I always keep our state's motto close to my heart: Ad Astra Per Aspera. To the stars through difficulty. Happy #KansasDay!

How to say "Spoiler Alert!" but classy.

Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior bit.ly/4033Riy

Rest in Peace to the MAD Magazine fold-in legend, Al Jaffee ❤️

This sounds amazing - can't wait!

Why do academics end every third sentence with a “right”?

To paraphrase Todd McFarlane, when you close your eyes and think of Spider-Man, you see Romita's Spider-Man.

My grandfather's "legendary" drawing table, taboret and chair, transferred from Long Island to his home studio in California. From "the dungeon" to the California light, he continued creating. Storyteller. Artist. More.

Was a real treat to read this positive and thoughtful review of my book in ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. imagetextjournal.com/review-of-alan…

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

The strange phenomena that would occur if of our universe bled into mine!

What a remarkable book.

The Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Prize 2024. The short-listed semi-finalists have been announced, and are: 'Eighteen Tomorrow' by Hassan Akram 'When Fillings Burn' by Löis Bolton 'Simulation or Damnation' by Leo Otoiu orwellsociety.com/education/orwe… Victor to be announced.

Shuffling over to the giant white board in my office, erasing Zadie Smith's name from the "Good" column, sighing, and writing her name in the "Bad" column

I invented Barbenheimer.

I was thrilled to hear that my friend and frequent collaborator, George Pérez, has become the first comic book creator to be honored by the National Portrait Gallery. It is so deserved. comicsbeat.com/george-perez-n…

The Proof of my Innocence, by Jonathan Coe, absolutely delivers the goods. And, having sprung for Waterstones' signed edition, I was especially amused to see that a novelist's perfunctory signing his book is a minor plot point.

‘The future secretary of commerce is a billionaire. The future secretary of the treasury is a billionaire. The future secretary of the interior is a billionaire. The future secretary of education is a billionaire.’ Eliot Weinberger on Trump’s cabinet: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Academic friends: I'm trying to organize a seminar for ACLA. Please consider sharing. acla.org/seminar/50608f…