“Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got,” says Mark Perlmutter MD, orthopedics hand surgery specialist and president of the World Surgical Foundation who just volunteered in Gaza. “This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population.”

Here's my periodic reminder of my Rent-A-Critic service for writers and cartoonists. I can help with story structure, line edits, fixing plots, and working up a pitch. Link is in reply.

TRINA ROBBINS was a time traveler who walked forward and made comics history every step of the way. The FIRST WOMAN to draw WONDER WOMAN. (Think about that.) Her legacy and impact: beyond measure.

Deeply saddened to report that Trina Robbins has died at the age of 85.

Such a groundbreaker. Such a life.

My zine 'How To Mentally & Financially Survive Making Graphic Novels' is up on itch .io as a PWYW pdf. It's about making comics specifically within the publishing industry on a long term basis, and despite the poop emoji on the cover it's serious advice.

reedmk.itch.io/howtosurviveco…

A lot of folks would be better off sitting with their own grief, discomfort, anger etc. than spouting half-baked takes and laying blame that fail to grasp the complexity of the situation. #comics

Then I thought 🤔 what fault lines are near the NY/NJ area??

There’s actually FOUR fault lines that junction in that area to create the RAMAPO FUALT SYSTEM 😲
🫨Ramapo Fault
🫨Hopewell Fault
🫨Flemington-Furlong Fault
🫨Chalfont Fault

the more you know. Science for the win!!

Was that an earthquake in NJ?

Happy book birthday to Cara Bean! Here I Am, I Am Me launches today. Listen to me discuss the book with Cara on the Graphic Medicine podcast: graphicmedicine.org/here-i-am-i-am…

Coming soon 👀

They have launched a SECOND lawsuit against me.

If this was intended to wear me down even further, I won’t let it. Hopefully it will all be over soon- but I need your help again.

Thank you for sharing/donating, I couldn't do this without you x

gofundme.com/f/alexnorrisle…

instagram quietly introducing a “political” content preference and turning on “limit” by default is insane?

Since October, I've been working behind-the-scenes on a project with my cartoonist friends Yazan al-Saadi, Tracy Chahwan, and Andy Warner: an online archive of comics responding to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. cartoonistsforpalestine.org

A comic about my grandfather who immigrated from Mexico, for the Los Angeles Times 1/3

We’re running a pre-order campaign for UM Vol.1 by 🌼! Be the first to receive a copy of this beautiful book! crowdfundr.com/umvolume1

I take covid precautions because I am wildly in love with life, because I've had to claw my way out of really dark places to inhabit this love, and because I will not let it get ripped from me by people who will never understand the preciousness of what I will have lost

Happy to announce #GENDERSTUDIES is out now!

A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness.

➡️ bit.ly/GendStudies 🎉

Rosarium Publishing Bill Campbell
#graphicnovel #newbooks #LGBTQIA

4 years ago today, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic.

Today we will rightfully remember tens of millions who have died. We must never forget.

But we must also remember COVID is still killing, disabling, and excluding too many.

We are still in a pandemic. We still need to act.