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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

14 years later, still the comic book panel of our times

Panel from Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja with a word balloon saying "look pretty antsy there, clint." and the Daily Bugle with the headline "everything awful, oh god somebody do something"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

all I want is a Jeff the Land Shark movie at this point

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The front cover of the UK Comics creators research report, by Joanna Rivera-Carlisle, Amanda Nicole Curtis and Hannah Berry May 2026

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It was so good - and so unnervingly prescient - that all of the critics moaning about 'superhero fatigue' seem to have conveniently forgotten to mention it. Miriam Kent (@miriamkent.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Daredevil: Born Again! timworthington.org/2025/06/02/i...

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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Miriam Kent

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle discovering just how many types of ‘behind bars’ it’s possible to be in Daredevil: Born Again.

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Check out this page for the Comics in Theory and Practice roundtable we did a few weeks back. You can watch the talk halfway down the page. Thanks to @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and @miriamkent.bsky.social for a great chat! sites.google.com/view/comicsp...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 17/11/2025

all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thank you to @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social for the extremely insightful chat and thanks to everyone who came out in the characteristically inhospitable weather!

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join us on Wednesday 12 November for a roundtable discussion about comics and research, featuring @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social, plus art to look at and snacks to enjoy! Book while you can, tickets are going fast!

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I sure hope the state will compensate me for the administrative labour I'll inevitably have to spend time and effort on in supporting my parents' and 94-year-old grandmother's acquisition and use of the digital ID.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Turn on telly, Nickelback is on. Guess I've arrived in Belgium 👍

A television screen mounted too high on a wall featuring a shot of Chad Kroeger in the video of the Nickelback song "How You Remind Me"

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies) If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you again for having me Tim! Not sure "fun" is the right word, given the grim moments in the series we were talking about, but admittedly there were several occasions during this when I had to stifle my own laughs to avoid soiling the feed with incessant chuckling.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Can't believe I had to verify my age on here like a big baby.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I did not have a Department of Education x Fantastic Four collab on my weird shit in 2025 bingo card but here we are.

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

PUBLICATION DAY! Non-fiction, comedy comic aimed at 7-11 year olds, designed to encourage reading and critical thinking while supporting the KS2 curriculum and with brilliant artwork is by genius @jordancollver.bsky.social ? What are you waiting for? #KidsLitUk uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pets...

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Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt a book by RIK WORTH and Jordan Collver.

What REALLY happened in Ancient Egypt? In this graphic novel the animals of the past are here to tell you the REAL deal...So, you think you know about Ancient Egypt - the pyramids, mummies, and pharoa...

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Commentary on Lorde's album cover not even referring to the correct body part, smh

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Spotted in the wild @kaysohini.bsky.social's graphic memoir (among the classics) at the Book Hive in Norwich

A copy of This Beautiful, Ridiculous City on display among other comic books.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/05/2025

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

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It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.”

(Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Watching y'all use SkyNet AI

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator 2: Judgement Day, smoking a cigarette and giving deadly side-eye

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

m8, I just wanna help people make stuff and express themselves in meaningful ways ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Telegraph headline for a piece written by Michael Mosbacher:

This must be Britain's most ungrateful profession

Unjustified complaints from those paid to pursue their passions are ceaseless.

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Anyone who has had even the most passing acquaintance with university professors will have learnt one thing about them as a breed - they feel hard done by and are not afraid to tell you...

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Weirdly alarmist take, this: (1) the "studio system" hasn't existed since 1948, what are they on about and (2) the thought that Ryan Coogler negotiating a favourable deal for his vampire movie is making "Hollywood execs" tremble in their boots is oddly making me want to see it more.

Headline from Vulture: "Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler's Sinners Deal 'Could End the Studio System'"

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Please consider supporting the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report asking DCMS for investment in comics forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I get right-wing trolls doing the Ghibli AI images but seeing so many people generating images of their babies and pets... Like, you know you could pay an artist to do you an anime family portrait, right?

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Taught comics for the first time since 2019 this week and last. Students spent a good portion of this week's session just making comics. It was nice interacting with students over something they'd materially created with just a pen and paper. A little piece of them I hadn't encountered before.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You can tell how much Google search has degraded. When I used to suspect a student essay to contain copied text, I'd Google a sentence of it and it would throw up a match. Now, it searches for those words and every synonym for every word in the query, leading to much less targeted results.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Forgot to post in the excitement of last year finally ending, but happy to announce my article on Black Widow, gender and genre is our now, open access: doi.org/10.1080/1050...

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Beyond the Red Room: Cold War II, Genre and Feminism in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"Is Ted Lasso Just Boring or Is There Something Wrong with Me: An Existential Contemplation"

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 31/10/2023

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!! comicsdevices.com An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art. 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

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Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How your email finds me

An engraving featuring a woman with a braided updo and bluish skin, with an anguished look on her face.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not the UEA alumni newsletter asking me for cash donations towards their new science labs. Meanwhile:

BBC News headline, "Cash-strapped university to shed 170 full-time jobs"

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It's amazing how the writer of the article DOES acknowledge the widespread funding crisis but then uses that as a springboard to flip back to the woke-gone-mad default. Plus the only reason they're mentioning any of this is because they've finally cottoned on to the fact that no subject is safe.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Who or what is writing these headlines?

Two headlines from the Times: (1) “Taskmaster's Alex Horne: 'Am I rich? Crudely, I suppose that's true' with a picture of Horne”, (2) “Tom Ford: Am I a billionaire? Yes, several times over” with a picture of Ford

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

If you read one thing today make it Amy Kurzweil’s comic that thinks through conflict, loss and revenge, and through the cross-cutting of Palestinian and Israeli narratives: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Op-comic: A Palestinian, an Israeli and a path to peace

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon have each suffered losses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. Instead of dividing them, these experiences created a tragic common ground.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Have we reclaimed HE yet? If not, it might be time to consider how we can ensure they here is maybe some HE left to reclaim. Like yesterday.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/11/2024

It's the two year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT and still nobody can actually say what it is or why it's the future

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