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Michael Avolio

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Silver Spring, MD Indie cartoonist making comics. Autistic and in constant physical pain. Former theater artist. Forever cinephile. Buy my comics and paintings at michaelavolio.etsy.com. Support my comics work at patreon.com/michaelavolio.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · Oct 23

Art prints: michaelavolio.etsy.com
(Plus comics, paintings, and other art!)

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

Last year's Classic Film Weekend at AFI Silver focused on pre-code films, and this year's is almost all pre-code too. Very exciting!
The returning Kim Luperi and David Pierce are among the introducers (is that a word?), and this year has 100% more Farran Smith Nehme!

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3d

Is fall festival season causing FOMO? Consider The AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend in Silver Spring, Md. It returns Nov. 6–9 with restorations, rarely-screened gems, silents with live musical accompaniment, delicious pre-Codes, 35mm prints. I'll be introducing a few! silver.afi.com/classic-film...

Classic Film Weekend | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

silver.afi.com

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

I just picked up the schedule and was happy to see your name all over it! Was sorry you couldn't make it last year. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

I had fun tabling at Philly Comics Expo for the first time yesterday! It was a light show sales-wise, but everyone was nice, and it was cool to meet some cartoonists I hadn't before and to see a few I knew.

(And I made it to The Philadelphia Museum of Art the day before and also ate cheesesteaks!)

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, other than worrying about interesting movies not making enough money for more interesting movies to get funding, the obsession with box office numbers by people who have no financial interest in movies is a sickness. Haha.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I think that's the one I was thinking of - Kissinger! Thanks.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, yeah - I can't remember who was involved, but there was an obituary of someone famous (maybe a politician, maybe an entertainer?) published in recent years that was largely written by a journalist who'd died something like a year or two prior. That probably isn't uncommon.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 4d

Free to attend, 10am-6pm Saturday October 4 at Old Pine Community Center in Philadelphia, PA:

Philly Comics Expo
partnersandson.com/pages/philly-comics-expo

I'll be there selling my comics, prints, and paintings, and over 160 other cartoonists and publishers will be there too!

mini-comics by Michael Avolio and a Philly Comics Expo flier

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 6d

If ICE thugs were at all interested in obeying the law, now would be a good time to remind them that Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America...

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 6d

U. S. STYMIES JAFAR PANAHI VISA

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 7d

Sammy Harkham's next issue of Crickets is on the way! You can pre-order it from his online shop to get a limited edition process zine:

sammyharkham.bigcartel.com/product/crickets-9

Great cover. I love the way the "C" lines up with the "r" here.

cover to forthcoming comic book Crickets # 9 by Sammy Harkham

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 9d

If Trump really thought Comey lied to Congress, he'd give Comey a cabinet position.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 10d

"It tastes like burning."

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, sorry, I had misunderstood that.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to hear that Nexstar and Sinclair have both caved in to the boycotts by people who care about our first amendment rights after those companies previously bent the knee to the illegal threats from Trump's FCC head.

Corporations care about money, not morality or the law. We vote with our dollar.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 13d

One of my favorite Bowie albums. I need to revisit it (& your books!).

Great sound, weird concept, some great songs. I sometimes get "toll the bell, pay the private eye / all's well, twentieth century dies" stuck in my head. & that version of "Strangers When We Meet" is so beautiful.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 29d

Cartoonists, artists, writers, etc.: You might be owed money from the lawsuit just settled by generative "A.I." company Anthropic stealing your work. You can search the database LibGen.li to find out if they copied anything of yours without permission.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Copyright Lawsuit

Authors and publishers hope the agreement will send a signal to AI companies to respect copyright and to pay for the use of copyrighted materials in training their large language models.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 13d

There have been Nazi dog whistles in tweets from the Department of Homeland Security's official Twitter account this year.

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry to hear about the passing of Elijah Brubaker. He was a talented cartoonist. I wish there'd been a collection of Reich. Some of his friends and colleagues share tributes at The Comics Journal:
tcj.com/elijah-brubaker-1975-2025

Elijah Brubaker, 1975-2025 - The Comics Journal

Austin English collects remembrances from the friends and colleagues of the Reich and Story of Jezebel author, who died on Aug. 28 at the age of 50.

tcj.com

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 14d

"We want to frame the dead guy who shot at ICE detainees as being against ICE, even though he shot ICE's victims instead of ICE agents, so be sure to write anti-ICE messaging on the bullets he left behind."
"Gotcha, boss, no problem. Anti-ICE messaging it is."

five bullets, one of which has "ANTI-ICE" written on it, supposedly by the now-dead shooter but probably by a corrupt law enforcement officer

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 14d

I wonder what percentage of people watching caught the Jack Paar reference.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 14d

He did it! youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 16d

Kimmel's first line back should echo Jack Paar's when he returned to The Tonight Show after having quit for a few weeks due to censorship:
"As I was saying before I was interrupted..."
youtu.be/wrhQI-zovf4

Jack paar returns to the Tonight Show [partial Higher quality footage] (March 7, 1960)

YouTube video by Random TV and News Archives

youtu.be

Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 16d

Disney used to be such a tough, litigious company. Now they bend the knee to a wannabe dictator illegally threatening them, and then they bend back the other way after boycotts in protest. What a bunch of spineless losers!
Glad they made the right decision to bring back Kimmel, anyway.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 16d

My point is just agreeing that a Democrat doesn't need to coddle Trump cultists to become the next president.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 16d

And Biden didn't beat Trump by being graceful, he won because enough of us had just gone through four years of Trump and hated that monstrous piece of shit. And Harris didn't win last year when she tried to appeal to MAGA while neglecting Democrats, independents, undecideds, and nonvoters.

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