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those goddamn hippies sure can make ice cream

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

This "the average American has 3 friends" meme sucks because every one I've seen shows a picture of three people, but the pictures should be of four people, you stupid idiots.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

in fairness, have you read some of the books written for little kids? they totally suck ass!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

More free time? Yes. More peace of mind? Oh my, no. Estimates for violent mortality among pre-agricultural hunter-gathers, as Azar Gat notes in War in Human Civilization, were extremely high, in the range of 15-25% (higher for males, lower for females). 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Hey, everyone! My new comic is dropping today! Like, RIGHT NOW!! Please check it out! There are DAY ONE discounts and limited items! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kar...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I got sloppy about posting my book reading so here are the catch up posts to keep me accountable:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

There is much here to question, the most obvious being the implication that the TV show FRASIER was somehow uncritical of, and found no fault with, its title character.

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submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

take that, judy blume

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

twitter (and also bluesky)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

getting the hot gossip about Yemen war plans

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I drew CABLE because for a long time now I've thought it'd be funny if I drew CABLE. Despite not really reading comics as a kid I grew up in a time where every new character in anything looked a little like CABLE so this stuff is embedded in my brain.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Absolute banger of a Tolkien essay here, about the myths and stories that Gondor and Rohan tell about themselves. Check it out!

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

You call that begging?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Red Sonja

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Now is a good time to make yourself a cup of coffee and read my FREE post about early novels by two crime fiction giants: VALDEZ IS COMING by Elmore Leonard, and KILLY by Donald E. Westlake which each asks the question "What kind of person are you?" billryan64.substack.com/p/you-aint-b...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Remembrance of things past. My nights have been plagued with dreams and disconnected visions for several weeks now. A child ghost, dinners with my parents, and beautiful women of bygone times. Tonight, I dreamt of a woman, an actress, from the late 19th century, the belle epoque era.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

My new FREE TO ALL substack post is up. In a brief diversion from the main structure of these posts I'm taking a break by reading two long-time favorites: Elmore Leonard's VALDEZ IS COMING & Donald Westlake's KILLY. Lots to talk about with both! Please click billryan64.substack.com/p/you-aint-b...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I've been thinking about this and I suppose would go a step further that it seems like part of the 'promise' of genAI to some folks is not just the ability to commission artwork without paying an artist, but to be able to also take that artist's claim, not only of ownership, but of creatorship.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Glad to see we’re addressing the root cause of all of this: Luther’s heresy

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

Sometimes when you tape a two-times-a-week show first thing in the week, things happen and schedules get thrown off. This is why today's Across the Movie Aisle is about Val Kilmer despite his death occurring about a week ago. RIP to one of the best. www.thebulwark.com/p/rip-val-ki...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

My new drawing demonstration is up on my Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@frankchoart... Inspired by the new James Gunn's Superman trailer, it's Hawkgirl. I love the design of the character. However, her background origin story is crazy and confusing. I mean it. It'll make your head spin.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

🪄 ZATANNA 🐇

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

My new Reading Project post is up on my substack. Today I discuss THE LIE by O.H. Bennett, and THE HOUSEGUEST by Thomas Berger. This one is exclusive to paid subscribers, among whose numbers you should totally be. billryan64.substack.com/p/fundamenta...

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I am heartbroken to hear the news that ROBERT E MCGINNIS has past away March 10th at the age of 99. One of the greatest American Illustrators ever is gone and not a single piece on the news anywhere about the man, his influence and his life.

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

RIP to the legend Robert E. McGinnis

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

One of my favorite interviews I've ever done on Tides of History, with the fantastic @bretdevereaux.bsky.social: Rome, Carthage, and the Punic Wars. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

R.I.P. Val Kilmer. #valkilmer @valkilmerofficial.bsky.social

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Wonder Woman original drawing I created for my Youtube channel. Since I get so many people asking me if I sell the original art from my videos. I decided to sell it here on Nerdcrawler. www.nerdcrawler.com/auctions/won... Now's your chance to own the original drawing you saw on my channel.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Look. I'll be honest. A WORKING MAN is not quite as good as THE BEEKEEPER (an almost perfect movie). But it's still pretty good if you're into the whole "Jason Statham doing righteous shit" genre. And I very much am into that. www.thebulwark.com/p/they-call-...

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Ivan Mozhukin will return as Guy Who Really Wants That Soup in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

If you'd like to read a melancholy critical essay about Georges Bataille and H. E. Bates, with references to Will Self, Anthony Burgess, BOYHOOD, Stealers Wheel, and Stephen Crane, then have I got the post for you. billryan64.substack.com/p/the-music-...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Book No. 11: Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima. I enjoyed it a lot, the black humor and satire had me smiling throughout. A much easier read than Ulysses which I’m still going through which is a nice counterpoint when I need a pallet cleanser.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Wolverine Vs T-Rex. Felt like drawing a scene from Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure comic book, where Wolverine encounters the T-Rex that’s been terrorizing his tribe. You can see the full drawing video in real time with commentary on my YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@frankchoartist

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

i have zero interest in most modern low budget shlock because it’s doing this self conscious “haha so bad it’s good just like the 80s!” thing. but you can’t produce that intellectually. you need to be trying to make a normal movie and have it come out wrong because you’re a crazy person

submitted 48 days ago • 59 comments

"We spent most of our time discussing the ways in which professional wrestling and the Insane Clown Posse help explain the phenomenon that is Donald J. Trump." That and much more. Ross Benes joins @sonnybunch.bsky.social to discuss his book on "low culture": www.thebulwark.com/p/the-low-cu...

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments