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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 4h

Joan Baez and Springsteen singing Chimes of Freedom was the sad and fragile and hopeful note I needed tonight #powertothepeople

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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The postal carrier came today, as usual. But today was a special and long-awaited. 💜💚💛⚜️ #NOLA

A coffee table-sized book published by The Historic New Orleans Collection called “Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions,” by Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New #newsletter is out! We've got a new podcast about #BunnyMatthews feat. @alisonf.bsky.social & @tisserand.bsky.social, neat links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, & more, so GO READ! buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

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Postal Services

We've got a new podcast about Bunny Matthews, some links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, and more!

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Come see us on our World Tour of New Orleans and Baton Rouge

Schedule of author appearances for new book Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

belated happy pub day & mazel tov to my pals @alisonf.bsky.social & @tisserand.bsky.social for their new book about legendary New Orleans cartoonist & writer Bunny Matthews. Don't know who that is? Well I can recommend a book! bookshop.org/a/22613/9780...

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Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions

Fiendishly creative, sharply observant, and deeply devoted to his city, Bunny Matthews was among the most influential cartoonists and writers in New Orleans. Matthews obsessed over his native city, an...

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you are in New Orleans this weekend come to our Bunny Day!

Cartoon by Bunny Matthews and schedule of events Saturday at the Historic New Orleans Collection

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand spoke to @dantigravity.bsky.social about their new, deeply researched, and fascinating book about late cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews, joined by Bunny's son Jude. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/the-...

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The People vs. Bunny Matthews

“Bunny Matthews—your cartoons are the best depictions yet of life in ‘N’awlins…’ But, Bunny, who the hell are you trying to impress with all the confusing shit you write?” —Disgruntled Figaro reader…

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is it still possible to laugh out loud at all this? Turns out it is.

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They’ll name the baby L’il Quinoa

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” — Wendell Berry, RIP

Texas Monthly photo of bulldozer clearing a road parallel to Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, in Big Bend National Park, on August 8. Photographer: Brian Finke

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delving into comics history in my intro course today, which means time for my Krazy Kat shirt! Courtesy of @tisserand.bsky.social & @fantagraphics.bsky.social Timely even over 100 years after it was made…

Selfie of me in yellow tshirt with ignatz and crazy on it.
Ignatz says “I notice Krazy that sometimes you ARE A
"MISS, THEN AGAIN, YOU
ARE A MR"
Krazy responds: yes, Ignatz, so I am

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At times it seems that some folks leave right at the minute you need to be reminded that goodness exists

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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Exciting mail day. Now to, as they say, sink ma teeth into a piece of New Orleans cultcha.

A copy of the forthcoming (just released?) book Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions by Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand.

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Tim Ruppert @tmruppert.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

BUNNY DAY CELEBRATING "BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AND OBSESSIONS" September 19, 2026 at the Historic New Orleans Collection Lectures and a Costume Contest. Free and open to the public. LINK: hnoc.org/events/bunny-day #nola #Louisiana #history #art #hnoc

A colored line drawing by the artist Bunny Matthews features his two archetypes of Mew Orleans locals Vic and Nat’ly.

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My newspaper is in a polyamorous relationship with a billionaire and a president. Should I intervene?

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Said Theodore Roosevelt of our country's wild places: "... our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred." Posted as Trump's bulldozers tear up Big Bend for no good goddamn reason at all.

Panoramic view of Big Bend National Park

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We tried to warn you about this guy

Bill Cassidy wearing Mardi Gras beads that are …

… shown to me photoshopped around his neck

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Every Republican candidate this fall should be constantly asked, “Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?”

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There in the vastness of Washington, in the void that is the National Mall, there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting … in the Freedom 250 Zone. (Apologies to Rod Serling)

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The only author who could do justice to these times would be Nelson Algae

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ever since Nixon exposed Algae Hiss

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Don’t want to say the Democratic Party has gone full communist, but it’s just been revealed that all three of the candidates Mamdani endorsed anonymously worked on the Roman Holiday screenplay.

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rosey never f——d with the Jetsons like this

A Google search ends with AI admitting it just makes shit up

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“The United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz"

Steven Spielberg reclines in shark mouth

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🎶 “I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview”

Craig Finn of the band the hold steady singing “Sequestered in Memphis”

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I just watched Close Encounters for the first time since it came out and I don’t want to tell anyone how to live their lives but personally if I was married to Teri Garr I’d be making her portraits in the mashed potatoes

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Also from In Memoriam at the @dfl.org State Convention today ♥️🐾

The Hortman dog Gilbert is remembered with sorrow and gratitude

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My Mom in “In Memoriam” at the Minnesota DFL State Convention today

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I, too, will not be performing at The Great American State Fair.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Working on my book about Chaplin and The Great Dictator and came across this unsigned 1940 piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal and thought I'd share it now: 1/3

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yesterday at May Day, Minneapolis re-created the ICE siege in a collective show of grief, humor and most of all toughness for what lies ahead

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Happy Pete Seeger Day to those who celebrate! Photo taken 2001 at Clearwater Revival, Croton-on-Hudson, by Annie Leibovitz

Pete’s banjo inscribed “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender”

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Any 15 issues of American Splendor

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Jonathan Burdick @jonathanburdick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“Isn't there a war dragging on? Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn't like." — @jimmykimmel.com Pictured: Orphan Annie in the New Orleans Item, January 1, 1945 (during the Battle of the Bulge)

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day from Lobster (adopted 2022) and Scout (adopted 2011)

Fluffy tan cat and sleek tan dog at the door

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sometimes I stumble on a clip from one of those CNN panel discussions and each one is the single most annoying restaurant next-table loud conversation imaginable.

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