once more my favorite incidental thing when digitizing tapes: when walking cycles line up with keyframes
Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
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once more my favorite incidental thing when digitizing tapes: when walking cycles line up with keyframes
Mushroom and I wish you a great week!
It’s true—the legendary @brianmbendis.bsky.social and I met for the very first time today! 🤯 A wonderful conversation (with Brian and *all* of our terrific co-panelists) that could’ve gone twice as long. #RCCC
Tour Part Two! Watch out, Pacific Northwest!
Ahoy, #PDXcomics! I'll be on a Rose City Comic Con panel today (Saturday) at 12:15 pm! Join @brianmbendis.bsky.social, @dianaschutz.bsky.social, @davidfwalker.bsky.social, @jonhulkholt.bsky.social, @douglaswolk.bsky.social, Professor Susan Kirtley, and Yours Truly for "An Education in Comics"!
Agreed. 👍
Found on Reddit, Conrad tells me, in case anyone wants to hunt down chain of custody on this one... 🤷♂️
To quote my eldest’s partner, Conrad: “If you can read this, you’re already dead”
worst barbershop quintet ever
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass. #TheLongWalk
Wow, AP. That headline took me on quite the journey…
Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Preorder it now.
Good to hear! Hoping for a similar prognosis, myself… We’ll see!
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
ROSE CITY, AHOY! #RCCC I'll be joining this incredible panel; Brian Michael Bendis, Jon Holt, Diana Schutz, David Walker, Douglas Wolk, & Susan Kirtley; for "An Education in Comics." Expect a fascinating discussion! Saturday, September 6, at 12:15 pm. Oregon Convention Center, Room E145-146.
Leila del Duca @leiladelduca.bsky.social has filmed a video visit with Helioscope in our new location! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXe...
Trump: "We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day to the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water."
Run!, 2024 by Lorenzo Tonda www.instagram.com/tondalorenzo/
Credit where it’s due dept: I think I may have originally gotten the phrase “bad art vortex” from Don Simpson.
😂
You’ve seen the popemobile, but have you seen the Jesus semi
Tar stains on NYC sidewalk, paging @scottmccloud.bsky.social
podcast! chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Received my copy of THE NEW YORK TRILOGY graphic adaptation recently (h/t Paul Karasik and Pantheon) and it's a rich, spellbinding experience—as was Karasik and Mazzucchelli's original adaptation of "City of Glass" (which is included, of course). Highly recommended!
Maybe so, but my brother-in-law will still be calling it “Whitey Bucket”.
Cue David Lynch as John Ford shouting “High horizon line: INTERESTING!”
👋 #pareidolia
Jar Jar Barks over here
A very special movie 🖤🌹
Since taking office, Trump has halted or ended 1/3 of investigations and enforcement actions against Big Tech giants — including Meta, Tesla, and Google. These same tech companies have spent over $1.2B to influence Trump during and since the 2024 election. Everything is for sale.
Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
May she be ever-so-slightly *more* solid and unbreakable post-healing. Best Wishes. ❤️🩹
A follow-up www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Wonderful news, but a big surprise for me; I didn't think we were even eligible for 2025! 🎉
Still thinking about WEAPONS
Paco Pomet, “The Lesson” (2020), oil on canvas, 130 x 170 centimeters www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/04/paco...
I was nodding toward the so-called “butterfly effect.” Imagining my behavior—changing in this case, based on a tiny arachnid—somehow triggering progressively larger changes down the road….
In a nod to its artistry though, I did take a less linear, more winding path on my morning walk… Sorry for any resulting hurricanes, People of the Future.
Indeed. Tricky to get in focus though!
Tiny spider got in our car yesterday. Oh well, no big deal. This morning I give an audible Yelp!when I try to get behind the steering wheel to find this little Michelangelo death trap two inches from my face. Edited that fucker right back out to the yard like Pope Julius. Not in MY chapel, Buddy!
Check out Ignatz-winner Edvard's table at SPX this year! #120years #isnotime #atall
Fifty-one years ago today.
“Infinite Canvas, Finite Viewport” is me pulling together bits of the official CSS Level 2 specification with Scott McCloud’s (@scottmccloud.bsky.social) Reinventing Comics in response to a post by @meyerweb.com artlung.com/blog/2025/08... #CSS
you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗
And for @pareidolia.bsky.social! 😐
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. A conspiracy theory spouting ghoul.
How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
*at Starbucks I mean
Haha I never get coffee there. Was looking for a ham and cheese croissant
But NOW from the ridiculous in Boston to the sublime in Minneapolis… Check out the indents in the restroom dividers here at MSP, giving enough space for those of us with dicks to park our rolling suitcases *and* empty our bladders. Design so good, I didn’t even realize I wanted it until I saw it!
