Johanna Draper Carlson

Detective Graphic Novels Round-Up An overview of some recent graphic novel titles that feature detectives and mysteries.

My post on Detective Comics for Kids at #GoodComicsforKids!

Featuring books from @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social @exocomics.com @paulcornell.bsky.social @rachaelsmith.bsky.social @shaenon.bsky.social @badmachinery.com @maxsarin.bsky.social @darkhorse.com

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A Sauceome Holiday Gift Guide! How is it December already? I am still working on the art for a book pitch for a new project, so once again, I did not have time to draw a new comic this...

Looking for some great cookbook comics? The latest issue of Sarah Becan's (@sarahbecan.bsky.social) newsletter, I Think You're Sauceome, has a number of recommendations in a gift guide!

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Guess who wrote about Mycroft in the Comics. Go ahead. Guess. 😆

Ah, the memories!

Happy Birthday (and Happy Thanksgiving) to @curtisisbooger.bsky.social from all of us in the Moonlighting world. Have a fantastic day filled with friends, family, and food! #moonlighting

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

I think Martha helped found Friends of Lulu.

My Justice League

Martha Thomases did PR for DC for a long while. And offered to get me in to see the Ramones' sound check across the street at the David Letterman Show.

I, stupidly not knowing who the Ramones were at the time, passed.

She is amazing.

Oh, lord, you are older than you look if you remember those! Those were fun.

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence

programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Captain Hastings and Hercule Poirot!

I am so much more entertained these days by hearing people tell me about superhero stories than actually reading them. Wacky!

Well. I had no idea they all dated. (Not much of a Marvel Girl.) But yeah, I'm all for "superhero women drink together" stories.

I need a picture of this.

Same! But I woke up at 6 so yeah. Early lunch.

It's an egg that makes its own sauce!

Ha! I'm all for books for anyone, including those covering sexual content, but I don't need Yet Another Dude's Perspective, myself.

to my fudanshi and fujoomfs

I remember those! Wow. Thanks for the memory!

Catching up on comic solicits, I have a new rule -- the phrase "(man's) sexual energy" is an automatic no. 😆🚫🍆⚡

Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

Illustration of The Tenth Doctor.

Happy Doctor Who Day, my friends!🌌

#DoctorWhoDay #art

In the photos: gorgeous cover I found in Barcelona, plus my cat, who is strictly forbidden from chasing pigeons. 🐈‍⬛🐦

Most of those I can think of immediately that are set in a past era are given modern spins. Or perhaps those are just the ones that most interest me.

I should elaborate: I don't think anyone can or should do a truly faithful adaptation. Take, for example, the bigotry inherent in The Sign of Four. That problem exists to greater or lesser degree in most Holmes stories.

Ugh! As If!: Clueless (Pop Classics) We are majorly, totally, butt-crazy in love with . In , Veronica Litt argues that this seemingly fluffy teen romp is the quintessential thinking woman’s movie, one in which audiences are asked to ...

Highly recommended for readable pop culture analysis about a wonderful movie:

Ugh! As If!: Clueless by Veronica Litt
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YouTube video by An Englishman In San Diego Thought Bubble 2025: In Conversation with Rachael Smith, 16-11-2025

#Tubs2025: first up, we've got this lovely little catch-up with @rachaelsmith.bsky.social who's had a HELL of a week this week, seeing her Kickstarter for NAP COMIX smash thru its target - congratulations, Rachael!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uae...

And that the characters (cause no Holmes without Watson for me) can still be relevant and entertaining today is great!

There's faithful, and there's entertaining. Straight translations of original, 1890-whatever stories are unlikely to catch modern audiences. Keeping the core of what makes them entertaining is more important, imo.