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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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
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Angry Red Planet - Sun Goes Down [Detroit, MI, USA, Hardcore Punk / Deathrock] (1985)
https://redd.it/1errkuw
https://youtu.be/CDB5ayg_0Yk
https://redd.it/1errkuw
https://youtu.be/CDB5ayg_0Yk
Angry Red Planet - Sun Goes Down [Detroit, MI, USA, Hardcore Punk / Deathrock] (1985)
youtu.be
August 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Angry Red Planet - Sun Goes Down [Detroit, MI, USA, Hardcore Punk / Deathrock] (1985)
https://redd.it/1errkuw
https://youtu.be/CDB5ayg_0Yk
https://redd.it/1errkuw
https://youtu.be/CDB5ayg_0Yk
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I started seriously thinking about a Batman/Green Arrow/Question book a decade ago after drawing this commission. First issue of my Black Label book ARCADIA featuring the three of them is out in November.
August 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I started seriously thinking about a Batman/Green Arrow/Question book a decade ago after drawing this commission. First issue of my Black Label book ARCADIA featuring the three of them is out in November.
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This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate
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El Rago Et Son Ensemble Typique - Bambino-Blue [Benin, West Africa, Jazz/Folk] (1968)
https://redd.it/80wmni
https://youtu.be/R5AENQGxLfc
https://redd.it/80wmni
https://youtu.be/R5AENQGxLfc
El Rago Et Son Ensemble Typique - Bambino-Blue [Benin, West Africa, Jazz/Folk] (1968)
youtu.be
August 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
El Rago Et Son Ensemble Typique - Bambino-Blue [Benin, West Africa, Jazz/Folk] (1968)
https://redd.it/80wmni
https://youtu.be/R5AENQGxLfc
https://redd.it/80wmni
https://youtu.be/R5AENQGxLfc
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“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
August 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
New interview!
The folks at TASQ Art and I talk about Steve Ditko, which I'm sure surprises you. It's a great conversation, and I hope you check it out. Coming up, there are two more interviews in this series with Mark Ditko and Jack C. Harris
#ditko #comics
youtu.be/9KCTaXH1CEw?...
The folks at TASQ Art and I talk about Steve Ditko, which I'm sure surprises you. It's a great conversation, and I hope you check it out. Coming up, there are two more interviews in this series with Mark Ditko and Jack C. Harris
#ditko #comics
youtu.be/9KCTaXH1CEw?...
STEVE DITKO: BEYOND THE MYTH- PART 1 [CIC Ep. 28- Dr. Zack Kruse]
YouTube video by TASQ ART
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New interview!
The folks at TASQ Art and I talk about Steve Ditko, which I'm sure surprises you. It's a great conversation, and I hope you check it out. Coming up, there are two more interviews in this series with Mark Ditko and Jack C. Harris
#ditko #comics
youtu.be/9KCTaXH1CEw?...
The folks at TASQ Art and I talk about Steve Ditko, which I'm sure surprises you. It's a great conversation, and I hope you check it out. Coming up, there are two more interviews in this series with Mark Ditko and Jack C. Harris
#ditko #comics
youtu.be/9KCTaXH1CEw?...
I obtained a grail object today from Mark Borchardt. “It’s all right! It’s okay! There’s something to live for!”
August 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I obtained a grail object today from Mark Borchardt. “It’s all right! It’s okay! There’s something to live for!”
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Bullying works.
Being seen as too risky due to social fallout for Disney's investors really is the writing on the wall for AI in creative spaces
I don't like praising Disney but this is a genuinely a good call for reasons the investors probably cannot comprehend
I don't like praising Disney but this is a genuinely a good call for reasons the investors probably cannot comprehend
Disney Scrapped Dwayne Johnson Deepfake For ‘Moana’ & AI-Generated Soldier For ‘Tron: Ares’: “Company Couldn’t Risk The Bad Publicity”
Disney scrapped a couple of AI ideas for 'Moana' and 'Tron: Ares' due to the controversy over use of the technology.
deadline.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Bullying works.