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This week’s comic is A Modern Trial by Ordeal, for Ye Accused Abortionists.
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I wrote about this to esteemed Inner Hive members earlier this week, but how could I not repeat it here: Here is an Instagram post from "Weird Al" Yankovic about the comic I contributed to his upcoming graphic novel, The Illustrated Al. My comic illustrates his great song "You Don't Love Me Anymore," using a pastiche of an ancient, forgotten comic strip, "Love Is..." He posted one of the three pages I drew.
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I thought I’d share this Twitter thread I rage-posted earlier this week. Nobody’s going to be convinced by this, but it helped me to get it out.
R.I.P. Twitter. I hope something else takes its place; for all its faults, it was a really positive experience for me. Hey, Twitter is the reason “Weird Al” Yankovic is calling me his friend.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) features Superman, Mickey Mouse, and Judge Scalia, in The Public Domain (from 2003).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2020).
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