Daniel G. Wilson

Steranko color guides for Our Love issue 5.
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The cover to a paperback collection of Dennis the Menace strips with him on the cover.

A 1959 tv guide cover featuring a young Jay North on the cover. He played Dennis in the tv show.

The Dennis the Menace comic strip by Hank Ketcham debuted on March 12, 1951. It would be adapted into a popular sitcom only eight years later, and eventually cartoons & films. He was also Dairy Queen’s official mascot from 1971 to 2001.

See also Blade (1998).

Rube Goldberg used to say of his profession, "We're vaudevilleans!" The humour tradition hung on to this approach much longer than adventure strips. You still see vestiges of it in the Beano.

I find looking at old newspaper strips (1890s-1910s) really interesting in this regard - the visual language is almost entirely theatrical. The panel is essentially a proscenium arch, the characters are normally drawn full-figure.

A comic series that i wish would get an English translation is Gilgamesh, The Immortal by Robin Wood and Lucho Olivera.

The fact that they are still common in comics in every other markets is a testament to how great they are.

Fay Dalton

I love how every character (major and background) shows personality in their movement and body language — the old man dozing off on the bench, the janitor, the young couple slow-walking, the parents dealing w/ their impatient kid eager to see the next thing, everyone on the sidewalk below.

Illustration of Logan (Wolverine) and Laura (X-23) based on their Logan (2017) versions. It's a masterful study in b&w and use of negative space.

Logan and Laura by @victorsantos.bsky.social.
#artlife #comics #art #film

In today's "libraries are amazing" news: You want a creepy photo from the 1928 World Book Encyclopedia? Internet Archive! You want a 1921 St. Paul city ordinance? Hathi Trust! Oh, they didn't scan 1922 -- walk to the law library!

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

An EXCELLENT reason never to use AI tools in your writing. It doesn't just change HOW you express yourself, it can prompt you to change what you mean in the first place.
What I'm suggesting is: you should not be using Grammarly.

Going through old Nippur De Lagash pages.

Radical

Fair point

Here’s a flip thru of the upcoming COPRA Master Collection 2 — I’m telling you, it came out perfectly. I’m not just saying that because I wrote & drew the damn thing, it’s an impressive artifact by any measure.

Spread the word, we wanna make sure stores are stocked up!

@imagecomics.com • MAY 20

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

You would think the people who are obsessed with the economy would at the very least realize that war is less profitable than open trade

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

Ram V, Evan Cagle, and Anand RK reveal ‘Deicidium’ graphic novel coming to Image in 2026 A future ruled by faith and corporations collapses when ancient gods begin returning to Earth in Ram V’s new sci-fi fantasy series Deicidium.

🔥 @therightram.bsky.social, Evan Cagle, and Anand RK unveil DEICIDIUM, a new graphic novel where ancient gods return to Earth and the powers of the world move to hunt them down.
The globally launched series arrives late 2026, with a #FCBD preview this May. @imagecomics.com #comicsky
Preview/details:

129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement:
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Cooool

Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard on the sci-fi comic you SHOULD be reading! — In Orbit Every Wednesday YouTube video by 2000 AD

In Orbit THIS Wednesday!

@molcher.bsky.social and @cuntersthompson.bsky.social are joined by Dan Abnett and @injculbard.bsky.social to celebrate the return of BRINK!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6_...

listening to Morrisson tear apart the techbros cult like warm soft bread

Fascinating

Warning to stay away from elephant seals after bird flu detected at Año Nuevo State Park Health officials are warning beachgoers to stay away from marine life after confirming the state's first cases of bird flu in elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.

Health officials are warning beachgoers to stay away from marine life after confirming the state's first cases of bird flu in elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.

Interesting. What is your reasoning?

And in 20 years he basically doomed his house. Probably a good thing the other houses didn't get the throne haha