Karen Green (she/her)

And, while it’s not in a story, this 1978 cover features a Pong variant:

www.comics.org/issue/105850...

D’oh! Sorry, Ashley; I’ve not been on BlueSky for months.

I searched comics.org for “video game” and found Dave Berg’s “Games People Slay” from 1979…

www.comics.org/issue/875318...

With you 100% on that one

I saw The Beat’s protest comics coverage used this as their cover photo!

I can’t believe they’ve estimated turnout at 50K. That’s just insulting.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I’m a librarian and I will fight AI tooth and nail, letter-opener and rubber stamp, to my dying breath. It sickens me. Librarians should be working toward improving writing and research, not destroying it.

Truth

A brown rabbit hangs out on the grassy verge as I head down the sidewalk.

What’s up, doc?

Seen hanging out on 231st St, half a block from the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Photo of a building entrance in Queens, NYC, with the street number 86-47

His home borough

Oh, Matthew, I’m so so sorry. What can we do to help??

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Screengrab of section of 50 Years of Columbia Magazine, with the 2017 entry about my job, drawn by Nick Sosanis, which won the Eisner for Best Short Story in 2018.

@nsousanis.bsky.social and I made it into the timeline of 50 years of Columbia alumni magazine.

If you want to see the other 49 years, click here magazine.columbia.edu/article/50-y...

So lovely and atmospheric

We have serious problems to solve & we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things
& two things only: making you afraid of it & telling you who's to blame for it.

I’m reminded of this line from the climactic speech in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (for “Bob Rumson,” substitute
“Republicans”). (1/2)

Silence means consent.

“A tragedy of temperature” comic by Louis Glackens in 1906. After a refreshing dip in the ocean, a portly gentleman retires to dress in his street clothes. By the time he finishes, he’s drenched in sweat.

An undated Sunday strip of “Abbie an’ Slats,” by Raeburn Van Buren. Judging by the fashion, I’d reckon mid- to late-1960s (the young woman looks a lot like Marlo Thomas in “That Girl). Aunt Abbie and her niece Kit are in London, where Kit believes a young man following them is a spy.

Not original art, but a beautiful “Barney Google and Sparkplug” game board, drawn by Billy DeBeck. A Milton Bradley game with a copyright of 1923.

A daily “Oaky Doaks” strip by Ralph Fuller, circa 1945. Oaky Doaks was a wannabe knight who made his armor from tin and took a plowhorse as his trusty steed.

With thanks to J.J Sedelmaier and Howard Beckerman’s daughter Sheri, these beauties are now gracing our collection.

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I await more news with bated breath!

This is a major milestone.

It’s even bigger than this post indicates. Art Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer. Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer for a category that branched off in 2023 from one established in 1917.

Oh now I wish I were at all musical…
And yes it was a simply lovely afternoon. I wish it could have lasted longer!

Drawing by Cath Kastner, of me in Paris, with my Doc Martens, my fuschia coat, Sacre-Coeur (I was staying in Montmartre, and my trusty oversize cup of chocolat chaud. Thank you, Cath!

Wonderful, fabulous @cathkastner.bsky.social drew this portrait of me after my visit with her in Paris. It is accurate to every detail, from Sacre-Coeur in the background to my fuschia coat to the pockets on my suitcase to my omnipresent chocolat chaud.

That’s what you get when you fire/dismiss all those trained women and people of color. All-white just ain’t right.

Shipman authorizes NYPD sweep of pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, police in riot gear arrest dozens <i>This is a breaking story. Check back for updates. </i>

And now, at 7:20, the Columbia Spec posts a story that NYPD has been called in to clear out the protestors, who’ve been confined to one room.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Another colleague called to say he would go into my office and get my stuff. I was nearby, happily, so he could drop it off with me as he headed home.

At 6 pm, I got a text saying Butler Library had been cleared.

At around 4pm, I got a call from a colleague, asking me if I was in or out of the building and, if I was out, whether I had all my things. I didnt, as it happened: my bag with wallet, cards, house keys, was still in my office.

Judging by the Spec’s reporting, it sounds like our own Public Safety officers (all too many of whom are hired outside security) did quite enough roughing up on their own. I dont see the point in calling in the highly-militarized NYPD.

So…more fun at Columbia.

I left the library at about 3:30 to go have tea with a donor. There was a crowd outside the entrance, but they were milling about. No chanting, no placards.

The message you’re commenting on seems to be deleted—what was going on?