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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would have saved comics in 2010 with 1 percent of that money. And every single investor said flat out "if you don't have an IPO plan, and an exit strategy, we're not interested" Profitable within 18 months? Projected growth over 3 years? Stable profitable ROI? They didn't want ANY of that.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But they aren't interested in a sustainable, growth-based business that values the quality of product produced and you know this, my friend.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Claremont's X-Men is the Platonic Ideal of the X-Men. No one has matched it... especially when he got cooking with Byrne.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everyone loves Sympathy For The Devil when it's a Stone song, but no one wants it as a satirical mirror held up to their face...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Guardian nails it in their review... (Quote in the alt text for the photo of John Goodman who is goddamn brilliant in it)

"I have seen Digger twice already, and I think it is brilliantly audacious. Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film is the best fictional work about the climate crisis that I have seen yet, because it is also about the inability of art to speak to this moment truthfully. It is about perception and reality. And it is about our inability to distinguish the two, and how that leaves us vulnerable to the loudest, most charismatic voices in a room."

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought DIGGER was magnificent. Echoes of Dr Strangelove, A Face in the Crowd, Barton Fink, Brazil, 22 Monkeys, 8 1/2, Network... It's farce and it's satire and it's brilliant and heartbreaking and man... The acting, the writing, the unexpected reveals. I'm so glad we saw it in the theater.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One day at a time... Happy birthday Saladin!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Same. I noped out so fucking quick...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CASTLE RAT is incredible live... If you get the chance, go see them!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's the greatest rescue page in the history of the Internet and fuck these patriarchal choads without a sense of humor.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m doing a limited run of the ITOD “Dragon Piano” prints with the watercolor painting I did as Key Art for Tori's ITOD tour. These prints are 8.5” x 14” signed & numbered with a limited run of 50 copies. Each one is Remarqued. $75 USD, includes shipping in the US. Holler if you're interested

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, because people adopted Siri and Alexa, so these fucknuggets think most people are dumb enough to use it. SPOILER: They probably aren't wrong.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8

youtu.be

Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

Musk

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My only hope with all this fuckery, is that artists will lean more into the things that make THEIR art unique and reflective of their specific creative voice... I pray for a surge of diverse & weird & wonderful styles ala the 90s.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As myself and the other creative head of our company frequently say in discussing the creative process and editing... Steel sharpens steel.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I read that Cosell book when I was in Junior High because I loved the cover. Don't remember a damn thing about the book...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Written by @zachrabiroff.com who did a great job with the research into its history!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This dropped today in Publisher's Weekly, giving background on the Johnny Cash comic from 1976 that we've brought back into print for the 50th anniversary of its publication.

publishersweekly.com

Inside the Comic That Saved Johnny Cash’s Career

Z2’s prestige reissue of Hello, I'm Johnny Cash sheds new light on a key turning point for the Man in Black.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"like a catapult of agony" is pretty fucking great.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After the discussion on here last week, I keep thinking about how helpful/useful it might be to have an actual ProCon for comics again. Where everything from the craft to the business could be discussed. Is that a crazy idea? I know when they had it the two days before SDCC in the 90s it was great.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman Day sketch from a few years back...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I keep thinking about the following phrase over the last couple of days: "You do not need to comment on breaking news, especially when the facts aren't clear."

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had a similar reaction to one of his ProCon lectures and also Dick Giordano's Inking Intensive workshop. These are the things I'd really really really love to see come back in the convention circuit. Priceless insights.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean, they are (ostensibly) working on a David Lynch box set...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

15 years ago, the answer would have been fully disappointed. Now? The answer would be: 20 year old me wouldn't believe the life I have. The people I have in it, the folks I get to work with or the love I have. Most of all he wouldn't believe that I reached a point where I don't hate myself.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, to be fair, that also just sounds like post-con exhaustion.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As I've said many times, I can put up with my body falling apart as I get old. But my mental acuity going? No no no...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The coughing, aches, itchy throat, sneezing headache etc are all a bummer with COVID. But the thing that drives me the MOST insane with it... I'm alert enough to TRY and do things and to WANT to work on things, but it renders my brain as unresponsive as the Senator Puppet we've seen wheeled out.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My pal @steveniles.bsky.social sent me the first script for this a couple years back, and I was so excited to see him take on a graphic novel memoir... Just read the finished book, and it's one of my favorite things he's ever written. You should read it.

The cover of Steve Niles new graphic memoir TAKE IT BACK.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Doing good, busy AF, but not today... As Satu and I both got COVID a couple days back, so we're chilling and doped up with meds. Yeah, it's a bit heartbreaking what That Dude did with Twitter, but... *Shrug* Hope you are doing well!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ryan is one of my favorite artists to work with, and you should hire him.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did a lot of drugs in the mid-80s high school era (I know, shocker) and there were more than a few times I stood on the banks of the river, ripped to the gills, staring at it in the clouds of "steam" and thought of "grey satanic mills"

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I grew up in a town that was a) in a valley and b) the primary business was a paper mill. It was horrifically stinky

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every time I think "I'm fucking sick of the city, I want wide open spaces" I remember things like this and grudgingly enjoy my sammiches without the smell of rotting fish or cow poop.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The greatest graphic novel he ever made... Wrote and drew every damn page... was TO THE HEART OF THE STORM and Will was 74 fucking years old! Come ON now!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Will Eisner was 61 when he changed comics by creating A CONTRACT WITH GOD. I'm 58, and I have been doing this comic thing for 39 years, and man... I'm just getting started.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Have you tried Soleil? It's our go to for unsweetened sparkling water, and they have a blackberry dragon fruit.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So, I've got COVID. Managed to make it through con season & international travel & a number of concerts & got vaxxed with the 26 shot* & yet... *I will say I am tired & my throat is a little scratchy, but I'm not feeling too awful. Nothing like when I got it 3 years ago. Mask up, motherfuckers.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is why I consider it very good that old age came with a costco-sized bucket of no longer giving a fuck about the things my anxiety-riddled teens-30s were packed with. Generalized anxiety was definitely a key reason for formative years drug consumption.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a fucking time machine of an album. When Might and Bikini and Raygun and Spy had an outsized influence on culture, and drugs fueled 3am dancing and the Internet greeted you with a squealing howl and 120pixel images.

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