Chris Mautner

(The Swiss do not have a Prime Minister)

Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.

A small creature is painting a colorful and an imaginative nature of trees, fruits, and flowers on a yellow wall. The brush its using throws a shadow on the wall, the bottles with ink colors have been tilted over, so the colors are running down the shelf

Go, Go, Go, Grabote! by Nicole Claveloux, 1973

Wrote a few words about the return of an important part of French comics history.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

"In 2017 the Soviet Union will switch over the capitalism, but not to be outdone, the U.S. sinks into fascism. Jmmm..." Love and Rockets #17 by Gilbert Hernandez, 1986.

Gilbert Hernandez, Love and Rockets #17, 1986
#comics

All my favorite companies that make things have 2 qualities: a good product, and they leave me the fuck alone.

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

Cult Leaver: Weng Pixin on Embracing her Inner Calcifer and Breaking Free with Wake Up, Pixoto! - The Comics Journal Weng Pixin, fresh from her recent Wake Up, Pixoto! (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) interviewed by Tania De Rozario

Cult Leaver: Weng Pixin on Embracing her Inner Calcifer and Breaking Free with Wake Up, Pixoto! interview by Tania De Rozario www.tcj.com/cult-leaver-...

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

a man is playing a saxophone and another man is playing a trumpet in a pink room . Alt: Paul Simon and Chevy chase doing a comical dance in the You Can Call Me Al video

Sting got sued for unpaid royalties to his bandmates and in doing so he’s the only person so far to successfully defund the police.

Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and…

The Washington Post layoffs were a bigger bloodbath than you thought. New figures reveal 44 to 47.5 percent of the paper's newsroom was eliminated during last week's cuts.

bw shot of woman with drawn face shield, wearing a leopard skin coat while carrying a bag

The Mask series, Inge Morath with Saul Steinberg, 1961

If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

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All the Super Bowl ads are like, “Look at this cool new tech that we swear won’t ever be used for nefarious or illegal purposes. Honest.”

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.

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You mission is a failure, your lifestyle’s too extreme: Clark Burscough is your new commander, you are now prisoner to this week’s linkshttps://www.tcj.com/take-me-round-again-this-weeks-links/

More Weight: A Salem Story - The Comics Journal Leonard Pierce reviews Ben Wickey's new book about the Salem witch trials.

More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey (Top Shelf, 2025) reviewed by Leonard Pierce www.tcj.com/reviews/more...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Two ways to support the 100s of talented WaPo journalists that Jeff Bezos fired this week:

1) Support fired WaPo international reporters, who weren’t eligible to join
@postguild.bsky.social:

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2) Support the WaPo Guild’s layoff fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Q: A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?

Trump: No, I didn't make a mistake. It was fine. I guess it was a takeoff from The Lion King. And certainly it was a very strong post

The Conclusion of Happy Mania - The Comics Journal Flashback to 2001, as we catch a contemporaneous newspaper reaction to the end of Happy Mania, the breakthrough series of women's manga superstar Anno Moyoko. Writer Miyamoto Hirohito is translated he...

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Shoujo ( or josei?) Manga in comics journal??

Willi Geißler (1895-1977)