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My Awesome Downtown Pad

I feel very personally attacked by Mr. Lovenstein. And somehow glad I’m not the only person who, for instance, purchases a glorious WaterRower1 and proceeds to give it a thousand cumulative and approximate ‘pulls’ over three years. 🤦‍♀️ Because he saw it in House of Cards and thought it looked sic…

Black Hole by Charles Burns

Black Hole

by Charles Burns (1995-2005)

About five minutes in, I felt like I was reading a masterpiece even though I know very little about the graphic novel/comic genre. This is some mesmerizing inking (Burns won a lot of “Best Inker” awards for this work). The panels almost look like woodcuts. It’s about teenagers and adolescence and ho…

When Does It End?

COVID Theater has become a sad thing to behold these days. Do we still wear masks? If transmission is mostly airborne, why do we get to take them off at restaurants to eat our food when droplets from a sneeze can travel in excess of 25 feet? What’s all this talk about a second booster? Is Omicron so…

Aaron Rodgers

The sentiment inside The Orange Sphere of Shit, by this genius (who is treating himself with Ivermectin.) QL made some observations: This is an incomplete pass. It’s probably unsportsmanlike conduct penalty It’s at least intentional grounding. It does no good, only hurts the rest of the team. The…

Doggy Customs

I will always let my puppy inspect everything for approval (and, usually, immediate loss of interest.)…

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes

Ice Haven

by Daniel Clowes (2005)

Birthday gift from TK. Sharp, vibrant, funny, and dark. The characters’ philosophical ruminations are self-indulgent and sophomoric and tedious. Don’t know if that was the point.…

Know Your Cephalopods

(Source unknown) TIL that (a) tentacles and arms are two different things and (b) there is a lot more diversity to this family1 than I’d imagined! I don’t mean “family” in a taxonomic sense.↩︎…

A Brief History of Corporate Whining

By Barry Deutsch, September 2009. Things are much better now.…

The Midsomar Murders

All 14 years of the show in a comic by Danby Draws:…

You Are Wonderful

By Charles Barsotti a sage of a cartoonist, who drew a lot of dog cartoons ♥️ 🐶 over his long life.…

The Secret

“Positive Affirmations don’t work when I question them, Jeremy.”…

Dog Years

By Cameron Spires.…

A Conservative Plan

By Amii James (Instagram). Context was the Tories but applies to our fine people stateside as well. Tory ministers saying “we owe it to children to keep schools open” might want to explain to me why they closed my youth centre, cut mental health services, underfunded my secondary school, stripped…

The Work of Ron Cobb

Ronald Ray Cobb was “an American-Australian cartoonist, artist, and film designer” who passed away in September last year. He worked on movies like “Back to the Future”, “Jodorowsky’s Dune”, and “Alien”. An ornithopter! But it’s perhaps his cartoons that are more enduring and eeriely relevant afte…

Fear

by @raminnazer Artist unknown…

“You too!”

Every. Damn. Time. by Tommy Siegel…

How to Respond to a Pandemic

And don’t forget to vote to privatize and abolish the Fire Department by calling their experience and credentials into question! By @ShowerThoughtsComics…

Every Zoom Call Ever

By someone at Toggl, a software company that also makes great comics… 🤷‍♂️…

Chill Midwesterners

When I see a carefree runner in I-did-not-need-to-see-that shorts in windy, 5-degree weather. By @artbyjuliet.…

A Year of Jackshit

2019 in review, by way of Mr. Lovenstein’s comics. And why not just twist the knife?…

After You Die

Ramin Nazer on some models he entertains of what happens to us after we die. A few of my favorites…

Chief O’Brien at Work

Calvin and Hobbes Wallpaper

Delayed warning shot

Hark, a vagrant archive

Life of a student