Klaus
@klaustoon.bsky.social
Architectural cartoonist, PhD, MDesS, aging Professor of Architectural Theory and History. Bourgeois anarcho-syndicalist https://klaustoon.wordpress.com/
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Klaus
@klaustoon.bsky.social
· Nov 23
#comics, #cartoons, #architecture, & the #scifi #city. | Also, the cartoon was made repurposing some material from the unpublished short story 'X-Esia, a tale of the Pneumatic passage' Here are pages 3-4 | Cartoon for @Arquine #108: 'Suelos/Grounds (June 2024). #klaussketches #ThePneumaticPassage
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
"Eighty-three percent of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written,” compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning NOT to learn."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Eighty-three percent of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written,” compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning NOT to learn."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Not one, but two waterfalls: 'Tintin au Congo' (v.o. 1930-1931), and 'Le Temple du Soleil' (1946-48).
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Not one, but two waterfalls: 'Tintin au Congo' (v.o. 1930-1931), and 'Le Temple du Soleil' (1946-48).
#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Some morte crazy-ass dream sequences in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Some morte crazy-ass dream sequences in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis
#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Impressive Dream city sequence in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Impressive Dream city sequence in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis
"...Because I'm your father and I tell you so!"
“I hope the people looking at them are not duped into thinking that it's OK to openly and freely get others to disobey the President of the United States!”
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"...Because I'm your father and I tell you so!"
And, in our section 'One sociopath a day', let me itroduce you today to...
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And, in our section 'One sociopath a day', let me itroduce you today to...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Mark Strong is great in this.
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Mark Strong is great in this.
Untold architectural histories now being told.
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Untold architectural histories now being told.
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Young Shadow teams up with the Watchdogs in a do-or-die baseball game against a roster of ghosts and ghoulies! Will Bolt City survive? Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears is out 4/7/26! https://ow.ly/mSyk50XxKFH
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Young Shadow teams up with the Watchdogs in a do-or-die baseball game against a roster of ghosts and ghoulies! Will Bolt City survive? Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears is out 4/7/26! https://ow.ly/mSyk50XxKFH
For those who do not know what the joke's all about (in case there are any left at this point): on Blade Runner's 'T-shirt wars'. whatculture.com/film/20-thin...
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For those who do not know what the joke's all about (in case there are any left at this point): on Blade Runner's 'T-shirt wars'. whatculture.com/film/20-thin...
Today is #RidleyScott's 88th birthday (b. 1937). I think I've only drawn him once, together with #Alien, Zorglub, and a bunch of architects, back in 2010 for the ephemeral
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today is #RidleyScott's 88th birthday (b. 1937). I think I've only drawn him once, together with #Alien, Zorglub, and a bunch of architects, back in 2010 for the ephemeral
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
Voy a aprovechar la oportunidad que me brindan para recuperar esto.
Actualizando los clásicos.
[Viñeta original: “O nosotros o el caos”, de Ramón (Ramón Gutiérrez Díaz), Hermano Lobo, nº 169, 2 de agosto de 1975].
[Viñeta original: “O nosotros o el caos”, de Ramón (Ramón Gutiérrez Díaz), Hermano Lobo, nº 169, 2 de agosto de 1975].
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Voy a aprovechar la oportunidad que me brindan para recuperar esto.
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Cry me a roman-fleuve.
Go read a book.
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Cry me a roman-fleuve.
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#architecture #cartoons. New Post: "Klaus in ‘Archisatire’ Exhibition" klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/k...
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#architecture #cartoons. New Post: "Klaus in ‘Archisatire’ Exhibition" klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/k...
#comics, #architecture & the #city: Here, Dick Moores's rendition of the whole Gas Neighborhood from Frank King's 'Gasoline Alley' (1918--). Below, the whole cast on occasion of Skeezix's birthday. tcj.com/growing-old-...
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#comics, #architecture & the #city: Here, Dick Moores's rendition of the whole Gas Neighborhood from Frank King's 'Gasoline Alley' (1918--). Below, the whole cast on occasion of Skeezix's birthday. tcj.com/growing-old-...
#Comics, #Space & #Architecture: Feeling lazy today, so, I'm gonna bluit: lemme recover this from the vault my two favorite pages from “Dancing about Architecture”, in Thresholds (MIT Press) #46: Scatter! (2017) [ed. by Eliyahu Keller & Anne Graziano]. klaustoon.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/d...
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#Comics, #Space & #Architecture: Feeling lazy today, so, I'm gonna bluit: lemme recover this from the vault my two favorite pages from “Dancing about Architecture”, in Thresholds (MIT Press) #46: Scatter! (2017) [ed. by Eliyahu Keller & Anne Graziano]. klaustoon.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/d...
In "A Satire of Institutional Boredom: Saul Steinberg’s Smithsonian Portfolio (1967)", for RA #27, Andreea Mihalache examines Steinberg’s perhaps lesser-known collection of drawings made on the Smithsonian's stationery while in Washington DC in 1967.
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In "A Satire of Institutional Boredom: Saul Steinberg’s Smithsonian Portfolio (1967)", for RA #27, Andreea Mihalache examines Steinberg’s perhaps lesser-known collection of drawings made on the Smithsonian's stationery while in Washington DC in 1967.
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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The Spirit, Will Eisner. #Noirvember
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Spirit, Will Eisner. #Noirvember