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| How Comics Are Made | https://howcomicsaremade.com/ |
| The Glog Blog | https://glog.glennf.com |
| Six Centuries of Type & Printing | https://sixcent.info/ |
| Glenn Projects Newsletter | https://buttondown.com/glennf/archive/ |
Glenn Fleishman
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Glenn is a person who drops many names. He spent most of his career as a technology journalist, but over the last decade, has moved more into printing and comics history. His Eisner Awards-nominated book, How Comics Are Made, is available in bookstores worldwide. Glenn somehow won two episodes of Jeopardy! His recent books include Flong Time, No See (upcoming, fall 2026), Six Centuries of Type & Printing (2nd ed, 2025), and London Kerning. He also edits books and consults on Kickstarter campaign
I want to compliment Sam Regal, Editor of Printing History (the Journal of the American Printing History Association) for being braver and franker in her introduction to the current issue about American democracy than nearly all mainstream media in this country.
I love Tolkien. We’re in the middle of a serious scene, in which the hobbits are concerned about their very lives, and Tolkien takes a paragraph to give us an aside to let us know the ponies are safe! This book is definitely in the mode of a favorite uncle or aunt reading it to you.
Today, the *Dracunculus vulgaris* (dragon or vampire lily) bloomed. A relative of our good friend *titan arum* (corpse flower), it has what I like to call a strong, bracing odor, and others like to run from. Flies love it!
Join @mattbors May 27 at 10 am PT/1pm ET on Reddit to Ask Matt Anything about cartooning, running the Nib, writing Toxic Avenger, the decline of alt-weeklies, what’s it like to have a meme take over your cartoon, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/
Join @mattbors on Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for an AMA about Toxic Avenger, The Nib, being a tiny publisher, comics journalism, and our upcoming That One Matt Bors Comic book. Click through to get a Reddit reminder. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/
