Nat Gertler, comics thingdoer
@nat.gertler.com
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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Just some of the dozens of books I've written, co-written, annotated, or compiled, as an introduction.
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💙 Yesterday here in Australia 🤭
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@nat.gertler.com put this in a beautiful book everyone should have.
Love that @benjaminlclark.com &
@nat.gertler.com put this in a beautiful book everyone should have.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
💙 Yesterday here in Australia 🤭
Love that @benjaminlclark.com &
@nat.gertler.com put this in a beautiful book everyone should have.
Love that @benjaminlclark.com &
@nat.gertler.com put this in a beautiful book everyone should have.
The new FAA plan for what to wear on flights:
All women must wear nun habits.
All men must wear clown costumes.
NOBODY can tell Bob about this.
This is going to be epic!
All women must wear nun habits.
All men must wear clown costumes.
NOBODY can tell Bob about this.
This is going to be epic!
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The new FAA plan for what to wear on flights:
All women must wear nun habits.
All men must wear clown costumes.
NOBODY can tell Bob about this.
This is going to be epic!
All women must wear nun habits.
All men must wear clown costumes.
NOBODY can tell Bob about this.
This is going to be epic!
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
After GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES became a best-selling novel but before any of the play adaptations reached Broadway or any of the film versions hit the big screen, Anita Loos brought her vapid, cunning...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It has been noted that the HAL computer name in the 2001 movie, if you replace each letter with the next one in the alphabet, you get IBM. A hidden message, as it were.
Now let’s think about AI…
Now let’s think about AI…
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
It has been noted that the HAL computer name in the 2001 movie, if you replace each letter with the next one in the alphabet, you get IBM. A hidden message, as it were.
Now let’s think about AI…
Now let’s think about AI…
Yes, I have an issue of a magazine about all those specialty vehicles at airports. No, I don’t have a particular fascination with those vehicles, but I do kinda like bizarre specialty publications most folks would never encounter.
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yes, I have an issue of a magazine about all those specialty vehicles at airports. No, I don’t have a particular fascination with those vehicles, but I do kinda like bizarre specialty publications most folks would never encounter.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Negative Burn ran the first three installments of The Factor, which I reprinted as issue 0. It was definitely the cool book to be in and I was proud to have been in it. I wish the new version more success.
We really want to put this on as many Negative Burn fans' radars as we can. So, if this was a formative comic for you, be sure to sign up below to get notified about the launch! 🚀
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NEGATIVE BURN: The Anthology
A classic returns! After almost two decades away, NEGATIVE BURN—the multiple Eisner, Harvey, Eagle, and Gem Award–nominated anthology—reignites under original editor Joe Pruett, delivering all-new tal...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Negative Burn ran the first three installments of The Factor, which I reprinted as issue 0. It was definitely the cool book to be in and I was proud to have been in it. I wish the new version more success.
Drawing well used to be enough to get you newspaper coverage. (1915)
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Drawing well used to be enough to get you newspaper coverage. (1915)
Everybody:
Everybody:
Me: No, you're all wrong -- giving Ma Hunkel the Helmet of Fate would be a really good idea!
Everybody:
Me: No, you're all wrong -- giving Ma Hunkel the Helmet of Fate would be a really good idea!
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Everybody:
Everybody:
Me: No, you're all wrong -- giving Ma Hunkel the Helmet of Fate would be a really good idea!
Everybody:
Me: No, you're all wrong -- giving Ma Hunkel the Helmet of Fate would be a really good idea!
Dibs on The Remaining Musicians as a band name.
The remaining musicians head to "Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK," for a pair of group performances in this week's episode of CBS and EPs Taylor Sheridan, Blake Shelton, David C. Glasser, Lee Metzger, and Keith Urban's The Road. / #TheRoad #TheRoadCBS #KeithUrban
The remaining musicians head to "Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK," for a pair of group performances in this week's episode of CBS and EPs Taylor Sheridan, Blake Shelton, David C. Glasser, Lee Metzger, and Keith Urban's The Road. / #TheRoad #TheRoadCBS #KeithUrban
The remaining musicians head to "Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK," for a pair of group performances in this week's episode of CBS's The Road.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Dibs on The Remaining Musicians as a band name.
I was a comics reader as a kid, turned into a superhero reader in college, and then one day I sat down next to Thing artist Ron Wilson on a bus, and realized that real people made these things.
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I was a comics reader as a kid, turned into a superhero reader in college, and then one day I sat down next to Thing artist Ron Wilson on a bus, and realized that real people made these things.
"Democracy dies in darkness. Wheeee!"
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"Democracy dies in darkness. Wheeee!"
If any of my Respectable Comics Friends has an urge to provide a brief blurb for the Fujitake & Strnad adaptations of Keith Laumer's Retief stories, lemme know!
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If any of my Respectable Comics Friends has an urge to provide a brief blurb for the Fujitake & Strnad adaptations of Keith Laumer's Retief stories, lemme know!
