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 sick. ↩︎
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 how we see our bodies during those important formative years, as simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. The world of Black Hole is bleak, boring, and pretty horrifying. And we’re talking moody teenagers so you get to witness a lot of terrible decisions, angst, ennui, despair, friendship, love, sex, camaraderie, depression, grief, humor, violence, acceptance, and hope in a very short span of pages. Lots of yonic imagery. The author published this over a ten-year period starting in 1995 and it looks like these are almost exclusively what he worked on during that timespan. Amazing.
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 something to worry about? How bad is it really?
“We should all be concerned about omicron, but not panicked,” Biden said, emphasizing that vaccinated individuals, especially those with a booster shot, are “highly protected” against the virus.
I see. Well this is very practical and actionable advice, for I was planning on being distressed myself before I read that.
Mike Dawson expresses the mood I’ve picked up from most of my friends and family (all of whom, I’m happy to say, are vaccinated because they are responsible adults and not selfish, stupid, and insolent bloody children who are determined to make this nightmare last as long as possible because of their expertise in infectious diseases.)
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 vaxxed player would be wearing a cup (you know, because they’re actually protected).
- What makes it “accurate” is that the whole point is to hurt another person.
That’ll show 'em.
I will always let my puppy inspect everything for approval (and, usually, immediate loss of interest.)
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.
(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. ↩︎
Translated from the original Korean
By Barry Deutsch, September 2009. Things are much better now.
by @gryzlock
All 14 years of the show in a comic by Danby Draws:
By Charles Barsotti a sage of a cartoonist, who drew a lot of dog cartoons ♥️ 🐶 over his long life.
Wonderful, wonderful stuff with the TV Eras. So creative! Slightly disappointing in how an intriguing and promising Twilight Zone-like plot was resolved via a good old Marvel laser shootout1. Can’t wait to read an analysis of how it was a ‘triumphant exploration of Grief’ (which it really was.)
Or whatever. Energy Beam. Aura Projection. I don’t know. ↩︎
“Positive Affirmations don’t work when I question them, Jeremy.”
and
By Jace Avery
By Cameron Spires.
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 free school meals from my peers, tripled uni fees, demonised climate strikers…
by Marc de Wolf
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 after 40 years of their publication.
by @buttpoems
by @raminnazer
Artist unknown
Every. Damn. Time.
by Tommy Siegel
And don’t forget to vote to privatize and abolish the Fire Department by calling their experience and credentials into question!
By someone at Toggl, a software company that also makes great comics… 🤷♂️
When I see a carefree runner in I-did-not-need-to-see-that shorts in windy, 5-degree weather.
By @artbyjuliet.
2019 in review, by way of Mr. Lovenstein’s comics.
And why not just twist the knife?
Ramin Nazer on some models he entertains of what happens to us after we die. A few of my favorites
