Joel the Geek

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

the one in SD was Numbers

but not his kids they don’t even have cell phones let alone social media accounts!

It will always be a puzzlement to me why so many poeple in library leadership do not realize that human work IS the work the library does. It's the interaction across the desk, the decisions of the cataloger, the help at the computer, that IS what the library does. The rest* is just tools.
*ie books

same thing when you go north of Everett into Mt Vernon!

Dr. Strange from the TV pilot

Daredevil from the Trial of the Incredible Hulk

Thor from the Return of the Incredible Hulk

Cloud Galactus from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Son, pull up a chair. Let grandpa tell you about “my” MCU. Ah, you’re spoiled - got all the CGI, the AI, the whatever-it-is-George-Lucas does. But back in my day, we were damn glad to get what we got. And I mean it!

4 panel comic P1: DAYTIME! THE BIG APPLE! WHAT'S THIS?! THAT GIANT-GALACTIC WITH AN APPETITE TO MATCH, galactus, IS HERE! WILL THERE BE... A GALACTUSSLE?! RAISING A HAND THE SIZE OF A CONTINENT, HE SPEAKS THUS! "hullo earth! I'm a MITE peckish!" P2: SUDDENLY! THE FANTASTIC 4!!! REED RICHARDS HOLDS A BOWL CONTAINING SOME PINK SUBSTANCE IN ONE HAND, AND A SPOON OF IT IN THE OTHER! WHAT MANNER OF INVENTION HAS HE CONCOCTED TO SAVE THE DAY?! SPEAKING WITH HIS TOKEN AUTHORITY, REED SAYS "big lad. big baby boy. heeere comes the herald!" P3: USING HIS FANTASTIC POWERS, REED STRETCHES HIS ARM BEYOND THE BEYONDS TO FEED THE GALACTIC GALOOT! THUS QUELLED, GALACTUS SPEAKS HIS THANKS BETWEEN MOUTHFULS OF THE FANTASTIFOOD!! "*mmf thank *cholp* you" P4: SLAM TO TITLE!! "IF THIS BE DIN DINS"

fantastic 4 panel comic

this is very much what my experience was starting with a random issue of New Mutants and then the second issue of the fall of the mutants crossover in Ucanny xmen, i think! lol

Truth about comics.

Tomorrow my newest #comicconvlog will be up from last weeks Geekfest West here in Everett Wa!

Phoenix: "What's everyone looking at?"

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

He knows how to greet them!

So for various industry-related reasons, I’m currently light on work. If any editors have minis or on-going they can use me on asap, please let me know. I’m ready to jump into whatever projects you have or need.

Always looking handsome

This. This. This!!
The DC vs. Marvel thing is pointless and exhausting.

She knows who is on the epstein list

great choices

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Jean Grey: Ah, the White Hot Room. Nice to be back. Well, not nice exactly bu…whoa, what’s with all the cat hair? The Phoenix: Tigra was here and she brought her god. It’s been a nightmare. This is after, like, a month of vacuuming.

Give Dante a nose boop from me!!!

It is not even Friday!!! Lol

It was surreal that first night I saw it realizing this too!

Jim Lee posted over on IG that The Engineer in Superman was the first film appearance of a Wildstorm character, and somehow that feels equal parts correct and impossible.

i have not been since 2006!

Good morning!

i had this poster up in my dorm room! I got it at SDCC!

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

Double page spread from the graphic novel Freestyle by Gale Galligan. An energetic, dreamy montage of Cory performing at a yo-yo competition as the crowd watches. His friends cheer him on; his captain, Tess, is teary-eyed as she realizes how much love he must have put into this routine.

Excerpt from the graphic novel Fresh Start by Gale Galligan. A wordless page. The first four panels are inset panels atop the fifth, which expands to fill the page. PANEL 1 Sunset at a lake. A group stands by the lake holding krathongs (small floating boats made out of leaves and flowers which hold candles). PANEL 2 Ollie and her mom and sister hold their krathongs up as Dad lights the candles. PANEL 3 Ollie looks down at her lit krathong with a sentimental smile. PANEL 4 Ollie sets her krathong down in the lake. PANEL 5 Krathongs float down the lake.

Cropped portion of a page from Fresh Start by Gale Galligan. PANEL 1: Ollie's dad walks in a door. Dad: I hate to interrupt your jam sesh, but it's time to go-- Off-panel voice: Ollie, no. The main character, Ollie, overlaps the first panel. She poses confidently for the viewer. Parts of Ollie's outfit are labeled in handwriting. * cool chain bracelet (like in quill!!) * hand-drawn quill!! hoodie * limited edition quill!! shirt

Digital color illustration by Gale Galligan depicting Dawn, Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey from the Scholastic Graphix adaptations of The Baby-Sitters Club, as though Claudia were taking a selfie of the five of them in Claudia's room.

it's nonbinary day!!

I am a graphic novelist who has worked on:
(4) Baby-Sitters Club adaptations
(1) yo-yo dance original
(1) semiautobio comedy feat. Thai-American feelings & tween OCs
as well as some Sonic the Hedgehog writing, cheese cartoons, aaand
(2) extremely unlicensed Garfield fancomics