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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

R.L. Stine writes many Goosebumps books about summer camp. The reason for this seems to have been revealed in his autobiography, It Came From Ohio!: My Life As a Writer. I wrote about this, and briefly reviewed The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, Welcome to Camp Nightmare and The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

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Goosebumps Books About Summer Camp Reflect R.L. Stine's Childhood Trauma

When writing Goosebumps books like The Curse of Camp Cold Lake and Welcome to Camp Nightmare, Stine thinks about a specific event from his childhood.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My upcoming book, Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist, will have a chapter about ComicBooks for Kids and photos I recently took at the CB4K warehouse. I wrote about the warehouse on Substack and shared some photos that won't be in the book.

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A Peak Inside the ComicBooks for Kids Warehouse

CB4K president Mark Weiss gave me a warehouse tour for my upcoming book, Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My Kickstarter still needs to raise 142 dollars in the last 56 hours of the campaign. Back Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist today:

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Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist

A nonfiction book of essays, interviews and news pieces about comics, books and culture.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Tune into the Saturday Morning Comic Talk on YouTube tomorrow morning, streaming at 11:30 a.m. CST. I’ll be a guest, promoting the Kickstarter for my book “Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist”! 😀 We’re also talking about comic book adaptations and conventions.

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Saturday Morning Comic Talk 5-30-26

YouTube video by Finish Line Comics

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Guys, the movie Obsession is about both things. It’s about men not respecting bodily autonomy AND it’s about people who are toxic and possessive in relationships, despite not even liking their partner. Stories can have multiple themes and subtexts. You don’t have to pick just one.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I miss when the Kickstarter app sent notifications every single time I got a new backer. I understand how it can be annoying, even in a modest Kickstarter, but it was fine by me. Anyway, pre-order my latest book, “Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist,” on Kickstarter.

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Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist

A nonfiction book of essays, interviews and news pieces that challenge safe interpretations of comics, entertainment and culture.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You can not only pre-order Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist on Kickstarter, but I’m selling postcards of @jorgesantiagojr.bsky.social’s cover artwork. Check it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The 30-Kickstarter campaign for my upcoming book, Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist, is almost at the halfway mark! Regardless of when you back the project, your card will be charged on June 3, the last day of the campaign.

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Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist

A nonfiction book of essays, interviews and news pieces that challenge safe interpretations of comics, entertainment and culture.

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Phil Falco @philfalcowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I wrote the Foreword for @starvingauthor.bsky.social's "Truth Before Comfort - Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist"! My Thoughts: lifelinecomics.substack.com/i/195411181/... The Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thanks for shouting out my Kickstarter and for the great Foreword!

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Squeak squeak! This is my guinea pig, Shuster, named after the co-creator of Superman, Joe Shuster. Shuster wants you to back “Truth Before Comfort: Confessions of a Comic Book Journalist” on Kickstarter. You can use the QR code in the third pic or this link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Anne Loves 🔜 NYCC @annecomics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me a week ago: I have fairly limited golden age knowledge Me after a week with EC comics: I now have a personal beef with Fredric Wertham and every mainline comic publisher

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

At C2E2, I hosted the ‘Why Horror Comics?’ panel with @hackintimseeley.bsky.social and three other horror comic creators, and the ‘Why Comic Book Crowdfunding?’ panel with @ericpalicki.bsky.social and three other Kickstarter comic creators. I wrote about this, and other con coverage, on Substack.

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C2E2 Panels about Horror Comics and Crowdfunding Feature Insights and Camaraderie

Comic creators take the stage at the panels, ‘Why Horror Comics?’ and ‘Why Comic Book Crowdfunding?’

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Also, Frankenstein won Best Costume Design and Best Makeup. If Sinners wins Best Picture , this will be a huge night for horror. Possibly the biggest in Oscar history.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I’m very happy to see Weapons win an Oscar, even if it’s just Best Supporting Actress. Weapons is easily one of the best horror films in years.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I wrote about Red Scare propaganda, McCarthyism and the 9-page comic I Fell for a Commie, originally published in Love Secrets #32 in 1953. Propaganda isn’t necessarily about logic or emotion, but the same message being repeated over and over again from ostensibly different senders.

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The Anti-communist Propaganda in Love Secrets #32 was Laughably Bad

The Cold War-era comic I Fell for a Commie didn't even try to convince you of its worldview and, ironically, made the opposite point.

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Kevin says Eat the Rich @mwgore.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Honestly, I would pull this out of the mailbox, take it inside, sit down, and read it.

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Devin Whitlock @devinagonistes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You’re welcome, Nick! Thanks for illuminating the themes of that book that often get lost in adaptation. The ghost attached to the safe straining to help the mom in the doorway is an image that has stayed with me ever since I first read it!

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“The holiday season may be over, but the lessons of A Christmas Carol are evergreen. No war but class war!” - @devinagonistes.bsky.social Thanks for sharing my analysis of A Christmas Carol, the original novel by Charles Dickens! 😀

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The holiday season may be over, but the lessons of A Christmas Carol are evergreen. No war but class war!

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A Christmas Carol, the original novel, was more radical than its adaptations may have led you to believe. Charles Dickens depicted Ebenezer Scrooge as not just a greedy man but part of a larger system of economic injustice. I wrote about this on Substack, also diving into the Muppets and Red Sonja.

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A Christmas Carol was about Proletariat Rage in the Original Novel

Despite the countless adaptations and homages in movies, television and comics, the Charles Dickens novel is still worth reading.

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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/12/2025

garbage

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

In my latest Substack article, I reported on ComicBooks for Kids (CB4K), highlighting their origin story in 2017, comic artist Art Baltazar’s involvement and Zone Comics & Games in Homewood, IL’s early support for the charity.

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ComicBooks for Kids, a Charity Founded by Mark Weiss, Provides Comics to Kids in Hospitals

Operating out of a warehouse in a Chicago suburb, ComicBooks for Kids (CB4K) donates comics and toys to children's hospitals nationwide

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TIM SEELEY Revival on Netflix 8/24! @hackintimseeley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It would appear I have shit in the corn flakes of the universe today.

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Midnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The second you put a fictional character above a real human being, YOU are the problem. Theres no ifs, buts or ands about it. Not happy with what you read, fair enough, critique of the work is fine. Threaten a real human being over it? YOU ARE ONCE AGAIN THE PROBLEM. See how that works?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Check out my deep dive into Hack/Slash from @hackintimseeley.bsky.social and my review of Hack/Slash: Back to School from Zoe Thorogood. “It’s creepy, twisted, beautiful, sexy, creative, heartwarming, heartbreaking, tragic and thought-provoking.” Long live, horror comics.

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Hack/Slash: Back to School Review - One of the Best Horror Comics of the Decade

Hack/Slash: Back to School is creepy as hell, has top-notch character writing and uniquely utilizes the comic book medium.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Let’s IMAGINE you heard that millions of people in France wanted their Prime Minister dead. And the Prime Minister was posting epic memes online, “trolling” millions of his own citizens. Now imagine you’re a world leader who doesn’t have this issue at all. Do you respect him?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You: Millions of Trump’s own people want him dead. He spends his time going online, “trolling” like a 14 y.o., calling them idiots and making fun of them. Also, you: Other world leaders respect him and aren’t laughing at him. He’s actually MORE respected than other presidents without this problem.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

There’s nothing to “explain”. You’re believing two completely contradictory things at the same time. It’s almost as if you’re in a cult

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

At least if the “ppl” you’re talking about are Americans, the very people she’d be representing as a world leader

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You think America is having a mental health crisis and millions of Trump’s own people are unstable fuckers who want him to dead. And other countries wouldn’t laugh at him for that?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You think millions of the people Trump is supposed to be leading are unstable fuckers. But other countries wouldn’t laugh at him for that?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you believed millions of Americans wanted Trump dead, why would it matter if millions also supported him? Most world leaders don’t actually have that problem. Only those leading the most unstable countries. You say “millions of liberals” but to other countries this means “millions of Americans”

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

That’s not how that works. Every leader throughout history, even the most unpopular ones, has had a good number of supporters. Do you believe that no world leader had ever been laughed at by other world leaders before?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“The world isn’t laughing at Trump and Vance. Millions of his own people want them dead!” Do you not hear yourself?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The entire “joke” is just “haha, this makes millions of my own citizens mad,” right? Why wouldn’t world leaders laugh at Trump if he himself is laughing at millions of the people he’s representing?

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

So now he’s just making jokes? You said he was intentionally riling up millions of his own citizens because he think they’re idiots.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

He’s going to another country to represent America. Right after going online to “troll” millions of his own citizens to entertain you because you think they’re idiots

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You can’t be a good clown and a respected world leader. These are two very different job descriptions. Respected world leaders don’t “troll” their idiot citizens online.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You can’t have it both ways. Either Trump is respected around the globe or you’re literally proud of him being a clown.

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Nick Ulanowski @starvingauthor.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This is why the world is laughing at America. The Vice President of the United States thinks it’s appropriate to go on social media and “troll” American citizens he thinks are “idiots.” What a clown show.

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