Windowpane is the graphic novel debut from Joe Kessler, one of the friendly fellows working behind the cash-register at London's wonderful NOBROW (about whom we've written lots). It's a collection of short, surreal, dreamlike stories, some more experimental than others, as well as a memoir of the near-death of Reuben Mwara during his boyhood in a Kenyan slum. — Read the rest
Monobrow.com is a virtual shrine to persons who bear not two eyebrows, but one big supersized eyebrow. Quick! Someone register "amimonobrowornot.com."
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"If you don't like our religion…then we don't want you in our country." — Bible salesperson, Donald J. Trump
Continuing to court his racist MAGA cultists, Trump is now promising to institute a religious litmus test to keep anyone who doesn't worship his way out of the United States. — Read the rest
Lately, Donald Trump's brain seems to be in need of a nap. He's slurring his words, blanking on the names of foreign leaders, forgetting what he wanted to say, and mixing up the names of his friends and enemies. If you are concerned about his cognitive fitness, however, Newsmax's Greg Kelly wants to reassure you that the former President is just as brilliant as ever. — Read the rest
After the Colorado Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Donald Trump was ineligible to run for president and his name would not be on the 2024 ballot, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said he'd like to do the same to President Biden. — Read the rest
Decades before Fox News altered the media landscape, Linda Ronstadt, a star known more for her melodies than her media critiques, delivered a powerful warning. In a 1983 Australian TV interview — 13 years before the launch of Fox News — she spoke out against Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist newspapers with astoundingly accurate foresight:
— Read the restIt's amazing to me that people read, you know, stuff in People Magazine or the National Enquirer.
"Homelessness isn't about lack of affordable housing. It's about drug addicts that want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk," said Fox News' Jesse Watters in a recent diatribe.
"You can't coddle antisocial behavior," he smirked, remarkably unaware of the irony of his argument. — Read the rest
Senate tough guy Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who challenged another man to a fight on the Senate floor this week, is a biter.
In this podcast interview, the host tells Mullin about his Jiu Jitsu skills, and Mullin interrupts to say, "And by the way, I'm not afraid of biting. — Read the rest
Let us start by assuming this red-shirted red hat knows a statistically significant sample of college-educated folks, and move on to the "Buddy, you just answered your own question!" portion of bemusement.
In this extraordinary video from today, AOC asked each of the MAGA witnesses in the Biden impeachment inquiry, "In your testimony today, are you presenting any first-hand witness account of crimes committed by the President of the United States?"
Each one admitted that they wouldn't be. — Read the rest
As if the mugshot memes weren't enough, Donald Trump has also elicited much hilarity over his first Twitter/X post in two and a half years.
"NEVER SURRENDER!" he wrote under his theatrical mug shot — after surrendering at Fulton County Jail. — Read the rest
In 2003 CSpan interviewed Tucker Carlson about his 2003 book, Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News. The interviewer said, "Another quote from your book: 'Bill O'Reilly's success is built on the perception that he really is who he claims to be. — Read the rest
Move over Marjorie Taylor Greene! Georgia has another very stable MAGA genius named Kandiss Taylor who shares your intelligence, self-confidence, and ability to see through bullshit and tell it like it is.
Taylor, a Georgia GOP Chair, recently discussed on her show, Jesus, Guns, and Babies, her belief that the Earth is flat. — Read the rest
See sample pages from this book at Wink.
An Unreliable History of Tattoos
by Paul Thomas
Nobrow Press
2016, 96 pages, 7.9 x 10.6 x 0.7 inches (hardcover)
A minor celebrity/reality star, whose name I can't remember, said in a recent interview that she thinks of people without tattoos as being "unicorns" because they are so rare. — Read the rest
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Mean Girls Club
by Ryan Heshka
Nobrow Press
2016, 24 pages, 6.8 x 9.1 x 0.1 inches
If your understanding of what a Mean Girls Club consists of is defined by the 2004 Lindsay Lohan film, then Ryan Heshka's new release from Nobrow Press (as part of their wonderful 17 x 23 series) is going to blow your mind. — Read the rest
Already into our first week of December, the holiday month flies by about as fast as the bills spill out of our wallets. But fear not! Wink Books and Wink Fun have some extraordinary gift ideas ($3-$19!) that won't bust your budget. — Read the rest
750 Years in Paris is a historical graphic novel sans words as well as a stunning coffee table art book. Paris-based artist Vincent Mahé (aka Mr. Bidon) illustrates 60 snapshots of the same building in Paris, spanning from the year 1265 with cows grazing in front of its humbler beginnings to 2015 in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. — Read the rest
Lots of myths have been used as fodder for science fiction and fantasy, and some of the more interesting ones turn the gods into cosmic entities, or extensions of our own humanity. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light, for example, imagines a group of posthuman astronauts who take on the personas of the Hindu pantheon. — Read the rest
In Fantasy Sports No. 1, a berzerker adventurer and his spellslinging, underappreciated apprentice go on a dungeon crawl that takes them into an eldritch game of basketball -- for the highest stakes imaginable.
Guilty pleasures aren't always merely self-loathing elitism or ironic tastelessness. They can also be a sign of genuine ambivalence—a feeling to cherish.
