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Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social · 8h

2025 was a big year for D&Q–not that it’s over yet, but you can hardly take us to task for reminding you about all the great books we’ve already had the pleasure of getting on the shelves. Read all about it here: drawnandquarterly.com/news/for-you...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 11d

Tucson Weekly's annual comix issue, 1985.

With a fabulous cover by Lynda Barry.

Tucson Weekly. 1985. Lynda Barry cover of a couple making out.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.

www.openculture.com

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YAMAGATA, i @yamagata.bsky.social · 22d

Mizuki Shigeru road and museum vibe good.

A bronze statue of the eyeless monster, called Betobetosan

A bronze statue of cat styled monster (I missed to take its name)

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PW Comics World @pwcomicsworld.bsky.social · Sep 5

More to Come Podcast 695: Nathan Gelgud Interview. | @DandQ

More to Come 695: Nathan Gelgud

This week on More to Come, Meg Lemke interviews Nathan Gelgud about his indie movie house slash revolutionary escapades webcomics series Reel Politik, forthcoming as a book from Drawn & Quarterly…

buff.ly

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

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Oliver Sava @oliversava.bsky.social · 1d

Reading DO ADMIT! and chatting with @davidharper.bsky.social about it was such a wonderful experience. I came in already loving Mimi Pond’s previous graphic novels and this amplified my admiration tenfold. So much story told with so much visual invention. @dandq.bsky.social

SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social · 2d

In Double Take, @oliversava.bsky.social and I go in a different direction than previous editions, as we talk about the recent @dandq.bsky.social release Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me, a truly great and original new graphic novel from cartoonist Mimi Pond.

SKTCHD Double Take: Do Admit, Mimi Pond Made One of the Comics of the Year in The Mitford Sisters And Me - SKTCHD

Welcome to Double Take, a column dedicated to highlighting different comics and each’s merits through a discussion between two veterans of the comic site space. One is yours truly, the person behind t...

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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 3d

So stoked to be in attendance @litquake.org with @annaleen.bsky.social and @soleilho and Lee Lai at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley!!

Soleil Ho, Lee Lai, and Annalee Newitz in colorful shirts presenting at great bookstore Mrs. Dalloways in Berkeley

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight, PDX! Don't miss Lee Lai and Shay Mirk in convo at Always Here Books!

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Xtian, ComixMonger. @xtiancomixmonger.bsky.social · 8d

NEW COMICSMONGERS BULLETIN OUT NOW! Cartoonist Melissa Mendes and Chuck Forsman join us at the store with their new comics! It's time for Great Falls Books Through Bars Donor Matching fundraiser, at the end of the month it's the start to our TWELTH YEAR IN BUSINESS!
squaremktg.com/campaigns/tN...

ComicsMongers Bulletin: October Update! Saturday Cartoonist In-Store Event! Halloween! 12 Year Anniversary!

Click here for an update from Comics N'More!

squaremktg.com

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 7d

so excited to talk about food, friendship, and labor with @annaleen.bsky.social and Lee Lai on Sunday!

COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 7d

Litquake (@litquake.org), the Bay Area’s sprawling literary festival, kicks off today! Check out picks from COYOTE staff, including events featuring @annaleen.bsky.social, @susiebright.bsky.social, @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @janelleblarg.bsky.social & more www.coyotemedia.org/litquake-gui...

7 Can’t-Miss Events at Litquake 2025

Here are COYOTE’s picks for the beloved literary festival, which kicks off Oct. 9.

www.coyotemedia.org

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thedailyheller.bsky.social @thedailyheller.bsky.social · 9d

Illustrator Raymond Biesinger has experienced a range of good and bad deeds from honest and not-so-trustworthy clients and non-clients. But the one act of misanthropy that bugs him the most is being ripped off.
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

The Daily Heller: Is a Rip-off the Sincerest Form of Thievery? – PRINT Magazine

In '9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off,' illustrator Raymond Biesinger explores just that.

www.printmag.com

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ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com · 10d

