Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode

In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad

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Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.

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Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened. The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

See how the Trump administration is using AI throughout the government - The Washington Post

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I haven't read them for decades but I did love them

1/ Mike Rhode and Matt Madden discuss Matt's work and his approach to comics creation through constraints, which is the theme and content of his new gn, Six Treasures of the Spiral. @mrhode.bsky.social

Bill Watterson: The Interviews A checklist of Calvin and Hobbes goodness!

Thanks to Mike Rhode (@mrhode.bsky.social), I’ve added some more interview links with ”Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson to this checklist downthetubes.net/bill-watters...

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

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A montage of comics covers from work on the subject of 'Indigenous Peoples' including Paul Peart-Smith's 'Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation', Cole Paul's 'We See Stars Only at Night', and the Drawn & Quarterly anthology 'Movements and Moments'.

We now have a new 'Indigenous Peoples' list of comics resources on our Broken Frontier Resource Lists page. It is very much a work-in-progress as we tag past relevant coverage and we *will* do more in the months ahead to make it more comprehensive. www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis...

This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.

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“This Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It's Like to Create During a Crisis - SKTCHD It might seem like an unusual comparison, but for some comic creators who reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, living through Operation Metro Surge — the effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Securit...

What's it like to create during a crisis? I talked with members of the Minneapolis comic community like @trungles.com, @zandercannon.bsky.social, K. Woodman-Maynard, and more about making comics during ICE's occupation, the ICE Out Comics initiative, and more.

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Pops of Color: Hand-Colored Photographs | Picture This The icy winter gloom has us craving pops of color. Before color film was a viable option, photographers and publishers occasionally hand colored images, sometimes in pursuit of realism and sometimes w...

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I love this in photos

Comics Research Bibliography 2025 and Addenda available online for free If you're reading this notice, there's a good chance you're in the new 1800 page annual update of the Bibliography, on its 30th anniversary....

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‘Ghost forests’ are even more widespread than we thought These haunting landscapes, with their unmistakable gray, barren tree trunks rising like sentinels, offer one of the most startling and recognizable signals of a changing climate.

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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

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Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing

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Our Favorite Home Libraries

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I'm so jealous....

"A calming salve in turbulent political times" - as put in this new review by the International Journal of Comic Art, 2025's #TheCompleatAngler by Gareth Brookes might be a good way to start off your 2026!

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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

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Phone Searches at the Border Are Up. How to Protect Your Privacy.

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Kennedy Center changed board rules months before vote to add Trump’s name The cultural center said only trustees appointed by the president could vote, barring other members, including Democrats who hold seats, from decisions.

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Opinion | Can a Corporation Be Complicit in War Crimes? Sweden Is Trying to Find Out.

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This Common Infection Was Thought to Affect Only Women. Now Doctors Know Better.

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How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding

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Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map

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Opinion | Before You Toss That Book …

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Graphic Novel Review: Champion by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Reviewed  by Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian (Professor), James Madison University Champion , written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond O...

Check out my review of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's graphic novel Champion up on the International Journal of Comic Art Blog: ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/12/grap... @mrhode.bsky.social

That Old Classic Film in the Theater? It Might Be From This Man’s House.

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Who’s the Parasite Now? This Newly Discovered ‘Fairy Lantern’ Flower.

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Mail Carriers Keep Making the Rounds, Despite a Murky Future

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I love the mail

Where Do Aprons Go to Retire? A Tiny Museum in Mississippi.

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