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Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode

@mrhode

Blogger about comics in the DMV, based outside of DC. Asst editor of Int. J of Comic Art. Compiler of Comics Research Bibliography

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Your Closest Forest Gets Lit Up by a Hidden Purple Glow

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/s...

03.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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To Extract Hot Water From the Earth, a Plan to Pipe It In First

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/b...

28.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

28.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

27.02.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 933 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 18
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What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...

27.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

27.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A pilot who dropped the atomic bomb kept a journal. It’s now for sale. Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

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Archives!

26.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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T. Rex Ran on Its Tiptoes β€˜Like an 8-Ton Chicken’

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...

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A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been β€œguerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made.

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Free to read. Museums!

And a reason to keep paying for the WaPo

25.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

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Ambulance EMTs Are Routine Today. These Black Medics Helped Pave the Way.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Free to read. Medical history.

22.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u... this was quite interesting actually

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In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

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Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

10.02.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened. The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

See how the Trump administration is using AI throughout the government - The Washington Post

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09.02.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't read them for decades but I did love them

07.02.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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1/ Mike Rhode and Matt Madden discuss Matt's work and his approach to comics creation through constraints, which is the theme and content of his new gn, Six Treasures of the Spiral. @mrhode.bsky.social

31.01.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill Watterson: The Interviews A checklist of Calvin and Hobbes goodness!

Thanks to Mike Rhode (@mrhode.bsky.social), I’ve added some more interview links with ”Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson to this checklist downthetubes.net/bill-watters...

10.01.2026 06:40 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

07.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A montage of comics covers from work on the subject of 'Indigenous Peoples' including Paul Peart-Smith's 'Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation', Cole Paul's 'We See Stars Only at Night', and the Drawn & Quarterly anthology 'Movements and Moments'.

A montage of comics covers from work on the subject of 'Indigenous Peoples' including Paul Peart-Smith's 'Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation', Cole Paul's 'We See Stars Only at Night', and the Drawn & Quarterly anthology 'Movements and Moments'.

We now have a new 'Indigenous Peoples' list of comics resources on our Broken Frontier Resource Lists page. It is very much a work-in-progress as we tag past relevant coverage and we *will* do more in the months ahead to make it more comprehensive. www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis...

06.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

06.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThis Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It's Like to Create During a Crisis - SKTCHD It might seem like an unusual comparison, but for some comic creators who reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, living through Operation Metro Surge β€” the effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Securit...

What's it like to create during a crisis? I talked with members of the Minneapolis comic community like @trungles.com, @zandercannon.bsky.social, K. Woodman-Maynard, and more about making comics during ICE's occupation, the ICE Out Comics initiative, and more.

This is open to non-subscribers.

02.02.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pops of Color: Hand-Colored Photographs | Picture This The icy winter gloom has us craving pops of color. Before color film was a viable option, photographers and publishers occasionally hand colored images, sometimes in pursuit of realism and sometimes w...

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I love this in photos

05.02.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Comics Research Bibliography 2025 and Addenda available online for free If you're reading this notice, there's a good chance you're in the new 1800 page annual update of the Bibliography, on its 30th anniversary....

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Free to download

30.01.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Ghost forests’ are even more widespread than we thought These haunting landscapes, with their unmistakable gray, barren tree trunks rising like sentinels, offer one of the most startling and recognizable signals of a changing climate.

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Free to read.

30.01.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for β€˜Race Science’

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

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Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/a...

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Our Favorite Home Libraries

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t...

I'm so jealous....

10.01.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 7
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"A calming salve in turbulent political times" - as put in this new review by the International Journal of Comic Art, 2025's #TheCompleatAngler by Gareth Brookes might be a good way to start off your 2026!

πŸ”— buff.ly/5IJUxmg

#selfmadehero #indiecomics #fishing

01.01.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Free to read

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