@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.
Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look.
prf-law.com/current-case...
Wawak zipper size chart showing the numbered sizes of zippers and their millimeter width, and how it varies by type (nylon, metal, plastic)
I thought this was good service journalism: a chart of zipper styles that prints out life size so you can hold it up to an existing zipper if needed (pdf on page) blog.wawak.com/post/zipper-...
Super mario bros movie : generic kids movie held up by cameos and references Original mario bros movie with bob hoskins : avante garde cyberpunk film about a dystopian capitalist society bent ln genociding inferior species, brought down by two blue collar men
You know what tho
Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.
First Spring flower from the self-starting flowers in our backyard.
First Spring flower from the self-starting flowers in our backyard.
"Where did that thing come from?!?"
This art was commissioned to illustrate the fanzine 'War Stories', which is available for sale at TFUK con and TFNation Summer 2026 via PrimeTimeToyz, the full colour fanzine War Stories celebrates 40 years of Transformers the Movie with a collection…
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My second printing cover for Absolute Wonder Woman #16 featuring Absolute Zatanna. Because who doesn't like psychotic magical goth baddie?
“be fired” is a weird way to spell “be indicted and imprisoned” or “sent to The Hague for war crimes”
Nancy 3/11/26
New paper w/ @teddyroland.bsky.social on "How fiction powers generative AI systems." We designed a computational experiment to test the impact of the vast amount of fiction in LLM training data on how LLMs communicate, w/ implications for both AI design + literary theory. arxiv.org/abs/2603.01220
From contributor @toffph.bsky.social
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.
“Calvin and Hobbes” 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 Köhler’s “Medizinal-Pflanzen” Atlas, Gera-Untermhaus, Fr. Eugen Köhler, 1887. Illustrated by W. Muller.
#botanicalart #scientificillustration #medizinalpflanzen #Papaversomniferum #poppies
