A.L. Kaplan

I can memorize a lot of random bullshit quickly and have some manual dexterity

5 jobs I've had:

🎢🎡🌊 Theme park switchboard operator where my boss collected Godzillas
🚨🛻 Roadside assistance dispatcher (graveyard shift, babeyyy)
👨‍🍳🍕 Slinging 'za at the mall
👁️📊 Visual psych research assistant's assistant
👕✍️ Bootleg & bs t-shirt designer

Join us this Tuesday, February 3rd at 8pm ET on our Discord, to discuss ABSOLUTE FLASH VOL. 1: OF TWO WORLDS created by @jefflemire171.bsky.social, @artofnickrobles.bsky.social, @alkcomics.bsky.social, Adriano Lucas, @sotocolor.bsky.social, @tenapolitano.bsky.social.

#Comicsky

The irony of the eccentric artist stereotype is that writers/artists often need domestic structure/serenity *more* than the average person. Traditionally, artists were mostly men+ expected their wives to provide that structure. What happens if you don't have a wife? What happens if you *are* a wife?

I keep obsessive notebooks and I'm sure it is in one of them, but I am at work and it is at home and this thought won't leave me alone

Rilke???

Wanna revisit the project of trans readings of favorite lines but this one is bugging me that I can't remember it.

Man sometime in the last decade I posted a typographic piece in progress based on a line of poetry in French. Someone kindly corrected my grammar. I really want to find that piece and finish it but I have NO IDEA what it wassss

Ohhh hell yeah, I can't wait to read this.

IN YOUR SKIN is a body horror comic based in Bollywood, emerging from my love-hate relationship with Hindi movies. This is a story I’ve wanted to tell for ages, and I’m excited to do it with an artist whose work I’ve admired for a very long time.

The Substance meets fandom in In Your Skin, a new Image Comics series from Tiny Onion The new Image Comics comic from Exquisite Corpses studio Tiny Onion mixes Bollywood and body horror.

Big news, gang: IN YOUR SKIN, a new comic book written by me, drawn by artist Som, coloured by Francesco Segala, starts publication in April from @imagecomics.com, produced by @readtinyonion.bsky.social. @popversesays.bsky.social has the exclusive details: www.thepopverse.com/comics-in-yo...

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Cover of scientific journal "current biology" showing a man-o-war

Need a break from EVERYTHING??

Come join our free public talk this evening, where NYU professor Dr. Samuel Church will tell us all about his hunt for new blue bottle (man-o-war) species 🪼🧪🌊🦑

7:30 PM (EST)
Zoom link: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8337406906...
Meeting ID: 833 7406 9068
Passcode: 430292

Blocking the construction of ICE detention centers is much easier than closing them once they're built! If you're in this county, follow the OP for some ways to support; if you're not, keep an ear out for proposed detention facilities in your zone

Oh shit it’s comic shop legend Greg Ketter

Algeria on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning folk, traditional, raï, experimental, rock, and more by Algerian artists on 45s and LPs from our personal collection. Hang out, it's gonna be good

Those eyeshadow shapes are so delicious

Me: Morning, JA Seazer. What's up?
JA: *Mournful chanting about a feeling of dejection and an inability to connect with others, but still driven by obsession*
Me: Wow.

narrow black and white comic panel of a pinky promise between a hand with black nail polish and a skeleton hand

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narrow black and white comic panel of a pinky promise between a hand with black nail polish and a skeleton hand

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(this was probably more like 2017-18)

I think I gave up and the original books just ~looked bad~

color comic page

instead of posting a photo of myself from 2016, here's a page that I now, ten years later, have to remember how to print in grayscale

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Wahhh slammed with a lot of personal bad news on top of this country's bad news. I will be turning down jobs and taking a while to respond online for a bit 🖤

Egypt on Vinyl w/special guest Cima Cairo | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social Cima Cairo joins us in the studio to play some of his favorite artists and tracks from our personal library of Egyptian 45s & LPs, 1950s-1970s. Come hang out!

a photograph of WALLFLOWER, by iasmin omar ata, on a shelf with orange and white books nearby.

WALLFLOWER, my 3rd graphic novel, is officially available at bookstores and online everywhere!! please enjoy this story full of dreams, flowers, and hope.

Jules Jourdain aka Circuit Breaker in "8 Seconds of Still Force" from Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate (DC, 2023). Two stacked comic panels, the top in dark blue the bottom in green, featuring a sequence of squinted eyes tentatively opening. Blobs of liquid hover in the air. Text reads "no...this isn't death."

Everything's just become still
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Thank you~ closeups like this are always a fun to figure out how to execute

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS WATCHING TELEVISION WHEN FRITZI GETS HOME FROM THE MOVIES… NANCY: HOW WAS YOUR MOVIE, AUNT FRITZI? FRITZI: NOT AS GOOD AS THE BOOK P2- FRITZI: HOW IS YOUR MOVIE? P3- NANCY IS WATCHING A MONSTER MOVIE ON THE TELEVISION NANCY: NOT AS GOOD AS THE COMIC BOOK

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 13,1962

Jules Jourdain aka Circuit Breaker in "8 Seconds of Still Force" from Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate (DC, 2023). Two stacked comic panels, the top in dark blue the bottom in green, featuring a sequence of squinted eyes tentatively opening. Blobs of liquid hover in the air. Text reads "no...this isn't death."

Everything's just become still
💚⚡

Sunn O))) - the sultans of sludge - slang a definitive full-length label debut for Sub Pop, just Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson howling into the wilds on all instruments, from trusted axes to keys and electro-acoustic sorcery

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