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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 07/10/2026

We don't talk enough about the illegal immigrants who got here in the 1600s and almost immediately started human trafficking.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 29/09/2026

Reading a short passage from my new horror book, GUTTERSPACE, out October 13 from @starsandsabers.bsky.social 🔗in comments #horror #books #reading

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 31/08/2026

Officially deleted Google maps from my phone and have gone back to Mapquest. Ditching Chrome and no longer using Google search engine either. Fuck Trump and his cult of manbaby chuds.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 20/08/2026

2/3 Closure means readers use their imagination to fill the gaps between comic panels. In GUTTERSPACE, I take it a step futher. The gutters aren't empty. Something lives there. It doesn't manifest until we open the book, start reading, and use our imagination. But it's there, and it wants out...

Image show eBook and paperback editions of GUTTERSPACE by Justine Norton Kertson. Tentacles creep in from outside the image. Text reads "GUTTERSAPCE leaks out October 13, 2026. Preorder now. Bookshop | B & N | Kobo | Amazon. From Stars and Sabers Publishing.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 20/08/2026

The first book on my GUTTERSPACE reading list that I want to highlight is UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART by @scottmccloud.bsky.social. This book first seeded the idea of GUTTERSPACE in my mind, paticularly Chapter 3's discussion of comic book gutters and the concept of closure. 1/3

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 10/10 - Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: cover art for Uzumaki by Junji Ito

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 9/10 - The Silver Coin by Michael Walsh and various writers

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: cover art for The Silver Coin by Michael Walsh and various writers

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 8/10 - The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young & Jorge Corona

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: cover art for The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young & Jorge Corona

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 7/10 - Ice Cream Man by W. Maxwell Prince & Martin Morazzo

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: cover art for Ice Cream Man by W. Maxwell Prince & Martin Morazzo

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 6/10 - The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV & Martin Simmonds

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Image: cover art for The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV & Martin Simmonds

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 5/10 - Black Hole by Charles Burns

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Image: cover art for Black Hole by Charles Burns

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 4/10 - The Multiversity: Ultra Comics 1 by Grant Morrison & Doug Mahnke

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: The Multiversity: Ultra Comics 1 by Grant Morrison & Doug Mahnke

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 3/10 - The Unwritten by Mike Carey & Peter Gross A Gutterspace Reading List:

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Image: cover art for The Unwritten by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List: 2/10 - Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino

Text: A Gutterspace Reading List
Image: Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A reading list of graphic novels that inspired my horror novella, GUTTERSPACE. I'll be talking more about each book's influence on my writing. Published by @starsandsabers Out October 13. Preorder now! The Gutterspace Reading List: 1/10 Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Text: A Reading List of works that inspired GUTTERSPACE by Justine Norton-Kertson

Image: cover art for Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 16/08/2026

A Gutterspace Reading List 2/10 - Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino

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Image 2/10 - Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 03/08/2026

The Panel by Panel comic shop has no record of Gutterspace #6, except for an old subscriber list with most of the names crossed out. Three names remain: Jim Duvall, Carmen Rios, Rowen Park. A note attached says, "Don't look too closely. It looks back." Preorder: justinenortonkertson.com/gutterspace

Evidence from Gutterspace Issue 6.
A coffee stained file folder with a sticker on the cover that reads, "Panel by Panel Customer Subscriptions 1998-2004."

The Gutterspace Subscriptions list. Most of the names are violently crossed out and can't be read. But the names Jim Duvall, Carmen Rios, and Rowen Park are still visible. A yellow sticky note on the paper has red ink that says, "Don't look too closely. It looks back."

Gutterspace cover. Text reads "Gutterspace leaks out October 13. Preorder now. Stars and Sabers Publishing.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 28/07/2026

GUTTERSPACE, a horror novella by Justine Norton-Kertson Cover art by @scribeofhades.bsky.social Interior illustrations by @theahmedraafat.bsky.social Leaks out October 13 from @starsandsabers.bsky.social Preoder now! justinenortonkertson.com/gutterspace

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 02/05/2026

My mail-in-ballot arrived for the primary. Cry about it Trumptrash 🤣

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 19/03/2026

I'm really excited to announce that "The Last Apple Tree," my climate fiction short story about grief, won the Cai Emmons Short Fiction Contest in the "Aftermath of Loss" category!

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 23/01/2026

I just published the first Chapter of my Star Trek book, The Lost Traveler, about Wes Crusher after he leaves the Enterprise. If you're a Trek fan I'd love for you to read it! www.fanfiction.net/s/14541761/1...

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 19/10/2025

Around five thousand came out in lil' ole Eugene, Oregon, including the evil terrorist Antifa Dragon!!!! 😂

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 12/10/2025

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 10/10/2025

Today's cartoon is a collage piece.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 10/10/2025

The Trump administration's scrotum with eyeballs is now trying to claim that being Jewish causes autism. RFK is a Nazi piece shit.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 27/08/2025

Some people call me a spaceship cowboy. Some call me the gangster of love.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 09/08/2025

ICE's new MAGA face masks just dropped.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 04/07/2025

Last weekend I got to play a couple extra roles for the film Space Command: The Great Solar War. One was this captain whose ship is being evacuated during a battle. Another was an off-camera speaking role as a stage manager for news channel.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 28/06/2025

If Trump can ignore SCOTUS orders, then everyone can ignore SCOTUS 🖕🏽🖕🏽

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 28/06/2025

On the set of Space Command: The Great Solar War, getting ready to be evacuated from a spaceship.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 14/06/2025

Heads up Oregon. ICE Gestapo are about to start invading communities in the Rogue Valley. Grants Pass pigs are planning to help. Get in their way, make their job a nightmare, make them afraid to be in public.

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 12/06/2025

Sound off! Where will you be rebelling and joining the struggle against the wannabe dictator and his TACO Gestapo?

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 11/06/2025

White supremacist loser chumps

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Justine @justinenortonkertson.com · 10/06/2025

Fashtrash Johnson says Gov. Newsome should be tarred and feathered because he doesn't support wannabe dictator Trump's invasion of Los Angeles. This is why I'm no longer a prison abolishing. We need prison to cage these authoritarian, genocidal Republiklan monsters.

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