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Comix writer and English Professor. SF Bay. Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey (7 Stories/Censored Press) adam.bessie.com

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A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

19.10.2025 22:18 👍 10026 🔁 2025 💬 279 📌 133

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

18.09.2025 16:12 👍 47906 🔁 15191 💬 1264 📌 632

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

17.09.2025 23:22 👍 61008 🔁 17653 💬 1756 📌 712
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Ch 2: How was your summer? Travels to The Kingdom of The Sick … and Florida.

Latest Substack entry open.substack.com/pub/adambess...

17.09.2025 01:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ch 2: How was your summer? Travels to The Kingdom of The Sick … and Florida.

Thanks Matt! New one out today

open.substack.com/pub/adambess...

17.09.2025 01:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ch.1: Return to the Cancerverse Thank Kismet, W. Kamau Bell, and a bagel shop

Ch.1: Return to the Cancerverse

@adambessie.bsky.social

#GraphicMedicine / #HealthHums

adambessie.substack.com/p/ch1-return...

05.09.2025 16:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I’m from L.A. We did not feel freer with your jackboots in our city. I’m sure those in D.C. would agree. Get lost with this fascist propaganda.

26.08.2025 23:48 👍 3245 🔁 518 💬 307 📌 45
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New Substack — out today open.substack.com/pub/adambess...

20.08.2025 21:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love that book! I think there’s a sequel too

25.04.2025 03:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Getting ready for #handsoff

05.04.2025 03:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm delighted to share that the March 2025 discussion with @adambessie.bsky.social will go live tonight at 8pm (Eastern). Please come watch it with others as a premiere or plan to view the link at a later time. #GraphicMedicine

youtu.be/mejANiK7ZHo

02.04.2025 14:37 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Uncivil service: meet Trump’s new bro-eaucracy | Adam Bessie and Jason Novak From the Bureau of Burning Man to the Department of Altered States, fiction is barely stranger than reality these days

I did some cartoons for The Guardian with @adambessie.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

29.03.2025 11:00 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Uncivil service: meet Trump’s new bro-eaucracy | Adam Bessie and Jason Novak From the Bureau of Burning Man to the Department of Altered States, fiction is barely stranger than reality these days

Latest comic with @hackcartoonist.bsky.social at @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.03.2025 14:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for having me on! A great interview

02.03.2025 01:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Latest interview on AI doppelgängers and education, along with my book with @peterglanting.bsky.social Going Remote @sevenstories.bsky.social @projectcensored.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

02.03.2025 01:18 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Says it all.

28.02.2025 20:28 👍 41996 🔁 9346 💬 727 📌 268
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I am Captcha: "ghost" students and the AI machine (opinion) Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI.

Opinion | I Am Captcha: ‘Ghost’ Students and the AI Machine

Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3XaL5X8

21.02.2025 18:21 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A series of three comics panels (vertical)

First reads "students are often taught to write like ai for standardized tests."

Second reads "to mechanically erase that fingerprint."

Third reads "so it's no surprise they turn to ai in our classes..."

A series of three comics panels (vertical) First reads "students are often taught to write like ai for standardized tests." Second reads "to mechanically erase that fingerprint." Third reads "so it's no surprise they turn to ai in our classes..."

This part!

@adambessie.bsky.social and @jasonnovak.com for @insidehighered.com

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

21.02.2025 17:38 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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I am Captcha: "ghost" students and the AI machine (opinion) Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI.

My latest with Jason Novak for @insidehighered.com

21.02.2025 16:55 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Awesome! They are the best

10.02.2025 03:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We need a Reverse Revenge of the Nerds, it’s an emergency

06.02.2025 03:56 👍 54 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
Numerous attendees of the 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference in Athlone, Ireland.

Numerous attendees of the 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference in Athlone, Ireland.

Coming this Monday: The GRAPHIC MEDICINE REVIEW, will be releasing a tranche of fresh, excellent articles stemming from the #GraphicMedicine conference in Ireland last summer. It’s our biggest edition of publications yet — please share and check it out!
publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/

24.01.2025 15:50 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely! Message me.

23.01.2025 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So honored to be included! Looks like a great course

11.12.2024 14:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And it’s 30% off right now! (Or 40% off for the real Heads (people subscribed to our newsletter, which you can do here mailchi.mp/sevenstories...))

www.sevenstories.com/books/4488-g...

27.11.2024 15:34 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

W/ the amazing Peter Glanting

27.11.2024 03:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For new folx: my graphic memoir
ALA Best Nonfiction Graphic Novels 2023
NY Public Library Best Graphic Novels 2023
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Graphic Medicine Award Shortlisted
From @sevenstories.bsky.social & The Censored Press
Still available!

27.11.2024 02:45 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Except from “What Comes after Post Truth?“ w @hackcartoonist.bsky.social in the now defunct The Awl. 2016.

24.11.2024 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Lesser Known Cabinet Positions,” w @hackcartoonist.bsky.social for @bostonglobe.com from 2017

24.11.2024 00:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient Egyptian comix pottery at the #rosicrucianmuseum

24.11.2024 00:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0