Glenn Fleishman

@glennf@zeppelin.flights
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A printing and comics historian and, somehow, also a tech journalist, book editor, and graphic designer. You can order my book How Comics Were Made at hcwm.ink Find out about my work at glennf.com Two-time Jeopardy! champ.
How Comics Are Madehttps://howcomicsaremade.com/
The Glog Bloghttps://glog.glennf.com
Six Centuries of Type & Printinghttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-of-type-and-printing
Glenn Projects Newsletterhttps://buttondown.com/glennf/archive/
Glenn Fleishman1d ago
Given interest in signed copies of How Comics Are Made, the new hardcover edition of my books about the history of newspaper production and reproduction, I’ve added that as an item in my store, including an option for an inscription: https://glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/how-comics-were-made-2mhky
How Comics Are Made: Signed by Author

If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my book How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page . For a limited time, I’m offering signed and optionally inscribed copies , where you can have me write a message to you or someone else. (For regular co

Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
David Roberts2d ago
Less than a month after the WA legislature passed two amazing housing reform bills -- one on parking, one on transit-oriented development -- a shithead NIMBY group has launched ballot initiatives to overturn them both.

Repeal Referendum Campaign Tar...
Repeal Referendum Campaign Targets State Parking Reform, Transit-Oriented Housing Law - The Urbanist

# Safe Eastside, a group with a long track record of attacking facilities for people exiting homelessness, is turning its attention to major pieces of state housing reform approved in 2025. They have until July 26 to collect more than 150,000 signatures to get a repeal referendum on the ballot in Washington state.

The Urbanist - Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Show threadDave Wood 🇨🇦2d ago
@marcoarment @caseyliss Carrot on top of it as always!
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Simple Sabotage Field Manual2d ago
Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.
Glenn Fleishman2d ago
Photos from the second edition of the book!
https://zeppelin.flights/@glennf/114739735756369374
Glenn Fleishman2d ago

I’ve launched the final stage for my book Six Centuries of Type & Printing: funded at Kickstarter months ago, shipping date is ~July 15, and I just set the exact shipping prices. Visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-of-type-and-printing and get the stretch bundle (book/ebook, audiobook, extra ebook, bookmark)!

When I close off this final round, the audiobook and bookmarks will be sold separately at extra cost. So get in now for the best bundled price! Signed and giftwrapped copies of Six Centuries also available.

Glenn Fleishman3d ago
The Needling3d ago
Bruce Harrell Endorsers Encouraged to Blink Twice If They Need Help: https://theneedling.com/2025/05/26/bruce-harrell-endorsers-encouraged-to-blink-twice-if-they-need-help/
Glenn Fleishman3d ago
Not to be morbid, but did you know companies might require your heirs or executor to get a court order to access your cloud-stored data after you're gone? Unless you take reasonable measures now. (Or, if you want it all deleted!) My @sixcolors column on the subject: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/06/the-afterlife-of-apple-accounts-and-others/ with bonus Kafka content
The afterlife of Apple Accounts (and others)

I know we all like to get a good memento mori jolt now and again, particularly when the world is in turmoil! (That’s sarcasm.) But as I grow older, I can’t avoid thinking about my digital leg…

Six Colors
Glenn Fleishman6d ago
kottke.org6d ago
If you want to yawn two or three times in the next 90 seconds, check out this video of clips of people yawning. (Yawning is so contagious that you’ve probably already yawned from the many mentions of yawning. Gotcha!) https://kottke.org/25/06/yawns
Yawns

If you’re like most people, you probably started yawning as soon as you read the title of this post and saw the video̵

kottke.org
Glenn FleishmanJun 19
JcrabappleJun 19

‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers | Aids and HIV | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/17/hiv-ending-drug-lenacapavir-manufacture-cost-per-patient-gilead

‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers

As regulator prepares to approve Lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

The Guardian