiac, the Legion of Superheroes, Black Adam, Lucy Lane, Tawky Tawny, & many more.
I suspect Jackson was a chemical brain amateur compared to Trump
Free post on the Patreon, finished up the first βsuitβ of my Low Value Targets cards. www.patreon.com/posts/137401...
I suppose they could put it back on the shelf but whatβs the point, we wonβt buy it
Good thing thereβs no crime they could be investigating
One of my favourite jokes from How I Met Your Mother was Ted saying βthatβs a problem for Future Ted!β then it cuts to a future scene where he says βdamn it, Past Ted!β
Same, but Commodore Vic-20
Little did I realize as a kid watching Harvey Kurtzman animations and Alex Toth designer animations how much they would influence my life and career, such as they are
Super weird in Dartmouth suddenly, water is falling from the sky?!
Post a comic in your personal top 5
Putin Khuylo. Trump Khuylo.
Also, Marvel, for $125 US per volume I think you could have thrown the X-Men/Micronauts miniseries and post New Voyages appearances in. Come on bros
I completely missed this pinup collected in the recent hardcover reprints of Marvelβs Micronauts comics - pencils by the late great Butch Guice and inks by Mike Mignola! The same volume also includes 2 instalments of Sword in the Star, a very Heavy Metal series by Mantlo, Craig Russell, and Giffen!
Dangerous Visions Ed by Harlan Ellison
is it too soon to do a crystalline entity cosplay
(Nods) With my mind on the patriarchy And the patriarchy on my mind
I may be misremembering but I feel like the concept of lesbians was touched upon somewhere in Snoopβs discography
Fuck off
Watching the first episode of the original Six Million Dollar Man series (after the pilot movie). Produced by Harve Bennett! Directed for some reason by Jeannot Swarc!
Thanks.
As soon as I can!
We want to hear from the Ghislaine victims, not the fucking pedophiles. #IBelieveTheVictims
I think it's a matter of taking the time to learn a new mode or art style, the way the old guys like Wood or Kurtzman had a funny animal style, a real world style, a "big foot" style etc. You can develop the look on paper and then just start doing it digitally.
What do you think about starting a group hang online where ppl drop in, hang out, talk about projects in progress, get peer support etc?
Spending a late summer afternoon getting fried with a potato at bridge terminal while I wait for the 51A.
End of an era, my two younger kids are moving to NB with my ex, who has a good new job. I wonβt miss visiting the house they moved into when she left but I already miss the kids deeply.
There are some mediocre male athletes who will be out of major league jobs when we finally eliminate the last barrier in sports, gender.
Goals
I wouldnβt trust their tech these days either.
This shirt on the bus today made me laugh. Help Vegas indeed!
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
rather than trying to maintain the already shaky status quo of illustrators being kept in precarity i think all figurative artists should start demanding ubi and imagining genuine post-work futures. but alas
He defeats Tubbs with a sick synclavier solo
So proud (cc @blankcheck.bsky.social )
The TV series? Banshee is much higher quality in every way. But Champagne and Bullets does have Wings Hauser spouting some of the most insane coke-scripted dialogue youβll find this side of an 80s Stephen King novel
Watching this weekβs @hdtgm.bsky.social movie, Champagne and Bullets, a vanity project by a lawyer who wanted to make softcore porn fused with an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. It is truly one of the most insane films I have seen in a long time. Goes in the basket with Fateful Findings, Birddemic.
Thank you to all the fire fighters from across Canada who have come to help with the Long Lake fire in Annapolis County #NovaScotia and thank you for all the water bombers and helicopters, help has come from almost every Province and even the Northwest Territories. #ThankYou #FireFighters π₯ππ§βπ
I still havenβt tried to get through The Irishman and itβs been years since I last saw OUATIA, perhaps Iβll try this
Space X should just change their name to ACME at this point
Because thatβs what the interns are told to request in their query strings
Me: thanks for saving me again, Mr. Bones :3 Mr. Bones: you suck at this game, stop calling me
Definitely, big fan of the quick and messy first draft a la Stephen king
More Stephen Chow on this morningβs HK cinema rewatch: FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL from 1991.
Surely a Triple Triad spin off canβt be far behind
No dick is too small for trump to trip over
They make Final Fantasy ones now, I may have to dive back in
Back spasms you say? Sign me up!
You must not talk to many Magic players
Hooray!
Checking out the Devo documentary on Netflix, good stuff.
Florida can eat a diiiiiiiick
π¨π¨π¨Bisan from Gaza has called a global strike tomorrow - Thursday, 21st August π¨π¨π¨ This means: - SPEND NOTHING. - Don't attend work if possible. - If you must - WFH or walk or cylce there. The ruling class only understands one language: profit - or lack thereof. Do your bit. βπ½ #FreePalestineπ΅πΈ
Indeed, if anything we should be kicking the Catholic Church the fuck out of Canada until they have compensated their many victims. Signed, an ex Catholic
Hereβs a recent free post over on my Patreon , which is also free (mostly) and you should join! I wonβt always remember to link here! www.patreon.com/posts/136808...
Yes farewell until the inevitable return
Out today: the reprint of Absolute New Frontier. This is always sold out, you always miss your chance to get one, get one now before you regret it and they are sold out again. Call your local shop and send them an etransfer. Youβve wanted this book forever
(U2 music kicks in) It's a beautiful day
This morningβs classic HK cinema entry is Tsui Harkβs A Better Tomorrow III starring Chow Yun Fat and the late Anita Mui. Gorgeous period piece (set in the last days of the Vietnam war) by the Spielberg of Asia.
Most therapists and doctors would agree with you I suspect
As Iβve always said, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king
Watching a lot of Hong Kong classics on Tubi these days. This afternoon itβs Curry and Pepper, the dubiously named but nonetheless hilarious buddy cop film starring the great Stephen Chow and also great Jackie Cheung (who you called if you couldnβt afford Jackie Chan & didnβt need the martial arts)
You doan run de Gambit cher, de Gambit run you no?
Damn Gail what did that kaiju ever do to you
Happy never hear from PP again day fellow Canadians!
Today is the by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot. It would be great to see Poilievre lose. The CPC is taking this riding for granted to parachute in their worst liability...for a guaranteed seat. I sure hope the people of the riding see him/them for the grifters they are. #cdnpoli #canadasky
Been using an app called Moongate for some months now that does exactly this (and a bunch of therapeutic audio streams), highly recommended
Today is the birthday of Trina Robbins (Aug. 17, 1938-April 10, 2024.) A writer, artist, editor, & historian, she cocreated Vampirella & helped found Wimmenβs Comix, an anthology that showcased female creators. She also worked on Wonder Woman & wrote several books on women in the comics industry.
Hell yeah thereβs a bunch of John Wooβs best HK films on Tubi. Rewatched A Better Tomorrow, rolling into the sequel
I see him as the heir to Michael Crichton and John Sayles - great screenwriters who became great indie directors who every so often would have a massive mainstream hit.
Oh and he still has no security clearance. What are we even doing
I predicted the Alaska meeting in 2017, who knew
The dude who blew a huge lead wants a second chance and is carpetbagging his way into a seat at taxpayer expense. Meanwhile heβs refused to vacate the residence of the leader of the opposition since his election defeat. A quisling who should be shown the door if not imprisoned as a collaborator.
Is it still Jack Nicholson?
I like to hang a saline IV at the drawing table
She didnβt like her new orders perhaps
Time to rewatch The Limey