I'd love to know what the first iteration of this joke was. When I first heard it, it was the 1970s, the school boy was a cub scout, the bag was a backpack, and the smartest man in the world was Henry Kissinger. Have heard/seen it many times with many smartest men since then. It translates easily.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'd love to know what the first iteration of this joke was. When I first heard it, it was the 1970s, the school boy was a cub scout, the bag was a backpack, and the smartest man in the world was Henry Kissinger. Have heard/seen it many times with many smartest men since then. It translates easily.
When I listened to the audiobook of Steve Martin’s autobiography, I felt his choice to display his life in a non-linear fashion was fascinating.
Then I discovered that my MP3 player was on “shuffle”.
Then I discovered that my MP3 player was on “shuffle”.
Accidentally started watching Pluribis from episode 4 and was greatly admiring that it didn’t fuck around and got straight to it then towards the end I thought “wait when do they flashback to the whole setup” then checked and thought “balls” so now in two minds on whether to watch the first three.
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When I listened to the audiobook of Steve Martin’s autobiography, I felt his choice to display his life in a non-linear fashion was fascinating.
Then I discovered that my MP3 player was on “shuffle”.
Then I discovered that my MP3 player was on “shuffle”.
People rightly point out all sorts of errors in the government's filings. I can't resist pointing out the court's error in this one. It says that "the answer to both questions is 'no'," but if read carefully, the answer they're actually giving to the second question is "yes" (the good answer.)
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
People rightly point out all sorts of errors in the government's filings. I can't resist pointing out the court's error in this one. It says that "the answer to both questions is 'no'," but if read carefully, the answer they're actually giving to the second question is "yes" (the good answer.)
If you want me to defend the cultural value of superheroes, this is exhibit A
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you want me to defend the cultural value of superheroes, this is exhibit A
I think this is how he should always fly. None of that aerodynamic stance bull. He's Superman! Sure, he'll end up with bugs in his teeth, geese too I suppose, but what care that the Superman?
Superman—then all of two years old—made his first appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade 85 years ago, on November 21, 1940. Here's day-after coverage in the New York Times.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think this is how he should always fly. None of that aerodynamic stance bull. He's Superman! Sure, he'll end up with bugs in his teeth, geese too I suppose, but what care that the Superman?
Other comicsers get to say "that villain wouldn't have been in that blockbuster film if I hadn't created her!"
Me, I get "this particular picture wouldn't have been in this online ad, as I was the guy who brought this particular Peanuts work to Fantagraphics for reprinting."
Just as impressive?
Me, I get "this particular picture wouldn't have been in this online ad, as I was the guy who brought this particular Peanuts work to Fantagraphics for reprinting."
Just as impressive?
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November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Other comicsers get to say "that villain wouldn't have been in that blockbuster film if I hadn't created her!"
Me, I get "this particular picture wouldn't have been in this online ad, as I was the guy who brought this particular Peanuts work to Fantagraphics for reprinting."
Just as impressive?
Me, I get "this particular picture wouldn't have been in this online ad, as I was the guy who brought this particular Peanuts work to Fantagraphics for reprinting."
Just as impressive?
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While other publishers are worried about the lack of attention that will arise from the apparent collapse of the Angouleme comics fest, About Comics is already basking in our Angouleme exposure.
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
While other publishers are worried about the lack of attention that will arise from the apparent collapse of the Angouleme comics fest, About Comics is already basking in our Angouleme exposure.
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
Muppets and Roger Langridge (@hotelfred.bsky.social ) are to great tastes that go great together.
Coming February 2026, Roger Langridge is back with an all-new Muppet comic book!
Coming Soon: Roger Langridge’s Muppet Noir - ToughPigs
Roger Langridge is back with a new crime-filled Muppet comic!
www.toughpigs.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Muppets and Roger Langridge (@hotelfred.bsky.social ) are to great tastes that go great together.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
Even if the tariffs prove to be the final nail in Funko's coffin, there should be one last thing: a horror film in which the millions of FPops sent to landfills rise up and wreak revenge,.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Even if the tariffs prove to be the final nail in Funko's coffin, there should be one last thing: a horror film in which the millions of FPops sent to landfills rise up and wreak revenge,.
www.comicsbeat.com/in-funkos-fa...
www.comicsbeat.com/in-funkos-fa...
At the end of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (SPOILERS) you've got the key Enterprise crew -- the Federation's best -- on the wrong side of the law, in a stolen Klngon cruiser.
I want a season of The A-Team In Space.
I want a season of The A-Team In Space.
What is your Star Trek project only you would love?
A series featuring Garak as he becomes the spy we all know and love. I want to see him as a gardener at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus.
A series featuring Garak as he becomes the spy we all know and love. I want to see him as a gardener at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus.
What is your Star Trek project only you would love?
A series set in the mirror universe during the 24th starring the Terran Rebellion in their struggle for freedom against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance and pushing towards something better.
I actually started writing it!
A series set in the mirror universe during the 24th starring the Terran Rebellion in their struggle for freedom against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance and pushing towards something better.
I actually started writing it!
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
At the end of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (SPOILERS) you've got the key Enterprise crew -- the Federation's best -- on the wrong side of the law, in a stolen Klngon cruiser.
I want a season of The A-Team In Space.
I want a season of The A-Team In Space.