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@MattBors

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Writer of the upcoming comics TOXIC AVENGER and co-writer of JUSTICE WARRIORS: VOTE HARDER. Founded The Nib. Comics editor at In These Times magazine.

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Matt Bors
3 months
This fall, we return to Bubble City for the most important comic book election of your life. JUSTICE WARRIORS: VOTE HARDER An original graphic novel out 9/10/24 —Check out some preview pages here:
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Kid saved the entire human race by instinctually lying to a cop.
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@ASHDABBATH
𝖆𝖘𝖍 𝖉𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖆𝖙𝖍
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James Cameron on why T-1000 was a cop
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Imagine getting hit by a car and the driver is BLASTING a self-help book
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Don’t ever use my art to defend some twitter-addicted lit scold who built their brand calling out books for Causing Harm while working at Lockheed Martin.
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2 years
I love when art contains only direct moral instruction and I become good by consuming it.
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Beau of The Fifth Column
2 years
Love this so much.
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5 months
There's an old saying in Sietch Tabr — I know it's in Jacurutu, probably in Sietch Tabr—that says, may thy knife chip—shatter on you... If thy knife chips it won't get chipped again.
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The real litmus test is how you feel about these muddy hunks when they try to unionize.
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Hard to explain what it's like having your work take on a life of its own and taunt you.
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Gonna be seeing a lot of this now ain't we
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I absolutely love the end credits of Predator (1987) where they do a roll call of the cast and everyone who died shows up smiling and having a nice time.
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7 months
It's time to make a deal with the man. Offer Trump four Netflix stand-up specials in exchange for remaining off the ballot in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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He’s fucking cooking
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2 years
Posting this one again.
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The original art for that one comic I did.
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Six figure adult daycare jobs are SAFE. Phew. Now to prep for student loan payments to restart because alleviating them would be a moral hazard.
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Jeff Stein
1 year
Breaking - Treasury announces •ALL* depositors protected by FDIC. Says no costs will be borne by taxpayers
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Love this so much.
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6 months
The commands issued by an automated voice aren't dystopian at all
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NYPD is out of control right now. They’re charging into crowds of pro-Palestine protesters & grabbing random people & making brutal arrests.
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By drawing a comic you become “the original poster” of a “meme” 😵‍💫
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If I was a secret society billionaire who controlled a Supreme Court Justice I would simply not allow my house guests to photograph my extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia.
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2 years
Cops in most towns are staffed by local losers and wife beaters. Any shine these pant pissing cowards have is stolen valor from our collective memory of movies.
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The Associated Press
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Onlookers urged police to charge into the Texas grade school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a witness says. The rampage lasted upwards of 40 minutes, ending when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
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11 months
Here it is‚ the last comic for The Nib. Thanks for reading all these years!
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Tunnels are having a much-deserved moment. There are vast networks yet to be reported, there is the copycat effect—many men breaking ground only this morning. We could be in a tunnel renaissance.
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Daily Mail Online
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Pensioner, 71, plunges 130ft to his death down hole he dug under his kitchen floor after dreaming gold was buried beneath his house in Brazil
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Vine will always be peak internet creativity. The six second constraint was key in preventing users from doing influencer behavior, callout drama, ADHD diagnosis, and conspiracies. None of that shit fits in six seconds aka the fun zone.
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Just saw the Chris Rock clip. We are now perfectly teed up for a cataclysmic wife guy/comedy/cancel culture/race discourse. May god have mercy on our souls.
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2 years
The Society-verse stands with the Oh No-verse
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@sillyalexnorris
alex norris
2 years
Since 2019 I’ve been in an expensive, stressful legal battle to protect Webcomic Name (my “oh no” comics). It’s a relief to finally talk about this publicly! I’m launching a crowdfunder to pay my remaining legal fees to end this. 1/8
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You've got to hand it to the man
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willy 🌜💧
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Goddam, Ben. You've done it again.
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Has a single cop from this town resigned? Societies created exile and ritual suicide to deal with this level of shame and betrayal. These guys get to stay and pull over the parents of the kids they let die to hand them speeding tickets.
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Hey guys I think everyone having to be a content creator was a bad idea
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2 years
Let's review: Democrats sang god bless America, read you a poem, and posted pics of themselves doing yoga poses. Staggeringly ineffectual party that acts not only as if they are out of power, but as if power is a concept they have never come across in their fundraising journey.
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When you don't support abolishing student debt.
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If a branch of government can shatter and never recover from a single leak telling us what they are about to do, maybe it’s total shit.
@brianstelter
Brian Stelter
2 years
"There has never been a leak of a vote, much less an actual opinion, much less in a case of this significance," @JeffreyToobin says. He calls it a "shattering experience for the justices" and says "I really don't know how the institution is going to recover."