Oh, Logan Airport Starbucks… Pray tell; which names (beside L… maybe) belong in the *second* tray? 🫤
More dates for The Cartoonists Club tour are live with ticket links! Come see @scottmccloud.bsky.social and I in Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz in October! kids.scholastic.com/kid/books/bo...
The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith: — said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president — has neo-Nazi ties — was Andrew Tate’s lawyer — 2x Claremont fellow — wrote for Gateway Pundit — called for Pence to be hanged — called for secession after 2020 election
Me three months ago:
While I watch YouTube as I brush my teeth and wash dishes, 60% of the ads I'm getting. Denial there's any starvation in Gaza, and pro-Elon Starlink ads. I don't post much about the war crimes and famine in Gaza but it's crazy to deny the obv: various NGOs, reporters, intl observers see them, daily.
Shame on any media outlet or university that allows Trump to silence it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/trump-silencing-of-american-media
I still return their calls!
I know! *hmph*
Yeah, I figure airports don't count. :-)
🙏💜😊!
Yup! 😂
Kinda think I've spent time in *all* of them by now! 🤔 Though in the case of one or two, it's possible I didn't spend the night. 🤷♂️
I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
This is one of the most powerful pieces of reporting I've ever seen. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
I'm everywhere! 😂
It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.
This was such a fun conversation!
Good advice, though in my case, I get around it by simply *redrawing* the first 40 pages after I'm done. Same principle, but more work!
Lehrer was a huge part of my nerdy childhood and author of one of my all-time favorite lines: “You can raise welts Like nobody el(t)se” …from “The Masochism Tango” 🩶
Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
Remember: Apocalypse is a moment, an instant, an event, a time; Armageddon is a place.
When you strip away humanity
The President of the United States on the human beings of Gaza: "𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙖𝙙. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙗." Welp!
Those are two wonderful choices. 🖤💜🖤💙🖤
Love to hear it! 💜
That's a pretty epic video.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Whoah. That is genuinely cool!
Deeply sorry to say that I'm going to have to miss Comic-Con this year due to some last-minute health concerns. Maybe next year!
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Common story in those days, and fuel for later efforts like the Creators Bill of Rights.
Haha good point!
Indeed! Spider-Man's "first issue" was Amazing Fantasy #15!
Here's an interview with Starlin (now 75 year old) from just 8 months ago. I'm delighted to see he's still in great shape and enjoying life. I owe him a debt of gratitude for setting an example of how to be your own artist, even when that meant swimming against the tide.
The fact that Jim Starlin both wrote and penciled the book (w/trippy inks by Steve Leialola) was inspiring to me. It helped cement my eventual desire to write and draw my own stuff, culminating 9 years later in my own first comic book ZOT! in 1984.
I had been borrowing stacks of Kurt's comic books for a while, so this wasn't a casual purchase. I bought it knowing full well that I had crossed some kind of childhood Rubicon. Kurt and I think it was probably at Cambridge, MA's legendary @myp-comics.bsky.social shop.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY, JULY 22, 1975: The "on-sale date" of the first comic I ever bought, at the age of 15 years old. h/t @kurtbusiek.bsky.social—who was there. (and yes, it says October on the cover; that was a thing they did in those days, presumably to extend shelf life.)
Haha Nope! Just the gesture!
I bow to your stylishness!
This is from Trump's second inaugural address! And within hours of making this promise, he starts sending out masked agents to terrorize and imprison people who said things he didn't like! And the Free Press et al. simply do not care! www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025...
And yeah, hoping @mjsdc.bsky.social will be next. Enjoy his work on @dahlialithwick.bsky.social's podcast.
While most cartoonists I follow have yet to be verified, it looks like @bsky.app is being pretty sensible in prioritizing high profile accounts and those that comment a lot on current events. Rebuilding the kind of trust that the bad place so quickly destroyed can't be easy, but here's hoping... 🤞
Calling all #educomix folks attending #SDCC! Come attend this *incredible* panel at the Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians at the San Diego Central Library held alongside San Diego Comic Con! #kidlit #educomix
I *still* love her work! You can find her on Bluesky at @verabrosgol.bsky.social. PLAIN JANE AND THE MERMAID (2024) is her best GN yet, and she has a new illustrated prose adaptation of RETURN TO SENDER!
Loved this series. Back in the day I built a floating bookshelf for it.
Happy National Moth Week. I've been mothing for many years now and I love them so much.
