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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on Bristol

A stream of consciousness sequence drawn in blue pencil, objective images of children and other figures melting into each other mixed with more abstract imagery.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

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…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

‘nod away, volume 2’, pen and ink on bristol

A pen and ink drawing of an aerial view of a fictional airport, a small section of the drawing is shaded with hatch marks.

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A page from ‘nod away, volume 3’. Blue pencil on bristol.

A stream of consciousness sequence with numerous objects, human and animal figures blending together, winding an s-curve across the page.

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Nate Beaty @natebeaty.com · 04/08/2026

one pager about my Grandpa Ed talking to his Siamese cat Hank.

A comic about an old man talking to his cat over his morning paper. "I should get dressed and do something today even if it's wrong." "you want some gruel or what? Mighty fine pussycat." "My God cat, I almost got the paper read and you come along." "God almighty." "It's the ten year anniversary of that Indonesian tsunami." "230,000 people died." "I think the world is falling apart myself."

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Nate Beaty @natebeaty.com · 03/08/2026

Amazing strip from Laura Park in the New Yorker about the French heat wave: newyorker.com/culture/arti...

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Ma Vie en Rouge: Paris in a Red-Alert Heat Wave

One sweat-soaked American’s adventures in A.C. deprivation.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Andi Watson @andicomics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Drone pilot

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My folks lost their home to an electrical fire a couple weeks ago. My dad built it himself one summer when I was a kid & they lived there for 40 years. Fortunately they’re unharmed & getting past the shock. I’m on the other side of the world & can’t do much to help out, so I made this for them.

An acrylic gouache painting of a long house with a brick facade and a garage with yellow siding, surrounded by trees and a small decorative windmill, their schnauzer runs through the front yard. A blue sky with a few soft white clouds fills 2/3 of the vertical painting. The colors are highly saturated.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

SPX (Small Press Expo) is the official book launch of THE DISSIDENTS in fact! Attendees this year will want to check out the panel about THE DISSIDENTS, hosted by Mr. Warren Bernard, SPX head poobah, comics historian, and a guy who played a key role in bringing this book to life.

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Before you were a fascist; you were a bully and an asshole."

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Doesn’t this look nice?

A mockup of a fantastic hardcover book of comics by Mike Dawson called The Miracle. This isn’t real yet, it only exists in my dreams, but what if it were?

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maxwell House Coffee illustrations by Moebius In 1989 Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) was hired by the Paris office of Young & Rubicam to create illustrations for Maxwell House. The French magazine ads promoted four flavors of instant coffee. #moebius #youngandrubicam #advertising #frenchart #illustration

Young woman sipping coffee while walking on bamboo bridge

Young woman sipping coffee with crocodiles

Young woman sipping coffee while walking from crashed airplane

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

丹波市07月26年, acrylic gouache on board

Painting of a rural Japanese landscape, train in the foreground / paddies, river and a small village in the mid ground / tall wooded hills and a blue sky with white fluffy clouds in the background. Painted in highly saturated colors, predominantly green.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic: 🎆 A Scarry and Busy, Busy Day at Washington DC's Freedom 250 Celebration - Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including long-time member Evan F. and new member Bev Ball. JOIN US TODAY at patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership - See it right here, folks:

Richard Scarry pastiche showing cute animals doing MAGA things at Washington DC's July 4th celebration

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Reposting because they still have a ways to go to meet the goal. This is horrifying bullshit on top of a lot of already horrifying bullshit.

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING

The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

原爆ドーム, the ‘Atomic Bomb Dome’ in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park. May the hate-mongers who have seized control of our world be put in check before we repeat the catastrophic mistakes of our past.

A watercolor painting of 原爆ドーム, the ‘Atomic Bomb Dome’ in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park.

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 29/06/2026

Okay this is the last one for real, we PROMISE. Designed by @drewwise.bsky.social #dailytees theyetee.com

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.”

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”

That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/06/2026

These kinds of folks used to just become HOA presidents and stalk yards to complain about lawn lengths. Now they have the power to talk social media accounts and narc to the government about thought crimes.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol

A stream of consciousness sequence, figures in various states of abstraction, next moving in and out of legibility. Hands with eyeballs and teeth.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

ROBOT TOD 05 finished pages 14-15 up www.patreon.com/fareldal/pos...

The West Wizard’s head and right hand in the left side of frame laying on the ground saying, “I’m tired of feeling like this. Why can’t I desist getting so agitated and upset?” The wizard is surrounded by cute and ugly little critters.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A page from ‘nod away, volume 1’, pen and ink on bristol. Ho ho, hoo hoo.

A deity sitting in the clouds in a black sky, one large eye for a face, lots of lines moving outwards from the eye, a mouth that looks like fingers, liquid pouring from the mouth. This description doesn’t really do it justice, but there’s a lot going on. A male figure with long hair and a scraggly beard rides in a craft in the black water below the deity. The words ‘HO HO, HOO HOO’ are written in the sky in large block letters.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

a comic for good dads (1/2)

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol

A cropped comics page, a few panels of a woman wearing an augmented reality visor.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2026

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

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AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is helpful in practice because it lets you eyeball how to place characters in the extreme foreground based on their height in relation to the characters in the scene, if they’re about the same height, they’ll intersect the horizon at about the same part of their body

Three Kiryus standing on the grid, with a person’s face in the extreme foreground

The foreground character scaled to show how tall he would be if you moved him forward in perspective based on where he intersects the horizon line, which is about up to Kiryu’s waist

The character in the extreme FG drawn with his hips intersecting the horizon at the same height the various Kiryus are

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Energy-hungry data centers are consuming electricity, water, and land at scales that rival entire countries. Our hidden gem of the week maps how the AI boom deepens the digital divide and reinforces ecological colonialism. By Miriam Aczel et al. at @ununiversity.bsky.social buff.ly/XwjCo9Y

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you wanted to go buy something from my store right now, it would be VERY appreciated - I'm dealing with wrapping up my mom's hospital + rehab + home care stuff and it's gonna be $$$$ theartofcoop.bigcartel.com