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Mostly Frogs @rysellscomics.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

hi. I have become a digital hermit and life is better. still, I just published a newsletter and updated the webshop with a ton of books. please take a gander and a browse. idk why it says august 8th buttondown.com/TheComicList...

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bronze age reprints, budget graphic novels, and genuinely rare collectors items. this one has it all

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Ian MacEwan @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Pages from a Hansel & Gretel comic by Alberto Breccia, using collage, embroidery, ink, paint, and who even knows what other media lives in these panels

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 12/07/2025

I do think not enough people know this - everything after a question mark in a URL is garbage. You can delete it all and the URL still works fine. Strip that shit out when sharing anything.

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Mostly Frogs @rysellscomics.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

what a day for embarrassingly bad takes on this app

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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Wow. They've literally reproduced my cover from "Fantastic Four: First Family"! C'mon, @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social , that's got to be worth a couple of free tickets.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/07/2025

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 06/07/2025

Y'all I literally just use Wordpress dot org and pay 15 bucks a month to host the fucker at Bluehost, been doing that for six years running now and it's been fine. you don't need to use substack

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

aha, i have learned 'accountability sink' is a recent term given to an idea i have been thinking abt constantly for the past 2 years (re: gen-ai in particular) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Una...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How fucking sick and evil do you have to be to zip tie people in wheelchairs.

Screenshot from news article a man in a wheelchair being zip tied by a cop

“Protesters detained in plastic handcuffs outside the Russell Senate Office Building on June 25 in Washington D.C. AARON SCHWARTZ/SIPA VIA AP IMAGES”

Screenshot from news article a man in a wheelchair zip tied with a cap standing next to him. The man clearly does not have full capacity to use his hands even without the zip ties.

“Medicaid and SNAP recipients are arrested during a protest of proposed cuts to social safety net programs in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. KEVIN WOLF/AP CONTENT SERVICES FOR THE DEBT COLLECTIVE”

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

People love reading comics. That includes people in prisons. Buy a comic requested by incarcerated people, and have it delivered to their libraries courtesy of the Prison Book Project, Hub Comics, & Boston Comic Arts Foundation! Give Jojo to the people! www.bostoncomicarts.org/prison-book-...

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Prison Book Project | BCAF 7/10

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🤖ScottsRobots🤖 @scottsrobots.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Almost forgot to post. Brand new street art in Pilsen just dropped: 18th & Western #Chicago

Street art mural of Superman punching an ICE agent,

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/06/2025

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is notorious for its poor DVD release. A year or two ago, someone sent me 4 of the home laserdiscs releases. Here's the first of four that I am uploading to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Teen...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 24/06/2025

Finally got this out the door last night, another newsletter about newsletters. Please subscribe or listen to @pastduepodcast.com, where we talk about this stuff all the time!

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Mostly Frogs @rysellscomics.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

i cannot overstate how empowering it is to write your own code for your own website. everyone should do this!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This is Cyclops from the X-men after he stops paying child support

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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I'm elated about this weekend! Check out myself & @stephwilliams.bsky.social as we discuss #Disability in #Comics at Heroes Con! This is my first time going, & I can't wait to be there! If you’re attending, check us out tomorrow! #DisableComicsCreators #DisabledCharacters

Red, Yellow, and Blue Retro Comic Bubble Background with the following text - Disability in Comics.
Stephanie Williams
Vilissa Thompson.
Heroes Con.
Sat., 6/21 @ 1:30pm.
Room 201

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Mostly Frogs @rysellscomics.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

reading some ff reprints before i put them up on the web shops and just gonna dump some stray thoughts here as i go 🧵

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 03/06/2025

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 19/06/2025

The only way in which "America" is possibly redeemable is if you reframe it as a story about Black Americans fighting to make themselves — and, crucially, everyone else — more free, in the face of unspeakable odds Happy Juneteenth

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Mostly Frogs @rysellscomics.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

not only is DKSA better than DKR, it’s the best thing Miller has ever done

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/06/2025

Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.

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Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I don't want to alarm anyone, but hoopla has a whole dang 2025 eisner nominees section. You can just... read them all. For free. And support your local library at the same time. 😱

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/06/2025

I have, at this point, two newsletters chambered. But I wrote this at the end of the one coming out in a few weeks. I think it’s important to realise that nothing about the tech industry/finance is black magic, and you’re fully capable of understanding exactly how these freaks run their operations.

In any case, I want to end this with something inspirational, because I believe that things change when regular people feel stronger and more capable.

