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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woke up to the news that Stevie Wonder was surprise-dropping an EP of four outtakes from "Songs in the Key of Life": open.spotify.com/album/7gzJYO... Which is a bit like "oh, 'Nine Stories' was originally going to be 'Thirteen Stories,' here are the other four..."

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Songs In The Keys Of Life - EP by Stevie Wonder | Spotify

Stevie Wonder · EP · 2026 · 4 songs

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just sang “Caravan of Love” at karaoke and have been challenged to only do “____ of Love” songs for the rest of the night

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(through gritted teeth) someone-is-wrong-on-the-Internet

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I find that list entirely accurate and would not change the placement of a single item on it.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@vetvirologist.bsky.social I really like the answer that @hotelfred.bsky.social gave in The Muppet Show #3 back in 2009:

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My first Batman comic was #321, a Len Wein/Walter Simonson banger (with García-López cover!). I loved it but it did make me wonder how desperate one would have to be to take a job henchmanning for the Joker.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy crap this is an amazing deal. Both volumes of "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters"! The first two volumes apiece of Krazy Kat, Popeye, Pogo and Prince Valiant! Introductions to both Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez! "The Frank Book"! "I Killed Adolf Hitler," one of the funniest books ever! MORE!

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Humble Comic Bundle: 50 Essential Fantagraphics Titles by Fantagraphics

Fill your digital shelves with this collection of 50 fantastic Fantagraphics titles! Pay what you want and support the Freedom of the Press Foundation!

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A fun rundown of the past 20 years' worth of NEW THRILLS. I particularly wave the flag for Zombo, The Out, Cradlegrave, and especially Brink, which started out fantastic and keeps getting better with each successive volume--ingenious concept, note-perfect execution.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Back in 1997, I released this gorgeous album in a limited edition of 100 lathe-cut copies (with silkscreened artwork by Brian Chippendale!). Now everyone can hear it! purpleivyshadows.bandcamp.com/album/whoeve...

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Whoever's South Is Northern Also, by Purple Ivy Shadows

9 track album

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I used to have students reverse-engineer a script for "Chronocops": what information do you have to provide to get the plot and jokes across in this *very* tightly structured story (a parody of a parody!), while giving an artist the greatest possible latitude to be visually playful?

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Celebrity obits are often drafted LONG in advance. I'd forgotten that I wrote (a large chunk of) Billboard's Dolly Parton obituary, more than a decade ago, until a friend texted me about it just now! www.billboard.com/music/countr...

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Dolly Parton, One of Country Music’s Biggest & Brightest Icons, Dies at 80

Dolly Parton dies at 80.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Quote skeet with a game released in the year you were born

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’d like to ask a more specific version of this question: the best-sequenced greatest-hits album whose sequencing is NOT chronological?

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A little piece I wrote for Hilobrow about the Australian country song I adapted into the theme song for "All of the Marvels"! www.hilobrow.com/2026/08/15/p...

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

(Letting someone be wrong on the Internet.)

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Civil War II is structurally super interesting and has a lot of absolutely killer tie-in issues.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is out today and it's WILD. Also, click through for Woodring's remarkable description of the book's backup feature.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saw this 1889 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi print ("Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond") yesterday, and immediately thought "Frank Miller saw this at some point and decided that the linework on the pants was the perfect inking style." No idea if that's the case, but I like my theory.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's "Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond," from 1889.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Newly rediscovered (apparently) footage of Can (with Damo Suzuki!) playing "Halleluhwah" on TV in 1971: www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Gs...

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Can - Halleluhwah (1971)

YouTube video by Beat-Club

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I was literally considering that question this morning for unrelated reasons, and very quickly settled on this knockout. STOOGES WITH TUBA. theridiculoustrio.bandcamp.com/track/no-fun

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No Fun, by The Ridiculous Trio

from the album The Ridiculous Trio Plays The Stooges

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Three of the trailers at last night’s movie included tons of reverb and minor chords added to the original vocals from a ‘70s rock hit. Future generations looking to parody 2026-style film trailers, there you go.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Traveling to Paris to attend fashion shows and draw the clothes, then rushing back to New York with the drawings so that American manufacturers could produce cheap knockoffs of them.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This may be the most irresistible pitch I've ever seen. So psyched for this.

