Steph Noell (they/them)

Lawful good library patrons push their chairs back in when they get up

HOLD ON, I just saw this news clip of the local LA news anchors reading this T-Shirt out loud, and you HAVE to see their reactions. I've had to pause it multiple times to laugh.

i'm DEAD

Thank you for the heads up! Not making that mistake a second time

They're back in stock baby! shop.metro.net/products/rid...

guess I'll have to settle for the Ride the B shirt

LA Metro "Ride the D" shirt

Currently mad at myself for not buying this shirt last night from LA Metro b/c it's now out of stock

Repost with an image of your favorite bird.

Grackles are my favorite opportunists.

Wow, great--and much needed--subject matter. At the Billy Ireland: "Financial Essentials for Cartoonists." Bonus: totally free!

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Been watching other countries' Traitors series in between US episodes & New Zealand has gotta have the best traitor-hunting record of all of them.

Such a great representation of being an online teen in the early days of the internet

Little Pedro was a gag-a-day, wordless comic featuring the titular character Pedro working a variety of odd jobs & finding creative solutions for whatever problems come his way. The Sunday strips even included the panel "Pedro's Painless Spanish" teaching readers a new Spanish word each week.

Panel from the June 23, 1949 "Lil' Pedro" comic strip by William de la Torre: Pedro stands holding bottles, wearing a sign that reads "Stradivario uses "Pedro's hair restorer" next to a Stradivario concert poster.

Panel from the "Lil' Pedro" comic strip by William de la Torre: Pedro serves a customer from inside a tank labeled "Pedro's chili tank" with "tamales" on one cannon and tacos on the other. The side of the tank reads "enchiladas 50¢".

Panel from the February 10, 1957 "Lil' Pedro" comic strip by William de la Torre: Pedro is sitting atop some skiis run through a couple metro interior handles.

Lil' Pedro was published from 1948 until his untimely death in February 1955. The strip was nationally syndicated & even published in the New Yorker.

Black and white photograph of 20-year-old William de la Torre in July 1935.

Black and white photograph of William de la Torre (right) with two other Disney artists.

How has William de la Torre's "Lil' Pedro" NOT gotten a proper collection yet?? De la Torre was born in Juarez in 1914, then moved to LA where he graduated from Belmont High School followed by Otis Art Institute, and went on to write & do story copy for Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, & Pluto at Disney.

Free for ALA members! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...

Bummer to see the end of The World Factbook (an essential authoritative source for new library students in Information Access and Retrieval courses): www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Screenshot from "Tortoise Wins by a Hare," a 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon. It's a newspaper front page, banner headline: HARE RACES TORTOISE TODAY Further down the page, near the fold, is a much smaller headline: ADOLPH HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE

One of my favorite jokes of all time is "Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide" being a tiny headline under the banner story about a hare-vs-tortoise race ... in 1943, two years before Hitler committed suicide. He was alive and well when the Warner Bros. cartoonists made this joke.

Never Mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

1. From Walden to Woodstock (the class I was in when 9/11 happened)
2. Revolutions in History
3. Modern Irish Theatre
4. Ecofeminist Philosophy
5. Applied Paleozoology in Conservation

Yeesh, that is awful.
We checked bags, which somehow DID make it to Florida despite our flight being canceled so we've been washing and wearing the same clothes since Friday. The bags have already been delivered to our home in Los Angeles while we're stuck in Dallas

5th flight just canceled. I'm never flying American again. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...

Best of luck!

Added!

I made a Starter Pack based on the replies to this post. Feel free to suggest folx I missed! go.bsky.app/RY9Rvnw

You don't have to be the author to nominate either, so if you've got a favorite zine from last year, feel free to nominate it!

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For my fellow zinesters: a zine contest with a $500 prize for best overall zine! Deadline is March 1st: zineprize.com

Missed my mom's interment in FL today b/c V & I got stuck in DFW thanks to Winter Storm Fern, but at least I got to see a bald eagle deplane at Burbank Airport on our way out here

As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day.

#WeFeedYou

Rick Owens boots but make them orthopedic

"The World's Greatest Heroes! The World's Greatest Comics!": How Wednesday Comics Went from a Wild Idea to an All-Time Great - SKTCHD When you look back through comic book history, the most iconic works often have one key characteristic in common, and that’s that they strived to do something different. Whether you’re talking The Dar...

How did Wednesday Comics, one of the most unique comics from DC's history, come together? Find out in this retrospective featuring the man behind it, Mark Chiarello, and a whole bunch of the creators who worked on the project.

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One of my favorite episodes ever