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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be

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Eisner-winning Peanuts nerd. Writer, publisher (About Comics), founder of 24 Hour Comics Day, sperm donor (retired). "Is he the guy who did that thing?" Yeah, prob'ly.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · Nov 12

Just some of the dozens of books I've written, co-written, annotated, or compiled, as an introduction.

Covers to: the alt superhero book The Factor, Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, Bootsie's War Years, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, Just a Book with About 410 Drawings of Bicycles from Newspapers of the 1890s, Be More Charlie Brown, The Peanuts Collection, The Licesable Bear™ Big Book of Officially Licensed Fun!, Wife Gets Smart, Makes Husband Happy: Supermarket Comic Strip Ads of the World War II Era, Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, and Be More Snoopy.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 4h

You know what keeps @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social funded and paying comic creators for their original work on sex, sexuality, gender, and being a human?

Our readers.

The regular systems that financially support small businesses are cut off to us. Our readers are everything
www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Oh Joy Sex Toy | Patreon

Creating Weekly Sex Positive Comics

www.patreon.com

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 4h

Wherever could they be getting pink gas masks from? Amazon must be antifa.

Amazon search results page showing a plethora of different pink gas masks.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 4h

"This one guy showed a good portfolio, then told us 'I can also do that Drew Struzan style.' Second guy, better portfolio, and 'I can do a great Drew Struzan.' Well, we didn't know who you were, but we figured we better call you..."

(Tale Drew told, roughly remembered.)

RIP Drew.

Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 7h

NEW PERSONAL RECORD!!

I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:56. 🎉
No. 433 | October 14, 2025
gisnep.com

Screen text: Congratulations! You solved today's Gisnep in 00:56. Use these buttson to brag! -- followed by various social media icons.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 7h

It requires that they be a citizen, and if I recall correctly (and I may not, I cannot cite a specific law or case), the dead are not citizens.

In any case, I am not a lawyer, and any dead person who may be considering a candidacy would be well advise to see appropriate counsel.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 7h

On a technical note: if FDR were alive, the term limit would apply to him; he would be an ineligible candidate.

There actually is one person it does not apply to, legally. If we want a permanent president without changing the Constitution, we need to revive Harry S. Truman.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 8h

Have they cleared this with the MPA? They protect their ratings with trademarks, and have been against other folks using them, in large part because they won't get control over what gets labeld and how the ratings get defined.

Screenshot from trademark database of the entry for PG-13, trademarked to Motion Picture Association, Inc.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 16h

The plus sign was what let me know that I could subscribe to LGBTQIA+.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 19h

So, which one are you going as for halloween?

Free comic strip character masks

Clipping found in Sykesville Post-Dispatch published in Sykesville, Pennsylvania on 8/25/1933. Free comic strip character masks

www.newspapers.com

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 20h

@taserswift.swifties.social My apologies for thinking there was a chance that I was the first person to make this joke -- but it's good to know that I'm not the only one who gets it!

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Taylor Swift doesn't have time to write songs. She's been too busy inventing the taser -- it stands for Taylor A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 20h

"I forgot this article about me existed! 1989! Cool, let's see what it says.... Talks about Omega The Unknown as an influence, that checks. 'Writing for comics can also be lucrative. Fees for beginning writers range from $25 to $40 a page...'"

<sigh>

My most recent comics freelance pay: $25 per.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

I have long been in love with this box design for all its wrongness… its random mix of styles, sense of perspective, etc.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Taylor Swift doesn't have time to write songs. She's been too busy inventing the taser -- it stands for Taylor A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Exactly, that's the finanically-optimal thing to do. But it's at least ethically -- and I believe probably legally -- problematic.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

I've sometimes thought about writing a story about what you do if you find a sizable stash of a rare collectible (working title: A Case of Action, with the item being a case or bundle of Action Comics #1.) Financially, you don't want to announce you have a lot of them; ethically, you must.

Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 1d

47 copies of the insanely rare Superman comic, "This Island Bradman", have just been found and listed at auction in England #superman

47 copies of the insanely rare Superman comic, "This Island Bradman", have just been found and listed at auction in England.

dlvr.it

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

This has been in the works for well over a year now, but I finally got it done. (Don't be surprised if you see another, utterly unrelated book from me within a week; I'm in a productive mode at the moment.)

About Comics @aboutcomics.com · 1d

Just released: DRIFT MARLO: The Space Race Comic Strip. This series about the security guy at an American space launch base launched in 1961, while the first astronauts were being launched into space, and is grounded in the real space program. 🧵

Cover to Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip fetures a man and a woman standing in front of a small rocket.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

It gave civilization something to aspire to... and in this rare case, achieve!

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

The right hates seeing people in costumes, as it makes a mockery of their efforts. I say we flood the streets with people in costume to show them how Americans really feel!

Schedule date: October 31.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

"No room for balloons."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

I never knew my grampa was an Air Warden during WWII.

Also: note that the form has blanks to allow appropriate pronouns, and is not limited to male wardens.

Air Warden Service Certificate of Qualification for Meyer Gertler, noting he had been enrolled Feb 12, 1942, and now qualified as Senior Warden, date October 12, 1943.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Reputation Changer/Brand,com offered to make bad search results about you go away. They claimed to have "built an entire practice around creating, managing, and monitoring Wikipedia", offering to create a "positive Wikipedia page".

They tried to control their own Wikipedia page. Failed.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

That's just a gateway to hard candy, you know.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Look, if we don't give them candy ed in school, they're just going to learn about it from strangers in the gutter. Is that what you want??

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Under the current administration, the days of school teachers being asked to hype specific brands of gum may make a comeback. (1925.)

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