When your grandson asks you to design him a bespoke Sabertooth Vampire 2026 calendar, you must oblige
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When your grandson asks you to design him a bespoke Sabertooth Vampire 2026 calendar, you must oblige
... You'll find @cattifer.bsky.social at table K-10 at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social this weekend. She drew the heck out of this and I'm REALLY excited to start getting this story out there. Consider stopping by and perusing all her books. She's rad.
(BONUS: Script-to-page comparison!)
But that's not all! @cattifer.bsky.social and I also cooked up a bonus Gully Jump Gang story for @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social 's charity zine, which has a "fables" theme this year. Can our adorable Old West bandits rob the Tortoise AND the Hare? Grab the zine and find out...
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My mission statement when I wrote this was "come up with wild things for @cattifer.bsky.social to draw." If you ever wanted to see a bunch of tiny horses tumble through the air onto a riverboat deck, followed by a TNT-fuse poker game with a witch and a talking vulture, do we have a comic for you....
This 36-page, full-color ashcan (words by me, pictures by @cattifer.bsky.social ) introduces you to the Gully Jump Gang (Beckett, Phylo, Ivory, and Mell) as they rob a riverboat casino with their usual airborne panache....
If you're at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social this weekend, you can grab an exclusive look at the all-ages comic @cattifer.bsky.social and I have been pulling together!
Cat's selling an ashcan collecting the first chapter of THE GREAT TRAIN HAUNTING, our supernatural comedy Western....
Right? Wall to wall!
Surprisingly good running songs (an ongoing series):
Incredible sweat-soaked cover of Fela Kuti’s all-timer; vocals by Fela’s son Seun. YouTube recommends this song to me pretty much daily. It knows.
youtu.be/mFSRCG4DrmI?...
Made a four-page comic about my favorite running movie for issue 47 of my favorite running magazine, Like the Wind. Colors by the great @mudron.bsky.social .
Available here:
www.likethewindmagazine.com/shop/issue-4...
It’s #ShaneBlackFriday — time to gather round the Yuletide screen for a double feature of beloved holiday classics KISS KISS BANG BANG and THE NICE GUYS.
(Thx to @briannaduggan.bsky.social for the illustration)
(Learned about it via the great @gracespelman.bsky.social )
open.substack.com/pub/gracespe...
![Kamasi Washington - Clair de Lune [Official Audio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hs7brqlcwpwt7nc3r3ax2ggx/bafkreihbjyl2v43zaztoqmlj4duz5kihpxw3rrdqofvfipew7z4rdyb5mu)
Kamasi Washington’s jazz version of “Claire de Lune” is absolutely wrecking me today.
youtu.be/S8rzewm2hhE?...
Totally. A good chunk of the final race music samples this Pilhofer composition: youtu.be/cI6pWhvFYvs?...
(At one point I made a super-lofi bootleg of the score just for myself that minimizes the dialogue and sound effects. Listen to it on runs all the time. [Nerd.])
Agreed, and you might enjoy a thing I just wrote on that very movie:
open.substack.com/pub/bymikeru...
You might enjoy my (absurdly) deep dive on the movie:
open.substack.com/pub/bymikeru...
You can also download the essay in other formats (including a zine PDF) from here: www.bymikerussell.com/runningmovie
Here's an essay years in the making:
In 2019 I decided to run the Dipsea Race because of a movie I saw in 1986. The race got pandemic-delayed. So I started interviewing the people who made the movie — Bruce Dern, Pam Grier, and many others.
The result:
bymikerussell.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
As the Shane Black fan who commissioned this bit of handcrafted glory, please believe me when I tell you @briannaduggan.bsky.social
Is the goods and hiring her to make things is the smartest move imaginable
Proper advice from the great @lubellwoo.bsky.social ….
Pencils down on a longform essay I've been researching off and on for the past six years. Started as a pandemic hobby, ended with me on the phone with Bruce Dern for three-and-a-half hours. Whoops! Now in edits. More at some point.
It is possible that if you zoom in on Steve's extraordinary "Jimmy Olsen" cover and scan the crowd, you'll find a Sabertooth Vampire t-shirt under the face of a familiar-looking man. This man may be making the agonized expression of someone who bet his entire 401k on the fight's outcome.
"If you go on there and manage to stick it out for a month or two, you will get 100,000 Instagram followers, and then you can spend the rest of your life doing sponsored content and making paid appearances at nightclubs on the Gold Coast."
samkriss.substack.com/p/dreams-nev...
“I’ve realized that feeling … is the multi-billion-dollar business that these companies know they’re building. It’s not fascist anime art or excel spreadsheet automation, it’s preying on the lonely and vulnerable for a monthly fee.”
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
Surprisingly good running songs (an ongoing series):
Heard this in a bar not long ago and proceeded to listen to it on a loop for an embarrassing amount of time.
The groove is smooth and impeccable and rolls like a good run. Satisfy should set a vibes video to this.
youtu.be/8ob0J3gi6b8?...
All clown emoji (emojis?) aside, this is really really really really really bad.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Also in this series: this double-slice of joy from Jungle. youtu.be/gpwYTeRSgc8?...