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Shawn Gilmore

@gipperfish.bsky.social
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Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (www.vaultofculture.com), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.

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Bang Bang (artist formerly known as VicViolence) @vicviolence.bsky.social · 21h
#forbidden jelly sandwich
Jammy red quartz geode type specimens . No chew.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 23h
I ❤️ the experiments that emerge from @skeuomorphpress.org being housed in the CU Community FabLab One FL staffer has been recreating borders from a 19th century wood type catalog—the early prototypes print well & today I walked in to find a functional, tiny 3d printed composing stick! #dhmakes
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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 39m
Evergreen assessment.
Ibis looks out over a European city being bombed and declares "Civilization has gone mad!"

Whiz Comics #2

Ibis Lives Again
Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 8 pages
Script: Bill Parker
Pencils: C. C. Beck
Inks: C. C. Beck
Colors: Bill Parker
Letters: ?
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Knitpool @knitpool.bsky.social · 1h
Almost missed posting this.
Knitpool had a witch's hat and is surrounded by pumpkins and other Halloween things. 
Logan: You know it's only September. 
Knitpool:  In notgoing to let you killmy vibe, Logan.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 48m
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 34m
Building details
Black and white photo of exhausts on the rear of an academic buildingBlack and white photo a glassed-in stairwell of an academic buildingBlack and white photo of the fire escape of an academic buildingBlack and white photo of exhausts on the roof of an academic building
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 36m
Anti-AI sidewalk chalk popped up on campus this week
Anti-AI sidewalk chalkAnti-AI sidewalk chalkAnti-AI sidewalk chalk
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3h
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As well as books, posters, games and all sorts, I also do editorial illustration. Here's some of my work for the independent, (award-winning!) news site londoncentric.media Thanks to editor @jim.londoncentric.media for being a pleasure to work with! #illustration #art
londoncentric 5ghacker londoncentrictiktok londoncentricshard londoncentric
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Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social · 2h
The lead image, credited to Jeremy Brooks (Flickr/CC BY), for Sheila Liming’s “In Praise of Not Not Reading” at The Point (4 April 2017) features books hung together by string: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...
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NST #1505: "In Praise of Not Not Reading" (2017) — The Vault of Culture
The lead image, credited to Jeremy Brooks (Flickr/CC BY), for Sheila Liming’s “In Praise of Not Not Reading” at The Point (4 April 2017) features books hung together by string.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 4h
Nancy 9/30/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 3
Nancy is in shock at the sight of Sluggo’s new hat.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 16h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h
The secret to American tech domination isn’t innovation; it’s lawlessness.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 6h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h
Most TV is just this now.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15h
In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.
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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 16h
Sometimes I just wanna read a duck comic
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #31 (1960). The cover by Carl Barks shows Scrooge leaning on a sign that says "Keep Off the Grass" and very carefully using his cane to recover a money bill that is in the grass.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 15h
My Captain America and Nationalism class is reading Bicentennial Cap comics by Jack Kirby, which feature both the “Big Daddy” Madbomb and Cap watching an atomic test. Much, as they say, to consider. #comicsteaching
“Big Daddy” MadbombCaptain America watching an atomic test
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21h
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 18h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 18h
SUPER METROID NINTENDO R&D1/INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 1994 SNES
Samus, stridin'
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 18h
Bill Mantlo, John Byrne, and Dave Hunt - splashin’ in Marvel Team-Up 55 (1977).
Spidey’s all woozy, with visions of villains, loved ones, and recent events dancing around his noggin.
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Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social · 19h
A classic string board is assembled in The PrimeTime’s “I can’t believe this is happening” video (18 September 2026): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...
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NST #1504: The PrimeTime, "I can’t believe this is happening" (2026) — The Vault of Culture
A classic string board is assembled in The PrimeTime’s “I can’t believe this is happening” video (18 September 2026).
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 21h
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 21h
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Simon Gane @simonjgane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s my variant cover for Issue 4 of FOX MASK KILLER! Out in December from @imagecomics.com and @readtinyonion.bsky.social
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bluesky, the app for books
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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nancy 9/29/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 2
Nancy is in disbelief, at the sight of Sluggo’s terrible hat. She hesitantly asks him what’s up, he says not much. She questions “you sure?”
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New, Open Access book on late antique & medieval Polychromy: "This volume examines the role of colour in Late Antiquity & the early Middle Ages, exploring its use in art and architecture through archaeological, art historica l& scientific research." www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Figure 6. Detail of the captives’ trousers in daylight (a) and under IR light with Egyptian blue glowing white(b), Nicomedia frieze © Nicomedia-Çukurbağ Archaeology ProjectFigure 6. Detail of the captives’ trousers in daylight (a) and under IR light with Egyptian blue glowing white(b), Nicomedia frieze © Nicomedia-Çukurbağ Archaeology ProjectFigure 6. Detail of the captives’ trousers in daylight (a) and under IR light with Egyptian blue glowing white(b), Nicomedia frieze © Nicomedia-Çukurbağ Archaeology Project
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trying to use a coloring philosophy for the new comic similar to that of this page for Neodimio!
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@aaup.org is pushing for this.
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A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education
The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Domino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jonny Petersen has made countless zines in low print runs handed out almost at random. Even his biggest fans have seen only a a glimpse of this entire output. We are adding his work to our archive, starting off with a 2013 classic, 'A Small Adventure Story' nycartoonlibrary.org/jonnysmallad...
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt
Print featuring a stylised tree with round shape and coloured circular fruit under which a bird with blue wings and black head
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