I want you to know that you are fully capable of understanding all of this. I don’t care if you “aren’t a numbers person” or “don’t get business.’ I don’t have a single iota of economics training, and everything you’ve ever read me write has been something I’ve had to learn. I was a layperson right up until I learned the stuff, then I became a stuff-knower, just like you can be.

The tech industry, the finance industry, the entire mechanisms of capitalism want you to believe that everything they do is magical and complex, when it’s all far more obvious than you’d believe. You don’t have to understand the entire fundamentals of finance to know how venture capital works - they buy percentages of companies at a valuation that they hope is much lower than the company would be worth in the future. You don’t need to be technical to know that Large Language Models generate a response based on billions of pieces of training data.

These people love to say “ah, but didn’t you see-” and present an anecdote, when no anecdote will ever defeat the basics of “your business doesn’t make any money, the software doesn’t do the things you claim it’s meant to, and you have no path to profitability.” They can yammer at you all they want about “lots of people using ChatGPT,” but that doesn’t change the fact that ChatGPT just isn’t that revolutionary, and their only play here is to make you feel stupid rather than actually showing you why it’s so fucking revolutionary.

This is the argument of a manipulator and a coward, and you are above such things.

You don’t really have to be a specialist in anything to pry this shit apart, which is why so much of my work is either engaging to those who learn something from it or frustrating to those that intentionally deceive others through gobbledygook hype-schpiel. I will sit here and explain ever…

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

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Platinum Witch Minatrice @minataur.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

actually unreal how funny this image is

a two-panel image comprised of edited stills from Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film.

in the first panel, The Green Goblin is lifting J. Jonah Jameson by the throat, while the newsman desperately says, “It’s a PNG, I swear!”

in the second panel, a close-up of The Green Goblin reveals that he’s wearing a jpeg of a hat with a fake checkered ‘transparent’ background behind it, and shouting, “You’re lying!”

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Charity auction for Trans Lifeline ends in less than three hours. Thanks to the bidders who have chimed in so far. www.ebay.com/itm/25696527...

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Instant Piano #1 2 3 1994 1st 2nd ELTINGVILLE CLUB comics Evan Dorkin +BONUS ART | eBay

THE BONUS -I will draw a 3" x 5" black and white sketch of the Eltingville character of your choice.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/06/2025

"Doonesbury": The death of Andy Lippincott, 1990 RIP Brian Wilson RIP all my queer family who never lived to see Pet Sounds released on CD RIP lots of things 💔

Two Doonesbury strips from 1990, in which the famous gay character Andy Lippincott dies of AIDS, after having resolutely held out until he can hear Pet Sounds on CD. He dies listening to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and leaves a note that says "Brian Wilson is God"

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Wherein Outlaw Bookseller steel-mans the criticisms of this book. I like that he places BotNS firmly in the Modernist tradition -- this is valid. Your expectations for this book should be set by the Modernist poets: Woolf, Elliot, Cummings, and Williams.

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I am please to offer a VERY LIMITED repeat run of my graphic novel DEGA in its original large hardback edition. Click the link to buy: danmcdaid.bigcartel.com

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proxy hue @proxy-hue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'm making a zine with some other volunteers as part of a fundraiser for the Internet Archive, thought I'd share it here archivezine.org #ArchiveZine2025

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Support the Internet Archive! | The Internet Archive Fundraiser Zine

Donate $5 or more to the Internet Archive and contribute to a zine!

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

republicans don’t want to pay for the fucking POST OFFICE but will just light all this money on fire

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Katsuhiro Otomo, art for Canon T-70 ads, 1984

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 05/06/2025

I don't want to be associated with this comic, and won't receive money if you buy it, so please boycott.

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Thomas Campbell @comicsblogger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’ve made 12 of these and I’ll probably make 12 more. I’m still figuring out what I want out of this project, but there’s no signs of slowing down. Thank you everyone who’s been involved or read an issue!

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Uber is one of the most destructive companies in modern American history. It clogs roads with empty cars, pioneers new forms of labor abuses that it enacts into law with deceptive ballot measures, and makes a small group of people wealthy by promising returns that will never happen.

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Comic Book Herald @comicbookherald.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy 'MAGA Mark renews his annual grifting hatebait credentials' to all freshly aware this is who he is. It's not just disagreeing with his love of RFK Jr, it's that a comics force like him actively chooses to endorse, boost and align with the most hateful voices in right wing comics grifting.

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