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B. Erin Cole

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historian, museum professional, and cartoonist. Currently working on a graphic history/memoir about nuclear Colorado. Comics: http://www.littlebraincomics.com Merch: http://littlebraincomics.etsy.com

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from October 2025 to now

11.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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diced up some New Mexico deliciousness tonight

11.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step β€œdesigned for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

09.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 12588 πŸ” 7628 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3

I’ll give up some mornings for this

08.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born

06.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

(within these fields, my emphasis was urban and environmental history)

06.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My PhD comps:

1. History of the American West
2. US History, post-1877
3. 20th Century Europe

written exams for all three, plus orals for the first two

my book list was about 300 books? I barely remember that part of it

06.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about SΓΈren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

a three panel comic about SΓΈren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe ProphΓ©tique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

05.03.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 316 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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Birds the birds are doing important bird business

the neighborhood birds were doing their bird business this morning and I had to draw something about it

www.littlebraincomics.com/birds/

04.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The academic and publishing landscapes have changed a lot since we started this magazine. We've stuck to the same principles we started with:

History is for everyone.

Every way of doing history is worthwhile.

Historians should be paid for their work.

04.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

MESA COUNTY DID ITS JOB HERE, JARED

WHY DON’T YOU ACTUALLY TRY TO DO YOURS

04.03.2026 05:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A smiling cloud-like pink mascot with a monobrow and white arms is standing, arms outstretched, in a doorway.

A smiling cloud-like pink mascot with a monobrow and white arms is standing, arms outstretched, in a doorway.

I spotted this fluffy pink character in Miyazaki City. It’s Mokoko, the mascot from UMK News.

01.03.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 386 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

28.02.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 16433 πŸ” 5095 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 103
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26.02.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

you can get a copy at my Etsy store…

littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1716...

27.02.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Out West Books suggests three titles that lean toward dystopia The Grand Junction bookstore recommends a nonfiction comic about nuclear tests in Colorado, a dinosaur story and a cautionary water novel.

My Plowshare comic got reviewed by my favorite Grand Junction bookstore in the @coloradosun.com!

β€œPlowshare” is a graphic novel that packs an enormous punch. What this little book does in a few short pages brings more light to…Colorado history…”

coloradosun.com/2026/02/22/o...

27.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

say what you want about LLM’s treatment of language as post-structuralist tokens without representational referents, but I think that process kinda nailed this one

26.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the best things you can do to fight fascism is to openly have fun being weird.

26.02.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 14

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

26.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1341 πŸ” 253 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6

Record scratch sounds at 300% volume

25.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

24.02.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 8145 πŸ” 2118 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 265
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today’s energy

24.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

not like I have time to do such a thing, really

24.02.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am reading a new (good! useful!) guide to doing nonfiction comics that seems to kind of gloss over history comics and I feel there might be room out there for a how-to guide to doing graphic history from someone who is both a cartoonist and a trained historian

24.02.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s so nice that the way a person makes a shape or puts a line down on a page can still delight me so much

23.02.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 365 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

100 percent true

23.02.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Since this site is apparently dying, I would love to get @contingent-mag.bsky.social to 10k followers before the end.

23.02.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
A store with a sign that says β€œADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

A store with a sign that says β€œADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

21.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 7487 πŸ” 2309 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 113

congratulations!

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A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

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