Michael Avolio
@michaelavolio.bsky.social
Silver Spring, MD
Indie cartoonist making comics.
Autistic and in constant physical pain.
Former theater artist. Forever cinephile.
Buy my comics and paintings at michaelavolio.etsy.com. Support my comics work at patreon.com/michaelavolio.
Indie cartoonist making comics.
Autistic and in constant physical pain.
Former theater artist. Forever cinephile.
Buy my comics and paintings at michaelavolio.etsy.com. Support my comics work at patreon.com/michaelavolio.
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Michael Avolio
@michaelavolio.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Art prints: michaelavolio.etsy.com
(Plus comics, paintings, and other art!)
(Plus comics, paintings, and other art!)
Davies is one of my favorite screen comedians, up there with Buster Keaton & the Marx brothers, above Chaplin.
I'm excited The Cardboard Lover is being restored & released on Blu-ray - should be out sometime next year from Undercrank. I chipped in for the Kickstarter. One of my favorite comedies.
I'm excited The Cardboard Lover is being restored & released on Blu-ray - should be out sometime next year from Undercrank. I chipped in for the Kickstarter. One of my favorite comedies.
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Davies is one of my favorite screen comedians, up there with Buster Keaton & the Marx brothers, above Chaplin.
I'm excited The Cardboard Lover is being restored & released on Blu-ray - should be out sometime next year from Undercrank. I chipped in for the Kickstarter. One of my favorite comedies.
I'm excited The Cardboard Lover is being restored & released on Blu-ray - should be out sometime next year from Undercrank. I chipped in for the Kickstarter. One of my favorite comedies.
Reposted by Michael Avolio
Now through December 2nd, everything in my Etsy shop is 25% off — comics, paintings, art prints, original comic art pages, and drawings! Buy a gift for someone else, or just get a little something for yourself. Free shipping on orders over $35!
michaelavolio.etsy.com
michaelavolio.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Now through December 2nd, everything in my Etsy shop is 25% off — comics, paintings, art prints, original comic art pages, and drawings! Buy a gift for someone else, or just get a little something for yourself. Free shipping on orders over $35!
michaelavolio.etsy.com
michaelavolio.etsy.com
Blade Runner (final cut) & Raging Bull for sure, & maybe Wings of Desire, Videodrome, Tampopo, or The Road Warrior.
Looking at my Letterboxd, I've only given 5 stars to 15 '80s movies. Interesting to compare decades. The 2010s has 29 5 star films, for example. The '70s has 44! Only 13 for the '40s.
Looking at my Letterboxd, I've only given 5 stars to 15 '80s movies. Interesting to compare decades. The 2010s has 29 5 star films, for example. The '70s has 44! Only 13 for the '40s.
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Blade Runner (final cut) & Raging Bull for sure, & maybe Wings of Desire, Videodrome, Tampopo, or The Road Warrior.
Looking at my Letterboxd, I've only given 5 stars to 15 '80s movies. Interesting to compare decades. The 2010s has 29 5 star films, for example. The '70s has 44! Only 13 for the '40s.
Looking at my Letterboxd, I've only given 5 stars to 15 '80s movies. Interesting to compare decades. The 2010s has 29 5 star films, for example. The '70s has 44! Only 13 for the '40s.
I read enough about the Variety "100 best comedies of all time" list to know reading the list itself would only annoy me.
My favorite comedies include Duck Soup, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Cardboard Lover, Wag the Dog, The Muppet Movie, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Bullets Over Broadway, & The Jerk.
My favorite comedies include Duck Soup, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Cardboard Lover, Wag the Dog, The Muppet Movie, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Bullets Over Broadway, & The Jerk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I read enough about the Variety "100 best comedies of all time" list to know reading the list itself would only annoy me.
My favorite comedies include Duck Soup, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Cardboard Lover, Wag the Dog, The Muppet Movie, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Bullets Over Broadway, & The Jerk.
My favorite comedies include Duck Soup, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Cardboard Lover, Wag the Dog, The Muppet Movie, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Bullets Over Broadway, & The Jerk.
Now through December 2nd, everything in my Etsy shop is 25% off — comics, paintings, art prints, original comic art pages, and drawings! Buy a gift for someone else, or just get a little something for yourself. Free shipping on orders over $35!
michaelavolio.etsy.com
michaelavolio.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Now through December 2nd, everything in my Etsy shop is 25% off — comics, paintings, art prints, original comic art pages, and drawings! Buy a gift for someone else, or just get a little something for yourself. Free shipping on orders over $35!
michaelavolio.etsy.com
michaelavolio.etsy.com
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Instagram permanently deactivated my account because I told too many fascists there to kill themselves. So I had to create a new account, with no access to my followers/following lists. My new account is: instagram.com/michaelavoliocomics
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Instagram permanently deactivated my account because I told too many fascists there to kill themselves. So I had to create a new account, with no access to my followers/following lists. My new account is: instagram.com/michaelavoliocomics
Drawn and Quarterly is having a sale on their website December 1, with all books 35-50% off.
Fantagraphics is having a sale on their website through tomorrow of 30% off their gift guide selections and then 40% off almost everything on November 24 with free domestic shipping for orders over $75.
Fantagraphics is having a sale on their website through tomorrow of 30% off their gift guide selections and then 40% off almost everything on November 24 with free domestic shipping for orders over $75.
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Drawn and Quarterly is having a sale on their website December 1, with all books 35-50% off.
Fantagraphics is having a sale on their website through tomorrow of 30% off their gift guide selections and then 40% off almost everything on November 24 with free domestic shipping for orders over $75.
Fantagraphics is having a sale on their website through tomorrow of 30% off their gift guide selections and then 40% off almost everything on November 24 with free domestic shipping for orders over $75.
Chris Van Hollen is one of my senators here in Maryland. He's consistently standing up against Trump & is one of the rare members of Congress not taking AIPAC money. Van Hollen even went to El Salvador to check on a constituent who was illegally abducted & imprisoned by Trump & company at CECOT.
This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Chris Van Hollen is one of my senators here in Maryland. He's consistently standing up against Trump & is one of the rare members of Congress not taking AIPAC money. Van Hollen even went to El Salvador to check on a constituent who was illegally abducted & imprisoned by Trump & company at CECOT.
Jordan Crane talked process, theory, practice, drawing, and printing in one of my favorite New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium meetings the other night. I found this fascinating and inspiring. Looking forward to his interview in the next Comics Journal.
youtu.be/EtM0ZGQAJ_c
youtu.be/EtM0ZGQAJ_c
Jordan Crane, November 18th, 2025
YouTube video by New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jordan Crane talked process, theory, practice, drawing, and printing in one of my favorite New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium meetings the other night. I found this fascinating and inspiring. Looking forward to his interview in the next Comics Journal.
youtu.be/EtM0ZGQAJ_c
youtu.be/EtM0ZGQAJ_c
Saw the new restoration of The Hidden Fortress at AFI Silver today. These new Kurosawa restorations look lovely, & they seem to be doing good business, which makes me happy as a cinephile who's glad so many people are seeing Kurosawa films & as someone who wants my local arthouse theater to make $.
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Saw the new restoration of The Hidden Fortress at AFI Silver today. These new Kurosawa restorations look lovely, & they seem to be doing good business, which makes me happy as a cinephile who's glad so many people are seeing Kurosawa films & as someone who wants my local arthouse theater to make $.
I got a print copy of the schedule for AFI Silver's new European Union Film Showcase. Of particular interest at first glance: A Magnificent Life, Young Mothers, Made in EU, Magellan, The Visitor, The Birthday Party, Testament of Ann Lee (70mm) & Petzold's Miroirs No 3.
silver.afi.com/events/detai...
silver.afi.com/events/detai...
AFI European Union Film Showcase | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
silver.afi.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I got a print copy of the schedule for AFI Silver's new European Union Film Showcase. Of particular interest at first glance: A Magnificent Life, Young Mothers, Made in EU, Magellan, The Visitor, The Birthday Party, Testament of Ann Lee (70mm) & Petzold's Miroirs No 3.
silver.afi.com/events/detai...
silver.afi.com/events/detai...
I finally made it to see Die My Love:
boxd.it/bLWGrl
boxd.it/bLWGrl
A ★★★★½ review of Die My Love (2025)
Visceral and jagged-edged, in usual Lynne Ramsay fashion. Troubling, fascinating, strange, and sad. Bravura work from Lawrence, and strong work by Pattinson and Spacek and the rest. I'm curious about ...
boxd.it
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I finally made it to see Die My Love:
boxd.it/bLWGrl
boxd.it/bLWGrl
Happy birthday to our greatest living filmmaker, Martin Scorsese.
