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How much money did the Russos get for the next 2 Avengers movies? Oh, yeah, $80 million. RDJ even more. But they have nothing for one of their great writers. All Peter David has is me and you. gofund.me/59445afa

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The dismantling of IMLS will have major impacts on the library services provided to students in schools and patrons who access their public libraries If you value your library, you must speak out & contact congress

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Reader me really likes the paperback of Paranoid Gardens because it reminds me of the cut out on this Star Wars paperback. Librarian me knows it's going to get destroyed SO quickly.

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Okay so I first encountered Lee Marrs in the pages of Mike Friedrich's Star*Reach. This anthology series is full of the best and worst impulses of white male comic writers from the 70s. It's got pulp sensibilities with avant garde aspirations. Howie Chaykin's here, you know what's up. 🧵

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I know it's probably a little late but this is a reminder to myself to post about why you should vote for Lee Marrs to be in the Eisner Award Hall of Fame

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Unbelievably excited about this!!!

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Kinda think the world could benefit from an ElfQuest documentary. It doesn't get its flowers like it should.

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Larry Marder's Beanworld: "a most peculiar comic book experience" Me: wow this is really peculiar!

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Was going round and round whether to add a new series to the library's collection but now I'm really glad I did!

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I know people love to hate on Star Trek Discovery but at least that show was interested in exploring queer themes. And I don't just mean queer representation of which there was also a lot for a big scifi show. It seems to me they borrowed a lot from the Becky Chambers style of storytelling 🧵

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One neat perspective on this is Jay Jackson's Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, a collection of Chicago Defender comic strips from the 40s, which draws a direct line from the treatment of enslaved people to Jim Crow to Nazism to a projected segregated future. That line is authoritarianism

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As both a reader and an artist I was honored to do this cartoon for Folio Society in @thenewyorker.com’s anniversary issue. They do truly gorgeous editions of your favorite books. (But don’t try to read them while you are sitting on a jury.)

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The ALA has released their 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List: www.ala.org/gncrt/2024-b...

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I'm finally getting around to listening to the @friends-table.bsky.social Bluff City season 1 post-mortem and they're talking about real life Bluff City moments which conjured up in my mind Larry the Lighthouse, a guy who used to jog around my hometown at dusk in a homemade lighthouse costume

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I can't explain exactly why but this subtitle is driving me crazy. What do you mean "of sorts"? It's just a memoir!

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Yeah, supernope. Let kids read. Meet them where they’re at. The library should be a fun experience.

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The Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales series is the secret juggernaut of ICC. They've gotta be in every middle school library in North America, by now.

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This week we had a community of practice meeting for a grant focused on developing equitable collections and I keep thinking about how the conversation has changed from when these meetings started to now, post-inauguration. There's a lot more fear but there's also a lot of determination. 1/3

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Barnaby May 13, 1942 #superman

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Barnaby by Crockett Johnson, July 28, 1942

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This was really wonderful! Of course fans of This is How You Lose the Time War are going to like this but I'd also recommend it if you like The Last Unicorn, Joanne Harris' Honeycomb, John Crowley's Little, Big. A beautifully told fairy tale.

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Really great article! What a world to live in where licenses are somehow still a better deal for us.

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Can you help this librarian who was unjustly fired for–gasp–protecting LGBTQ+ books? Of note: this is the public library where students who are banned for untold numbers of books from their public district, Conroe ISD, would be able to access said books. What begins in schools does not end there.

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I can't imagine how frustrating this is as an artist! It's also frustrating as a librarian because our systems are very oriented around single creator works

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Four comics you love, with female leads

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The bit in this about defining "Discriminatory equity ideology” as "receiv[ing] adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin, in which the individual played no part" got me once again thinking about Lisa Kalvelage 1/2

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For real — get a library card, sign up for hoopla, kanopy, and Libby and then enjoy

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I can at least appreciate that Section 31 is trying to do something different rather than be more nostalgia driven Star Trek like Picard or Strange New Worlds

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An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

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I'm reading my second DC Compact edition, Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman. Darwyn Cooke's art looks great even in this format because of his bold lines and bright colors. Feels like a Sunday newspaper strip.

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