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Mel Gillman

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Queer comics maker, colored pencil artist, and all-around woods gremlin. Author of As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, and Other Ever Afters. They/them.

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I think it’s fine either way! Signing up only takes a minute — it basically just takes your name and generates a coupon code for you. I didn’t have any trouble doing it while sick.

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Ooof, that sounds awful, glad the antivirals helped!!

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I most likely caught this at a family gathering too! Serves us right for (checks notes) visiting loved ones

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I seem to be having a relatively mild case so far (knock on wood) which I’m chalking up to paxlovid + the fact that I got a novavax booster ~6 weeks ago. Very grateful to not be, I guess, rawdogging this virus, lmao

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On a more practical note, since we’re entering a summer surge: US folks, please bookmark Paxcess. If you get covid in 2024 and want a paxlovid prescription, you really wanna sign up for this. It took my (with ACA insurance) out of pocket cost from $300 down to $0. www.paxlovid.com/paxcess

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covid finally got my ass after successfully dodging it for 4 1/2 years, and this is my summary of the experience so far:

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“23rd Street Books, the grown-up sister imprint of Macmillan’s eclectic graphic novel powerhouse, First Second Books, will launch next year with graphic novels from Gene Luen Yang, Damon Wayans Jr., Saul Williams, Ben Hatke, and more.”— Publisher’s Weekly

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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me, every day: pshaw, I don’t need to look up images of what chairs look like!! I’m literally sitting in one *right now* pencils: u sure about that bucko

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Absolutely ANNOYING how much better my pencils get in direct proportion to how many reference images I look up >:|

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Only when they’re very young, but yeah! The silk/seeds inside the pods get a texture like cheese when cooked, it’s wild :0

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I finally timed milkweed pod foraging season right! Fried up a couple small pods as a test and they’re really good :9

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(also if it is L. americanus it has some toxic lookalikes so it’s not one recommended for casual foraging! Get out into the woods and keep an eye out for chanterelles this season!)

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Possibly Leucoagaricus americanus? This isn’t one I’m super familiar with though, so don’t take my word for it! You could join a Michigan mushroom foraging group online and post pics, see if you get any more reliable IDs! www.mushroomexpert.com/leucoagaricu...

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Alex Plante 🐀👑's avatar Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com
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💀 💁🏻‍♀️💕

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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!

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humbling to realize I can still sing the entire theme song from memory but can’t for the life of me recall if the main character has, like…shoes

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Yes!!! Both very gay but with somewhat different expressions of it in their work…I love them both :0

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A bunch of people recently have told me I’d love The Summer Hikaru Died, and you know what??? you all were correct. gold stars for everyone. thank you

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For anyone doing this: USPS prices are going up on July 14th. Postcard stamps are going up from 53¢ to 56¢, & regular stamps are going up by 5¢.

I think you can order them at the old prices from USPS until the 13th. USPS sells one variety of 'forever' postcard stamp: store.usps.com/store/produc...

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Working as advertised 😂

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(This is the ruler that lives in my drawing bag, and I genuinely have no idea how this happened except by being outside 😭)

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This summer heat really is something else…anyway, anybody know how to unmelt a plastic ruler

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If you're in NY and can sign this, please do. Masks bans will not combat antisemitism, they will just put disabled people at risk. We can and must do better.
www.jewsformaskrights.com

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After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

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On the drawing board tonight ✏️

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It was great!! On top of all the prairie science, I also really loved the opening pages where you talk about comics as a vehicle for information, and the value of drawing as simplification…made me emotional!!

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me when someone asks me about my scars

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I tried to get through Wish while stuck on an airplane this weekend and was honestly kinda wow’d by how boring and bland it was…almost an impressive feat

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"Claudia, in an impossible afternoon light..." (i'm not okay 🥲)

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Kiddos on the drawing board today

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After IWTV, if Delainey Hayles does not live out the rest of her days able to choose whatever theatrical role she wants with the ease of picking a new shirt out of a catalog, we go on the warpath

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Completely unrelated, my first solo writer credit, Mighty Nein: Origins Caduceus Clay came out yesterday! It's a story about death, being alone at the looming end, who leaves and who is left behind. It turned out so so beautiful and I hope you enjoy it. bookshop.org/p/books/crit...

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Having the time of his life chasing men around set with knives

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Red snacks ONLY for horror comics class Ravenous 1999 movie night

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Truly!!! It’s the sort of movie premise that really shouldn’t work and yet, incredibly, it fucking rules

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I think about this tumblr post at LEAST once a week

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Genuinely a movie that has no right to be as weird and queer and delightful as it is!!!

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I should go into marketing

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Chanterelle season is here! Here’s the page I drew about them in my new mushroom hunting zine. You can read the whole thing for free or pay-what-you-want: ko-fi.com/s/6c16d1553e

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