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I guess this comic of mine gets around too. It's been a great website filled with pleasant people for as long as I can remember.
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2 years
Having a toddler you rediscover fart and poop humor. Nothing on earth is funnier. The first person ever ripped one and laughed at the raw truth: our butts fart and stink and poop comes out. We understood this before we understood time.
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2 years
This is a random thing I tweeted once without a second thought and I now encounter it regularly as a cropped screenshot on clout chasing accounts—it was even served to me as an ad for some pop culture sites Facebook page.
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🚨PURGE SIREN🚨 Any and all posting, including Resistance cringe, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. May God be with you all.
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11 months
Awful way to go
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1 year
I’m afraid I have some bad news. After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. Thank you for reading all these years. It's been an honor.
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@ArchieWillard76 GOOD DAY SIR
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@BrandyLJensen When you’re a cardboard cutout but she still sucking
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@dreamoforgonon It is truly fascinating see this outpouring of people confessing to work in the most morally dubious places on planet earth from those who have developed an intensely moralistic, utterly black and white standard for existing online.
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I'm enjoying the manners freakout because Fetterman dresses no different from a rich tech founder who is carried to his table on a palanquin to be fed Michelin star ortolan foam.
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The Post tried eating at NYC’s finest restaurants dressed like Sen. John Fetterman — see how it went
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Deeply pathetic and embarrassing stuff that can’t be supported in a time of massive censorious book bans.
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Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition.
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This one is aging horrifically
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Enjoying the coolest summer of the rest of our lives
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2 years
How thrilled would Duchamp be knowing that 100 years later people would still be so pissed about this piece they were enlisting themselves into an arts education in an attempt to win an argument about it?
@meghaverma_art
Megha
2 years
Why do you need to learn about real art? So that if someone tells you this is art you can humiliate them in every forum necessary and ensure people are embarrassed to put this in a gallery or teach about it in a school. So long as leftists control art, they control the culture
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Damn, the Taliban got so many war on terror hand-me-downs they're looking like a mid-sized US city's police department.
@metesohtaoglu
Mete Sohtaoğlu
1 year
📸 Taliban government published photos of repaired hundreds of military vehicles which were left behind by #US and allied forces in Bagram Air Base After the withdrawal of troops from #Afghanistan in Aug 2021 📸 @savunmaisleri
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We won an Eisner.
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Miles Dyson, minutes after meeting a robot, signs on to a suicide mission to save the entire human race.
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The Bloody Princess 🦇
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The villain The real villain
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😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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When they even break into my safe
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We are in the third year of people not being able to get over a comic where a cartoon dog steals a handful of pens.
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Christina Tasty
1 year
A reminder that the shoplifter dog comic encouraged shoplifting from specifically a family owned business that's highly recommended by most artists and not, like, Wal-Mart.
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You know the ad agency lady who did the presentation deck wasn't the same woman who had to to scan a Dorito at 1,000,000 dpi for 57 hours.
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The designated media hotel for the Super Bowl is the Luxor, which will look like a giant Doritos chip for the Super Bowl.
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Happy to say I have paid $2 million to cartoonists. No better way to spend money!
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@nataliesurely I credit this experience with making me an ardent atheist by age 9.
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This ain’t instagram. Don’t post about your coffee time. Don’t brag that you read a book. Enjoy sex? You sound like a billionaire now. This space is for maladjusted reactions ONLY. Emotional dysregulation as politics, as a discipline, as life itself!
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Stephanie Kelton
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"These people are crazy. This is the United States government. First of all, you never have to default because you print the money, I hate to tell you, OK?” ~Donald J. Trump
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SCOTUS hitting me with a $20,000 bill on a Friday. I love that for me. The rest of my thoughts are illegal✌️
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2 years
The great writer Barbara Ehrenreich has died. This is from an illustrated interview I did with her in 2018 about the wellness culture and death.
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My second kid had a milk protein allergy and would have died without formula. It should be publicly manufactured and distributed free of charge to anyone who needs it.
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I have sympathy for parents who are unable to obtain baby formula due to the evil and incompetence of politicians. I would also say that hopefully this is a wakeup call to become more self-sufficient—God literally designed mothers to feed their babies.
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I love how this became normal. You can pay a company more than $12,000 a year and not be able to reach anyone there. You type to chatbots that trap you in a question loop.
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Hey, uh, what’s going on with people
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However stupidly you come into the fold, we must welcome you.
@botticellibimbo
reversecowgirl69
2 years
swifties developing class consciousness bc they couldn’t get tickets is my favorite tiktok trend
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Remarkable scene here where a war criminal is mad that Trump is besmirching the definition of “coup”
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Jake Tapper: "One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup." John Bolton: "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work."
