as someone who ran a fiction magazine for a decade i don't agree with the premise of that article. The future is in the slush pile, not in a network of who happens to know the right person.
and i suspect the issue is more that the slush pile usually outweighs the subscribers for most small magazines.
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Goodness. When #DanSlott's #FantasticFour amazing run ended, I braced for a mediocre to fine run by the new team. But that was very not the case. I- am- STILL blown away by this current team. #RyanNorth knows these chars, and does amazing things with their powers. And #IvanFiorelli's art executes that on-point. And one hell of a return to science heroism.
@Scofisticated@comics I'm not sure, I think we've only seen him flamed on. It looks like iss#14 of the latest run of FF might be a tie in based on the cover though!
Today in Labor History November 7, 1912: Ernest Riebe's "Mr. Block," IWW labor comic strip first appeared in print. Mr. Block was one of the best-loved features in the Wobbly press. Joe Hill wrote a song about "Mr. Block," who was a boss-loving, American Dream-believing, self-sabotaging knucklehead. Some call Riebe the first "underground" comic book artist.
Mr. Block (by Joe Hill)
Please give me your attention, I'll introduce to you
A man who is a credit to the ["Our] old Red White and Blue["]
His head is made of lumber and solid as a rock
He is a common worker and his name is Mr. Block
And Block [he] thinks he may be premier [President] some day
Chorus
Oh Mr. Block, you were born by mistake
You take the cake, you make me ache
[Go] tie a rock on your block and then jump in the lake
Kindly do that for Liberty's sake!
Yes, Mr. Block is lucky - he got a job, by gee!
The shark got seven dollars for job and fare and fee
They shipped him to a desert and dumped him with his truck
But when he tried to find his job he sure was out of luck
He shouted, "That's too raw! I'll fix them with the law!"
Block hiked back to the city but wasn't doing well
He said "I'll join the union, the great AF of L".
He got a job that morning, got fired by the night
He said, "I'll see Sam Gompers and he'll fix that foreman right!"
Sam Gompers said, "You see, you've got our sympathy."
Election day he shouted, "A Socialist for Mayor!"
The comrade got elected [and] he happy was for fair
But after the election he got an awful shock
[When] a great big socialistic bull did rap him on the block
And Comrade Block did sob, "I helped him get his job!"
Poor Block he died one evening, I'm very glad to state
He climbed the golden ladder up to the pearly gate
He said, "Oh Mister Peter, one thing I'd like to tell
I'd like to meet the Astorbilts and John D Rockerfell!"
Old Pete said, "Is that so? You'll meet them down below!"
Tune: It Looks to me Like a Big Time Tonight. from Al Grierson,
by Joe Hill, in 13th ed. of the Little Red Songbook
@MikeDunnAuthor@bookstadon Reading old Mr. Block comics is nuts because most of the issues have not changed.
It’s like, oh this strip is about how liberal politicians use the promise of gentrification to court votes and then kick people who voted for them out of the gentrified area. The next strip is about how bosses use racism/beef between nationalities and false consciousness to control people. The next strip is about the ethical imperative to sabotage unsafe machinery.
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There's not much poetry being written in Palestine, either...
Meanwhile, someone did a deep dive off the coast of Columbia and found an estimated $20B in gold & silver coins and 300 yr old artifacts of a sunken Spanish ship.
Humanity...always going in the wrong direction and damned proud of it...for some unknown insane reason.
Not exactly #books – they're #ShortStories but here are some highlights from the @fictionable archive of exclusive short fiction: Ali Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Diana Evans, Sarah Hall, Etgar Keret and Evie Wyld, not to mention #comics from Sabba Khan, Serena Katt, Lizzy Stewart and more…