iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Too soon to say I’ve committed, but next steps have been taken.

Paperback edition of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, fourth edition, by William Allin Storrer.

0100

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Taken today, at my local bookstore. Still going!

Paperback edition of Garfield: Crash Diet (his 78th book!)

020

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bad AI art has rapidly taken over the food advertising at the Eastern Idaho State Fair, but at least a few places still know how it’s done.

Huge painted wooden sign, featuring a clown holding a hamburger, sitting on top of a food stand. The business’s sign reads “Bimbo’s Burgers with Seasoned Onions.”

020

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe an obvious one, but it immediately and completely changed the way I thought about modernism:

Cover of READING 1922: A RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE MODERN, by Michael North

081

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay, now the book marketing scam emails are just being rude.

A February 2019 modernist literary study with 0 reviews at #5,424,106.

Dear Professor Levay.

050

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Late summer vacations are perfect but also dangerous for someone like me, who loves to cultivate a new interest. Seriously considering how long it might take me to visit every publicly accessible Frank Lloyd Wright building in America.

4261

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Spent some time with an old friend today.

020

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And if you’re interested, @univnebpress.bsky.social is offering a 40% discount! See the flyer for details and the discount code.

SAVE 40% with code 6AS26 at nebraskapress.unl.edu

003

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The daily book club/marketing scam emails mostly depress me, with their expert tailoring to creative/academic insecurities, but this line truly made me laugh.

“The modernist studies and crime fiction market is significant”

090

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Breaking our long-running streak of watching the film-of-the-moment five years after everyone else, or never, @rlevay.bsky.social and I went to the movies.

271

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Typical sign on the dog walking trail.

A sign reading “Caution! Please be aware of snakes in this area,” posted to a fence in front of a rocky expanse of sagebrush.

040

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Author copies have arrived! Thanks to @univnebpress.bsky.social for producing such a beautiful volume. Available for preorder now, publishing on August 1.

A stack of paperback copies of my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics.

2213

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Would absolutely read an “In Treatment”-style series starring Doc Samson.

Doc Samson sits in a chair while instructing the Hulk, who lies on a steel couch, to breathe.

100

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My new book publishes in just a few weeks, and @univnebpress.bsky.social is offering a generous 40% discount with the attached code. See the bottom of this flyer for more info!

Flyer for The New Old Style with 40% discount code attached. The code is: 6AS26

1239

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Official announcement of a new project: I’ll be editing the Cambridge Companion to American Comics, with @universitypress.cambridge.org. We have a fantastic lineup of contributors, so stay tuned!

Contract with Cambridge University Press, for the Cambridge Companion to American Comics.

4394

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

To fill a lazy summer afternoon, I highly recommend visiting your local campus museum (in my case, the Idaho Museum of Natural History).

Display of taxidermy (black bear, assorted birds) along with rows of fish and amphibians preserved in jars.

Various jars of aquatic life, all preserved and with labels from the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History.

071

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just did a group bike packing trip that included beautiful scenery, lovely people, morning yoga, and good camp coffee, and I am officially not coming back to my daily life.

A mint green road bike set against a tree.

A view of trees, at evening, seen through a tent door.

A small mountain, covered in trees. In front of it is a field with people setting up yoga mats.

030

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Whenever you peer review for a book publisher, take the payment in books whenever you can.

A stack of paperback books: the six volumes of Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire.

2422

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

For a semester-long, interdisciplinary faculty seminar, I had to make a zine illustrating some aspect of my current research. Naturally, I made a comic, despite my lack of talent in that medium. For posterity, here’s a page in progress.

Small zine page, featuring a comics panel in which a man (me) is reading a newspaper and listening to an old Bakelite radio. The caption reads “instead, you need a full range of creative expression to understand what culture looked like in an increasingly distant past.”

0130

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Took a detour on the way home from Sun Valley to visit one of Idaho’s contributions to modernism (among other things).

A small white house with a green lawn, flanked by trees.

Three signs on the front of the white house in the first photo. The top one reads “Birthplace of Ezra Pound, the Poet, October 30, 1885. ‘I have beaten out my exile.”

