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Tiffany Babb

@explodingarrow

Comics and baseball - Editor of The Comics Courier, @comicsstaple.bsky.social, and @thefanfiles.bsky.social‬ - Previously of Popverse and PanelxPanel - tbabb0621@gmail.com - tiffanybabb.com

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The End of Comics History may Finally be Coming to an End: O.F. Stapledon Reviews Derek M. Ballard’s CARTOONSHOW - SOLRAD The End of Comics History may Finally be Coming to an End: O.F. Stapledon Reviews Derek M. Ballard’s CARTOONSHOW

plz consider buying my big book, CARTOONSHOW from @oni-press.bsky.social. Here's one of my favorite reviews: solrad.co/the-end-of-c...

05.03.2026 21:57 👍 60 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 2
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Coming soon: The Comics Staple - A Comics News Zine A brand-new, monthly zine featuring news, reviews, and interviews for comics fans who want to stay in the loop. Edited by Tiffany Babb

One cool thing about The Comics Staple, is that the plan (for now) is to go totally DIY with the whole thing! That means printing, folding, stapling, and mailing from my garage!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

the hero we need

06.03.2026 22:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

now this also doesn't mean that these arts can't pass into relevance here are there. wicked obviously was a big cultural moment. however, those moments are few and far between. olympics curling is huge, but how many people watch curling regularly? could you compare it to basketball?

06.03.2026 21:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you can say the same thing about musical theater (one of my major loves) or comics or baseball. they don't have the same cultural hold right now as movies or even tiktoks do. that doesn't mean the art doesn't matter or that its bad or that there aren't fans.

06.03.2026 21:47 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

honestly, my hot take is that i agree with what he's saying. it's tough to be the face of a "dying" art. while there are obviously lovers of ballet and opera and amazing people working in those fields, their time of major cultural relevance has passed.

06.03.2026 21:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thank you kindly!

06.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hahaha it should be! its blank, i got it used off ebay

06.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is me, Baseball Edition

06.03.2026 19:56 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661 H.R. 7661 could restrict federal funding for schools over LGBTQIA+ and sex education content. Here's what's at stake and how to fight back.

Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661

06.03.2026 16:31 👍 400 🔁 285 💬 2 📌 13
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Baseball Movies Aren’t Boring: Top of the First Part one of a roundtable discussion about the favorite baseball movies of the people who make the books, films, designs, and comics you love

What's your favorite baseball movie?

spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/baseball-m...

27.02.2026 17:55 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 10 📌 17
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Coming soon: The Comics Staple - A Comics News Zine A brand-new, monthly zine featuring news, reviews, and interviews for comics fans who want to stay in the loop. Edited by Tiffany Babb

One cool thing about The Comics Staple, is that the plan (for now) is to go totally DIY with the whole thing! That means printing, folding, stapling, and mailing from my garage!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Nicole standing behind a bunch of books holding even more books

Nicole standing behind a bunch of books holding even more books

ECCC today at AA J-03. Swing by, we’ve got BOOKS!

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

We had the same thing earlier with team Italy!

05.03.2026 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tiffany Babb launches The Comics Staple, a monthly magazine of comics news Tiffany Babb is launching The Comics Staple, a monthly 12-page magazine devoted to covering the latest in comics from an all-star line-up of writers

Tiffany Babb is launching The Comics Staple, a monthly 12-page magazine devoted to covering the latest in comics from an all-star line-up of writers

12.02.2026 16:21 👍 47 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 2

I just saw a Yankees fan cheer for Alex bregman

03.03.2026 20:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The fun part of this giants vs team USA game is everyone cheering for players they would never otherwise cheer for.

03.03.2026 20:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thrilled to be on the Sweet Shop.
And to sweeten the deal, first issue of every series is FREE.

03.03.2026 19:23 👍 43 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 1
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The Dugout Some thoughts on a famous Norman Rockwell paitning

The Art Institute in Chicago (one of my favorite museums) has hung its very first Norman Rockwell painting. Here are my thoughts on "The Dugout."

www.thefanfiles.com/articles/norman-rockwell-baseball-painting-cubs-the-dugout

03.03.2026 16:03 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Someone in Anchorage’s Fur Rondy Snow Sculpture competition did the giant, snowman eating, tentacle monster from Calvin & Hobbes and I just have to say: they straight up killed it.

01.03.2026 21:52 👍 221 🔁 64 💬 6 📌 3

The group Elevated Access can fly you for free to a provider that is further away. Help is out there, you’re not alone. There is still time.

www.elevatedaccess.org

01.03.2026 23:26 👍 315 🔁 285 💬 5 📌 3
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

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World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

02.03.2026 03:59 👍 1055 🔁 709 💬 6 📌 18
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10th Anniversary SKTCHD/Off Panel Print Yo everybody, it's David Harper, and it's the 10th anniversary year of SKTCHD and Off Panel, my Eisner Award-nominated subscription comic...

Introducing...the 10th anniversary print for SKTCHD and Off Panel!

I worked with the INCREDIBLE @javierrodriguez.bsky.social and my wife Amber to put this celebratory print together, and it's now available for order on my Big Cartel page.

It'll only be up for order until 3/15, so get on it soon!

01.03.2026 17:36 👍 40 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 5
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

27.02.2026 20:16 👍 3859 🔁 3249 💬 2 📌 69

I have a big announcement coming in the SKTCHD newsletter on Sunday and I'm very excited for it to hit. It's something I've been planning for a long time and it's a first for me, which should be fun! So, uh, keep an eye out!

27.02.2026 20:29 👍 42 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Submissions now open for 11th Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics The deadline is May 1, 2026 for comics published during the 2025 calendar year.

Submissions now open for 11th Annual #DwayneMcDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics #DMAD

26.02.2026 20:16 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
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Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. - About Netflix

Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer.

Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount.

about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

26.02.2026 23:05 👍 4624 🔁 1955 💬 66 📌 736

*Sobbing miserably* I have to hand it to Metacritic

26.02.2026 21:39 👍 822 🔁 211 💬 2 📌 0

If you've seen the news today about transgender Kansans having their drivers licenses suddenly revoked, check out the deep reporting our colleagues in Kansas have been doing on the subject for months

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26.02.2026 21:14 👍 68 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 0

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share.

Who's with me?

(I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

26.02.2026 15:23 👍 983 🔁 619 💬 136 📌 79