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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 12h

Interior art by @welldipper.bsky.social, who we adore!

Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 12h

RETURN TO SLEEPY HOLLOW

(out in 2 weeks for Halloween)

The headless horseman on a rearing horse holding the flaming pumpkin head in a graveyard, a giant skull in the background

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 14h

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

27. I’ll close with this. You cannot debate professional liars like Stephen Miller. You cannot find common ground. Why? Because *they are too weak to be worthy of trust*. They can only be opposed. Trump said JB Pritzker should be jailed. In reply, Pritzker said

www.rawstory.com/trump-jb-pri...

'Come and get me': Dem gov dares Trump to make good on arrest threat

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spoke to an MSNBC reporter on the ground in Chicago for protests around the deployment of federal agents to raid the city. President Donald Trump issued a Wednesday mor...

www.rawstory.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12h

All kinds of good cartoon news coming out today

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 13h

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 12h

Don't forget, Editor and author Sara Miller is coming October 19th! She'll be signing books at 4:30pm and doing an informal talk about Breaking Into Comics at 5:30! Don't miss it!

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 14h

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

bindings.app

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 14h

I love that Frazetta could do silly ass shit like this. He was a multi-faceted artist.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 14h

Fearless Vampire Killers - Frank Frazetta

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Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 14h

Daniel Warren Johnson rules

Absolute Batman choking out an ice agent by Daniel Warren Johnson

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, I feel like it's possible but I also feel like there's a lot fear at the root.

They're afraid of being "called out" by the administration for not supporting the tariffs enough. Which is absurd; if this administration wants to be upset at you, logic has nothing to do with it.

Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 16h

This is not the first time I have heard this, too!

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Adam Warren @adamwarren.bsky.social · 20h

In today's webcomic page from the 2018 miniseries EMPOWERED AND SISTAH SPOOKY'S HIGH SCHOOL HELL, the phone-driven magic barrage of our beleaguered heroines continues: www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/high-s...

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 20h

“if the public can't believe what law enforcement is saying then law enforcement probably can't depend on the cooperation of citizens to report information to them accurately”

NPR @npr.org · 20h

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 20h

Have a great con!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 20h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 21h

My Canadian distributor has stopped shipping me books because UPS keeps charging them fees for brokerage even though they are non*tariffed. I spent hours on the phone with them and it was... Painful.
What a world.

Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 22h

Postal services in other countries have already cut off package mail to the US. Now UPS bails. All because of Trump's tariffs.

Churn that in your brain a bit. We live in a country so backward it's cut off from mail from the rest of the world.

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Canvas, donate, counter disinfo among friends and family when you hear it, print and distribute @meganpiont.bsky.social 's anti-ICE zines, refuse to comply, film. That all counts.

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Jean Caden⚡️Art @johncaden64.bsky.social · 22h

This one is great- check it out!

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 1d

A little orc quits his job and, accompanied by his dog, sets off on a journey to pursue his dreams of becoming a blacksmith.

Warning: will make your heart grow bigger numerous sizes!

'Puca' is a new 59-page comic by @chentravis.bsky.social , available now at SBCF!

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I had the energy to talk about all this online in one place. So much of this is so fragile right now...
Whatever, I have a livestream, I talk about it regularly. I can't chase people to listen to me.
All good news but all very... Precipitous? Is that the word I want?

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

Blind Bags are definitely driving sales, but readers are sticking around. Absolute line has been huge with manga-wsque storytelling and great creative. Definitely bringing new readers. Young readers to comics are being drawn by affordable, accessible content.

#nycc #icv2

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

"The days of a preinted Preview cataog are over. It will exist but it will be online, as we currently do in Canada. It's set up to be efficient." #icv2 #nycc

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

Comics shops numebrs in 2025: ComicHub sales are up 27% in August! Incredible growth rate. Comics and GN sales have gotten closer together a trend that hasn't happened in a long time both growing.

IN 2025...new comic buyers are flocking to store collectors being replaced by readers.

#nycc #icv2

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 1d

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

Suuuure it's the "molds" fault. Whats next, a very specific strain of mold that turns children's book authors into raging terfs?

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 1d

I have not seen that before. Cool! 🤔

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 1d

if you start being like "yo the world looks bleak. looks whats going on" and then the LLM is like "yeah this shit sucks there's no way it'll get better" and if you start going down that road without actually mentioning suicide or violence it will just keep agreeing with you.

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 1d

I'm completely divorced from.
But almost all my hardcore, customer go.
Loads of people I rarely see swan in, for the 2 weeks or so after, just telling me about it like I need to know who they met or saw there...
I often feel very much NOT part of the "comic industry" but NYCC is next level. 🤷

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Even they just felt like, like when a little kid does their own wedding because their parents are going to a real one?
Sometimes, like this year, holidays really get in there at the same time and then it's even weirder. I go from no phone to nonstop notifications when it's on, all for something

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