Neil Young & Crazy Horse - second night at Budokan, 50 years ago tonight. Some of this came out on the Odeon/Budokan release and elsewhere, but the whole audience tape is still a delight. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1859112...
yet another reason to stay alive god dammit
Look at their art. Read their stories.
A two panel comic of Loki from A Bad God's Guide to Being Good. In the first panel he's looking breezy and innocent and holding up a book. He's saying, "I think it's great that children read prose novels." In the second panel, he's looking more mischievous and saying, "It's a perfectly GATEWAY to comics."
Let's kill "comics are a gateway to reading" dead please?
Between this and "Wuthering Heights" it's a good object lesson in why working class acess to making art matters. Wealthy women trying to do grindhouse outrageousness is always going to come off as the cosplay it is.
Goblin Market
Kobold Boutique
Bugbear Haberdasherye
Ogre judgmental Byke Shoppe
Hill Troll Comic Booke store wyth weirde hours
Mountayne Giant Real Estate Agencye that wil nevir call you back
Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"
alright, alright, i'll do it
"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...
A color photo of her.
The cover to a Doom Patrol omnibus collecting her work
Rachel Pollack was a science fiction, fantasy, & comic book writer, as well as a teacher and Tarot expert. She is most known to comic fans for her work on the Doom Patrol.
#InternationalWomensDay
#InternationalWomensDay2026
many are saying there's never been a better time to become a transsexual quaker
i think about this all the time. we can make it happen, i know we can
Three women armed and dangerous, one's smoking while standing, the one next to her has a kinge between her teeth and is kneeling above a bleeding man on the ground, followed by one holding up a rifle
Melinda Gebbie
A black and white photo of her.
Four covers colored by Wood, including Batman vs the Incredible Hulk, Superman vs Wonder Woman, Adventure Comics featuring the Spectre, and Detective Comics featuring Batman and Manhunter.
Tatjana Wood was a very prolific colorist, who contributed to several of DC Comics' best runs of all time, & colored an amazing amount of their covers from the 1970s to 1990s. She was also an artist who assisted Wally Wood during their marriage.
#InternationalWomensDay
#InternationalWomensDay2026
A black and white photo of Hays
Two examples of her Flapper themed art.
Two examples of her work in children's books. One is an ABC book and the other Mother Goose.
Cartoonist & illustrator Ethel Hays. Her Flapper-themed comic strips were very popular in the 1920s & 1930s, and in later life she became a very successful illustrator of childrens books. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
A recent photo of Brandon-Croft
A sample strip from Where I'm Coming From.
The cover of the hardcover collection of Where I’m Coming From from Drawn and Quarterly.
Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, creator of the comic strip Where I'm Coming From, the first comic strip by a Black woman to be nationally syndicated in the mainstream press in the US. (Jackie Ormes was restricted to Black press in her time.) #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
Pollack was an incredible trans rights activist, a visionary queer writer, and an inspirational Jewish practiticioner of magic and heresy. I would recommend Beatrix Gates as an introduction to her many achievements: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
The cover to "For Better or for Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston." The cover shows her sitting in front of alot of panels of her strip.
A sample color Sunday strip.
A black and white photo of her standing in front of some panels of her strip.
Cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse, which ran from 1979 to 2008. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
A black and white photo of Ormes.
Ormes at her drawing table.
Ormes with a Patty Jo doll.
Cartoonist Jackie Ormes, the first Black woman to create a comic strip that was nationally syndicated. Her strips included Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll in the late 1940s.
#InternationalWomensDay
#InternationalWomensDay2026
oh my god thank you for providing an impetus to rewatch Seven Samurai. not that one needs a reason (but this one is very good)
A black and white photo of Severin in her studio office.
Two covers pencilled by Severin: The Incredible Hulk #102 and Sub-Mariner #16.
A photo of the Marvel bullpen from a 1971 Rolling Stones article with Severin standing in the middle.
Artist & colorist Marie Severin, most known for her work at Marvel & EC Comics. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
A photo I took of her holding my copy of DC Showcase Presents: Metamorpho. This photo means the world to me.
Two covers by her: The Brave and the Bold #66 (featuring Metamorpho and the Metal Men) and The Superfriends #28.
A photo of Fradon in her younger days sitting in an office full of men.
Artist Ramona Fradon, most known for cocreating Metamorpho and her work on Aquaman, Superfriends, Plastic Man, and the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter. #InternationalWomensDay
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well, you're very good at it! whenever i finish an episode i immediately seek out your writeup. if anything you make it look easy.
matt zoller seitz, one of the great writers on film and television this century, runs a lovely online bookstore you should support! mzs.press!
get educated! support the arts! support mzs!
Reading the 1818 text Frankenstien, and the thing it understands most keenly about the creative process is spending months toiling on a cherished project and when it finally comes to fruition, immediately never wanting to set eyes on it again.
Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.
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stand up for us before it’s too late, cis folks.
A pensive police officer, hand on chin, says to Golden Age Batman, "So many people are unhappy. They worry about rent...bills, sickness...love..." "And their future...frustrated dreams...jobs...," says Batman.
