Zack Kruse
@zackkruse.bsky.social
Author: Eisner-nominated MYSTERIOUS TRAVELERS; scholar & cultural critic; convention organizer; sometime comics maker; radio & pod host; documentary filmmaker; professor at UW Green Bay.
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My 2025 wrap-up: documentary films, short films, film hosting gigs, film festivals, and looking ahead to a big comics project in 2026
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From the misty mystic shores of Lake Michigan...!
My 2025 wrap-up and looking ahead to 2026
zackkruse.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My 2025 wrap-up: documentary films, short films, film hosting gigs, film festivals, and looking ahead to a big comics project in 2026
zackkruse.substack.com/p/from-the-m...
zackkruse.substack.com/p/from-the-m...
Are we still using social media for this sort of thing? I really don’t know but am happy to be this kind of old person
Lots of writing projects wrapping up in the last few months: a screenplay for a horror short, tweaks on an academic book chapter on the Dr. Strange films, a script for miniseries reviving Ditko’s Static, & finishes on my parts of the Ditko documentary. Very grateful to be done & for my collaborators
December 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Are we still using social media for this sort of thing? I really don’t know but am happy to be this kind of old person
Lots of writing projects wrapping up in the last few months: a screenplay for a horror short, tweaks on an academic book chapter on the Dr. Strange films, a script for miniseries reviving Ditko’s Static, & finishes on my parts of the Ditko documentary. Very grateful to be done & for my collaborators
December 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Lots of writing projects wrapping up in the last few months: a screenplay for a horror short, tweaks on an academic book chapter on the Dr. Strange films, a script for miniseries reviving Ditko’s Static, & finishes on my parts of the Ditko documentary. Very grateful to be done & for my collaborators
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They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
HO HO HO, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #136! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
December 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
HO HO HO, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #136! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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The Solitary Gourmet by Jirō Taniguchi and Masayuki Kusumi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian with Chitoku Teshima (Fanfare/Ponent Mon, 2025)
reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
The Solitary Gourmet - The Comics Journal
Joe McCulloch offers his thoughts on the latest Jiro Taniguchi offering from Fanfare/Ponent Mon.
www.tcj.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Solitary Gourmet by Jirō Taniguchi and Masayuki Kusumi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian with Chitoku Teshima (Fanfare/Ponent Mon, 2025)
reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
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Golden Globes Introduces Best Podcast Category
https://theonion.com/golden-globes-introduces-best-podcast-category/
https://theonion.com/golden-globes-introduces-best-podcast-category/
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Golden Globes Introduces Best Podcast Category
https://theonion.com/golden-globes-introduces-best-podcast-category/
https://theonion.com/golden-globes-introduces-best-podcast-category/
THE SHROUDS (dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, 2024, 120 min.)
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THE SHROUDS (dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, 2024, 120 min.)
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #134! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
![Haunt 134
[INTRO: The Moontrekkers – “Night of the Vampire”]
Eddie Noack -“Beer Drinkin’ Blues”
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys -“Whose Heart Are You Breakin’ Now?”
The Electric Prunes -“Dr. Do Good”
Link Wray & The Wraymen - “Moonlight Love”
Mike Ness -“Ball and Chain”
Flamin’ Groovies -“Heading for the Texas Border”
Pauline Rogers -“I’m Just a Woman”
Wayne Hancock -“Going Back to Texas”
Dead Pioneers -“Working Class Warfare”
Lightnin’ Hopkins -“The Devil is Watching You”
Bobby Please & The Pleasers -“The Monster”
Jackie Walker –“Only Teenagers Allowed”
Thee Ultra Bimbos -“Weird Guy”
The Greenhornes -“Nobody Loves You”
Dead Moon -“Going South”
Otis Spann -“It Must Have Been the Devil”
[OUTRO: “Fantastic Horror Frolic”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2log6m7smkq7e6z2n6hxsyvb/bafkreichi6t7n72w5lqwunzyqwulkhdswwe2bogdjnnrkzqgpem2lwcfzq@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #134! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop...
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop...
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
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The great Steve Ditko was born on this date in 1927. Why not remember him by listening to @javierhernandez.bsky.social, @zackkruse.bsky.social, Carl Potts, and @arlenschumer.bsky.social reminisce on an episode of Eating the Fantastic recorded during Ditko Con? www.scottedelman.com/2021/09/17/s...
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The great Steve Ditko was born on this date in 1927. Why not remember him by listening to @javierhernandez.bsky.social, @zackkruse.bsky.social, Carl Potts, and @arlenschumer.bsky.social reminisce on an episode of Eating the Fantastic recorded during Ditko Con? www.scottedelman.com/2021/09/17/s...
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #130! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
![Haunt 130
[INTRO: The Moontrekkers – “Night of the Vampire”]
The Cramps -“Strychnine”
The Executioners -“The Guillotine”
Little Gerhard and His Rocking Men -“Rockin’ Ghosts”
Ralph Nielsen and The Chancellors - “Scream”
Zacherle -“Dinner with Dracula”
Jackie Morningstar -“Rockin’ in the Graveyard”
Randy Alvey -“Green Fuz”
The Pharaohs -“The Green Werewolf”
Isaac Rother and The Phantoms -“Witches’Brew”
Kip Tyler -“She’s My Witch”
Dead Moon -“You Must Be a Witch”
Southern Culture on the Skids -“The Great Atomic Power”
The Ghastly Ones -“Robot Atomico”
Roky Erickson -“Creature with the Atom Brain”
Frankie Stein and His Ghouls -“Wake Up Dead”
The Meteors -“Daughters of the Deep”
The Gories -“You Done Got Wrong”
[OUTRO: “Fantastic Horror Frolic”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2log6m7smkq7e6z2n6hxsyvb/bafkreibr5d6r4dlln7z7yp67o6dargnw6vyzs4ozgtuwwzgz4x4arneggu@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #130! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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I’ve never much been interested in categorizing, critics can waste time on that. But I’m now totally convinced that The Return is a movie. The way the audience engaged with it felt exactly right and changed the experience.
