Shawn Gilmore

Happy to have a new long-form essay on the politics of adaptation in the Amazon Prime version of The Boys, focusing on the show's version of Stormfront and the increasing specificity of its critique of the Trump era, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social! www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...

MEGA MAN X4 CAPCOM 1997 PSX

I talked about my book on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and I would love for you to have a listen! With gratitude to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social for asking me about privatization, racial capitalism, and interdisciplinarity podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Freshly added to our digital Archive: Dimension-3, a short-lived magazine about high-end computer and console games. It's filled with eclectic coverage, which we love, but also no surprise that a magazine about Mac and 3DO games only lasted seven issues... archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ddd24...

Nancy 10/26/26

A couple of investigation boards appear in The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (dir. Seth Grossman, 2009): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

THE GOONIES II KONAMI 1987 NES

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 27,1945

This masterpiece, by CPHigson heckifiknowcomics.tumblr.com

For no particular reason, sharing my 2015 single page comic Upwards from the Boston Globe, which reworks elements of Unflattening and a look at moving from a solitary perspective aided by the astronomical calculations of Al-Tusi to shift our viewpoint… spinweaveandcut.com/nytimes-glob...

Nasty bug

Lynda Barry's basically perfect definition of How To Art thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/1447676...

New journal article @aaup.org Journal of Academic Freedom: Context Collapse and Retaliatory Firings: Higher Education in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination www.aaup.org/JAF17/contex...

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GARFIELD: CAUGHT IN THE ACT SEGA INTERACTIVE 1995 SEGA GENESIS

KICK MASTER KID CO. 1992 NES

Meta must be destroyed.

We have an open-rank tenure track job in Global Black Feminisms at Rutgers, Fall 2027 start date.

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

(I swear this isn’t going to be a hype thread for my own book. But, also, here’s the preorder link): bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...

Draw Whatever #Inktober 2026 Day 23: Usagi Yojimbo A sketch I had prepared beforehand because I wouldn't have time for drawing for two days.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

We are hiring a poetry creative writing professor with editorial experience to teach and edit Cold Mountain Review. Join us! english.appstate.edu/news/we-are-... Relevant tags: #poetry #creativewriting #editing #academicjobs #english

Side project that also is getting drafted at the moment--the figure of the educator in Chris Ware's comics. Gonna try to get a canonical panel from @scottmccloud.bsky.social's Understanding Comics and Ware's "Ruin Your Life[,] Draw Cartoons! and Doom Yourself" in. 😎

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Kapao, a shy and curious kappa who likes pickled cucumbers and dancing, is the mascot for Aeon Mall in Higashikurume, Tokyo.

I will have my new 20 page spooky short up in my store in the next few weeks. If you want to know when it drops, join my newsletter. thelarsenproject.eo.page/dank

In "Peanuts," Linus first mentioned the Great Pumpkin on October 26, 1959, creating what would go on to become an indelible cultural icon. Here’s that strip, followed by the rest of that week’s dailies:

It never ceases to amaze me that the tech industry's explicit argument for AI uptake is "we have built a tool for people who are stupid, lazy, and kind of shitty at being human".

Bugs gives Gossamer a new hairdo in Hair-Raising Hare (1946).

Increasingly clear that these tech elites have become entirely detached from their own humanity.

I’m a father of two and you could not torture this story out of me.

At a certain point, the law either has teeth or the rule of law has completely collapsed. If the president of the United States is actively undermining democratic elections at multiple polling sites, you don’t need to wait for a federal court to adjudicate that several months after the fact.

Well, here's a first (for me): AI slop making its way into a comics-analysis assignment. Students have to include a page from one of our comics. Fascinating, and I presume it occurred by providing the original comics page (left) and directions re: the analysis to pop out (right). #comicsteaching