Patrick Lay (he/him)

Friday!
Snacks! Beer! Fun! And, in honor of our manga guests, Seventh Son will be featuring a specially-brewed CXC Japanese-style koji rice beer, “Tokidoki”!

Looove this, thank you!!!

Hey--do you have properly proportioned 11x17 dimensions for a 6.625 x 10.25 trim? I'm recommending 10 x 15.375 as the trim for original art, but if there are more accurate dimensions, I'd love em.

If you whisper "onions have layers, ogres have layers" five times, Dark Shrek will appear behind you and whisper "donkaayyyy" in your ear

C-3PO-1 = B-2ON

Eisner Award–Winning Books About Comics An incomplete list of books that have won the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book or Best Academic/Scholarly Work, in reverse chronological order.

My convenient @bookshop.org list of Eisner-winning books about comics is now updated with this year's additions!

#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards

I gotta start taking more selfies with people, I think it may be 1/3 of self promotion.

A graphic novel called "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis". The image shows a walled city with a light coming from a tower in the centre, behind which is the face of Death himself.

This graphic novel by @maassive.bsky.social and @plutarian2.bsky.social, based on a chamber opera written in a concentration camp, is terrific: a surreal story of defiance in the face of totalitarianism, told with wit and heart.

Thank you for coming and all of your rigorous attention to the work! We were hearing about your Thursday panel over and over!

Man in green standing at a podium with the Comic-Con International Logo on the front, against a backdrop with the Comic-Con International logo.

Man sitting at a table against a backdrop with the Comic-Con International Logo.

Projected slide with a photograph and drawing of an old, square loudspeaker/radio.

Projected slide of a stage production and a comic panel each depicting slight streaming down between buildings to illuminate a standing figure on the ground below.

Outstanding panel on Dark Horse’s 2024 graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” by Dave Maass and Patrick Lay (pictured) at SDCC.‬
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@plutarian2.bsky.social
‬‬@maassive.bsky.social

@plutarian2.bsky.social and I are supremely grateful to Andy Konopak, Hannah Benson and Alice Del Simone for lending their voices and passion to our panel.

I'm waiting to board for #sdcc and here's the thing: Godzilla in Minus One is not a metaphor for survivors guilt. That's the straight up text of the movie. The metaphor is self-annihilation, particularly militarized self-annihilation. I'm tired.

One of the things no one tells you in undergrad is eventually "research" becomes reading a thousand things you already know on the chance there's something in there you don't.

First of all: that is wild as hell.

Some of us just aren't built for a single thing all the time and more people drop out chasing this impossible standard, because it's all "I need a unified voice" until you need something NOW and then a competent voice will do, you know?

Universal is the wrong word, but like......widespread.

This frustration is so universal: I saw an art director saying that a portfolio with more then 2 styles is "underdeveloped" and that is so at odds with everyone I know who has the capacity to be a lifelong artist. That desire to unfold yourself in different ways keeps you going over a lifetime!!

Catch @maassive.bsky.social and I on Friday from 12p-12:50, signing Death Strikes and being charming!

Fieldmouse Press Ask Us to Fight Queer Censorship with Their New Comics Crowdfundr Campaign – Broken Frontier Our fine colleagues over at SOLRAD/Fieldmouse Press certainly piqued our interest with the declared intent of their latest crowdfunding campaign. With a rallying call to fight queer censorship, at a.....

News! Fieldmouse Press @fieldmouse.press Ask Us to Fight Queer Censorship with Their New Comics Crowdfundr Campaign. www.brokenfrontier.com/fieldmouse-p...

HOLD ON, THERE IS A MRS. COLUMBO? WITH KATE MULGREW?

made a little comic last year but posting it today for fun

I'm pleased to announce that I will be teaching Comics & Narrative Practice full-time at Columbus College of Art & Design. The Comic program here is incredible, built w/care & passion by @laurennmcc.bsky.social and stewarded by equally passionate faculty. Most importantly; our students are the best.

In 2010 I posted "Judy Dench would kick your ass for a nickel" through Facebook for Zune and that's basically primary source now, you know?

Rose City Comic Con 2025 :: Leap Event Technology Select from the products that you would like to include as optional add ons.

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It is small potatoes, but we had 200 folks or so at my small town No Kings. Still potatoes.

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Have a fun, peaceful day out there tomorrow!

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🚨🎂 Beautiful cake alert 🎂🚨

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#NoKings

Immigrants make America great

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Poster art by CXC 2024 Emerging Artist Award Winner Kelly Wang

@lucyknisley.bsky.social
Marco Kohinata
@plutarian2.bsky.social
Matt Madden
@lonniemillsap.bsky.social
Are Good At Comics

And Will Be At CXC
September 18-21
@cartooncrossroads.bsky.social

Free Admission
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/donate/

It's true! I am famously be-shirtted in central Ohio!