Dan Mishkin
@danmishkin.bsky.social
Freelance writer (self-unemployed); Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival; husband, father, zayde
I love Ed Barretto's work! Thought I'd also post Toyman cover, this one by Paris Cullins.
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I love Ed Barretto's work! Thought I'd also post Toyman cover, this one by Paris Cullins.
And speaking of the man from whom I learned tender masculinity, here we are the day before he died.
December 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
And speaking of the man from whom I learned tender masculinity, here we are the day before he died.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
A snapshot of the current state of the Republican Party, as seen through members' beliefs in conspiracy theories per Manhattan Institute poll. h/t @mjtoma.bsky.social
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A snapshot of the current state of the Republican Party, as seen through members' beliefs in conspiracy theories per Manhattan Institute poll. h/t @mjtoma.bsky.social
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
And don't forget that if you eat too much turkey, you may end the evening looking like this.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
And don't forget that if you eat too much turkey, you may end the evening looking like this.
Just a handful. A couple of Brave & Bold, and a Legends of the Dark Knight 3-parter I'm very proud of. It's collected in LOTDK volume 3.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just a handful. A couple of Brave & Bold, and a Legends of the Dark Knight 3-parter I'm very proud of. It's collected in LOTDK volume 3.
Let's just call them the Castrati Congress.
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Let's just call them the Castrati Congress.
Just read @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social's delightful “Misfits of Magic,” featuring a teenaged Blue Devil (with a clever rewrite of his origin). Amethyst makes a nonspeaking appearance too.
It’s part of DC’s line of longform comics for middle-grade readers. Preview at tinyurl.com/46zc9ahz
It’s part of DC’s line of longform comics for middle-grade readers. Preview at tinyurl.com/46zc9ahz
July 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just read @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social's delightful “Misfits of Magic,” featuring a teenaged Blue Devil (with a clever rewrite of his origin). Amethyst makes a nonspeaking appearance too.
It’s part of DC’s line of longform comics for middle-grade readers. Preview at tinyurl.com/46zc9ahz
It’s part of DC’s line of longform comics for middle-grade readers. Preview at tinyurl.com/46zc9ahz
When people say that of course there must be an Epstein client list, I'm reminded of Stringer Bell's question from "The Wire."
July 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When people say that of course there must be an Epstein client list, I'm reminded of Stringer Bell's question from "The Wire."
A few words on behalf of the undeserving poor, from Alfie Doolittle (and George Bernard Shaw):
July 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A few words on behalf of the undeserving poor, from Alfie Doolittle (and George Bernard Shaw):
Hey, @scottmccloud.bsky.social, look what I found at the bottom of a box of...let's call it stuff. My old, non-working Zot! wristwatch.
May 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hey, @scottmccloud.bsky.social, look what I found at the bottom of a box of...let's call it stuff. My old, non-working Zot! wristwatch.
@danschkade.bsky.social Why don't we see great internal monologue like this anymore?
Also, why are the late 50s strips set in our solar system and not on Mongo? (OTOH, I've been seeing some nice Dan Barry and Mac Raboy art.)
Also, why are the late 50s strips set in our solar system and not on Mongo? (OTOH, I've been seeing some nice Dan Barry and Mac Raboy art.)
April 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
@danschkade.bsky.social Why don't we see great internal monologue like this anymore?
Also, why are the late 50s strips set in our solar system and not on Mongo? (OTOH, I've been seeing some nice Dan Barry and Mac Raboy art.)
Also, why are the late 50s strips set in our solar system and not on Mongo? (OTOH, I've been seeing some nice Dan Barry and Mac Raboy art.)
I know people are calling it Signalgate, but as a comic book fan, I'd prefer Batshit-Signal.
March 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I know people are calling it Signalgate, but as a comic book fan, I'd prefer Batshit-Signal.
"My" Wonder Woman, drawn by Don Heck
November 25, 2024 at 10:42 PM
"My" Wonder Woman, drawn by Don Heck
When I started reading this item reposted by @andrewfarago.bsky.social, I of course assumed it had something to do with DC Comics writer and editor Jack Schiff (active 1940s-60s).
November 17, 2024 at 4:22 AM
When I started reading this item reposted by @andrewfarago.bsky.social, I of course assumed it had something to do with DC Comics writer and editor Jack Schiff (active 1940s-60s).
This is me with Michigan's US Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin during her first run for Congress in 2018.
November 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM
This is me with Michigan's US Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin during her first run for Congress in 2018.
A reminder: Cries of "rigged election" are not a regular part of US politics, but mostly a recent invention of Donald Trump when he wanted to preemptively explain an expected loss in 2016.
Endlessly repeating the cry for the last 4 years doesn't make it any less the lie of an insecure man.
Endlessly repeating the cry for the last 4 years doesn't make it any less the lie of an insecure man.
November 4, 2024 at 2:36 AM
A reminder: Cries of "rigged election" are not a regular part of US politics, but mostly a recent invention of Donald Trump when he wanted to preemptively explain an expected loss in 2016.
Endlessly repeating the cry for the last 4 years doesn't make it any less the lie of an insecure man.
Endlessly repeating the cry for the last 4 years doesn't make it any less the lie of an insecure man.
From The Atlantic. And note that other VP prospects with positions akin to Shapiro's are not being given epithets like "Genocide Josh." He wouldn't be my first choice, btw, but I think it's fair to ask why the Jew in this group is being singled out for opprobrium.
August 1, 2024 at 6:09 PM
From The Atlantic. And note that other VP prospects with positions akin to Shapiro's are not being given epithets like "Genocide Josh." He wouldn't be my first choice, btw, but I think it's fair to ask why the Jew in this group is being singled out for opprobrium.
OK, I'm showing my age, but...
July 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM
OK, I'm showing my age, but...
Alternatively, superheroes are fantasies in which children get to imagine what it will be like to have adult power in the world and discover the moral guidelines to use it.
This was never truer than when Moore and I were growing up, which makes his POV even more remarkable to me.
This was never truer than when Moore and I were growing up, which makes his POV even more remarkable to me.
October 9, 2023 at 2:14 AM
Alternatively, superheroes are fantasies in which children get to imagine what it will be like to have adult power in the world and discover the moral guidelines to use it.
This was never truer than when Moore and I were growing up, which makes his POV even more remarkable to me.
This was never truer than when Moore and I were growing up, which makes his POV even more remarkable to me.