Nitish Pahwa
@nitishpahwa.com
staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and online media council member @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, and POW Magazine. he/him. blurry visionary, blue-pill mercenary
lemme guess ... Vol. 6
January 14, 2026 at 1:06 AM
lemme guess ... Vol. 6
something about the Art of the Stare or something (dw I'm locked in to the game)
January 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
something about the Art of the Stare or something (dw I'm locked in to the game)
indeed it is, thank you!
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
indeed it is, thank you!
yeah I agree—not defending him by any means, but those trying to extrapolate from just a week or so on air strike me as a touch hasty (will definitely be curious to see the numbers for tonight's Trump interview)
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
yeah I agree—not defending him by any means, but those trying to extrapolate from just a week or so on air strike me as a touch hasty (will definitely be curious to see the numbers for tonight's Trump interview)
thank you! it looked like Beast branding but even keyword searches were coming up nil
January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
thank you! it looked like Beast branding but even keyword searches were coming up nil
Reposted by Nitish Pahwa
answer seems to be that while "reading comics" is not a historically unique phenomenon, publishing & distribution shifted in the 80s/90s w/ andrews mcmeel supplying anthologies to chain bookstores & distributing through scholastic book fairs. (see thread below) now muting before an xer murders me
Same age as you, worked at Andrews McMeel Universal as an adult. Can confirm this as a strategy adopted sometime mid-80s. One of AMU's major distro channels was Scholastic catalogs in public schools.
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
answer seems to be that while "reading comics" is not a historically unique phenomenon, publishing & distribution shifted in the 80s/90s w/ andrews mcmeel supplying anthologies to chain bookstores & distributing through scholastic book fairs. (see thread below) now muting before an xer murders me