Nick Sousanis
@nsousanis.bsky.social
Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
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#Unflattening #Nostos
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#Unflattening #Nostos
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@nsousanis.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I kept my twit-act in part because I’d been documenting progress on my new book since its beginning. As I fully phase out twix, sharing some past posts here as I go. This was the first finished spread - part of 22pg 15ft long continuous sequence retelling the Odyssey! Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2
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A recent project I loved: editorial illustration + graphical abstract package to visualize a study on cancer immunotherapies.
Full project breakdown (plus a few behind-the-scenes notes):
joanaccarvalho.com/programming-...
Huge thanks to Ervin and Filipe for the trust and collaboration!
Full project breakdown (plus a few behind-the-scenes notes):
joanaccarvalho.com/programming-...
Huge thanks to Ervin and Filipe for the trust and collaboration!
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A recent project I loved: editorial illustration + graphical abstract package to visualize a study on cancer immunotherapies.
Full project breakdown (plus a few behind-the-scenes notes):
joanaccarvalho.com/programming-...
Huge thanks to Ervin and Filipe for the trust and collaboration!
Full project breakdown (plus a few behind-the-scenes notes):
joanaccarvalho.com/programming-...
Huge thanks to Ervin and Filipe for the trust and collaboration!
It was an amazing show here in SF - and this article was quite a wonderful look at Asawa’s life…
Ruth Asawa is no stranger to San Franciscans—my son goes to the art school named after her—but this exhibition is truly amazing. Do yourselves a favor, New Yorkers, go see it at (your) MOMA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
Ruth Asawa Turned Wire Into Her Lifeline
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It was an amazing show here in SF - and this article was quite a wonderful look at Asawa’s life…
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 23: Infinite Senryu
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 23: Infinite Senryu
A snipped from this page that's nearly done. the first planet forming and as planets form, clearing their lanes... Really eager to have time to put this one to bed!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A snipped from this page that's nearly done. the first planet forming and as planets form, clearing their lanes... Really eager to have time to put this one to bed!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
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I’m Erika and I make horror comics.
If you like visceral black and white horror comics you’ll probably enjoy my stuff
I sell my work in print here erikapriceart.bigcartel.com
And I have a patreon where I post pages from my new series Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
If you like visceral black and white horror comics you’ll probably enjoy my stuff
I sell my work in print here erikapriceart.bigcartel.com
And I have a patreon where I post pages from my new series Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m Erika and I make horror comics.
If you like visceral black and white horror comics you’ll probably enjoy my stuff
I sell my work in print here erikapriceart.bigcartel.com
And I have a patreon where I post pages from my new series Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
If you like visceral black and white horror comics you’ll probably enjoy my stuff
I sell my work in print here erikapriceart.bigcartel.com
And I have a patreon where I post pages from my new series Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
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Making Nonfiction Comics by Shay Mirk & Eleri Harris is the next great comic making textbook. @mirkdrop.bsky.social @elerimai.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Making Nonfiction Comics by Shay Mirk & Eleri Harris is the next great comic making textbook. @mirkdrop.bsky.social @elerimai.bsky.social
“Because the sun notably does not get harder to get the more you harvest it. It just remains just as easy to get on the 5 millionth unit as it is on the first.”
Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.
Clean electrification is inevitable
Kingsmill Bond explains why the global march of "electrotech" has moved beyond the reach of US political interference.
www.volts.wtf
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“Because the sun notably does not get harder to get the more you harvest it. It just remains just as easy to get on the 5 millionth unit as it is on the first.”
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A potentially concerning reassortment of HPAI H5N1 to H5N5 infected a man at his backyard bird farm in Washington state. He has since succumbed to the virus😔. No evidence of H-H transmission, but every roll of the dice creates more opportunities.
BREAKING: Man from Washington state dies after being infected with H5N5 bird flu
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A potentially concerning reassortment of HPAI H5N1 to H5N5 infected a man at his backyard bird farm in Washington state. He has since succumbed to the virus😔. No evidence of H-H transmission, but every roll of the dice creates more opportunities.
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My new comic series was announced yesterday!
It's called IS TED OK? and it's a six-(oversized)-issue series from @madcavestudios.com
It's about human connection in a world hell-bent on crushing human connection.
This is the best work I've ever done. PREORDER!
www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ch...
It's called IS TED OK? and it's a six-(oversized)-issue series from @madcavestudios.com
It's about human connection in a world hell-bent on crushing human connection.
This is the best work I've ever done. PREORDER!
www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ch...