1143

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It’s been a hard couple of days, and just in case that’s true for you too, here’s a picture of my dog.

Richie, a golden little curly-haired dog in a purple harness, looking at the camera with love and confusion as he sits in the back seat of a car

190

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: the only fashion inspiration you need comes from children’s books.

Poppleton the pig wearing a red hat, blue oxford, and green sweater. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

Poppleton the pig wearing a blue necktie, white oxford, and brown sweater with a checkered pattern. He is showing off a yellow sunflower. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

071

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Marking the start of a new season with a new M’s hat. Let’s see what they do this year.

Me, a middle-aged white man with a mostly gray beard, wearing a teal Seattle Mariners cap

140

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Most recent three book purchases have all been doorstops.

Stacked paperback books: Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life; and Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris.

041

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We finally got snow, so a good day to take the plunge and try cross country skiing. Highly recommended.

Looking down at a pair of cross country skis and poles in the middle of a snowy set of tracks

060

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My kindergartener, learning the letter U, was asked to illustrate the concept of “under,” so naturally the first thing that came to her mind was crumbs under the washing machine.

Child’s drawing of a “wash musheen” with tiny dots, aggressively labeled “crums,” underneath it.

390

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It hasn’t snowed here all winter, but here’s the view at my office this morning.

Orange brick building flanked by evergreen trees, all covered by snow flurries.

060

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. I took this photo for fashion inspiration, but honestly, this wouldn’t be bad at all.

130

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The moral of this story, like every story, is always to let your spouse and children pressure you into doing something. You will have fun.

A snowy ski hill with the sun just beginning to rise about the mountain. Pebble Creek Ski Area, in Inkom, Idaho.

060

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This tool is pretty fun if you’re like me and look forward to new soccer kit season every year. Plus, it has made my design preferences extremely clear to me. I’ll admit that I may be overly pro-RSL.

My ranking of the new MLS kits, from best (Seattle and RSL) to worst (Nashville and Colorado).

000

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” -Brad Meltzer Honestly, anything with this logo on the cover.

030

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’ve been told that people are (understandably) more interested in seeing the dog.

Behold, a small brown poodle/schnauzer mix, lying in the sun in front of an open door.

1140

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Walking the dog as the first snowfall of the season finally arrives, listening to the Blue Note Monthly playlist, is my recommendation for how to start your day.

Me, a white man wearing a blue hat, green coat, and scarf, awkwardly taking a selfie in front of hills, brush, and a small river. I have a few snowflakes on my coat.

1110

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We’ve been to orchards across New England, but the best apples I’ve ever had in my life are from Blackfoot, Idaho.

Clusters of honeycrisp apples growing in a tree whose leaves are just beginning to turn gold.

Rows of apple trees with a red barn in the distance

Painted stone that reads “Isom’s Fruit Farm, est. 1994, Blackfoot, Idaho.”

170

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Mulder and Scully, brooding in the woods

270

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Yesterday I spent time at one of my favorite places, talking to owner/all-around wonderful person Tony Davis. Even after a decade away, I still think of it as a third place. Grateful for independent bookshops and the people who make them what they are. See you soon, @myp-comics.bsky.social.

Front window of the Million Year Picnic comic shop, with two rows of comics on display.

Four books: The Adventurous Decade, Cuphead volume 1, Flash Gordon Classic Collection volume 2, and the collected Extra!

0102

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Morning run from the conference hotel to the hospital where my older daughter was born, and if this isn’t a metaphor for something I don’t know what is.

Photo taken from the esplanade along the Charles River, with some of the Boston skyline visible in the distance.

1130

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Absolutely thrilled with the cover @univnebpress.bsky.social has designed for my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (coming August ‘26)! And special thanks to the wonderful and generous Cole Closser for allowing me to use their art.

Cover of a book titled The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics, by Matthew Levay. The cover features three vertically-arranged panels. The middle features the book’s title against a black background, while the top and bottom feature colorful drawings of a boy with white circles for eyes, done in a style clearly reminiscent of 1920s and 1930s-era newspaper comics and designed to appear as if they are printed on old newsprint.

13810