Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Course he did Maus b/c he was turning 30, wanted to do something meaningful, was originally going to riff off how B/W cartoon mice are takes on Black entertainers, with Ku Klux Kats. Then he went a Black artist could do that one, but not me. Hey I have a perfectly good Jewish story living right by me.

Imagine how fast the original idea woulda been banned. Southern rightwingers hate us, but they REALLY hate Black people.

Oh YEAH my fave Powerwolf song about giant werewolves who are also blood drinking Satanist Teutonic Knight crusaders! You know. The one where the chorus is in Latin or w/e, and also there’s this badass instrumental.

Just feeling profoundly negative this morning. If I had a different job to go to or place to live, I’d be there in a heartbeat. Heck, if it were safe to go to Beth’s and warmer by Green Lake, I’d skip out and get brunch.

And I hate how it’s a no lose game for them. Even if you’re not committing energy to push back against transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, etc, because you kinda have to, they’re still leaching your emotional resources with clowning. Every bit you lose is energy you could put into fighting their assault on voting, on the planet, on a prosperous future.

I’ve heard “Entry of the Gladiators” got associated with clowns because it’s circus code; they’d play it when there were technical problems to let clowns know they should go out and distract folks from all the serious stuff going on. This is obviously not about politics at all.

Good evening and welcome to the ArrMateys, the awards for piracy on the high seas! I can already see Edward Teach with his characterful burning fuses tied into his beard! But who’s that rowing to shore with a gorgeous brocade frock coat edged in lace?

#drawing today, reworked before bedtime. A wicked queen recruiting barbarians for her cause. Despite what I was listening to, she is probably *not* trying to muster an army for the King Across the Water.

just because the Beasties' "Hey Fuck You" features berimbau does not mean I should play capoeira to it, at 9:30 PM on my downstairs neighbors' ceiling.

there's a huge rant boiling up in me about anti-semitism, and I really would rather put all of that anger into drawing or cooking something.

congrats on being living proof that I can really love someone's art and want to repeatedly punch the artist in their fucking racist mouth.

I put the Separatist Droid Army March theme over the Robot Dog army & Am... https://youtu.be/G5SKCBNpAlM via @YouTube

Oh no! Thanks to KEXP’s support for Neil Young I’ve now spent what feels like several hours listening to a cover of “Cortez the Killer,” and consequently want cigs!

omg omg omg *hyperventilates* https://www.instagram.com/reel/CY8wRYwBmy4/?utm_medium=copy_link

Last person out of the building, received in a pallet after everyone else left, currently awaiting my booster shot. Just want to get it and go get doughnuts and have no brainpower for a bit.

There’s no shame in coming out of something that big scarred, or not at all. There’s no happy ending (the only time I met Spiegelman I said that, and we agreed about *hating* the end of Schindler’s List where everyone who lives winds up blissfully happy in Medinat Yisrael), life keeps going and winds up with Vladek’s family and old age. The whole thing is very humanistic.

Anyway, these are great comics. If you can do it okay I can’t praise it enough.

What really impacted me is he goes beyond a simple morality play. The survivors aren’t saints, they’re humans, this experience would break most people and Spiegelman’s parents are very broken. As resourceful and tough as Vladek is, he’s up against this huge horror; a lot of his survival is luck.

The part I remember best was in book 2, Spiegelman talking to his therapist, who’s a survivor. The therapist basically defines CPTSD. This was one of the first things that made me realize my childhood wasn’t ideal, that I had problems.

Also if you look closely some of the double triangles on the camp uniforms? Even in black and white he acknowledges that Queer or Communist Jews existed. That was huge to me, coming from GA at a less enlightened time.

This thing was huge in my life and I don’t just mean as using comics to tell stories beyond superheroes. It’s very well crafted imho and if the subject matter wasn’t uncomfortable (I’ve met survivors, lost family in the camps, knew about this from fairly young) I would probably be copying all sorts of pages to study them.

Garou vs Xenomorph- or Yautja-ripoffs as a one shot? This thought brought to you thanks to the way the Wolfen leitmotif shows up in Aliens.

It seemed that Mowgli laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. “But no living man am I! I am a wolf, one of the Free People. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Back, if ye be not deathless, Lame Thief of the Waingunga!” #CrossoverFic