Exclusive: Chisholm's IS TED OK? arrives from Mad Cave in February
Mad Cave Studios has announced Is Ted OK? a new limited series from award-winning creator and musician Dave Chisholm.
www.comicsbeat.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My new comic series was announced yesterday!
It's called IS TED OK? and it's a six-(oversized)-issue series from @madcavestudios.com
It's about human connection in a world hell-bent on crushing human connection.
This is the best work I've ever done. PREORDER!
www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ch...
It's called IS TED OK? and it's a six-(oversized)-issue series from @madcavestudios.com
It's about human connection in a world hell-bent on crushing human connection.
This is the best work I've ever done. PREORDER!
www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ch...
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“All five judges fired from San Francisco on Friday had relatively high rates of granting asylum cases, although San Francisco immigration judges as a whole have far higher rates of granting asylum compared to others nationwide.”
5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today
The Department of Justice fired at least five San Francisco immigration court judges on Friday in the largest cut of immigration judges in the city so far
missionlocal.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“All five judges fired from San Francisco on Friday had relatively high rates of granting asylum cases, although San Francisco immigration judges as a whole have far higher rates of granting asylum compared to others nationwide.”
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And the past year with this book has been a a real treat - smart, compelling storytelling and out of this world page design - @danpgwatters.bsky.social @cleanlined.bsky.social & co made for quite a team! Sad to see it come to a close but quite a gift of inspiring comics making!
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
And the past year with this book has been a a real treat - smart, compelling storytelling and out of this world page design - @danpgwatters.bsky.social @cleanlined.bsky.social & co made for quite a team! Sad to see it come to a close but quite a gift of inspiring comics making!
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Go Canada - very cool!
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
Que bacana, mais selos canadenses homenageando quadrinistas do país 🇨🇦 Depois de Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth e as primas Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki em 2024, agora foi a vez de Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley e Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 📬
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Go Canada - very cool!
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Had 1st encounter with Ai-generated work from Ss - in what was otherwise beautiful & inspiring work from class overall, these were clearly not their words on lone writing part of 3 part midterm (tiny essay/letter) - so upsetting, a violation. Talked in class of how it robs them of learning. A loss…
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Had 1st encounter with Ai-generated work from Ss - in what was otherwise beautiful & inspiring work from class overall, these were clearly not their words on lone writing part of 3 part midterm (tiny essay/letter) - so upsetting, a violation. Talked in class of how it robs them of learning. A loss…
my niece is writing for them, glad to see the impact they are having! Go student newspapers, go @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social!
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
my niece is writing for them, glad to see the impact they are having! Go student newspapers, go @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social!
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I keep harping the last handful of years that we need to support the things that we love or they will disappear. What Katie has built at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social is what you hope every comic store in the world could be. Please donate to keep it going.
gofund.me/52340dc9b
gofund.me/52340dc9b
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I keep harping the last handful of years that we need to support the things that we love or they will disappear. What Katie has built at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social is what you hope every comic store in the world could be. Please donate to keep it going.
gofund.me/52340dc9b
gofund.me/52340dc9b
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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."-Audre Lorde. Full text acceptance speech #McGraw Prize in Higher Ed: cathydavidson.com/blog/2025-mc... Pictured @joshbrumberg.bsky.social @shellterrell.bsky.social @cunychancellor.bsky.social @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."-Audre Lorde. Full text acceptance speech #McGraw Prize in Higher Ed: cathydavidson.com/blog/2025-mc... Pictured @joshbrumberg.bsky.social @shellterrell.bsky.social @cunychancellor.bsky.social @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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I reviewed Joe Sacco's latest book, the Once and Future Riot. It's as good as anything he's done, and that is a high bar.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage
The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I reviewed Joe Sacco's latest book, the Once and Future Riot. It's as good as anything he's done, and that is a high bar.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
For the first time next term, I'm teaching a class on Superheroes! While I have way too much knowledge about DC/Marvel characters/history - I have never thought about integrating that directly into my teaching. I welcome recs for comics/scholarly readings & other advice on potential directions! Tnx!
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
For the first time next term, I'm teaching a class on Superheroes! While I have way too much knowledge about DC/Marvel characters/history - I have never thought about integrating that directly into my teaching. I welcome recs for comics/scholarly readings & other advice on potential directions! Tnx!
Sunny bike ride to school, kids singing opalite together the whole ride - not a bad start to the day… :)
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sunny bike ride to school, kids singing opalite together the whole ride - not a bad start to the day… :)