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πŸ“š Graphic Novelist πŸŽ₯ Screen Writer πŸŽ“ Professor πŸ“£ TED Talk-er πŸ… Award-winning newspaper comic writer 🎧 Podcast Host πŸ––πŸΎ Vulcan Ambassador https://www.pbs.org/video/r-alan-brooks-gw0q7v/

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"What'd I Miss?": Who's really the gang in this scenario? Myra argues that if ICE is really protecting us from gangs like MS-13, why are they arresting people showing up for immigration hearings?

Gang, Gang!
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27.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": When gun tragedy seems avoidable Ossie can't understand how warning signs in a Georgia school shooting weren't heeded β€” and a father stands trial for his role.

An Unnecessary & Avoidable Tragedy...
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20.02.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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"What'd I Miss?": Imagining an agenda β€” and a villain After Myra hears a white acquaintance rattle off his fears about becoming a minority, she confirms racism is alive and well in America.

β€œWho’s The REAL Villain Here, Buddy?”
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13.02.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": Teens on an icy mission to Minnesota Myra offers a definition of "Christian heroes" in Minneapolis that her friend considers going against the grain.

Real American Heroes.
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06.02.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Y'all, come rock w/me at Mutiny on Sun, 3/8, 12-4pm!

KS backers can grab your books EARLY at this event before I begin shipping them! (They're scheduled to arrive by 3/5)

If, for some reason, the books are delayed, I'll reschedule this event, but let's plan on having a good time together!

04.02.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": A different kind of struggle with identity Ossie confides with Myra about his conflicting feelings about respecting a person's identity in spite of their personality.

Ossie realizes he has some maturing to do.
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30.01.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": What if it happened here? (It did.) Myra makes her case about the media being refused entry to Aurora immigration court β€” by imagining it happening under a foreign regime.

β€œIf WE do it, it’s okay...”
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23.01.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": The upside down world of workplace pay The cartoonists show Ossie and Myra trading metaphors for the rampant income inequality that seems par for the course in America.

β€œNo Such Thing As A Double-Standard...”
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16.01.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": A vision of technology used for good Ossie and Myra marvel how, in a world wrestling with tech advances, doctors treated blindness with a lab-made cornea transplant.

A Positive Tech Story?!?!
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09.01.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yo, I'm teaching this class at Lighthouse Writers Workshop starting on Tuesday! There's still a few slots for you to jump in!

lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-w...

07.01.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": Wondering about the potential reach of AI Ossie and Myra discuss the possibility that versions of AI have seeped into some dangerous, and even lethal, territory.

AI is bringing tragedy to some folks.
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03.01.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Folks are asking where to find the film on streaming. We're working on that now & hope to have good news soon! In the meantime, the link to our trailer is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9eH...

Thx to @citycastdenver.bsky.social for having me on!

29.12.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": A too-familiar time for gun violence Ossie and Myra (and WIM's writer) see the odd recurrence of gun violence right around the holidays underscoring its continued presence.

Too Many December 14ths.
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26.12.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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"What'd I Miss?": Leaning hard against "woke" culture Ossie and Myra riff on the snoozer-in-chief's difficulty staying awake, perhaps because he's so opposed to anything "woke."

A Champion of Anti-Wokeness.
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19.12.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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14.12.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14729    πŸ” 4231    πŸ’¬ 584    πŸ“Œ 158
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There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
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14.12.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20420    πŸ” 6137    πŸ’¬ 1037    πŸ“Œ 536
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

β€œHonestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

14.12.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 13002    πŸ” 4611    πŸ’¬ 354    πŸ“Œ 254
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"What'd I Miss?": Who's following the law? Ossie wonders who immigration authorities are protecting us from when they deport a woman despite a judge's order.

Thanksgiving surprise πŸ‘ŽπŸ‘Ž
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12.12.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": RIP Viola Fletcher, Tulsa survivor Ossie and Myra discuss Fletcher's experience seeing the 1921 massacre that brought death and destruction to the city's "Black Wall Street."

Viola Fletcher was a HERO.
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05.12.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Comics Fight Racism & Spark Social Change | R. Alan Brooks Graphic Novelist Interview YouTube video by Bruce Michael

New interview just dropped.
They got me after a sleepless night, so although it wasn't intentional, some folks may be a bit offended.
But I didn't tell any lies. 🀣

πŸŽ₯ by filmmaker Bruce Michael.

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03.12.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What'd I Miss?": A tangled web in Charlotte Myra and Ossie discuss how the title of a book about kindness and compassion could be co-opted for a masked, race-driven immigration action.

What A Tangled Web...
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28.11.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

24.11.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 22659    πŸ” 7271    πŸ’¬ 860    πŸ“Œ 340
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"What'd I Miss?": Going for the AI deepfake Ossie laments how easily deepfake videos have spread, falsely depicting famous people saying outrageous things. But it's hard not to look.

Ain’t Interested.
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21.11.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thx 2 everyone who came to our screening!

Still processing what it meant to see your hundreds of friendly faces there, but just wanted to thank you all for being my community, & supporting the art I create.

(πŸ“Έ borrowed from Bret Smith.) Film trailer link below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9eH...

15.11.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friends collaborate to bring a graphic novel to film in "Always, Most of the Time" - The Daily Sun-Up Director Victor Hogan II and Writer Alan Brooks talk talk about their collaboration on bringing Brooks's graphic novel to the screen with "Always, Most of the Time".

Also, me & Victor V. Hogan II did an interview about our film with The Colorado Sun. We talk about making the movie, AND our premiere tonight! 7pm, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, FREE!

omny.fm/shows/the-co...

14.11.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Polis Takes On Car Insurance, Arts Over Sports, and a Lauren Boebert Win? by City Cast Denver

I was on City Cast Denver's podcast this morning, talking about our film premiere (& other stuff)
megaphone.link/CC6850366538

This show was a lot of fun to be on! (So much that I forgive them for making me show up so early in the morning. 🀣🀣)

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14.11.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Things to do around Denver: Adult bedtime stories at Meow Wolf, Powderpalooza Your best bets for the weekend also include Denver Arts Week, which continues through Nov. 16.

Tonight's my film premiere!! 7pm, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, FREE!

Here, I'm pictured w/the actors from our film, Brittany S. Hall & Patrick Walker!

Victor V. Hogan II (the director of the film) is in town for the Q&A, which Leslie Herod is hosting!
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/13/t...

14.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ayyy! Thanks!

13.11.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay! It'll be great to see you there!

12.11.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Denver Graphic Novelist R. Alan Brooks Hits the Big Screen With Always, Most of the Time Brooks teamed up with his childhood friend to make the film happen.

An interview with me & Victor V. Hogan II, about our FREE film screening this Friday at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 7pm!
(I think our hair is pretty much the same as it was back in the day, don't you?)
www.westword.com/arts-culture...

12.11.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0