@gipperfish
Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
I drew a short story for THIS new mammoth anthology! Edited by @deanhaspiel.bsky.social & @douglatino.bsky.social from Cosmic Lion @cosmiclion.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho... Contributors include @seanvongorman.bsky.social , Roz Chast, @pkuper.bsky.social - via @kickstarter.com !
This #WomensHistoryMonth, we recommend "Girlhood Games" by Stephanie Harkin on the evolution of gender, youth, and identity in video games, from the Game Boy Color Sewing Machine to the teen girl social & identity obstacles found in games like Life is Strange #DGBWomen @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
This is dope
we dare you to find a museum more ready
the cover of a Calvin and Hobbes collection showing the title characters bounding out of a red wagon.
βCalvin and Hobbesβ by Bill Watterson was syndicated from 1985-95. During this 10-year run, it became one of the most popular & critically lauded comic strips of all time. At the height of its popularity, it appeared in 2400 newspapers and collected editions have sold over 45 million copies. 1/10
February 9, 2025 diary comic. Arts District and Little Tokyo can be seen.
a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'
you want to see a murder
An elephant with a hat. This is a detail from a German broadside (VD17 12:668009T) from 1630.
Just an elephant wearing a human hat in 1630. Nothing to see here ... #skystorians
photo of a small green sphinx moth. they are standing on a gray deck. they are in 3/4 profile facing right.
That title goes to the actual Teddy Bear Moth
(Proserpinus lucidus AKA Pacific Green Sphinx)
Just when you thought moths couldn't get any cuter!
V teeny too 3cm #inverts
A BLONDIE daily. Dagwood is explaining a newspaper story to the dog.
Comics are good.
Words by Funkit Toys from their thread https://bsky.app/profile/funkittoys.bsky.social/post/3mdtky5ug4s2r written Feb 1, 2026, art by Erika Moen. An illustration rendered to look prehistoric, as if it's on a stone tablet or stretched hide, shows an assortment of drawings depicting pieces of the following text. Narration: For anyone who may be losing faith in human progress, remember this: We invented the dildo 27,000 years before the gun. Image: A stone phallus with several cracks and intentionally carved penis-head at one end. Caption: Hohle Fels Phallus, 28,000 years ago Text: We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language. Image: A simplified cave art painting depicting a couple having sex in doggy-style. Caption: Cave art, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria, 12,000 years ago. Text: We invented the condom before steel. Image: An off-white, aged, sock-let with a long, ragged belt attached to it. Caption: Oil-soaked linen condom of King Tutankkamunn, 1332-1323 BCE Text: Bread is older than war. Beer is older than borders. Image: A fancy loaf of bread, referenced from Pompeii, even though it's not the same time period as the caption, but it looks nice, ok?. Caption: Bread, 14,600-11,600 years ago. Text: We're better at making good things than bad. We've had more practice. Image: A barley field. Caption: Beer, 5,000 years ago. Text: Words by Funkit Toys, Art by Erika Moen, 2026
"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." (Full size image)
Words by @funkittoys.bsky.social, images by @erikamoen.bsky.social (and various uncredited prehistoric artists, craftspeople, and caveperverts)
Full post: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...
Papaver somniferum, commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, from KoΜhlerβs βMedizinal-Pflanzenβ Atlas, Gera-Untermhaus, Fr. Eugen KΓΆhler, 1887. Illustrated by W. Muller.
#botanicalart #scientificillustration #medizinalpflanzen #Papaversomniferum #poppies
EMPRESS OF FOREVER is $1.99 at various websites! Galaxy-smashing wuxia-adjacent spaceopera adventure that kicks off from annoyingly-plausible near-future political thriller... Have fun! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/empress-of...
This site is a gem. Translations of 500 original interviews from the videogame industry. Here one my favorite videogame #SecretOfMana
shmuplations.com/secretofmana/
comic-book colour image of a girl in a filthy dress riding a horse down a dirt road, dust swirling behind her
Practical Defence Against Piracy
βοΈ CHAPTER SIX βοΈ
β¦begins right now!
Come find out whether Alexandra's desperate ride delivers her to safety!
π www.patreon.com/posts/152715...
#DD4 #PDAP
OPINION: I asked a former Trump official to justify this war
So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they donβt like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesnβt have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. Thatβs his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: βThe Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.β
Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement
Close-up of Laura in a video being played back during Donnaβs questioning. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.
Twin Peaks: Close-up of Laura in a video being played back during Donnaβs questioning.
"She" didn't do a fucking thing.
If you are press of any kind and you cover these things this way, fuck you, you're part of the problem.
Me pulling the level on a press with a litho stone on it.
Last semester a student taking my Early Medieval Art class told me sheβs a studio major specializing in print. After I said that Iβve long wanted to wrap my head around lithography she said βIβm doing that next semester! Iβll invite you to the studio!β Today was that day & my student became my prof.
Death Rattle 1 (878)
A detail from the MΓ©lusine (GW12659, fol. 1r), printed in 1478, showing a human face as part of a Initial looking towards the beginning of the text part.
close reading in 1478
The second volume of my gothic Horror comic, Worms is available to buy from my shop. If you like catholic guilt, a pervasive sense of despair, decay and doom youβll love Worms. Grab a copy at erikapriceart.bigcartel.com
Mammoth sculpture, UIUC
Campus mammoth still rules
Foellinger Hall in a light morning fog, UIUC
From a moody morning walk across campus
A space man about to enter the gangway leading down from his spaceship, three robot creatures waiting for him at its end, black and white drawing
Virgil Finlayβs illustration for Jack WilliamsonβsΒ βThe Humanoidsβ
As with its predecessor [NST #410] Zootopia 2 (dirs. Jared Bush and Byron Howard, 2025) contains a string board in its police briefing room and adds a string wall and table variant: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Billionairesβ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...