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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 18h

If my son (full grown) and I both have full-length black leather trench coats what can we be for Halloween?

Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zinesters, booksellers, small presses et al, this is a curb alert: if you want some free displays and stuff anytime before tomorrow morning, DM me for the address (Belmont Stakes area, LIRR accessible)

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A remote viewer getting grilled by Art Bell in 1998 on why his cohort is not picking up any presentiment of Y2K youtu.be/TpS4PMTG-ck?...

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They Tried to Locate Satan Using Remote Viewing : The 1998 Broadcast That Shocked Listener | ArtBell

YouTube video by Art Bell Coast to Coast

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This got reposted recently and led me to wonder: do soup-label artists harbor the same resentment towards Warhol that cartoonists do for Lichtenstein? And it turns out, no, of course not: archive.nytimes.com/6thfloor.blo...

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Who Made That Campbell's Soup Label?

Warhol is famous for it, but the Campbell’s Soup label is an icon on its own.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

folks, i am BEGGING you to read walter benjamin

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Time to stop accumulating and start purging," I say as I continue to accumulate

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Smoking in the hospital is generally frowned upon

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Smoking in the hospital is generally frowned upon

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/09/2026

Julia's new one contains a scene that is what I would call a "greatest hit," and that ain't the half of it. Come see us at SPX @smallpressexpo.bsky.social table H11 this weekend!

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just in case I don't make it to the show

sorry, I can't come my clothes look stupid on me

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Crambone Truther @zacksoto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A few years back, @mikedawson.bsky.social and I had a comics interview podcast, and it was pretty good. We talked to a wide swath of a lot of different kinds of cartoonists, various professionals and critics over the couple years it ran. Here's a 3GB DL of it all: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b31j4...

Various Process Party episode images and descriptions

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here’s something you can get from me at SPX this weekend

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spotted an antique enamel topped table on the curb last night, and after much hemming and hawing I didn’t take it home. This was for certain the correct decision but I’m struggling to make peace with it.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Area cartoonist too discouraged to draw! Can her meme get even one "like"

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/09/2026

We are taking the family to see Akira on the IMAX tonight. We are both wearing Akira t-shirts to maximize our teenage children's embarrassment. Neo-Tokyo is about to E X P L O D E

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You absolutely must see this release. I've watched Akira dozens of times in the last 30 years. Last night might as well have been the first.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Motherfuckers will tell you they have a "great idea for a comic" when what they have is a plot. Pal, you got bupkis

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

drawing comics should be a protected class

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The perfect is the enemy of the finished

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Only $11 away from $10k!!! Let’s go! Thank you 🙏

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When you see a black and white photo of a soldier in a stahlhelm, look at his coat and remember this helpful rhyme I just invented: Single breasted, won't get arrested Breastedness double, now you're in trouble

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Old Victorian guys being like crucified and having their balls ripped off but like, they like it” — 17yo describes my comics

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We are cracking each other up by singing "My room is the G spot, call me Mr Flintstone, I like to be called that"

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you don't say "you're a kitty" to your kitty he won't know!

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Watched the Cuddy-centered season six episode of House with my 17yo. He goes “Is this really what it’s like to be a woman?” I said yeah, pretty much. “I’m gonna have to rethink my entire worldview.”

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charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We need to return to the general social belief that wealth is incredibly corrosive to the soul. If for no other reason than that it seems to be demonstrably true.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still working on it a month later 🫩

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“I’m glad that you love to eat grape nuts. You are a diamond that reveals a new shimmering facet every single day.” — @seantcollins.com

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m telling you, these socks of hers…

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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I backed this so fast I sprained my finger.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'll do anything to avoid drawing this establishing shot

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have a theory that autocorrect is getting worse to try and force people to use speech to text

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Passed a guy on the Mass Tpke about an hour ago with a plate that said DKN BLUS 🎷

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Extremely Handsome Assassin Pleads “Guilty” to Being Awesome

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hope that all transphobic people have a long sit down and personally reflect on the pain their views have caused

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Even as a very little kid I noticed this difference from the TOS intro, and it really fucking mattered to me

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xenia hospitality princess @m01r4.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

genuinely i think a lot of the problem boils down to we live in a world where everyone has the experience of being asked to turn out a research paper but not everyone has the experience of being asked to produce an image, and as a result people do not recognize that making images is Work and Craft

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank god someone explained this to me finally

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14/08/2026

Critically acclaimed but in stable condition

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

anecdote but have been hanging out w this german artist who accidentally slipped into a niche of drawing historical comics. ofc the writer gets the main credit for research etc & her constant frustration is having to find reference pics of what german things looked like post-war in like the late 40s

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this is very real; Walden's visual storytelling got dismissed in all this, but she cited all her 19th century sources for that as well. The story element of a comic includes the pictures, shock. They aren't just there to illustrate some text. Especially not for Walden, who wields silence so well.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@fluxblog.bsky.social What Belle and Sebastian song should I put on this road trip mix to annoy my family

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is something that people without illustration experience tend not to see: every single thing in an image was put there with intention, nothing can be incidental. A writer says "the car," but an illustrator says exactly what model, inside and out, from every angle, and it's not optional.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Inspired by an email from an old friend this morning: me circa 2008 vs me two months ago

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 03/08/2026

Two pretty significant milestones for psychedelic poster art culture took shape in 1967—the work of pioneering artist Bonnie MacLean was excluded from both. New thing from me www.dominicumile.com/blog/bonnie-...

Psychedelic poster artist Bonnie MacLean's poster for The Yardbirds, The Doors, and other acts at the Fillmore in 1967

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