scott⚡️mccloud

Comics of the mid-14th century! Here's a straightened-out, lighter version if you wanna check out more details... ( h/t @lizzzs.bsky.social ) I hope most now find it obvious that this is the same art form as the latest X-Men—not an easy sell when I wrote Understanding Comics in 1993.

Early European sequential art. "Thirty Bible Stories," mid-14th century, anonymous Veronese artist (Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona)

The late David Kunzle's landmark book THE EARLY COMIC STRIP was a primary source for me when it came to such examples, although Kunzle felt the art form was best defined in conjunction with print, so he began about a century later.

[note on the ALT text: I wrote "gold leaf" but I don't know if that's technically true. The paint *appears* gold, but I don't know if any actual gold was used ]

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice

Good one! Thx

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

the ideal substitute teacher:

Unko Sensei (a poo-headed teacher) teaches Japanese kids how to write.

Yikes! Those are really good. Scroll down this artist's feed. Excellent stuff.

Two commissions, both illustrations of scenes from Tillie Walden’s book On A Sunbeam. I had so much fun with these!

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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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Vincent Pocsik 𝔏𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔅𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 Carved black walnut www.instagram.com/vincentpocsi...

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I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

I really do believe that most people are basically good, mean well, and want to have a positive impact on the world

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No, wait, hear me out: in the time between when the leopards are loosed, and when they start eating our faces, we can generate SO MUCH shareholder value—

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show

Make the best of it! 👍

I'm thinking it might be a good idea to leave the country for a couple of *decades.*

Thought it might be a good idea to leave the country for a couple days.

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Fun fact: we got the 27th Amendment ratified because one guy pestered the fuck out of state legislators until 38 states had voted to ratify it. And he did it all out of spite. www.npr.org/2017/05/05/5...

One of the original unratified Amenments to the constitution (that has no deadline for ratification btw) would have capped Congressional districts at 50,000 people per district, or around 6,660 seats in Congress.

The Bad Grade That Changed The U.S. Constitutionwww.npr.org The 27th Amendment had languished for nearly 200 years before a Texas student made passing it a personal cause. The amendment was ratified 25 years ago this weekend.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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US media has gone nuts. Let's turn on a functional news channel in a country having a national election today and OH COME ON

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Someone else immune to prosecution

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Today I asked @scottmccloud.bsky.social for something I've never asked of him before in all the decades I've known him...to sign a book for me. AND LO THE DREAM IS REALIZED

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Jeremiah Avery

Agreed.

Happy No-More-Kings Day tomorrow! And remember: Patriotism is helping the country you love do less wrong. Nationalism is pretending that it's *never* wrong. 🇺🇸 "Nationalism is Patriotism for Assholes." – Jon Lovett

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D.J. Bryant

I think Harris’ chances, while not stellar, look a lot better than Biden’s at this point.

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John Scalzi

There are cliff-notes style versions of my comics out there, but I figure jokes on them, ‘cause such text summaries are actually *harder* to read!