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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Awesome news, and well deserved! So many great sequences in that book. Love it.

Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just read the issues of this recently. Took me right back to the 80s and that Batman/Green Arrow/Question crossover in the annuals.

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Batman Day! You can celebrate by checking with your local library, comic shop, or book store for one of my Bat-books. Gotham needs you, citizen #batmanday #batman #batmanday2026

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just a fantastic panel from Batman #413. Art by Kieron Dwyer and Mike DeCarlo from a script by Jo Duffy #batman

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Attention all editors and publishers, now's your chance to hire a prize-winning author who apparently won not one, but two ribbons at the Miami County Fair in 1994, according to this newspaper clipping my aunt sent me in the mail. Further resume details will not be provided as this speaks for itself

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Volume One of my creator owned thriller is out today! Pick up John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: Pause at your local comic shop #pause #johncarpenterstalesofsciencefiction #stormkingcomics

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

All about the real New York locations that inspired John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: Pause. The first trade paperback hits comic shops this week! open.substack.com/pub/matthewk...

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On Location With Pause

The New York locations that inspired the graphic novel

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Just knock him off the ledge, Batman. That's what I'd do." #batman #mezcotoyz

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hey Asheville! Bring the kids for free science experiments and a book signing at the mall this weekend. Hope to see you there! #thesparkexperiment #andrewsmcmeel #asheville

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Unleashing Readers asked me to tell them a bit about the origins of my new book with Matt Loux, The Spark Experiment. So I made the obvious choice and wrote a piece about spraying Windex on Rice Krispies. You can read it here: www.unleashingreaders.com/30298

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy everyone is liking the new Spider-Man movie, and I'll go see it eventually, but this week is all about a certain Caped Crusader #BatmanCapedCrusader #capedcrusader #batman

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Geo @bombosmedallion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

bruh is this gonna be in doomsday

Dr doom toots as he pleases panel w namor

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I don't want to brag, but working in comics can get you that new car money #dicktracy

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This weekend! Virginia is for lovers... of comic books

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Forgot to show off my haul from this year's Heroes Con. Big thanks to @chuck.brown.902 for the #onthestump and #flawed trades, to @andrewmaclean for the great sketch, and to living legend Mike Friedrich for signing one of my favorite bat-books #heroescon #batman #headlopper

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

To me, this cover hits hard and says, "Here's a secret club you can be part of. No one else in your school is going to be into this - this is just for you, but you are going to love the hell out of this world." Man, people who grew up reading comic books are just the luckiest.

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Comic book reviewers and fellow pros! Interested in a digital review copy of the first trade of my creator-owned series Pause from John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction? Send me a message! What if time stopped for everyone but you? #Pause #JohnCarpentersTalesofScienceFiction #StormKingComics

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

An early take on Batman by Brian Bolland from Justice League of America #200 (March 1982) #batman #justiceleague #dccomics

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Next up is one of the best comic shows in the world, Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina. Will I see you there? #heroescon #heroesarenthardtofind #charlottenc

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Join us tonight at the Edneyville Community Center (15 Ida Rogers Drive, Hendersonville, NC) from 5-8 to celebrate the launch of Islands in the Sky, our Hurricane Helene graphic novel anthology. Thanks to Mountain Xpress for spotlighting the book! #mountainxpress #hurricanehelene #islandsinthesky

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The Book Faire | A Children's Literature Podcast @bookfairepod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Check out an interview with @matthewkmanning.bsky.social and @mattloux.bsky.social , the creative duo behind The Spark Experiment on this week's episode of the Book Faire Podcast! #kidlit #STEM #graphicnovel #middlegrade bookfairepod.riverside.com/e/a-fun-blen...

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Ahmed Raafat @theahmedraafat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Anyway here’s a one pager I did featuring my “comic persona” based on a dream/recurring fear styled like a Twilight Zone comic/episode, for your enjoyment

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Batman and Tracy serials are my favorites. Lots on there I haven't seen, though!

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This Bat-Signal book set is from the personal estate of Matthew Perry in a Heritage Auction directly benefitting the Matthew Perry Foundation. matthewperryfoundation.org Friends was such a big show for me in high school, it's strangely touching that Matthew had one of my books in his Bat-collection.

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Big congratulations to Janice Chiang for her Eisner nomination today for Best Lettering. Thanks for always making Pause "sound" so good! #eisners #pause #johncarpenterstalesofsciencefiction

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Latest newsletter featuring science comics for kids. Plus: where to find both me and Dick Tracy this summer… open.substack.com/pub/matthewk... #thesparkexperiment #dicktracy

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Weird Science and Weirder Comics

The launch of The Spark Experiment

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Website update: I have a new page up where you can read my entire run on Dick Tracy with artist Howie Noel (via links to gocomics). Read it all for free here: www.matthewkmanning.com/other-comics #dicktracy #gocomics

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Have you bought your copy of Pause yet? Book 1 is out now wherever books are sold youtu.be/4APyNjx2DPo?... #pause #johncarpenter #johncarpenterstalesofsciencefiction

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Ahmed Raafat @theahmedraafat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Marvel Midnight you say?

Fan art of Blade. Blade is standing in the club from the opening scene of Blade while a vampire attacks a victim

Fan art of Moon Knight featuring Moon Knight, Scarlet Scarab, Khonshu and Tawaret

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'll be signing at Comic Envy in Asheville this Saturday starting at 11. I'll have plenty of new books stocked, so stop by after you plunder the free tables! #freecomicbookday #asheville #comicenvy

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This little guy followed me home today. The Spark Experiment is out now wherever books are sold. The Spark plush will be available soon at thesparkuniverse.com #thesparkexperiment #hightouchhightech

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today at noon! Join kids from 18 states and 12 countries for the launch of The Spark Experiment on Facebook Live. There'll be free plush giveaways, science experiments, & an animated chapter of our graphic novel. Save your spot: www.facebook.com/share/1Cj7XH... #thesparkexperiment #andrewsmcmeel

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tomorrow! Join The Spark Experiment facebook live launch event for free giveaways, science experiments, and an animated chapter of our graphic novel. Save your spot: www.facebook.com/share/1Cj7XH... #thesparkexperiment #andrewsmcmeel @mattloux.bsky.social

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Jason Copland @jasoncopland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

307 page OGN for only $12. Just sayin'

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Matthew K. Manning @matthewkmanning.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Looks like the news is out. I had the opportunity to partner with artist Christian Colbert on a graphic novel sequel to Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Out this summer from Papercutz! #disney #atlantis #atlantisthelostempire #papercutz #madcave

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