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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 1d

My oldest son sent this to me. 😂

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

Meme featuring two well coifed, intellectual looking Wojacks reading: PEOPLE WHO READ

Beneath them are two disheveled, sick looking people with black circles under their eyes reading: PEOPLE WHO WRITE

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G. D. Falksen @gdfalksen.bsky.social · 1d

Ribbit, ribbit

#NoKings #NoTyrants

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Grand Comics Database @grandcomicsdb.bsky.social · 21d

Batman vs the Vampire, a rare for the time two-part story (Detective Comics 31 & 32, 1939, Gardner Fox & Bob Kane with Shelly Moldoff; cover featured on #31 with an iconic cover by Kane).

Bonus: Neal Adams' homage to the Bob Kane cover; Batman #227, Dec 1970.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 1d

I’m aware. Check the alt text. 😁

I like this variant not only because it is funny, but also because the appeal to media literacy feels more needed lately.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 2d

Stolen from Facebook 😂

Lying cat from Saga saying "[Citation Needed]" with "me, every time y'all post some face news item or AI glurge" above the image.

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Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 21d

Gardner Fox & Gil Kane's Ys is one of my favorite conceits in the DC Universe, a world on the opposite side of ours wherein everything is always occurring/reoccurring/has-will-occur, in which we can learn things we will never know in our world, from which, even if we leave, we will have never left.

Cover of Green Lanter 42 featuring the Warlock looming over Green Lantern and Zatanna as they fight a horde of demons coming from smoke out of a crystal ball.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 5d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 3d

Mid-month reminder about this (likely foil enhanced) Hawkgirl mini print! Only available until Oct 31. Details below. ❤️🪽

Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 15d

Hawkgirl 💛💚🪽

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!! 😊

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 4d

One of those old pulps with a little bit of foxing that you find in a stack on the floor of an old used book store. Richard Fowlks did a great job of invoking that with the cover. 📚

Richard Fowlks’ cover for Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox, featuring a grid of images that show Gardner Fox and his works.

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 5d

New in our etsy shop: Swamp Thing and friend, original sketch by Steve Lieber. This is Lieber in his “lush penwork” mode. @stevelieberart.bsky.social helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4387...
Free USA shipping, directly to you from our bunker here on the war-ravaged streets of Portland, Oregon.

Swamp Thing rendered in ink and grey marker with lots and lots of pen hatching, He’s emerging from shallow water holding a giant tortoise. Drawn by Steve Lieber, Helioscope artist and ceremonial sin-eater.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 8d

Hey friends!!
I’m participating in a free Spooky Book Giveaway where you enter for a chance to win six spooky books, including a copy of my graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER!!

The winner will be selected on October 14th! 👻

Enter here 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Spooky October Giveaway!

Hi there! This is a free giveaway for several awesome spooky books. The entry period for the giveaway is 10/1/25 to 10/14/25, at which point we'll select one lucky winner to receive the free bundle. Y...

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 7d

Of course!! After all our conversations about your work, I feel like I had to! I am excited to dig in and see how things turned out! 😊

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 7d

You were so good!! 👏👏👏

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 8d

😆🎉

Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 8d

Greg Rucka is really back.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 8d

"FACT: David Zaslov will never be forgiven for shelving Batgirl at WB for a tax credit."

Never!!

a cartoon character with red hair and a bat on her shirt

Alt: Batgirl (co-created by Gardner Fox, Julius Schwartz, and Carmine Infantino) taking off her jacket and revealing her bat costume.

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Cko! ☆ ₍ᐢ ̥ ̞ ̥ᐢ₎ @krityan.bsky.social · 24d

Sick af Frazetta cover acquired today

Book cover
"Envoy to a world of science-wizardry
Warrior of Llarn
Gardner F. Fox"
The image is an illustration of a man in a sleeveless black cloak riding a large horse-like creature with a flowing white mane, zebra stripes and long horns. The background is red and black streaks.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the birthday of Ira Schnapp (Oct. 10, 1894-July 24, 1969). A letterer, and ad & logo designer, he refined the Superman logo w/ Superman #6 (1940) & designed logos for the Flash, JLA, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, & more. He also designed house ads & the stamp for the Comics Code Authority.

Eight logos he designed, including the Justice League of America, Aquaman, Atom, Metamorpho The Elemental Man. Flash, Metal Men, Green Lantern, and Plastic Man.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 11d

It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏

The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader

WHAT IS AABB?
A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators,
librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?
- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state
- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community
-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more
-Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled!
-A very active discord community

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!
-Maia Kobabe, 2025

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 13d

My contribution to the 2025 Ed Asner Family Center auction

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Szmn @szmn-o.bsky.social · 26d

This is what @cmxcollective.bsky.social mentioned in the last episode about the Silver Age JLA: Gardner Fox was a polymath using both scientific knowledge and history trivia to make stories more interesting. I see this trait in works of other storytellers from Carl Barks to Ishiro Honda and love it

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 15d

The Comic Arts Festival of Eugene was great! I was super happy to learn that David Walker is a Wolverine and Cyclops shipper. And Chris Roethle's Comics and Poetry Workshop was so much fun! I hope it becomes an annual thing!

Comics Poetry Exercise sheet showing a collage featuring a motif of Wonder Woman stopping bullets with her "bracelets" amongst Yellow Wallpaper with monarch butterflies intermixed as a representation of Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are You?" In the corner, there is also an image of Wonder Woman holding an American flag under a word balloon denoting somebody outside of the frame laughing.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 28d

Lauren got me the DC Finest The Spectre collection and I'd forgotten how completely insane this is. I love it but it's so nuts. In fact the old Gardner Fox stuff might be crazier than the later stuff.

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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 28d

A charming Starman splash page by Mort Meskin from Adventure Comics #81.

ADVENTURE COMICS No. 81

Opposite: Interior, "Starman"; script, Gardner Fox; pencils, Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.); inks, George Roussos (as Inky Roussos).
December 1942.

Upon his debut in Adventure No. 61 (April
1941), no one could predict Starman would become a long-running — if oft-reconceived
— character. As of 2010, there have been at least nine different heroes who have used the name, one them being a Stargirl. Over the years, writers have delighted in finding ways to make the disparate versions fit into a unified mythology.

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 15d

The Comic Arts Festival of Eugene was great! I was super happy to learn that David Walker is a Wolverine and Cyclops shipper. And Chris Roethle's Comics and Poetry Workshop was so much fun! I hope it becomes an annual thing!

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