Neal Curtis
@nihilcurtis.bsky.social
Comics scholar, one-time critical theorist. Interested in science communication & graphic medicine. Enjoys SF. Concerned (to say the least) by climate emergency and fascism. Escaped UK for Aotearoa. Tangata Tiriti. He/him.
I am currently reading this amazing graphic memoir about a woman trying to reconcile herself to and rediscover her German identity in the face of the county's appalling 20C history.
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I am currently reading this amazing graphic memoir about a woman trying to reconcile herself to and rediscover her German identity in the face of the county's appalling 20C history.
My TL is AI saying MTG is not resigning and then a video of MTG saying she is resigning.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My TL is AI saying MTG is not resigning and then a video of MTG saying she is resigning.
And ppl will tell you this bloke's a genius.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
And ppl will tell you this bloke's a genius.
How it started vs how it's going.
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
How it started vs how it's going.
Mazen Kerbaj on Gaza
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Mazen Kerbaj on Gaza
Remember that John Key said he would have voted for Trump.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Remember that John Key said he would have voted for Trump.
This is why I read #comics. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart of @comicsworkshop.bsky.social is an extraordinary story of grief and hope. A comic in and of fragments. Beautiful does not do it justice.
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is why I read #comics. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart of @comicsworkshop.bsky.social is an extraordinary story of grief and hope. A comic in and of fragments. Beautiful does not do it justice.
If you don't understand that a fully corporate state is just around the corner, you're not paying attention.
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you don't understand that a fully corporate state is just around the corner, you're not paying attention.
I've just finished reading/re-reading these three comics on the Palestinian territories by Joe Sacco. Where we've ended up is a total failure of humanity.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I've just finished reading/re-reading these three comics on the Palestinian territories by Joe Sacco. Where we've ended up is a total failure of humanity.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
This is a very useful graphic of the blockade.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is a very useful graphic of the blockade.
Joe Sacco's drawing of Gaza from 2005 showing how it was already a prison. This is from Footnotes in Gaza where he seeks to recover testimony about massacres of Palestinians in 1956.
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Joe Sacco's drawing of Gaza from 2005 showing how it was already a prison. This is from Footnotes in Gaza where he seeks to recover testimony about massacres of Palestinians in 1956.
If anyone work of fiction was crying out to be written as a comic rather than in prose, it's this one.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If anyone work of fiction was crying out to be written as a comic rather than in prose, it's this one.
A page from Lynd Ward's 'Wild Pilgrimage', 1932.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A page from Lynd Ward's 'Wild Pilgrimage', 1932.
Yesterday I went to the book launch of my colleague Erin Griffey's new book, Facing Decay. A brilliant mix of aesthetics, science and medicine in the beauty and skincare recipes handed down since the 1500s. More deets in alt text.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yesterday I went to the book launch of my colleague Erin Griffey's new book, Facing Decay. A brilliant mix of aesthetics, science and medicine in the beauty and skincare recipes handed down since the 1500s. More deets in alt text.
An amazing album titled Clay by Herbert and Momoko Gill.
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
An amazing album titled Clay by Herbert and Momoko Gill.
A comic on Institutional racism (link in the alt text).
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A comic on Institutional racism (link in the alt text).
Makes you think about the casual imprint of rape culture.
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Makes you think about the casual imprint of rape culture.
This is Trump in 2015 openly declaring that he is on the side of the Alt-Right, the trendy rebrand for US neo-Nazis. The 'gap' has been very narrow for 10 years and legacy media could and should have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. Too late now.
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is Trump in 2015 openly declaring that he is on the side of the Alt-Right, the trendy rebrand for US neo-Nazis. The 'gap' has been very narrow for 10 years and legacy media could and should have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. Too late now.
The piece called 'Chechen War, Chechen Women' published in Joe Dacco's book titled Journalism is one of the best things I've read by him. 38 pages created between Sept 03 to October 04. Remarkable storytelling.
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The piece called 'Chechen War, Chechen Women' published in Joe Dacco's book titled Journalism is one of the best things I've read by him. 38 pages created between Sept 03 to October 04. Remarkable storytelling.