Since I'm sharing #EscherGirls stuff, here have another recent one I posted.
TFW you wake up orgasming from the sexiest crucifixion.
https://eschergirls.ca/photo/2026/05/27/sexiest-resurrection
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Comics Link Roundup June 5
We bought a zoo (house).
My wife and I have spent the past couple weeks bringing boxes and bags to our new place. We’re all done, but it is still a mess. Of course, one of the most annoying things to move, as any bibliophile or comic reader can tell you, is books. They’re heavy, they take up a lot of space, and how often do you actually re-read most of them?
It is time for my semi-annual freakout over physical media. I much prefer the experience of reading a physical book, watching a disk, and listening to vinyl than their digital counterparts. But I can’t deny that the value proposition doesn’t always make sense. In addition to the cost, incorporating the space they take up means, at a certain point, I’m engaging in commodity fetishism.
I don’t wish to be morbid, but I can’t help but think about what will happen when I die. I’ll have so much junk that people will need to get rid of. I know in some Nordic countries, it is customary for the elderly to start handing off their clutter so that their mourning children don’t have to. And if I would get rid of something then, why wouldn’t I get rid of it now?
Perhaps it is just time for me to weed out my collection. Maybe I should have done that before I moved. Anyways.
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Comic Challenge Extra Issues Edition 2026DownloadI decided to create a YouTube documenting my reading journey!
I didn’t newsletter in all of May, so I have a number of videos to show. On the other hand, moving made me fall a bit behind.
I’ve also been doing little shorts where I poorly read a scene I liked from these comics. I guess shortform video gets juiced in the algorithm because they have been blowing up. You can check out the playlist of them here.
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Link Roundup
News:
Marjane Satrapie passes at 56
The cartoonist behind Persepolis died last week. Her husband had passed last year and her family stated that she died of grief as a result.
Dark Horse Workers, Unionizing
The back of house workers at Dark Horse have unionized. That link, from The Comics Journal, has a great recap of the problems Dark Horse has had since they were bought out by private equity. Later on in the week, Dark Horse voluntarily recognized the union, a good outcome for the workers.
Most Expensive Comic?
There is a $17,500 edition of THE KILLING JOKE collected edition. I don’t know why. But if you want to see it, you can go San Diego Comic Con and check it out for yourself.
Crowdfunding
ComicsBeat has a list of crowdfunding projects you may want to back.
Humble Bundle
Check out this colleciton of Ablaze manga available for cheap on Humble Bundle.
Writing:
Comic Book Herald published his favorite graphic novels of May 2026.
SKTCHD has an in-depth look at IDW’s upcoming HELLO KITTY comics.
Shelfust continues their year of evil looking at Joe Chill, the murderer of Martha and Thomas Wayne.
On Solrad, Mina Ruyle talks about the issue of identity at the heart of Paul Aster’s CITY OF GLASS and its comic adaptation by David Mazzucchelli.
Other News Roundups:
Comics Beat’s biweekly Digest: 6/2.
My favorite video and podcasts:
Podcasts:
OFF PANEL had on James Stokoe to talk about his upcoming sequel to ORPHAN AND THE FIVE BEASTS.
MY MARVELOUS YEAR posted 2014 pt. 7 talking Silver Surfer, Inhuman, and Ghost Rider.
YouTube:
SKTCHD asks Mark Waid about the moment he knew some of his most classic comics would be successful.
COMICBOOK COUPLE’S COUNSELING continued season 2 of their miniseries “The Stacks,” where they have industry people select comics to talk about from the shelves of Third Eye Comics, like the Criterion Closet, with Pornsak Pichetshote.
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I need to share yesterday's #EscherGirls post because staring at that hand is driving me and many others in the comments
to cosmic horror levels of madness, so therefore you all must see it too.
https://eschergirls.ca/photo/2026/06/04/and-now-some-escher-hands
https://www.tumblr.com/eschergirls/818518109461856256/shes-got-boobsocks-but-for-a-90s-comic-she
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