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Happy birthday to our greatest living filmmaker, Martin Scorsese.
self-portraits from over the years
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
self-portraits from over the years
I have no use for the people arguing we aren't living under a fascist government. The US is like Germany in the 1930s, and insisting that it's not fascism just because we aren't Germany in the 1940s is of little value except to point out that things can still get worse.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I have no use for the people arguing we aren't living under a fascist government. The US is like Germany in the 1930s, and insisting that it's not fascism just because we aren't Germany in the 1940s is of little value except to point out that things can still get worse.
This reminds me, Clowes has a wordless cameo near the end of Eddington. He's sitting there in the last Emma Stone scene. Clowes is friends with that filmmaker, Ari Aster, who's talked about Clowes in interviews.
Whatever you’re doing, assume Daniel Clowes is doing something much cooler 😎
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This reminds me, Clowes has a wordless cameo near the end of Eddington. He's sitting there in the last Emma Stone scene. Clowes is friends with that filmmaker, Ari Aster, who's talked about Clowes in interviews.
Instagram permanently deactivated my account because I told too many fascists there to kill themselves. So I had to create a new account, with no access to my followers/following lists. My new account is: instagram.com/michaelavoliocomics
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Instagram permanently deactivated my account because I told too many fascists there to kill themselves. So I had to create a new account, with no access to my followers/following lists. My new account is: instagram.com/michaelavoliocomics
Martin Scorsese interviews Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about the latter's new movie, It Was Just an Accident.
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4
Jafar Panahi and Martin Scorsese on It Was Just an Accident and Rebellious Filmmaking
YouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Martin Scorsese interviews Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about the latter's new movie, It Was Just an Accident.
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4
youtu.be/1tav1MUblM4
The restoration of Throne of Blood looks incredible! My first time seeing the film on the big screen. I saw Seven Samurai in the theater last year and Ran earlier this year and am planning to catch Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Rashomon, and High and Low there too, and maybe The Hidden Fortress.
boxd.it/bGEP3r
boxd.it/bGEP3r
A ★★★★★ review of Throne of Blood (1957)
In this, one of the all-time best Shakespeare adaptations, Kurosawa streamlines the narrative of Macbeth (most notably by removing all the Macduff material) and makes many bold and creative choices. T...
boxd.it
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The restoration of Throne of Blood looks incredible! My first time seeing the film on the big screen. I saw Seven Samurai in the theater last year and Ran earlier this year and am planning to catch Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Rashomon, and High and Low there too, and maybe The Hidden Fortress.
boxd.it/bGEP3r
boxd.it/bGEP3r
The Criterion Channel has added a Tatsuya Nakadai set: www.criterionchannel.com/starring-tat...
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The Criterion Channel has added a Tatsuya Nakadai set: www.criterionchannel.com/starring-tat...
Pope Leo's four favorite movies: Two films in which Nazis are the villains, one in which a wealthy capitalist is the villain, and one in which a bad parent is the villain.
The whole list is anti-Musk.
(The Sound of Music, Life Is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, and Ordinary People.)
The whole list is anti-Musk.
(The Sound of Music, Life Is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, and Ordinary People.)
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Pope Leo's four favorite movies: Two films in which Nazis are the villains, one in which a wealthy capitalist is the villain, and one in which a bad parent is the villain.
The whole list is anti-Musk.
(The Sound of Music, Life Is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, and Ordinary People.)
The whole list is anti-Musk.
(The Sound of Music, Life Is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, and Ordinary People.)
My Instagram account got disabled Saturday night because I told too many fascists on there to kill themselves. I appealed the decision and am waiting to see if IG restores my account, or if I have to start over with a new account. There's no way to write anything in the appeal — it's just a button.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My Instagram account got disabled Saturday night because I told too many fascists on there to kill themselves. I appealed the decision and am waiting to see if IG restores my account, or if I have to start over with a new account. There's no way to write anything in the appeal — it's just a button.
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It might be low stakes for society if an artist or gallery administrator can’t parse an obviously fake story as fake. What happens when enough structural engineers or drug researchers or infectious disease doctors or law makers can’t tell what is real, what is plausible?
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It might be low stakes for society if an artist or gallery administrator can’t parse an obviously fake story as fake. What happens when enough structural engineers or drug researchers or infectious disease doctors or law makers can’t tell what is real, what is plausible?