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theoretical cartoonist
comics as technology of consciousness
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In Transit: A Search for Utopia. Partial list of characters: Zizek, MODOK, Solon, Gorbachev, Voltron, von Däniken, Gamera, Heraclitus, John Gray, Richard Florida.
"We should remember […] that reading, having developed from hallucinating from idols and then from pictographs, had become during later bicameral times a matter of hearing the cuneiform."
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I drew the newsletter cover image: a Stone Age warrior riding a reindeer.
Latest Newsletter! Jungle 2 & Fox Bunny Funny Ship, Preorder Jungle 3, Podcasts, and Huge Holiday Sale! - Uncivilized Territories, 53, Nov 2025 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Latest Uncivilized Territories Newsletter. Big Holiday Sale!
Latest Newsletter! Jungle 2 & Fox Bunny Funny Ship, Preorder Jungle 3, Podcasts, and Huge Holiday Sale! - Uncivilized Territories, 53, Nov 2025 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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anyone making a product should be given this design choice for the barcode, it still just goes Boop when you scan it
there were seven finalists that made it to the standards committee

3 of the 7 were round, so the scanner could scan from any angle

but IBM proposed the boring square barcode and they were so huge that they won the selection process
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Latest Newsletter! Jungle 2 & Fox Bunny Funny Ship, Preorder Jungle 3, Podcasts, and Huge Holiday Sale! - Uncivilized Territories, 53, Nov 2025 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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And second, 22 Panels @22panelspodcast.bsky.social podcast with Unciv chief, Tom Kaczynski: jcd22panelspo.podbean.com/e/tomkaczyn...
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
that happened
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A snipped from this page that's nearly done. the first planet forming and as planets form, clearing their lanes... Really eager to have time to put this one to bed!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Savage Sunday. Post a barbarian, brute, heathen, primitive, wild, uncivilized, vandal, ruffian, beast, or hooligan. This week. The awesome and ridiculous Skully from Roachmill No. 4 by Hedden & McWeeney.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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You can see the patience and craft in the early sections
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Speaking of comics, I'm a big fan of what @unciv.bsky.social has put out this year; check them out:
uncivilizedbooks.com
Uncivilized Books + ODOD Books
Uncivilized Books publishes great comics and graphic novels. Odod Books is our imprint for young readers. Some of our artists are: Gabrielle Bell, Craig Thompson, and more.
uncivilizedbooks.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The eyes are the window to the soul.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Whole cities go up in a few months!
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Sharp artwork and a writing style that veered from Frank Miller grim'n'girtty to Looney Tunes weird'n'wacky Roachmill was a Blade Runner future but with aliens instead of replicates and Rochmill a freelance "pest controller" who clearly isn't all human.

From the early days of Dark Horse.
December 27, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Topcraft
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Jordan Crane walks us through his entire working process, from sketches to printed book, in this 2+ hour conversation. Crane is warm and open in discussing his work, this video will be of value to anyone who makes comics.

youtu.be/EtM0ZGQAJ_c?...
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM