Amanda Meadows

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

Posting up my little self-promo here to let y’all know I’d like to teach comics in different spaces. I have a background in teaching comics thru an Ethnic Studies lens, so I try to let folks know how important your story is for yourself and your community.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Mark Your Calendars #DVpit is returning October 8, 2025. The original pitch event for creators from marginalized communities. Now on Bluesky! Follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updates

Agents and Editors participating in DVpit 2025 on Bluesky. Here is an initial list of some of the participating agents and editors Gallt & Zacker: Marietta Zacker Beth Phelan Linda Camacho Erin Casey Westin Sandra Proudman Saribel Pages Andrea Brown Literary: Kelly Sonnack Jemiscoe Chambers-Black Jennifer March Soloway Saritza Hernández Analía Cabello Paige Terlip Azantian Literary: Shelly Romero Carey Blankenship-Kramer Dystel, Goderich & Bourret: Michaela Whatnall Folio Literary: John Cusick Gelfman Schneider: Penelope Burns HG Literary: Wendi Gu Jill Grinberg Literary: Katelyn Detweiler Mad Woman Literary: Alex Brown Danielle Burby Chelsea Hensley Neighborhood Literary: Eric Smith Rebecca Podos New Leaf: Jo Volpe Suzie Townsend Sophia M. Ramos Trinica Sampson-Vera Jordan Hill Page Street Publishing Tamara Grasty Park, Fine & Brower: Pete Knapp Stuti Telidevara Root Literary: Melanie Figueroa Samantha Fabien Simon & Schuster: Rebecca Kuss Sourcebooks: Mikaela Luke Triada US: Brent Taylor Uwe Stender Ashley Reisinger Moe Ferrara Writers House: Alexandra Levick Andrea Morrison Follow us at #dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information!

#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

Get more from Shing Yin Khor on Patreon immersive experiential art, keepsake games, and comics

A regular reminder that my MAIL DAY tier includes monthly limited edition prints, letters, postcards and fortunes sent to you on an almost monthly basis, for just $5 a month! www.patreon.com/shing

Folding chair on a chain

Happy anniversary! Always pack heat.

ICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz Contracting records reviewed by 404 Media show that ICE wants to target Gen Z, including with ads on Hulu and HBO Max.

New from 404 Media: ICE is about to go on a social media and TV ad recruiting blitz, according to contracting records. Shows ICE wants to target Gen Z and have ads on Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime. Will also geofence areas to target particular people. Wants to hire 14k www.404media.co/ice-is-about...

If anyone has any book editor leads in publishing hmu

The meeting: a statue of two men having a job interview or other business meeting, surrounded by briefcases and lunch, but in a very odd 70s kind of vibe. Photographed at Baltimore Convention Center.

The Beat won an Eisner but we're not resting on our laurels! We are still looking to fill three roles at @comicsbeat.bsky.social:

• New Editor - you live and breathe the news and clench your jaw when someone beats you on a story.

Nearly 1M Californians are about to lose health insurance, LA County hit hardest Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive — and less common, raising a question: Why?

Nearly 1M Californians are about to lose health insurance, LA County hit hardest.

Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive, and less common, raising a question: Why?

huge W

Can we help? gofund.me/fc848a56

‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.

"The sounds of weeping mothers curled on cold concrete floors echoed through the walls at the federal immigration processing center in Broadview, keeping Gladis Chavez awake for most of the night." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...

🎉 yesss so excited for you! Congrats! 🎉

Just replace "superintelligence" with "total surveillance" when you read this note and you will understand exactly what these clowns want to do to you.

Anthropomorphic dip-pen and inkwell stand infront of a table stacked with books. Pen holds a sign with '18+' drawn on the center, with a heart around it. Inkwell is holding a paper colored rainbow with 'LGBTQA' upon it. Inkwell is holding a hand up in a 'stop' motion. Behind the table is the vague sense of a crowd also holding signs. Above image it reads: "CARTOONISTS Against Adult Content CENSORSHIP"

The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.

Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources.
cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social

I got to concept, co-design, and write a dynamic dialogue system with thousands of lines of commentary, so the robot announcers can make fun of you when you get slaughtered right after acquiring a power-up!

💥Welcome to The Skyscrapper, Humans!💥

Are you ready to climb infinite floors of robot destruction?

A whole new way to play Hyperdome has opened up and you can download the Update NOW on:
Meta - www.meta.com/experiences/...
Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/2401230/...

How #AEWCollision gonna open tonight

So dang proud of you, dude! Once I read the French I knew it had to be you. I learned a ton on this one and I can’t wait to work with you again!

"How lovely, then, for noobs and old-timers alike to have this visual chronicle sorting out its sometimes-chaotic evolution, from an author, illustrator and translator whose love for the medium — and nostalgia for its sundry eras — shines through virtually every panel." -Colin Dwyer, @npr.org

Image of Jen holding a real version of the comic book in French and posing with a fake version of the book in English. The cover is in Émilie Rouge’s signature teals and salmon pink.

Panel featuring engineer and designer Jerry Lawson, a Black man with a goatee and mustache. He dreamed and created the first interchangeable cartridges for video games

Panels featuring women in games (both white women in this example) including Amy Briggs with her historical romantic adventure, Plundered Hearts, and Jane Jensen joining Sierra On-Line in 1991 and making detective games based on the French quarter of New Orleans called Gabriel Knight.

Panels about Tōru Iwatani, creator of PAC-man. He is a light skinned Japanese man with short black hair. PAC-man was originally called Puck-man but the name was changed for fear of graffiti change pick to ‘fuck’. The game sold 4,300,000 arcade cabinets in a few years!

Happy Book Birthday in English to @jeanzeid.bsky.social + Émilie Rouge + @amandameadows.bsky.social + me!

The Age of Video Games: A Graphic History from Pong to VR and Beyond is out from @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social!

Grab a copy at your local comic shop or bookshop: bookshop.org/a/82330/9798...

Were just talking to our LCS about this, yesterday:

Diamond is 1000% imploding, in a way that makes 0 sense to ~98% of people who don't read comics, but also they seem bound & determined to be as messy about it as possible???

Like, not just going down in flames, but actively slashing parachutes 😬

a stuffed animal with the words may i suggest san diego written on it Alt: Alf from the TV show ALF says “may i suggest san diego” in caption

Turns out I’ll be at #SDCC next week after all! See you Thursday 7/24-Friday 7/25. Scheduling hasty hangs now so DM or email me to meet up!

Tomorrow! Still some in-person spots left, or bookmark the livestream!

slicexpo.org/comics-university-2025

How do they manage to ruin EVERY day? Every single day I find out about something new that pisses me off

"You can opt out of equality if you want"

This is essentially a thinly veiled book ban. No way are most districts going to risk lawsuits. Horrendous and vile.