This interview with Julia Wertz is top notch, stick it in front of yo’ eyeballs
“The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, illustration by G. Dmitriyeva (from the 1978 postcard set)
(via sovietpostcards)
another day another granduncle visit
OUR LIBRARY IS COOLER THAN YOURS!
The TCAF Popup Shop opened in the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St.) Wednesday night, and hosted the book launch for Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s JUST THE TIPS. (Zdarsky was there, in fine footwear).
And the store is awesome. If I told my younger self “hey, in the future, you will be able to buy Sailor Moon merch at the library”, I wouldn’t believe me.
TCAF’s new pop up shop at the Toronto Reference Library is amazing!! Bonus for Canadians - you can get Topatoco stuff for no international shipping cost.
Our Ida B. Wells anthology, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader was published last week! For a little intro to this amazing woman, here’s a really cool take on her life story by Kate Beaton (of Hark! A Vagrant fame).
New Ida book!
beatonnapossibly relevant to your turtle comic but not really but it’s a happy turtle so???
this is absolutely relevant to my comic and also my life and interests
(Source: lolgifs.net, via spaceapples453)
Sweet, it is a new comic! I made this joke on tumblr sort of offhand when I saw this great image, and I liked it so much I wanted to draw it out. Click through!
And now, a special message from The Queen…
Reminder that we have posted our holiday shipping deadlines and the dates are growing fast like that rash I have on the back of my knees.
hahahah oh dear
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With holidays approaching I thought I’d tell you about some of my friends who make excellent jewelry! Above, you can see (here are the links):
Jess Fink’s Hey Chickadee collection (tumblr jessfink )
Tuck Shop by Lynn Allingham (tumblr tuckshopjewellery )
Lynn and Jess make awesome stuff, I’ve linked to them before! A++ will do so again! I’m a sucker for this kind o’ thing.
Just take a second for yourself to fall head over heels for this perfect child
A new comic! It’s about some Irish Americans who invaded Canada in the 1860s and 70s. Which we have heard about in Canada, but I am not sure how far that one travelled. Click!
I decided to change the name of comic #364, I’ll just give you a brief explanation. In North America, events of the 1860s/70s wherein Irish Americans invaded Canada are called the Fenian Raids.
It’s in the textbooks. You get a history book sometime in high school and open it up and there it is, “Fenian raids.” And that’s the only time you ever hear the word Fenian over here, if people say it, they’re talking about some very specific people in the 1860s/70s who called themselves that. Can’t say it comes up in conversation much.
Across the ocean, the word means something more, and worse, which I didn’t really get the full understanding of until the comic went up - then, of course, people will point things out to you. Still I left it, because I figured maybe it was complex enough to embody a bunch of meanings, including the one I knew. But that doesn’t really matter, does it? I don’t think so. Who cares if people in North America are unoffended if other people are? That’s basic decency math. Anyway I really should have done it sooner, I’m sorry I didn’t do it right away.
