I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born
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I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born
(within these fields, my emphasis was urban and environmental history)
My PhD comps:
1. History of the American West
2. US History, post-1877
3. 20th Century Europe
written exams for all three, plus orals for the first two
my book list was about 300 books? I barely remember that part of it
A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.
a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"
It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!
the neighborhood birds were doing their bird business this morning and I had to draw something about it
www.littlebraincomics.com/birds/
The academic and publishing landscapes have changed a lot since we started this magazine. We've stuck to the same principles we started with:
History is for everyone.
Every way of doing history is worthwhile.
Historians should be paid for their work.
MESA COUNTY DID ITS JOB HERE, JARED
WHY DON’T YOU ACTUALLY TRY TO DO YOURS
A smiling cloud-like pink mascot with a monobrow and white arms is standing, arms outstretched, in a doorway.
I spotted this fluffy pink character in Miyazaki City. It’s Mokoko, the mascot from UMK News.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
you can get a copy at my Etsy store…
littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1716...
My Plowshare comic got reviewed by my favorite Grand Junction bookstore in the @coloradosun.com!
“Plowshare” is a graphic novel that packs an enormous punch. What this little book does in a few short pages brings more light to…Colorado history…”
coloradosun.com/2026/02/22/o...
say what you want about LLM’s treatment of language as post-structuralist tokens without representational referents, but I think that process kinda nailed this one
One of the best things you can do to fight fascism is to openly have fun being weird.
I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!
Record scratch sounds at 300% volume
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
today’s energy
not like I have time to do such a thing, really
I am reading a new (good! useful!) guide to doing nonfiction comics that seems to kind of gloss over history comics and I feel there might be room out there for a how-to guide to doing graphic history from someone who is both a cartoonist and a trained historian
It’s so nice that the way a person makes a shape or puts a line down on a page can still delight me so much
100 percent true
Since this site is apparently dying, I would love to get @contingent-mag.bsky.social to 10k followers before the end.
A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”
"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.
congratulations!
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
I think this is the core of it. People have been working on “AI” for more than half a century. I don’t want to concede that the tech is defined by the fascist financiers anymore than I concede that the Internet is defined by the fascist financiers. Investors aren’t inventors! Reject their platforms.
Black and white photo of a light skinned woman smiling and posing outside. She is standing next to a vertically placed log in a line of other logs, placed as if in preparation for a fence. Perched on top of the log she leans on is a shorthaired tabby cat.
My answer to “Hey do you want to go to a party with us or are you going to just hang out with Log Cat again?”
Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee