March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
I can’t imagine what these people are going through. People are just trying to make it through the day but a pedophile, a drunk, and a guy who went to school in Pennsylvania are ruining it for everybody.
Nancy 3/7/26
Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661
Scenes that will never leave my memory for as long as I live.
Blind Alley No. 421
The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
PANEL 1: NARRATOR: "Cultivating the measured NPR cadence and placid deference to the military that characterizes the ideal neoliberal subject, Clark Kent returns to the editorial meeting..." A group of DAILY PLANET reporters are in a meeting, Clark Kent is responding to a question from his boss. CLARK: "Well, chief, the bombing campaign--" PANEL 2: Clark is talking and the other reporters and co-workers look unhappy. CLARK: "Obviously war in the region is not-ah-"ideal," but regime change could ultimately provide socioeconomic benefits that far outweigh the regrettable civilian casualties..." CLARK (thinking): "As Superman, last son of Krypton, these words of course sicken me; however, it's Clark Kent's job to manufacture consent!" PANEL 3: (inset in a larger panel) One reporter is whispering to another. REPORTER: "Kent is such an off-putting sociopath" REPORTER 2: "I hope he kills himself". An arrow points to this inset panel that reads "Thanks to super-hearing" from Clark's ear. Clark is smiling and thinking to himself. CLARK (thinking): "Looks like my secret identity as Clark Kent is safe...FOR NOW!"
the mild manners are job security, baby
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Glad the new movie is at least helping people discover Fritz Eichenberg's amazing printmaking.
Noticed I was getting some higher page views on my website...turns out it had nothing to do with my own stuff, but folks finding this old blog post instead: www.msgierillustration.com/blog/2023/4/...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
A war against the arts and arts coverage.
Dima and Jana are closest in age, just 8 and 9! They sent me this video earlier, and we decided their world-class professional dance moves needed to be shared. 💕
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Nancy 1/31/26, Nancy and Sluggo Visit Philadelphia Part 6
Smartest man in the game and he's telling you the press are cowards. Telling you someday everyone is gonna find out
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Ziyad needs help paying for the urgently needed bloodwork/biopsy. It must be done. They need to know the next step in Dina’s health recovery.
$350 is needed.
Please, share and chip in what you can. I know there’s support and friends out there, Ziyad and his fam just need help finding it.
During the Bicentennial Celebration at Independence Hall on July 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford sat symbolically behind Marian Anderson as she read the text of the Declaration aloud. On this 250th anniversary, the President is ordering factual information about slavery to be removed from that site.
![BARRIER: Have there been occasions when United Features has sent back a strip, or said, "We're really worried about this one?"
SCHULZ: Yeah. There were only two occasions. One was a long time ago; Linus's blanket suddenly took on a life [of its own] and began to attack Lucy. Larry Rutman called; this scared him to death. He thought for sure that it would frighten children, that the blanket doing this would frighten the child reader. Which was ridiculous, when you think of the things that they see in other places. I remember I finished up the little series and let it go at that. Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, "Well, it's been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time." Again, they didn't like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, "We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school." But I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjzrpzlcmir3bkss4b5nh6ox/bafkreidy7ocfhd3g5ussizehllkfdgbpcbvrvvyazj74wqdlpwhqmhoavq)
BARRIER: Have there been occasions when United Features has sent back a strip, or said, "We're really worried about this one?" SCHULZ: Yeah. There were only two occasions. One was a long time ago; Linus's blanket suddenly took on a life [of its own] and began to attack Lucy. Larry Rutman called; this scared him to death. He thought for sure that it would frighten children, that the blanket doing this would frighten the child reader. Which was ridiculous, when you think of the things that they see in other places. I remember I finished up the little series and let it go at that. Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, "Well, it's been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time." Again, they didn't like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, "We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school." But I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's
"We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school."
"Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?"
This winter has been incredibly hard on Maha's family. Please give or share this campaign if you can.
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Full-figure watercolored drawings of Guinevere, Arthur, Lancelot, Mordred, Morgan le Fay, Galahad, Palamedes, Merlin, Gawain, Bedivere, and Percival
Full-figure watercolored drawings of Morien, Nimue, Gareth, Kay, Elaine, Lynette, The Black Knight, the Red Knight, and the Green Knight.
Speaking of Arthuriana, here are some Knights of the Round Table figures I drew up for Patreon some time back.
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
Artwork by Tove Jansson of a huge bonfire on top of a cliff with figures standing round excitedly. In the distance is the Sun, and at the base of the cliff Moomintroll is holding an old fashioned oil lamp and looking up at the bonfire.
"They looked towards the hilltop and saw a yellow flame rising against the sky. Too-ticky had lit the bonfire. It wrapped itself in flames at once, from ground to top, it gave a roar like a lion and threw its reflection straight down on the black ice"
Moominland #Midwinter, Tove Jansson
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq)
from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael: [here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
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