Doing something cool in the digital world. Fundraiser for two causes
So, so happy to be collaborating with Nikita Chadha and a joy to be working with Get In Her Ears
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Four (4) little write-ups from me on @comicsbeat.bsky.social’s wonderful Best Comics Of 2025 list
• Ancestral Recall by Jordan Clark & Atagun İlhan
• Dimwood by Richard Corben
• Mafalda by Quino
• Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy
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Yooooooooooooooooo! Ancestral Recall ( @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social ) is one of @comicsbeat.bsky.social 's best comics of 2025. This is an incredible honor. Thank you so much to @thsheridans.bsky.social for the love and to all the readers who supported us.
It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.
The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025
The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.
Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!
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I vividly remember a talk we hosted at Orbital where someone asked (pleaded with) Trina Robbins, “But wasn’t there something clever and subversive about the problematic stuff in Crumb’s work?”
Robbins replied with a simple and unequivocal “No.”
I am respectfully asking people not to platform Joel Meadows / Tripwire magazine. He has made clear his support for Israel's actions, as well as his contempt for people who are appalled by Israel's actions in Gaza and beyond. I am hoping there are others in the comic community who feel the same way.
(stray late night thoughts🌃✨)
Joni Mitchell’s Shadows And Light comes to mind (partly because autumn is Hejira season for me)
S&L pulls together the previous three studio albums and integrates the songs into a new whole via the shared sound palette & aesthetic
Thinking maybe a live album where tracks from different albums sit alongside one another to produce a new & coherent thing
Reminder that I run a comic book website called @shelfdust.bsky.social and it’s full of weird and unique essays about comics. I’d love for more people to take a look! www.shelfdust.com
Enquiring minds wish to know!!!!!
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!
Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
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Delivering a rare slice of comics journalism:
I spoke with @jrsosa18.bsky.social about Black art and Black history in a time of erasure
I’m really glad for it to be a public conversation
I also love when an artist makes the thing they really mean to make, and ANCESTRAL RECALL is absolutely that
Yes it was a major UK newspaper, why do you ask
Just seen a piece promoting Jung Chang’s new book. First sentence does an orientalism
Yeah this. I’m also like, let’s all be wary of buying into justice-orientated takes & articles from people who are still referring to a genocide as a “war”
Cheers, Andy!! I appreciate you having me. It’s a great series✨
I am glad to go on record calling this thing what it is
And I’m grateful to @andywpoliver.bsky.social for being someone who is unafraid to harness @brokenfrontier.bsky.social as a space for unequivocal, values-driven advocacy
If you've written for Shelfdust before and you're thinking "I'd like to write about comics MORE" then please get in touch with me! I'm looking for essays to add to the site from October onwards....
Like everyone, Baldwin is not above criticism, but this was gossipy trash designed to discredit
It’s The New Yorker’s right to publish it, and it’s mine to call it hateful and ugly
Begins by calling Baldwin uncharismatic(!) and ugly(!!), goes on to reproduce some of the homophobic criticism he received in his lifetime, and concludes by repeating alleged petty misdemeanours by Eric Garner and George Floyd as context for their murders
Absolutely vile piece in The New Yorker recently by Louis Menand on James Baldwin
Bad news: you’re not immune to propaganda, bias, or perpetuating harmful -isms.
Good news: Once you accept this, you can reject harm & join liberation movements!
It’s not too late to put on an n95. To oppose genocide. To divest from fascist corps. To demand climate action. To protect trans people.
Bolan🖤🖤🖤
I don’t know how to say this in a way that isn’t cringe or soppy, but if there is a single name that should be associated with an Eisner win for comics journalism, it’s Heidi MacDonald
I am so, so moved to be part of this one
Some beautiful sentiments in this thread, and a reminder to look beyond the outer edges of horror
