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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be

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Eisner-winning Peanuts nerd. Writer, publisher (About Comics), founder of 24 Hour Comics Day, sperm donor (retired). "Is he the guy who did that thing?" Yeah, prob'ly.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · Nov 12

Just some of the dozens of books I've written, co-written, annotated, or compiled, as an introduction.

Covers to: the alt superhero book The Factor, Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, Bootsie's War Years, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, Just a Book with About 410 Drawings of Bicycles from Newspapers of the 1890s, Be More Charlie Brown, The Peanuts Collection, The Licesable Bear™ Big Book of Officially Licensed Fun!, Wife Gets Smart, Makes Husband Happy: Supermarket Comic Strip Ads of the World War II Era, Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, and Be More Snoopy.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1m

Deal!

Sign in meat department: Sale, Ground Bork, $4.00.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2h

Harvard and MIT working together know the answer.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2h

Seven-Time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab Sworn In As Pro-Tem Speaker Of 18th Lok Sabha By President Murmu

YouTube video by Republic World

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2h

I have found his nemesis. Or girlfriend. Or both. (Also in the public domain, but not Disney.)

A woman in a dress covered in crossword puzzle patterns burst through a crossword puzzle. Caption: The Cross World Girl.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 3h

Not all members of the Atomic Club are equal. Nonetheless, they accept both kinds of people.

1948 newspaper ad for Adler's Atomic Beanie, which "has not 1, not 2, but 3 propellers".

Ad, "Wear a Beanie with a propeller", features portraits of both a boy and a girl in such garb.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 3h

Those guys have their own superhero team already, the Atomic Club.

1948 newspaper ad. Boy in propeller beanie. Text: Join the Atomic Club
...wear the atomic whirling propeller beanie hat for boys and girls. Just walk along and the propellers whirl..ready to take off at a moment's notice! 49 cents. Sonin's: Howard Muller, Prop.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 3h

That would be the Reptile Mercantile Exchange.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 5h

If you don't trust me that "Christian-Judeo" has problems on a pure linguistic level, trust William Safire.

Mist at Foggy Bottom

Clipping found in San Francisco Chronicle published in San Francisco, California on 3/8/1981. Mist at Foggy Bottom

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 7h

The Portland Air Force is on its way!

Art from Tuesday by David Wiesner (it’s a good book) shows dozens of frogs on lillypads flying through the air.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 7h

As much as the term "Judeo-Christian" puts me on alert (as it is generally used to mean "Christian, and we can assume Jews, because Judaism was just the beta release of Christianity), today I ran into "Christian-Judeo", which adds a layer of linguistic horror on top.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 9h

A genuine type case I bought at an old printing stuff sales event this summer. (Still not sure what I’ll do with it.)

A wooden drawer separated into dozens of rectangles of various sizes.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 20h

I feared searching for this on YouTube due to what it would do to the algorithm.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Halloween decoration, take 1

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Eight-fisted drinker.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Now if it was the girlfriend of ALL of the founders of Antifa...

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Please note that doing studies to make the proof rather than to find out the truth is the opposite of science.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Wait… does having an autism cause werelephantism, or is it the other way ‘round? Correlation is not causation, Rachel!

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"The girlfriend of one of the founder of Antifa."

Panel from the graphic novel "My Boyfriend is a Bear" features a human woman and a bear weraing an "Arcade Fire" t-shirt in the kitchen.

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Well, I live in Camarillo, California, so just asking someone where they are now generally solves that question. (It's kama-REE-oh.)

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

Forget Steamboat Willie! This is the now-in-the-public-domain character from a Walt Disney cartoon that I want to see new works about!

Black and white film still (from the short "Alice Solves the Puzzle"): a bear with a peg leg and crossword puzzles scattered about him is identified as "Bootleg Pete – a collector of rare cross word puzzles".

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 2d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Over on this side of the pond, we have to deal with the horrors beefsteak tomatoes, Eskimo pies, and the chain Jack In The Box selling “monster tacos” made of perfectly normal animals. It’s chaos, I tells ya, chaos!

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

In case you've ever wondered: REO Motor Car company's Speed Wagon line was produced from 1915 into the 1950s. A forerunner of the pickup truck, this image here is from 1923.

Black and white newspaper ad for the REO Speed Wagon features a drawing of an open-sided truck, and a list of "What the Speed Wagon Will Do For You", with 12 items starting with that it "will handle light loads at less cost than the lightest trucks" and ending with "It will never be more than a few miles from a completely stocked and expertly manned service station, because there are more than two thousand in America."

The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Women's bodies politics, 1925.

Cartoon "What You See at Sea" by Ethel Hays depicts, from the rear, eight girls standing at the beach in bathing gear, with a variety of heights, widths, shapes, and bathing suits. Text: "–and they say we're all alike!"

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 2d

Without downloading anything, where are you mentally right now?

Cat curled up and cozy avoiding people in his box decorated as a surf shop.