B. Clay Moore
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Hey, Kids! It's The Comic Book Writer! Kansas City. Pop culture obsessive, sports guy (sorry), fan of kitsch, tiki, and intellectual wankery. https://bclaymoore.substack.com/ Half of Dead Echo Press, with art maker Mack Chater.
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Thanks! Happy to see her so happy.
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I arrived in New York for New York Comic Con a couple of days late because I had something more important to do, like walking my beautiful daughter down the aisle in Las Vegas.

❤️
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I'd never met him before, and I doubt he was impressed, but while crawling through Artist's Alley to say hi to old friends, I had to dip in and introduce myself to Jesse Lonergan, because I think his work is amazing.
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An interview got me digging through sketchbooks and I found some of the very first drawings of Blue from Drome. Crazy how much she changed. Just kept getting bulkier and bulkier!

Drome is out now from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social
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Snagged a preview from Matt Kindt in New York, and this looks great. FORT PSYCHO features some of @brihurtt.bsky.social's best work, which is saying something.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨

@mattkindt.bsky.social’s FLUX HOUSE is coming to Oni Press!

⚡️MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 | June

⚡️FORT PSYCHO #1 with @brihurtt.bsky.social | Aug

⚡️FLUX HOUSE PRESENTS #1 with @jesselonergan.bsky.social | Nov

All the details:

www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Scrolling, and I see a Bleeding Cool piece via Facebook about my new Ignition Press book with Mack Chater (BLOODLAND), referencing "vampires in the White House," and two of the first replies are giant pro MAGA memes from an obscure comics artist.

What can you even say about these people?
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NYCC 25: Bloodland - Vampires in the White House! New Horror Comic Announced!
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NYCC 25: Bloodland - Vampires in the White House! New Horror Comic Announced!
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See here, kids. The Flat Cap Gang is back in town and done with your shenanigans.

Haun, Rich, Campbell and Bunn in black.

#nycc
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Got into New York earlier and told my son that a place nearby sold burgers until three, so we can watch the end of the game.

I keep checking my watch.
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I don't fly at all compared to years past, but I have to say the TSA at KCI were exceedingly polite and helpful today.
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I'm enjoying watching Harrison Butker a lot more this year.

Way to hand the Jags a short field, haircut.
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Digging through old files, found a scan of old business cards, from maybe 15-20 years ago?
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Two weeks ago Liverpool led the Prem by a "country mile," and woe is Arsenal.

Today sour-faced pundits begrudgingly admit Arsenal is the class of the league.

Football pundits are almost always somehow reflections of either the clubs they played for, or grew up rooting for.
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all the press around the Ed Gein show seems to insist that Robert Bloch used Gein as the inspiration for Norman Bates - it’s become the accepted narrative - but here’s the thing: he didn’t!
screenshot from robertbloch.net
(Audience question regarding the aspects of the Ed Gein murder case as they have supposedly, "historically" applied to Psycho. This otherwise cliched question rates inclusion here because of the breadth of Bob's definitive answer.)
BOB: First of all, I didn't know anything about those aspects when I wrote Psycho. I did not use Ed Gein as a basis for Norman Bates at all; I used the circumstances, which were: somebody could live in a small town, where everybody knows everybody else's business, and conduct a series of murders without anyone suspecting. But people don't like this. They like to believe the legend. When you get right down to it, Ed Gein did not run a motel. He killed nobody in the shower. He did not preserve the body of his mother. None of those things were part of Mr. Gein's background. I invented a character at the time which, not having read the details, which were not being printed initially or immediately, because they were very prudish in most cases. Life magazine and a few other publications later came out with a great deal of stuff, but I would not have used it even if it had been available, because it didn't meet with my particular plot requirements.
But the legend persists, and will continue to persist.
A little over two weeks ago, I think, a network show called Hard Copy asked if they could interview me regarding Psycho. I said I did not want to be interviewed; I didn't want to go down to a studio.
They said, "We'll send a crew out." I said to myself, well, if it's good enough for Ackerman, it's good enough for me... screenshot continued 
They came, and throughout this interview they kept asking, "Didn't you think of Norman Bates because of Ed Gein?"
Didn't Ed Gein inspire the
characterization, and blah-blah-blah. I kept telling them what I just told you, and the interviewer and crew kept looking sadder. And sadder. I said to myself this isn't going to happen.
Sure enough, the show came on, and they'd gone to Plainfield, which had been Gein's home town, and they did a very nice broadcast regarding the case, and they used some dramatization footage which I swear was probably part of a documentary that had been made at the time, because it was in black and white instead of color, and was not aired because it was undoubtedly too strong for audiences then. They salvaged that and put together this program. And I was a non-person. I didn't exist. My name wasn't mentioned, and I certainly did not appear onscreen.
Obviously, if I had, they would not have had a program, because their title was The Inside Story: The Truth About the Ed Gein Murders! And my denials were the exact antithesis.
This is a horrible lesson in how easy it is for media, today, to distort by omission, or by any kind of editing, what actually happened, what occurred.
What I'm citing is trivial; it doesn't mean anything one way or the other. But think of the implications-how this sort of censorship and willful distortion affects so called "news" reporting, and so-called documentaries, on various topics that are of social or historical importance to an audience. And that's something that scares me far more than the activities of Mr. Gein.
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It's cute that you think there will be an America in 2029.
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They won't.

America isn't built for courage, conflict, or accepting that the nation isn't infallible.
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The Kyren Lacy story isn't surprising. Police manipulated facts to pin blame on him. That's what police and prosecutors do more often than not.

Now that proof has come out that he wasn't to blame, they're lying in an effort to back up their original bullshit.

That's the other thing they do.
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Well, also. I don't think it's a very good movie. But it's visually exciting, and the world is fascinating. And, yeah, the *tone* was almost overwhelming when I was a kid. The vibe. It was a lot to process.
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TRON fascinates me, because it was a commercial and critical flop, but the SFX and designs were strong enough to keep it active enough in people's imaginations to eventually see it resurrected.