Class doodles from the @nycomicssymposium lecture on “The Comics vs the Fascists.” The righthand side is all doodles of my upcoming book THE DISSIDENTS.
keeping good company w/ Trashman, Maus and Berlin.
Thanks to Bob Sikoryak for posting this.
I also love seeing a master cartoonist using this much whiteout! It offers hope to us fumble-fingered journeymen cartoonists.
In 1942, as Block told it, he was getting chewed out by his NEA editor when word came that he won his first Pulitzer. I love that story and SO want it to be true!
Fun fact. In 1933, Herblock got his big break in Cleveland, with NEA Syndicate, which was part of the Scripps Newspapers empire. The office and comics bullpen was located across from the Cleveland Press (also Scripps) on E. 9th. Block lived on the East Side, not far where I do now!
Rich guys in a limo pass by homeless folks. "Strange how some people choose to live like that instead of choosing to be rich like us."
Herbert Block, from 1984.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
An electrician opened up an attic cavity yesterday, and I'm sorry to report that yet again no bags of old money were found.
🤣🤣🤣
Gorgeous. Hand-painted, too. No Mac, no Adobe Illustrator, no AI. Such a lost art.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
Yes, a "completely different" and far shittier Star Wars.
And the old Star Wars was godawful. There was really no where to go but up, but somehow Disney, being Disney, kicks through a hole in the floor and plunges ever downward.
I only care because of what A New Hope meant to me... 50 years ago!
BAHAHAHAHA!
They threw a bag over her head as she left Congress and dragged her off!
This evil bitch needs to wind up in an orange jumpsuit when this nightmare ends.
I just got that text, too!
My god, they're targeting cartoonists. The most at-risk group of ALL.
All Clevelanders remember the legendary pee troughs at old Cleveland Stadium. They were covered in pathetically inadequate urinal cakes, whose only apparent function was to serve as something to aim for.
This is the video I needed today!
Our sewer rates in Cleveland are brutal, because previous generations let the ancient sewers crumble w/o putting a penny into them & now we have to clean up the, well, shit. Thanks grandma and grandpa.
But our sewer dept. is hilarious on social media.
Enjoy!
Guardians fans love seeing THAT.
Bluesky now has 40M users. X has 600M. Figure 300M of those are bots. 100M more are various disinformation offices of nefarious governments (including ours). 150M are corporate marketeers trying to sell crap. That leaves 50M real people, all of whom bitch incessantly about Bluesky not being "real."
Everything has its time. The business changes, retail changes, mistakes are made. Plenty of publishers don't really deserve to survive. We also lose some that do, and those we mourn forever.
Comics has always been this way.
Here's the original art!
It's a candle he's holding, and the hand is clearer here. It's correctly drawn.
But Richardson was a visionary, right up there with the Image guys, Stan Lee or Jenette Kahn. Dark Horse books were always worth reading in the 1990s and Aughts. The guy knows what good comics are.
Dumb move by Dark Horse Inc.
Dark Horse was sold to a Swedish conglomerate, which is bankrolled by Saudi money. I assume Mike made out very well in that deal, and probably gets a sizeable golden parachute with his ouster. He also owns his creations The Mask and Timecop. So he's not hurting.
What torch?
Founder Mike Richardson gets the ax at Dark Horse. Wow.
One of the most important comics people of the last decades of the 20th century. He blew the lid off creator rights, nurtured massive hits like Hellboy and Sin City and pumped out more quality titles than I can count.
Ugh.
witch hunts
That's a magazine, outside the Comics Code, and comes 5 years later.
Recommended!