Seeing all of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on screen at the Egyptian was the most impactful viewing I’ve had since my first watch. And everything about it, picture and sound, was superior to seeing it at home. It was a revelation.
September 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’ve never much been interested in categorizing, critics can waste time on that. But I’m now totally convinced that The Return is a movie. The way the audience engaged with it felt exactly right and changed the experience.
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Robert Mitchum in a pair of noir classics! OUT OF THE PAST (1947) screens today & tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday September 13th & 14th, at 6:30pm paired with CROSSFIRE (1947) at 8:35pm. 35mm prints of both!
September 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Robert Mitchum in a pair of noir classics! OUT OF THE PAST (1947) screens today & tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday September 13th & 14th, at 6:30pm paired with CROSSFIRE (1947) at 8:35pm. 35mm prints of both!
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September 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #128! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
![The Mutant Graveyard
Haunt 128
[INTRO: The Moontrekkers – “Night of the Vampire”]
The Coffin Shakers -“Vampires Don’t Cry”
Merced Blue Notes -“Do the Pig”
The Impacs -“Kool It”
Rick Roy - “Screamin’ Mimi”
Little Gerhard and His Rocking Men -“Rockin’ Ghosts”
Daniel Johnston -“An Idiot’s End”
Chuck Berry -“No Money Down”
Rusty York -“Shake ‘Em Up, Baby”
The Cramps -“Bikini Girls with Machine Guns (live)”
Thee Headcoatees -“Pinhead”
The Raiders -“Hocus Pocus”
The Third Bardo -“Rainbow Life”
The Tornnados -“Telstar”
Dave Gardner -“Mad Witch”
Eddie Noack -“Psycho”
Dead Moon -“Psychodelic Nightmare”
Billy Lee Riley -“Flyin’ Saucers Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Brook Bond Food -“Red Rose Tea”
[OUTRO: “Fantastic Horror Frolic”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2log6m7smkq7e6z2n6hxsyvb/bafkreif7qhmoeck4xq4yrwomxgn6qq2zxyaajepzzncslwqbcqpefob5iu@jpeg)
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #128! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #128! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #128! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
Straight up loser shit.
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Straight up loser shit.
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #127! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
![The Mutant Graveyard
Haunt 127
[INTRO: The Moontrekkers – “Night of the Vampire”]
Roky Erickson -“Bloody Hammer”
Southern Culture on the Skids -“Bloodsucker”
The Coffin Shakers -“Lust for Blood”
The Ghouls - “Blood and Butter”
The Messer Chups -“Blood and Black Lace”
Dead Pioneers -“Bloodletting Carnival”
The Misfits -“Wolfs Blood”
Rocket from the Crypt -“I Drink Blood”
Sheldon Allman -“This Can’t Be Blood”
Reverend Tom Frost -“A Bloody Life”
The Professor and His One-Man Dirty Rhythm and Blues Band -“Washing in the Blood (of Rock ‘n’Roll)”
Don Hinson & His Rigamorticians -“Riboflavin-flavored, Non-carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood”
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon -“Convoy in the Sky”
Red Simpson -“Sleeper, Five-by-Two”
The Bomboras -“Mile Zero”
Tony Chick -“A Car”
Jack Kitchen -“Hot Rod Boogie”
Johnny Fortune -“Dragster”
Gary & Larry -“Garlic Bread”
Ivan -“Real Wild Child”
[OUTRO: “Fantastic Horror Frolic”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2log6m7smkq7e6z2n6hxsyvb/bafkreihjsc2w5uwxfhyrgcprykf7iwvy42grz4izillsbg4sdf7pszhhku@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
IT'S TIME, MUTIES! From the misty, mystic shores of Lake Michigan in northeast Wisconsin, it's THE MUTANT GRAVEYARD #127! Shamble, lurch, and scrounge around with the #MutantFam as we dig up the sludgy, slimy, lonely corpses of lost rock and roll!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
www.suburbspod.com/radio/
TODAY @ 4 E / 3 C / 1 P!
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Tonight! I chat with the great Bill Cox about being a comic book artist who collects comic book art. 8 PM CDT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tfu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tfu...
Interview with Comic Creator and Art Collector Phil Hester
YouTube video by CAF+
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Tonight! I chat with the great Bill Cox about being a comic book artist who collects comic book art. 8 PM CDT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tfu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tfu...
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from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
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much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
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YouTube just tried to show me a video of a guy saying he read the worst comic ever made and he’s holding up one of the Goody Rickels issues of Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen
Buddy, you could have just said you have no idea what you’re talking about and saved everyone a lot of time
Buddy, you could have just said you have no idea what you’re talking about and saved everyone a lot of time
August 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
YouTube just tried to show me a video of a guy saying he read the worst comic ever made and he’s holding up one of the Goody Rickels issues of Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen
Buddy, you could have just said you have no idea what you’re talking about and saved everyone a lot of time
Buddy, you could have just said you have no idea what you’re talking about and saved everyone a lot of time