Moomin x Rebecca Sugar x Annapurna

🎬 🍿 new animated Moomin movie 👀 👀

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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wnhhlp.bsky.social @wnhhlp.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Dateline New Haven with Paul Bass: Author Mimi Pond. Have a listen:

Author Mimi Pond

Listen to this episode of Dateline New Haven with Paul Bass

share.transistor.fm

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Comic Book Herald @comicbookherald.bsky.social · 10d

New to CBH's Best of 2025

Cannon by Lee Lai @dandq.bsky.social

Cannon will unquestionably get the "slice-of-life" label, but that undersells the actualization of the lives that Lai builds here, the kind of ear and eye for life that makes you wonder if this fiction could actually be autobiography.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 12d

It's #Caturday! Here's Physics for Cats, by @tomgauld.bsky.social. True, not every cartoon features cats, but every science-based cartoon is hilarious. Math freaks can figure out the ratio of cat to non-cat cartoons in the book.
theliteratelizard.com/book/9781770...
#BookSky
@dandq.bsky.social

Cover of the new book of cartoons about science by Tom Gauld: Physics for Cats

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 25d

The second book in our Shigeru Mizuki art book series is coming this November!!! "Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade."

Originally, this was planned to be just one book. But there was so much great stuff we couldn't decided. So we made it two books. @dandq.bsky.social

amzn.to/4njxAiY

Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade

Amazon.com: Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade: 9781770467989: Mizuki, Shigeru, Davisson, Zack: Books

amzn.to

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スー 🐰 🍉 @usagilune.bsky.social · 18d

Shigeru Mizuki

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Jill | followedmystar @followedmystar.bsky.social · Aug 24

I knew of Lynda Barry before I knew of these books, because she authored one of my favorite comics of all time. (This quickly became a cornerstone/"key image" of THE BODY KINETIC in brainstorming. I was delighted to have a 'home' for it--I've been carrying it around in my brain for years, waiting.)

Panel 1: An adult anthropomorphic doglike creature and a much smaller, blobbier creature both stare at the "Madonna and Child." The adult says, "I'm not sure how to look at art." The child(?) says, "what's sposta happen?"

Panel 2: the adult holds their hands apart. "Something big. A revelation. Suddenly you just understand."

Panel 3: Adult looks back at the painting. "Not sure how to make it happen."
Child(?) says "How bout lift me up so I can see better?"

Panel 4 has no words, just the adult and child looking at the painting together, mirroring the pose of the Madonna and Child itself.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Sep 14

Hard to go wrong with Lynda Barry

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hype@post lan depresh :< @hypercubespl.bsky.social · 16d

I LOVE ANYTHING BY MICHEL DEFORGE HES SO GOOD. "sticks angelica" is good, "big kids" is one of my favorite comics ever
i feel the same about lynda barry, esp her autobio works. "one! hundred! demons!" is great, but "what it is" is also up there for favorite works of all time

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · Jul 31

Always respect the classics.

4 panels from super mutant magic academy:

Guy flips through a comic: Joanie. You actually LIKE these? These comics are totally sexist, not to mention a tacit endorsement of violence!

Guy hands Joanie a hardback: What you need to be reading is GRAPHIC NOVELS. Here, I just picked this up from the library.

Joanie flips through: What's it about?

Guy responds: An aging typewriter store owner becomes obsessed with Death and a girl he saw on the subway when he was eighteen.

Joanie: That's it?

Guy: He also secretly ejaculates into fruit at the 24-hour deli--

Joanie: Ah. Yes.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15d

A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Image 1.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the geology conference
Three diagrams of layered forms labelled with:
Sandstone,
Shale,
Igneous rock,
Limestone,
Granite.

Image 2.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the desserts conference
The same diagrams now labelled with:
Sprinkles,
Custard,
Chocolate,
Sponge cake,
Berry compote,
Biscuit base.

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Matthew Farris 🏳️‍🌈 @mattfarris.bsky.social · 16d

It's finally here! My copy of Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond arrived today. It's a fabulous gift for a Mitford obsessive like me.

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