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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Guess whats today? The coolest panel of the entire weekend!!! Come check out the amazing conversational skills of @douglaswolk.bsky.social @davidharper.bsky.social @robsalk.bsky.social and Dave Baker!!! 1PM or bust!!

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just one line? First that comes to mind is "One for the money, two for the better green/3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine."

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just thinking of one of my favorite panels again.

A young woman stares into an orange-framed hand mirror, thinking "I LOVE...ORANGE...I MAY PAINT MY...TEETH...BRIGHT ORANGE!..."

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Project I've had brewing in my head for a long while: a cultural history of this song and its connections to Bruce Conner, "Battlestar Galactica," Minor Threat, the Lockers, Andraé Crouch, etc.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have made a very silly thing; you should ask me for a copy of it if you see me at Comic-Con next week. (If you got the very silly thing I made for Emerald City earlier this year, this is along the same lines.)

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Political Song for Rosemary Clooney to Sing”

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’m going to be on this! It’s going to be a good time!

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Karaoke last night: "We Built This Village on a Trad. Arr. Tune," "Watch Your Step," "Say No Go," "X-French Tee Shirt," "Troubled Mind." My voice is a little shot right now but I feel amazing.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Whoa, these all came out 40 years ago this week! (Watchmen #2 had been the previous week.)

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@heavenlyamelia.bsky.social The grocery store was playing "Talulah Gosh" this morning. Clearly Portland appreciated your presence immensely and would like you back soon!

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Who's gonna be at SDCC? What mayhem shall we cause?

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've been trying to find out about circa-1970 pop music from various countries for a project. I keep running into a phenomenon where a song/artist is the subject of many nearly identical references, apparently paraphrased from each other, but doesn't appear to exist in any audible form.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

PSA: I made a comprehensive internal chronology for EVERY X-Men-related comic published between 1963 and about a year ago. It's 84 pages long, and people have told me it's very helpful. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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THE COMPREHENSIVE X-MEN CHRONOLOGY (beta version)

THE COMPREHENSIVE X-MEN CHRONOLOGY (beta version) by @douglaswolk (with gratitude to chronologyproject.com and Supermegamonkey, whose chronologies this draws on heavily) Draft as of 6/27/2026 This i...

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Our Fighting Forces, in the '70s, had some astounding cover art, and also a certain... lack of variety in cover concepts.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

At the record store up the street, the current #1 and #2 best sellers are the two Angine de Poitrine albums. Oh Portland.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Selling a complete reader set of Kamandi: #1-59, plus The Brave & the Bold #130 and Karate Kid #14. $180 shipped in the U.S. Beat but complete. So much glorious Jack Kirby weirdness. And check out the cover straplines:

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Think I'm going to post a handful of sets of comics for sale later today. Any requests? (Got some Kirby, a ton of X-Men and related things, a bunch of Alan Moore, complete runs of several Mignolaverse things, various long-running Vertigo titles, and much more...)

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It wasn't until years later that I saw the original "Shamed By Your English?" and cracked up all over again

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM, I'm running my annual "crazy hard comics trivia" game at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social's free BwPCon! There will be prizes! It's gonna be fun! You should come if you're in the Portland area!

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I wrote a little piece for Hilobrow about Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden's wild 1983 comic book "Thriller": www.hilobrow.com/2026/06/05/o...

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OMAC YOUR ENTHUSIASM (18) – HILOBROW

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I made this ridiculous thing back in 2019; sang a slightly revised version for my "X-Men and the Uncanny" students at the final class meeting this week! vimeo.com/379104617

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The X-Men Song

With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, Tom Lehrer, etc.

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Just taught the final meeting of my “X-Men and the Uncanny” class at Portland State. My favorite course I’ve ever taught, I think—super-enthusiastic students who built on each other’s enthusiasm. And one of them made Xavier and Magneto cake pops for today!

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