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I have chosen to grow my wealth by five percent a day. Have you?
Just to put into perspective…
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@jbouie This is very unfair. He said at the time he was under the influence of rap music.
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@nkulw I think placing the entire marketing bet on Zuckerberg’s appeal and charisma as a cartoon avatar is a smart hook for consumers
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Do NOT panic, money is real.
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There used to be half a trillion dollars for childcare on the table. Free pre-K for everyone. People don't want it, they don't even conceive of it as a possibility. They will reorganize their lives so a book with a gay penguin is never read to their kids.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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No, Joe, these are not "issues." These are Republican tropes intended to take over the media agenda. Judging by this, it's working.
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I looked up the baby from Honey, I Blew Up the Baby and found a 33 year old man wearing a blue lives matter shirt. Never google your heroes.
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@daveweigel My chessboard is on the floor.
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whiteness fairy
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I'm excited to check out George W Bush's Masterclass on Leadership.
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DUNE probably has the best cover game of any classic. Absolute bangers across multiple decades. Designers and illustrators working on spiced-up levels of awareness.
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@hasanthehun Thank you for standing up for the bald. While we have toxic people in our community like Andrew Tate and Voldemort, we still deserve rights.
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Jane has trained for this moment. No way this is her first time knocking out a Trump face.
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Reuters Pictures
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Donald Trump during his arraignment. Courtroom sketch by 🎨 Jane Rosenberg
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20 years ago now👍
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2 years
RIP Pope Benedict
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This is the first thing I’ve ever seen that has made me think Trump’s time may be up.
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kim possible facts
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oh my god. he stopped making trump buff.
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Definitely one of the most widely seen comics I’ve ever created.
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@kenklippenstein This was the better one
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As wildfire season grows each year, it will be critical to maintain our prison population that fights them.
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Don’t be surprised if power concedes nothing.
@DWUhlfelderLaw
Daniel Uhlfelder
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Don’t be surprised if Justice Clarence Thomas resigns soon citing health reasons.
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Damn they forgot to do planned obsolescence and are only making $300 million annually. Not gonna work for investors.
@TrungTPhan
Trung Phan
1 year
Instant Pot parent company declared bankruptcy today. Sales went from $758m in 2020 to $344m in 2022. The Instant Pot is like a once-in-decade purchase, so PE guys tried to extend brand with Air Fryer, mini-oven and coffeemaker.
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The real final fantasy is improving society somewhat
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Casey/Mu is now on Cohost
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. @MattBors Congrats, your comic panel is now referenced in the MMO Final Fantasy XIV. They wanted to move away from their old term "tribal quests" to "allied society quests" and updated challenge/achievement names and puns to match, which resulted in this:
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Good health to you on this special day
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lol remember when they sent us $600
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@sullydish Get a grip
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@TulsiGabbard
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
2 years
Failure of authorities to protect the children in Uvalde as well as other situations is further evidence ppl need the freedom &power to protect themselves. Not only in schools, & especially in crime-rampant neighborhoods where police take way too long to respond to calls for help
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I guess "door control" is a Texas idea gaining more and more steam.
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Matt Bors
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My variant cover for THE TOXIC AVENGER #1 dropping October 9 in comic shops.
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It's been fun watching Scott Adams position himself as an elite master of persuasion, hypnotism, and rhetoric only to fire the Linguistic Kill Shot into his own temple.
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It's the last day of The Nib. We've got a blowout with seven comics including Maia Kobabe on authoring the most banned book in the US. Read 'em here:
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Matt Bors
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@willmenaker Sounds like he took what he needed and left some for others. An example to all of us.
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Can't even remember what shooting this one was from. One where the guys with guns did nothing, which is a lot of them now.
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I figure the Predators in the movies are rich losers like Trump Jr on safari. Most Predators are chilling back home, working a job, farming, bartending. They probably have weird instruments and make Predator jazz.
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@samthielman @IsaacDovere No, everyone (terminally online) is laying the groundwork to blame an imaginary army of selfish debt-ridden bros for any midterm losses rather than conclude we have a completely broken political system.
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I in no way care about getting “credit.” It’s just a slightly unsettling thing to encounter your own fleeting thoughts served back to you as advertisements as if alive in a JG Ballard novel.
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I will use this opportunity to highlight this great advice from van Gogh on producing good work: “you have to eat well, be well housed, have a screw from time to time, smoke your pipe and drink your coffee in peace.”
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Sir, this is a GoldenEye 007 level.
@netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
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Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it. Here it is:
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We're getting ever closer to the date in this comic, which I drew in 2012. Very cool.
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The way I've always described what I dislike about David Sedaris is: if you got his order wrong at a restaurant you'd find some wildly exaggerated version of yourself in a 6,000 word essay about it five years later.
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