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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 28m

All species of Mousebird now have native territory only in Africa.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 19h

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 1h

thank you pope

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 17h

9/30/26, Somerville, MA -- The War on Halloween has begun.

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We're number one!" Paul Szep on defense spending and domestic cuts, September 1973.

Cartoon shows a giant in military uniform, holding a gun labeled "defense spending." The gun has a cork on a string, with the cork labeled "keep America strong." In the background President Nixon is swinging a club with "domestic cuts" written on it at a civilian.

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A while ago I got asked by a newspaper writer to comment on the weirdness of Steve Ditko's artwork. He used pretty much none of my response... but I posted it on my blog. Check it out, Ditko heads! #Ditko #Comics www.benzilla.com/?p=8080

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Why is Steve Ditko’s Art so Weird-Looking?

I recently received an inquiry from a writer at the Daily Telegraph, asking me a few questions about Steve Ditko’s art style for an article he was working on–presumably to coincide with…

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My first experience (in my then-short life) of a series I loved getting the axe.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They invoke maximalism to inspire panic and call us crazy. And they want to jail Anthony Fauci for daring to navigate us through the worst of it.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He should spend some of that money on a decent shrink.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love comics. I make comics. I don't have time, though, to READ all the comics. Or even know all the comics titles that are coming out. Please be kind when I tell you that I dont even KNOW what's on TV any more. Considering that there are 100 channels or more these days....

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/09/2026

I've been on the internet a very long time, and I've had more "what on god's green earth are you even talking about" moments in the last 2 years than in the previous 20. Just absolutely baffling non sequiturs, straw men, logical fallacies, malicious misconstructions, you name it. We are unwell.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He sees no worth in "God's country" unless Man can profit from it.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why do I get this feeling that this piece is as relevant today as it was in the 1970s?

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Rod Dusi @roddusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People have been anthropomorphizing computers since computers. But now it’s responding like a human by design. Don’t refer to it, and instruct it to not refer to the itself, in the first person - sage advice. And if you need to curse at it, call it Dario, Sam, Elon, or Demis.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist. Ham Fisher (Sept. 24, 1900-Dec. 27, 1955). He created the comic strip Joe Palooka, which was adapted into a radio show, films, comic books, and a tv series.

A black and white photo of Fisher drawing Joe.

A Joe Palooka comic from when he was serving in WWII. He is firing a gun at Hitler's feet, forcing him to dance. Hitler is shouting "Haf a heart, Joe! Mine goose step ain't vot it used to be!"

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HE’S NEKKED!!!

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Terrible, terrible news. Gone far too young...

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One thing I've always admired about Xenomorph art is the rendering of texture.

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Drawn in 30 seconds #Trump #MAGA #TrumpArch #KennedyCenter

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm belatedly posting a plein air painting I made on 8/18 with my New England Watercolor Society colleagues, this one done at the Gardens at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA. Waaay at the back, beyond the decorative gardens, is a vegetable garden with corn & pumpkin. Thus I call this piece "Two Sisters."

"Two Sisters", plein air watercolor at the Garden at Elm Bank, Wellesley, MA, 8/18/26.

Photo of the scene painted in "Two Sisters", Garden at Elm Bank, 8/18/26.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Will Elder (Sept. 22, 1921-May 15, 2008).

A photo of young Will acting goody. He is sitting front of drawings of wings and a halo and making a silly face.

Mad #5, with a cover by Will. When it was still a comic book, about two years away from becoming a magazine. There is a private eye named Kane Keen sitting on his desk. His face is covered in lipstick from kisses by the redhead holding him in her arms. The cover is filled with of the sort of details he is known for. There are several monsters in the room, including one who looks like she is going to give him a manicure but is about to light his fingernails on fire. There is also a body in the floor with several knives sticking out and an axe in its head. There is also a hangman in the back holding a noose, and there is the body of some goulish woman hanging from it.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How will we "admire" the lovely arch? Or is that how they'll keep us from pissing on it?

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will Fox, which walked out in solidarity with CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO, be next?

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My eighth Blaster Al Zoom reading of 2026 is this Sunday, 27 September at 8 PM EDT: the article of lasting interest, “Eat Yourself to a More Powerful Memory!" Sign up on EventBrite, and I’ll send you the Zoom link the day of this FREE reading! www.eventbrite.com/e/september-...

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September Blaster Zoom reading: “Eat Yourself to a More Powerful Memory!”

E. J. Barnes gives her 8th Zoom reading of 2026, Blaster Al Ackerman’s article of lasting interest, “Eat Yourself to a More Powerful Memory!

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Holy crap, this is disturbing. Good thing the GN version of The King In Yellow I read some years ago never actually pictured the King.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I used to tell my Cartooning students that fine artists look down on illustrators, and illustrators look down on cartoonists. They would ask who cartoonists look down on. "Pornographers," I'd reply Of course that's an oversimplification.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I didn't know Annie Besant did illustration. But of course it was of her own ideas. I will say no more; those who know the history of the Theosophical movement will understand all.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Creepy AND colorful. An interesting balance.

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cartoonist: Dave Granlund

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Columbine @redcolumbine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This isn't just a war on Thanksgiving, it's a war on Hallowe'en.

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Bill Day @billdayart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

JFK MEMORIAL What it is really about

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My quote of the day Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, I like liver and onions. Make it boiled cauliflower.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My alma mater is no longer a research university, they're a money pipeline to the techbros who are financing fascism.

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E. J. Barnes, Illustrator @ejbarnesart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tezuka was Tezuka because of his deep knowledge of Disney and other "Western" cartoonists. So of course he knew about the ZZZs -- it's not like the letter Z is in Japanese writing.

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