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Comics scholar/critic, specialist on Garth Ennis/Punisher/Judge Dredd. Japanese/Filipino, from HI, in Scotland, diasporic AF. kellykanayama.com
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Starting a list of the words that my 4-year-old substitutes for the actual terminology:
*"Buffalo" = combustion, like in an engine
HIM: This is the engine for my rocket ship! It uses the buffalo to make it go super fast
*"Buffalo" = combustion, like in an engine
HIM: This is the engine for my rocket ship! It uses the buffalo to make it go super fast
October 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Starting a list of the words that my 4-year-old substitutes for the actual terminology:
*"Buffalo" = combustion, like in an engine
HIM: This is the engine for my rocket ship! It uses the buffalo to make it go super fast
*"Buffalo" = combustion, like in an engine
HIM: This is the engine for my rocket ship! It uses the buffalo to make it go super fast
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If you like reading comics criticism in zine form, both issues 1 and 2 of The Comics Staple are now available through our ko-fi shop! You can grab print or digital copies and read to your heart's content!
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ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...
October 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
If you like reading comics criticism in zine form, both issues 1 and 2 of The Comics Staple are now available through our ko-fi shop! You can grab print or digital copies and read to your heart's content!
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...
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Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. (The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?) [nappy.co]
Nappy | Beautifully Diverse Stock Photos
Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free. For commercial and personal use.
nappy.co
October 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. (The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?) [nappy.co]
Happy belated #DayofDredd! Salute, forever, to John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra (RIP) for creating one of the best comics of the last 50 years 🫡
Judge Dredd was the foundation of my doctoral thesis. So many amazing comics creators cut their teeth there, and the core folks making it continue to rock
Judge Dredd was the foundation of my doctoral thesis. So many amazing comics creators cut their teeth there, and the core folks making it continue to rock
October 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Happy belated #DayofDredd! Salute, forever, to John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra (RIP) for creating one of the best comics of the last 50 years 🫡
Judge Dredd was the foundation of my doctoral thesis. So many amazing comics creators cut their teeth there, and the core folks making it continue to rock
Judge Dredd was the foundation of my doctoral thesis. So many amazing comics creators cut their teeth there, and the core folks making it continue to rock
I see a @keizama.bsky.social Dredd, I repost, no questions asked
October 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I see a @keizama.bsky.social Dredd, I repost, no questions asked
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Issue #78 of our newsletter is out now, ft. A future assistant,
Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!
Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!
This is the me that can be seen
Resonant Frequencies. Assistant. Mason. SFMR: wtchmn. Planks Constant. On Your Mark. Resident Evil. Jigsaw.
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October 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Issue #78 of our newsletter is out now, ft. A future assistant,
Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!
Ghost Box, Grant Morrison’s best comic, Miyazaki angels, Resident Evil, Val Guest, “Who wants to play army?”, WTCHMN and more!
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little half-done promo pic of unorthodox new character 'Judge Dredd'. He'll never catch on but I'm happy to help
October 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
little half-done promo pic of unorthodox new character 'Judge Dredd'. He'll never catch on but I'm happy to help
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October 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
October 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
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Hard to believe that it's been eight years since we lost El Maestro – join us today in raising a glass to the memory of Carlos Ezquerra.
October 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Hard to believe that it's been eight years since we lost El Maestro – join us today in raising a glass to the memory of Carlos Ezquerra.
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average man harasses 0 women per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & harasses over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
every woman knows a woman who has been sexually assaulted but rarely any man knows a man who has sexually harassed someone, weird isn't it?
September 29, 2026 at 8:34 PM
average man harasses 0 women per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & harasses over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I could read/listen to an Ennis + McCrea interview for literally hours. Thanks once again to @sktchd.bsky.social for this oral history of Hitman - without which we would never have gems like these
![ENNIS: Putting them together was a hoot. Friendly Fire and Flemgem were obvious. Jean De Baton comes [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynlctahzstpkm6r7ynmfxe5j/bafkreia4qkjvzhxvm5sekcojbe6oho3opnhxu7gz6y2xyupa6rxm2fey6a)
September 30, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I could read/listen to an Ennis + McCrea interview for literally hours. Thanks once again to @sktchd.bsky.social for this oral history of Hitman - without which we would never have gems like these
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Meanwhile, many of the women harmed had their careers and aspirations derailed. But it's supposedly unfair for him not to be given a second chance.
September 28, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Meanwhile, many of the women harmed had their careers and aspirations derailed. But it's supposedly unfair for him not to be given a second chance.
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I am deeply disappointed in Image for choosing to publish new comics from Ellis without him doing that work, when he previously abused his position as a popular comics writer to do what he did.
September 28, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I am deeply disappointed in Image for choosing to publish new comics from Ellis without him doing that work, when he previously abused his position as a popular comics writer to do what he did.
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With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.
September 28, 2026 at 7:36 PM
With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.
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I see @shelfdust.bsky.social has republished my old Horror Comics and the Holocaust essay (originally edited and published by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social)
I was really proud of that one at the time
shelfdust.com/2026/09/28/t...
I was really proud of that one at the time
shelfdust.com/2026/09/28/t...
The Dead Come Back: Mid-Century Horror Comics and The Holocaust
Originally published on The Gutter Review on October 8, 2021. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head h…
shelfdust.com
September 28, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I see @shelfdust.bsky.social has republished my old Horror Comics and the Holocaust essay (originally edited and published by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social)
I was really proud of that one at the time
shelfdust.com/2026/09/28/t...
I was really proud of that one at the time
shelfdust.com/2026/09/28/t...
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In order to reduce sibling rivalry we've introduced the new baby as an essentially tragic figure who's crying all the time bc he can't eat all the delicious foods the toddler can eat. I think its working but this morning the toddler solemnly told me "baby cryin cus e can't eat pineapple... Or bugs"
September 29, 2026 at 7:14 AM
In order to reduce sibling rivalry we've introduced the new baby as an essentially tragic figure who's crying all the time bc he can't eat all the delicious foods the toddler can eat. I think its working but this morning the toddler solemnly told me "baby cryin cus e can't eat pineapple... Or bugs"
Reading Spider-Man: The Afterschool Special TPB to the child has given me a space to practice voice work - in some cases, very, very stupid voice work - which has yielded, uh, mixed reactions (he is not a fan of my terrible fake Slavic accent for Kraven)
September 28, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Reading Spider-Man: The Afterschool Special TPB to the child has given me a space to practice voice work - in some cases, very, very stupid voice work - which has yielded, uh, mixed reactions (he is not a fan of my terrible fake Slavic accent for Kraven)
Today we found a single square 1x1 Lego plate in our son's trouser pocket, and when we pulled it out, he did what I can only describe as the "Fuggedaboutit" arms
September 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Today we found a single square 1x1 Lego plate in our son's trouser pocket, and when we pulled it out, he did what I can only describe as the "Fuggedaboutit" arms
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And you must hire creators who were not raised to register those people and stories as invisible. Because they do not have the capacity to take stock of what is missing due to their blind spots. They take our current recorded history at face value with a lack of curiosity and imagination.
September 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
And you must hire creators who were not raised to register those people and stories as invisible. Because they do not have the capacity to take stock of what is missing due to their blind spots. They take our current recorded history at face value with a lack of curiosity and imagination.