Kerry Mitchell 🍁

@KerryMitchell
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I work in marketing, sometimes writing, and sometimes graphic design. An enthusiast for comic books, advertising art, skiing/old skis, drawing and writing instruments, cookbooks, and woodworking tools. CFL/NFL football fan.
LocationSaskatoon, Saskatchewan
DescriptionA golden thread in the world's tapestry
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Mar 22
I came across a comic book artist on Instagram (pacorodriguez_art), who I’d never heard of, who draws Disney comics. Really good stuff, all drawn the traditional way on paper. Turns out he’s been drawing Donald Duck for over 30 years for comics published in Scandinavia, Netherlands, and Germany. There’s a recent interview where he discusses, among other things, what isn’t allowed by Disney (no socialism, no toilets): https://arsnotoria.com/2025/09/01/a-conversation-with-paco-rodriguez/ #comicbooks #DonaldDuck #illustration
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Mar 21
B There Kid
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Mar 18
Brilliant cartoon by Bliet on the cover of the New Yorker - ‘War-a-lago’ #trump #hegseth
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Mar 16
The WSJ asked video game designer and professor Jesse Schell where he sees video games going in the future and his answer was essentially “imaginary friends.” #gaming #videogames #artificialintelligence
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Feb 5
Nassim Taleb with some thoughts on how AI is affecting the labour market. #artificialintelligence #AI #inequality
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Jan 24
TIL There’s a popular snack food in Australia called Jumpy’s that is made from potatoes, shaped like kangaroos, and tastes like chicken.
Kerry Mitchell 🍁Jan 20
I got a little obsessed with old typewriters, and now, unfortunately, I notice them on Facebook marketplace.
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jan 19
Martin probably figured, “Why fix something that isn’t broken?” Old tech is remarkably resilient. I have a Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter (a model used by Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Rachel Carson, and Stephen King) and it still works 80 years after my grandmother took delivery of it. It could probably use a new ribbon though. 14/14 #typewriters
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jan 19
Today, there are many choices of software for writing. Word, Scrivener, Focuswriter, Final Draft, Obsidian, etc. Even so, there are diehards who won’t give up their pens, pencils, typewriters, or old school software. George R. R. Martin, for instance, has stuck with using WordStar 4.0 on MS-DOS. https://medium.com/@estavillo/the-writing-systems-of-prolific-authors-changing-your-writing-system-may-boost-your-creativity-9ae2aa551565 #GeorgeRRMartin #WordStar #WritingSoftware 13/14
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jan 19
The late 80s marked the end of the typewriter era for most writers. Margaret Atwood: “Along came the personal computer, and for a few years after 1989, I spent hours with a hairpin trying to pry stuck floppy disks out of my first Mac. My manual typewriters were stored in closets, with the fond regret bestowed on old prom photos and shells plucked from forgotten beaches.” https://thewalrus.ca/how-margaret-atwood-learned-to-type/. #MargaretAtwood #Macintosh #Writing 12/14