Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Soviet Land: I wasn’t familiar with this book, or Pierre-Henry Gomont, but I had a fantastic time. Gorgeous and very well conceived and realized. Definitely worth your time. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...booklistonline.comBooklist Online: Leading Book Discovery 020 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I Am Their Silence by Jordi Lafebre: A book I’d been looking forward to, and a beautifully drawn, breezy murder mystery. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...booklistonline.comBooklist Online: Leading Book Discovery 120 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I didn’t want to talk about it until it was actually happening, but I’ve begun reviewing graphic novels for Booklist. My first reviews, of Soviet Land and I Am Their Silence (linked below) are out now in the February issue! (Spoiler: I really liked them both.) 191 0
Reposted by Harry KassenHarry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025It’s that time again. Another ComicConnect auction means another Comic Art Live stream where we talk about the highlights. Come join us at 9 PM EST. www.youtube.com/live/C7BAEK-...youtube.comComicConnect Event Auction #64 PreviewYouTube video by CAF+ 062 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025It’s that time again. Another ComicConnect auction means another Comic Art Live stream where we talk about the highlights. Come join us at 9 PM EST. www.youtube.com/live/C7BAEK-...youtube.comComicConnect Event Auction #64 PreviewYouTube video by CAF+ 062 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025It’s like people say, there’s a first time for everything. 072 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Does anyone have any familiarity with early Family Guy episodes who can help me out with a work thing? 110 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025More bookbinding tonight, including some timely repairs on a classic. 060 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Hey, really nice running into you as well. Hope to see you at another show soon. 110 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Thanks, Eric. I botched a couple things but as a prototype I’m pretty happy with it. 020 0
Reposted by Harry KassenTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The thing about the crazed influencer doing a selfie video while everyone else is fleeing and then tainting the crime scene is that THIS IS WHO THE TOP TWO PEOPLE AT THE FBI ARE, TOO 5850163 0
Reposted by Harry KassenMike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity. 26470801791 0
Reposted by Harry KassenJohn Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin doesn't come out until November here in the UK, but I think I'll pre-order it and put it away as a Christmas present to myself. Perhaps you'll consider doing the same. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/blac...uk.bookshop.orgBlack Flame a book by Gretchen Felker-Martin.A queer horror novella about the occult, cult cinema, queer desires and other things left on the cutting room floor. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Cassandra Khaw. From the USA Today bestsellin... 12613 0
Reposted by Harry KassenJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/09/2025I'm so glad Josh Shapiro held the flag at half-mast for this noble protector of the Jewish people 07624 0
Reposted by Harry KassenErika Price @erikapriceart.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...bookshop.orgBlack FlameCheck out Black Flame - <p><b>An instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller!</b><br><br><b>One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in </b><b><i>Black Flame</i></b><... 7461321 0
Reposted by Harry KassenK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Pure cowardice, and sadly not the first example of this we’re going to see. 112924 0
Reposted by Harry KassenK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025DC Comics Cancels “Fourth World” Line After Creator Jack Kirby Admits To Killing Nazis In WWII 1354117 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025He was doing all of this anyway. This basically changes nothing, except we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk whining about it anymore. 100 0
Reposted by Harry KassenAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025on a practical note, gretchen is now out about $1400 a month (DC’s opening page rate is still $70 for writers, yeah?) so please go buy her books (MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME) and—very important!—leave short, *glowing* reviews about them online to help with the algorithm 6304128 0
Reposted by Harry KassenMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk. 12262531091 0
Reposted by Harry KassenThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Wish the news outlets and baseball teams (lol???) rushing to eulogize a D-tier right wing mouthpiece would include some of their favorite inspirational quotes from the guy. Should be easy, right? Show me that soaring rhetoric and big thinking worthy of such veneration 81112259 0
Reposted by Harry KassenFraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This is disgraceful. We all know Trump and the American right's views on free speech and that's they want to decide who this right applies to. The race to legitimise this perversion by major American institutions is appalling appeasement that leads nowhere but the gutter. 1235 0
Reposted by Harry KassenThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Cowardly publisher. 6803123 0
Reposted by Harry KassenJohn Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 11/09/2025"We must all be free to debate openly and without fear" is a HELL of a stance to take less than a week after having hundreds of peaceful protestors arrested for saying "Palestine Action." 15422 0
Reposted by Harry KassenRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I will never get over how he said Nothing when Brianna Ghey was murdered 7719157 0
Reposted by Harry KassenAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025A.) you knew who you were hiring b.) cis-male creators and editors have said and done significantly more out of pocket shit and faced zero consequences, and c.) all this is in reaction to a guy who was rudely, aggressively, vocally for other people getting shot…getting shot! 1303 0
Reposted by Harry KassenAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This is bitch shit, man. 1438 0
Reposted by Harry Kassenhermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 11/09/2025this is soft, dude. this is really, really soft. a few years back, Frank Tieri threatened another critic and myself with violence, directly, at a comic-con over Batman opinions. That dude kept his job. He slid into my DMs with a fake apology. C. Kirk called for extermination. A joke didn't kill him. 182147713 0
Reposted by Harry KassenRitesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Being informed that DC has cancelled Gretchen Felker-Martin's work to appease the whiners of the world. Should be a reminder for folks as to what Corporate IP comics actually are, because ppl forget and act like these enterprises are progressive to justify their consumption. 11926264 0
Reposted by Harry KassenElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGAmediaite.comFlorida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk ShootingA reporter with a popular Florida political website was suspended after angering a Republican congressman with a question he texted in the wake of Charlie Kirk being shot. 11466231710 0
Reposted by Harry KassenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer. 240133512880 0
Reposted by Harry KassenMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer. 331228756090 0
Reposted by Harry KassenJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes. 13044691372 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Guy who didn’t watch the news between 2000 and today: 1203 0
Reposted by Harry KassenDan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 11/09/2025"Don't be ghoulish" well I don't know what to tell you man, I didn't spend every day of my life helping turn reality into ghoul world 81699308 0
Reposted by Harry KassenAlejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 11/09/2025Fuck the Yankees! clap clap clapclapclap Fuck the Yankees! clap clap clapclapclap 2325 0
Reposted by Harry KassenAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado. 951320389242 0
Reposted by Harry KassenOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025also on the subject of political violence 121313456 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Our entire culture is bought and paid for by the scum of the earth and they want us all dead and they’ll make sure you never talk about it. 07025 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It was really neat. Plates like that are more of an oddity than anything else, but still cool to see. 020 0
Harry Kassen @leekassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025We sold the printing plates to this cover where I work and it was super cool to see those. 120 0