Ben Applegate

Side note: I've been vibrating sitting on this news for eight months and the fact that I didn't spoil the announcement today by walking around telling literally everyone I know that we're doing this is a minor miracle

I'm not sure which words in this sentence to put scare quotes around

A truly Pacific Northwest tale. English ivy is taking over every surface. Coyotes are eating all the local pets. Your only allies against the chaos are a fixie bike, the local gardening co-op, and some kid who plays too much D&D

InfoWars fans are the greatest chess players in the world. Which is why we’re making the best Chess movie in movie history.

Early on in Wildwood, Prue bikes past a market stall with a sign reading "Enjoy Handmade Art, Before It's Gone for Good!" and I wish that shit wasn't quite so literal

Glad we never really had to say this while the real one was alive

Word, Nagi.

This is interesting—a bot that posts how close two points *could* be if suburban walls and yards weren't in the way vs. how far you actually have to walk

CoPilot: It's For Jagoffs

God I'm going to be buying these new editions of Phoenix, aren't I?

Anything but war.

I don't say this often but fuckin A, Utah

Oi Astro Boy manga, oi

diminish an anime Dan

Yeahhhh that's not the bg motif you want in the upper right there if you're fearmongering about China. These gutter racists can't even keep their yellow perils straight.

By Taiyō Matsumoto

Reiko Okuyama was an artist who built Japanese animation. Among other things, she helped to shape Horus -- Isao Takahata's debut film. Okuyama was a top animator and Toei union member. Yet her commercial work never fully satisfied her, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-artist-...

Fielder: So the patient IS the clown Pagliacci Holmes: right Fielder: so why is that funny? Holmes: it's just funny. Like, he should go see a clown

From: The Jetsons (1962-1963), created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Hanna-Barbera Productions The UPA animator Bobe Cannon had a big hand in this sequence

reminder:

Spooky Alters Month Day 16: Demonic Tutor hand painted after Gustave Doré's 'Satan in Council'.

Kamikochi Kappa Bridge, Japan live #Japan #Nippon

Happy to report that one of my Phoenix: Future translation edits was indeed to introduce the word "megalopoleis"

Ok I know this probably sucked but if I would love for someone to make a version of it that's actually as good as I'm imagining right now that it could be. Maybe I'll start by just putting Cracker Jack on ice cream and go from there

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30 years ago I answered my phone. 20 years ago I read my email. 10 years ago I looked at my DMs. Today I respond only to physical prodding with a sharp stick

this is a 10/10 character sheet holy shit

What a page to include in the manga exhibit 😆 Somebody's gotta rescue this series.

the people who you think are “too angry” almost always know something you do not

Cash or card, Mr. Lowry?

A brilliant example of the craft of investigative journalism, from the evidence gathered to the descriptions of the people & places. And then there's the story itself, which is horrifying, but ultimately inspiring. God bless this young woman for persisting. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

"Noiseman Sound Insect" is back on Youtube for a limited time (with subs). Directed in 1997 by Koji Morimoto at Studio 4°C (1997). feat. Masaaki Yuasa. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjN...

The award-winning one-shot manga My Journey to Her is now available in print! An honest, and at times, humorous look at the author's trip from Japan to Thailand for her gender-affirming surgery, this memoir does not shy away from sensitive topics! https://ow.ly/2syK50ZUN43

New "BECK" illustration by Harold Sakuishi, featuring Koyuki, now 30 years old. natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

Kodansha House New York opens tomorrow - are you ready to experience manga in real life? Learn more at kodanshahouse.com!