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Ken Parille

@kenparille.bsky.social
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College teacher of literature, children’s lit, comics, writing. Author/editor of books on Daniel Clowes, 19th-century boyhood, guitar playing. Author of essays on comics and boyhood in academic journals and elsewhere. Friend to All Cats Everywhere Always.

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Of course, The Party has public executions, too
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It’s Banned Book Week, and though I didn’t plan it this way, we are reading 1984 in one of my classes. Abner Dean art:
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 11h
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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 11h
Panel from Kariko's Adventures by Shimada Keizo in 1951, showing Kariko (the mouse that is 'not' Mickey) enter an exhibition gallery on manga history. The oldest character featured is... Jiggs from Bringing Up Father.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"... in Requiem for Gaza, Hedges and Sacco defiantly offer us a history of this genocide from the Palestinian perspective, to honor the survivors and dignify the countless lives that have already been lost." -- The Arts STL ow.ly/XLfx50ZVyrv
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Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco | Requiem for Gaza (Fantagraphics)
160 pgs. B&W | $25.99  hardcover | W: Chris Hedges A: Joe Sacco For all our modern access to information, from 24-hour cable news to countless long-form YouTube podcasts and endless half-m…
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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Wish for the Dead” from Beware #1 (January 1953), page 7. Tomorrow, we begin a new story: “Masque for a Monster” from Out of the Shadows #8!
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Alfred E. Neuman ( MAD Magazine ) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#wackypackages
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cover by Don Heck.
Weird Terror #7 (1953). On the cover, coal is being shoveled into a furnace by an evil looking dude, and we are viewing this from inside the furnace, where a hand is visible in the flames.
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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The comic takes place in the scientifically super-advanced future, yet the boy's plankton spoon looks like it was whittled out of a tree branch! I love Charlton Comics so much.
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I think they got it right on the cover
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Spinish and those boys’ faces …
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