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You ought to know Phil Mendez, a veteran comic artist, animator, Imagineer, writer, and illustrator who worked on a vast variety of shows for studios like Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, and DIC and created a pair of Saturday morning cartoons, Kissyfur and Foofur. #BlackHistoryMonth

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You ought to know George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat (a comic about a sexually-ambiguous cat and the brick-throwing mouse and dog cop who loves them) and one of the most influential comic artists and writers ever and a man who literally changed the face of comic strips. #BlackHistoryMonth

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The boycott also inspired some nice poster art

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Reminder

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The economic boycott is great. Honestly just keep it going. We traded so much for convenience over the years as more ownership of our commerce was consolidated by the few. How did they repay us? The billions weren't enough for them. Now it is overthrowing the systems which made them so powerful.

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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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Hello Bluesky! Let's start off with my Five Senses Series, where each sense is represented by a member of a fantasy species. In order, here we have Smell (orc), Sight (dwarf), Hearing (elf), Taste (gnome)...

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Celebrating 25 years with my one and only, and 20 years married, too!

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Recently I was asked about animation directors post 1950 that students should know about. Here are three artists that I wish I remembered on the spot. Marcell Jankovics. "Son of the White Mare" is a graphic marvel. This 1981 film looks like it is from the future. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcell...

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Ralph is on bsky if you didn’t know!

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You ought to know Brenda Banks, one of the first Black female animators in Hollywood, whose career spanned four decades where she worked on diverse projects from Ralph Bakshi films to The Smurfs and Daffy Duck to The Pirates of Dark Water and King of the Hill. #BlackHistoryMonth

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happy valentine's day, if you enjoy that sort of thing! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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If you want to have curious fun on the internet may I suggest www.are.na/ Collect blocks of inspiration for your image reference "morgue" and surf that web. I use it to collect tens of thousands of images. I don't know if you can see this without signing in: are.na/chris-mcdonnell/channels

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Another fantastic piece of work that gives you tools to refuse to be steamrolled by marketing hype: Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies refusinggenai.wordpress.com by Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism newsocialist.org.uk/transmission... This article is excellent. It synthesizes so much that I've been thinking about recently, especially the connections between the worst actors in society and the worst technology. Give it a solid read!

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Mochocho tries to keep the weight down, but always tries to learn something new everyday.

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"Fuck ICE, Fuck Trump + Musk, Go Birds" Seen in Philadelphia

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Robots by Chris Moore.

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And finally...the lizard wizards

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Latest strip: Attack of the plutobrats

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The tech push into genAI aligns with their consolidation of power, control of information, deregulation, denigration of teachers artists experts and objective reality. It is all in alignment with demolishing democratic systems.

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Besides fighting back we gotta keep dancing too #animation #2Danimation #art #cartoon #cooldude #dancemoves

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