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‘Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes’ #4 is a cocktail of cute, charming chaos Precisely the mash-up of Mean Girls and Thelma and Louise we need in our lives.

‘Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes’ #4 is a cocktail of cute, charming chaos
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Pink bumper sticker with the slogan “come at me with compassion bro”

bumper sticker of the day 6/23/2025

A tiny white dog chair with a scalloped pattern design

A tiny white dog chair with a scalloped pattern design sitting in front of two larger human sized chairs with a similar design

Okay.

So some days you wake up and you find out that Aldi's has a pet chair that perfectly matches your own chairs so you spend [redacted] hours going to all the Aldi's in the greater metro area until you find That Fucking Chair™

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting.

Legal experts called the order blatantly unconstitutional. Read the full, 17-page order below👇 https://bit.ly/4l0gmXp

fuck these guys

No, it doesn't. He's made a career of breaking promises and saying what he thinks the audience wants to hear.

Because if you see this, and you vote for ICE funding at this point, in any capacity? I want you gone.

Picture of Larry Hama smiling broadly and a sci-fi villain in purple firing a gun. Inset: the cover of GI JOE #325. Text: LARRY HAMA Celebrating the release of THE CENTER HOLDS And GI JOE issue #325 SAT FEB 21st 3-8pm HUB COMICS 19 Bow St Somerville MA 02143 hubcomics.com On the Green Line!

TODAY! 3-8pm

LARRY HAMA makes a return appearance in Somerville to sign at Hub Comics!
To celebrate the publication of his creator-owned super-hero miniseries, THE CENTER HOLDS (produced and edited by Hub Comics owner Tim Finn), plus the release of G.I. Joe #325. hubcomics.com/2026/02/06/l...

I think it’s just that the book comes out every 6 weeks, and the previous issue comes out at the end of April

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Text: "Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others. This image has three planes: (Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background). Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it. There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another.

Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary? (image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him). Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances. (image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person). it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear. (image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus)

Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space. (image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements) The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings). Rough your panel with plane elements in place first... ...then make/place a grid that fits your layout... ...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match.

(image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around). One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view. (image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element). *it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.

Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.

It's Final Order Cut-off day for HARLEY & IVY: LIFE & CRIMES #4!

Tell you local comic shop your want to order a copy today before it's too late!

(Cover by @ericafails.bsky.social )

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

"@ericafails.bsky.social of Squirrel Girl fame brings an indie style to the origins of Harley & Ivy's romance"

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European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

The first issue of Mark Bright's final comics work, THE CENTER HOLDS, written by his GI JOE collaborator Larry Hama, comes out tomorrow, February 11th.

When I heard @ericafails.bsky.social was making a Harley and Ivy comic, I had very high expectations, all of which are being blown away with each issue.

It's also such a staggeringly inadequate ask. If you're going to take the (bad) stance to reform ICE, shouldn't the baseline be: 1) there is due process prior to 'arrest' and also prior to deportation 2) they must be subject to external oversight 3) they must not infringe on constitutional rights.

Me in my giant 70s-esque glasses holding up a copy of issue three. The cover is an homage to old DC romance comics with Harley and Joker walking together in the background and Ivy in the fore crying and saying "but she told me they were through!"

Issue three of Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes is out today!

This is a big one!

Book club tonight! 7pm. @ericafails.bsky.social & @ryannorth.ca joining us to talk Danger and other unknown risks. Interested in joining? Shoot us a message! #bookclub #cabcomics Having a Dark Sky Maiden Voyage? What are you having?!

The Treachery of Images
René Magritte (1929)

The resistance I see in every video from Minnesota is inspiring. Regular people are standing up to heavily armed fucks who have no regard for human life; no moral compass; no true desire beyond harming other people.

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.

We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

[A fist strangling a snake with swastika eyes.] NO MERCY FOR FASCISM

Happy 2026

You can grab everything (basically) in our shop for 30 percent off but only for two more days!
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Loads of single issues too!

Saying "HOWDY!" with my Counter Monkey picks for comics of the week! Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes #2 by @ericafails.bsky.social and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou; Absolute Martian Manhunter #7 by @denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou; and (1/2)

A couple of excellent restaurant logos

My Pick of the Week is @ericafails.bsky.social's Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes #2!

An issue about building trust before opening your heart to more.

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