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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 1d

What if we loved things and cared for things and fought for things even if there was no guarantee we could save them? Even if losing them felt like an inevitability? What if looking away never even felt like an option?

Please Read Football America Dream

Luke Kruger-Howard @andsoluke.bsky.social · 1d

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 1d

In 2021, Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir #GenderQueer was named the most challenged book in the #US. For #BannedBooksWeekUK, Maia reminds us how important it is for libraries to stock books that open up the wider world. Why not visit a library this week? www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671968...

Black Arms to Hold You Up by Ben Passmore: 9780593316122 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 1d

At the Busan Global Webtoon Festival, held in the South Korean city September 25–28, Kim Hyun Sook’s graphic novel, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit (Penguin Workshop), coauthored with Ryan Estrada, was transformed into a bench placed at the end of the festival’s red carpet.
(Penguin Young Readers)

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 1d

I have published a new book & it's a collection of the past five years of my paintings, drawings, and zines about my favorite artist, SHINee's Key!

I'm selling them online to cover the print run & to raise money for NYCSHINee fan club projects!

korimichele.bigcartel.com/product/key-...

Promotional image, including: cover of the "Key to My Heart/ fan artbook by Kori Michele/ for the 2025 Uncanny Valley US Tour" featuring a painting of kpop artist Key in the style of Patrick Nagel. Text reads: "On Sale Now! 44 page fan artbook. (5 years of paintings, drawings, and zines.) $15 + shipping. $5 of each sale goes to NYCSHINee fan project fundraiser!! In celebration of KEY in the USA!!! https://korimichele.bigcartel.com/product/key-to-my-heart-fan-artbook . There is a strip of images of photos of the inside pages of the pook, which depict more paintings of Key. Also lots of fun little colorful squiggles in pink, purple and teal.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 6d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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MounaBat @mounabat.bsky.social · 7d

My birthday is in 9 days! 🎂
I unfortunately lost my dayjob about 2 months ago. If you love anything I've ever created in the realm of art/zines/music, please consider supporting me!
🧡Be a patron: www.patreon.com/mounabat
☕Tip me: ko-fi.com/mounabat
⚡Buy one of my zine PDFs: mounabat.itch.io

Mouna | Patreon

art & music

www.patreon.com

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

Graphic for PEN America report titled 'Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Bans'. Features a stack of colorful books in front of a blackboard with '22,810 books banned in U.S. public schools, 2021-2025' written in chalk.

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 7d

"One of the things the movie does, I think, is give anyone permission to behave as badly as they really want, in whatever way and with whom. And I'm proud of that." -Tim Curry

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Tim Curry Reflects on 50 Years of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’: “Gives Anyone Permission to Behave as Badly as They Want”

Dr. Frank-N-Furter himself took part in a special anniversary screening at the Academy Museum, with appearances by some of his co-stars.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 8d

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance,' a new art exhibition opening this fall in New York City, invites visitors to explore a lesser-known but vital chapter of the Harlem Renaissance: the queer artists, writers, and performers who helped define it. gothamist.com/news/the-gay...

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance' exhibit spotlights queer Black artists who shaped history

The New York Historical's major fall show traces the lives and legacies of LGBTQ+ figures who powered one of the most iconic movements in American culture.

gothamist.com

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 8d

Cover Reveal: OPTING OUT by Maia Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar

Comics Beat is proud to present the cover reveal for Opting Out by Maia Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar, arriving in spring 2026.

Cover Reveal: OPTING OUT by Maia Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar

Comics Beat is proud to present the cover reveal for Opting Out by Maia Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar, arriving in spring 2026.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 14d

Painting a new jacket.

Sketch pinned to back of black denim jacket that depicts a tiger in pearls and punk jewelry with the text "Little Freaks Still Believe In Love"

Black denim jacket painted lightly with a tiger silhouette and the text "Little Freaks Still Believe In Love"

My elderly orange cat Henry sleeping on a flat shipping box under my desk. Gonna give him a raise.

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silas denver 🛸 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 14d

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a black and white typography edit that reads "i am gay and i must create". around the text are many arts and crafts supplies such as a glue gun, spools of thread, scissors, a linocut carver, tunes of paint, crayons, buttons, pins, a ball of yarn, paint brushes, pens, and pencils, and other things of that nature. the entire image is textured to look photocopied.

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 15d

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 15d

Hey are you all reading the most beautiful webcomic in the world rn? Because it's updating and it's so, so special

Luke Kruger-Howard @andsoluke.bsky.social · 16d

Football America Dream 34 www.footballamericadream.com/now

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 15d

Almost Home - this month’s riso print to ring in the fall.

Not sure how to describe it, but this time of year always feels like I’m almost “home” so I wanted to come up with something that touches on that feeling a little

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Bird 🌲 @nepeteaa.bsky.social · 15d

coming this Friday 🍁

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Viv 🌲 @vivtanner.bsky.social · 16d

Wee donkey.

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 20d

Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.

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cranky ol’ Auncle Allie @turtlesoup.bsky.social · 20d

Phew. Okay, so, this is tough.

I can't afford to pay for the surgery my beloved Eugenides needs to save his mouth from severe inflammation and infection. I'm chronically underpaid by my day job and already struggling financially.

Please ... I need help. www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

Donate to Help give Gen a chance at a long, healthy life!, organized by Allie Kleber

TL;DR - beloved cat, severe periodontal disease, expensive surgery, broke… Allie Kleber needs your support for Help give Gen a chance at a long, healthy life!

www.gofundme.com

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22d

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Just let us live. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

home by the rotting sea won an ignatz! the comic is 30% off for the next two days to celebrate! check it out...!! :) <3
claystorks.itch.io/home-by-the-...

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TAKAO★WATANABE🎨10/29～11/3 solo exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 22d

A sparrow relaxing as if soaking in plants. Incidentally, the number of these sparrows is declining year by year in Japan. While there seem to be various reasons, it's a phenomenon causing concern.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

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