Abby Howard @abbyhoward.bsky.social Horror cartoonist and game dev. Slay the Princess๐ก, Scarlet Hollow๐, the Crossroads at Midnight๐, The Last Halloween ๐
Dan Olson ๐ Saskatchewan @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Shannon Live @smallpressshann.bsky.social Co-founder and President of three-time Eisner finalist, 501(C)(3) non-profit comic shop, Bat City Comic Professionals.
Director of Education for ComicsPRO.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UKโs No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
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yarntheory.net
Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social Covering comic books one issue at a time
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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. ๐ฅ๐ตโ๐ซโก๏ธ ๐ Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
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Kory Bing RCCC G16 @korybing.bsky.social Illustrator, paleoartist, and creator of long-running webcomic Skin Deep.
ALL ART ON HOLD AS I HAVE A VERY BROKEN ARM ๐
Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social Writer/Artist | talks about comics, queer stuff, and Gothic/19th century fiction a lot | they/them/ze/zir | No AI/NFTs ๐ซ
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Martyn @martynpedler.com Writer, academic, brain in a jar. Creative Writing PhD in superhero stories. You can see my stuff at http://martynpedler.com
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Peter Morey @petermorey.bsky.social Cartoonist & Graphic Scribe
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Bob / S.R. Appavu @bob-artist.bsky.social Queer fantasy author-illustrator - Gay ghosts, demons, and disasters! |
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THE GHOST KEY - 2028 - HH
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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Maggie G Vicknair ๐ SPX @maggiedreadful.bsky.social Artist and Writer. Terrible vampire movie enthusiast. Makes the horror webcomic Horror Hospital School. She/Her
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Comic Cocoon @comiccocoon.bsky.social An Edinburgh-based discussion group for comic artists, run by @elljwalker.bsky.social and @evegwood.com.
Runs on the last Saturday of every month ๐๐
Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk Unlikely pen manufacturer, draws comics, helps people make stuff, makes the Make It Then Tell Everybody podcast. Low effort social media presence.
Jim McDermott @jimmcd.bsky.social Writer, Fan, Part-Time Imaginary Tiger. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
I write about theater, TV, comics, Australia, nicknames for God and other fun stuff.
Sometimes I write for film and TV too.
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social Editor: TMNT | FAR SECTOR | HARLEEN | WONDER WOMAN DEAD EARTH | BATMAN โ89 | OMEGA MEN | SUICIDE SQUAD REBIRTH | GREEN ARROW REBIRTH | BATMAN BLACK & WHITE | DOOM PATROL | AQUAMAN UNDERWORLD | WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA | MORE @ andykhouri.com
Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Childrenโs comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
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pronouns: e/em/eir
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Badr Milligan @badrm.bsky.social Pronounced:หbaหdษr. Professional moderator and host of one of the longest running weekly comic book talk shows: The Short Box Podcast (2012-present)
https://linktr.ee/badrblueup
JD Boucher ๐ @jdboucher0.com Comics Writer/Scholar |Speaker & Event Host/MC | South Seattle | he/him
Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Shonen, TTRPGs, Metal and some Superheroes for good measure
Header art by Patrick Sinnott, Sally Cantirino, and Michael Plondaya from Handful of Horrors #1
Karla Marx @karlamarx1917.bsky.social Transgender Drag Queen Burlesque Performer Host Stand up Comedian & DJ in Calgary AB
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
FlatNClean @flatnclean.com I clean, press and collect comic books as a hobby ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฑ
Huge fan of #Marvel, #Hulk and #SheHulk
YouTube.com/@flatnclean
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Alex The Ahsum @alex-the-ahsum.bsky.social He/Him | Bisexual | Age 22 | I got no life and also like to think I can do the arts.
NSFW: @ahsum-spy-d.bsky.social
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๐ค Contrarian Techologist & Ai Ethicist
๐ Writer of Books โก๏ธ https://trainor.fyi/books/drawn/
๐ Collector on https://comicvault.cc
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โ Posts about Comics, Ai & Music.
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Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction without distraction since 2008 (mythaxis.co.uk)
Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson @noumenon.bsky.social
Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social Fine artist of Imaginative Realism. Retired illustrator of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Winner of 15 Hugo Awards. Inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2009.
Iris van Rooij ๐ญ @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on ๐ฆฃ | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canadaโs NDP / Le chef du NPD fรฉdรฉral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Dan Grote @danielpgrote.bsky.social EiC of ComicsXF, co-host of The CXF Interview Podcast, father of Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Noted stuff lover.
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. | stay wavy
Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social writer, editor. โ๏ธ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
https://www.nicoleaclark.com/
John Angus Spencer-Barnes ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Samir Sirk Moratรณ @spicycloaca.bsky.social https://samirsirkmorato.wordpress.com/ ๐ซ your friendly neighborhood offal pile ๐ซ works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khลrรฉล, & more ๐ฆท "Gore Poetics" (Cursed Morsels Press) is out now ๐ฅฉ
Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social on hiatus...
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/
DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social Official account for DH2026 - the 36th annual ADHO conference | July 27-31, 2026 | Daejeon, South Korea | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social | Theme: Engagement | Also on https://mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon & Fediverse ๐ #DH2026
https://dh2026.adho.org/
Derek Halliday ๐จ๐ฆ @dthalliday.bsky.social Just this guy, y'know?
CANON MARVEL CHARACTER (for real!), First Appearance UNCANNY AVENGERS v3 #29.
Likes: Comics, TV, Movies, physical objects.
Dislikes: Shitheads. They know who they are. >: |
https://letterboxd.com/dthalliday/
Cis-Male, He/His/Him
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Andrew Leach @aleach.ca Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wรขskahikan (Treaty 6). she/her. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026โ2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Marc Singer @theothermarcsinger.bsky.social Not that one. Not that one, either. Writer and English professor at Howard University in Washington DC. Author of Breaking the Frames (2018) and Grant Morrison (2012).
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social An Eisner Award-winning subscription comic site that dives into the story behind comics: SKTCHD.com. Home of Off Panel, a weekly interview podcast: bit.ly/OffPanelPod. User of all the words. Kind of curious. By @davidharper.bsky.social.
Shawn Kirkham @bigclutch.bsky.social The man known as Big Clutch.
Susana Polo ๐ NYCC @susanapolo.bsky.social She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social I'm an artist, love graphic, fairy tales and northern forest.
https://www.patreon.com/KononenkoElena โจ
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner Award winner MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 available now!
ๆฅๆฌ่ชใงOK She/her. Bay Area.
linktr.ee/ahorbinski
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
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Gil Durรกn @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling โThe Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.โ https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Brad Shoemaker @bradshoemaker.bsky.social 1/3 of @nextlander.com, 1/2 of @techpod.content.town. Formerly Giant Bomb, GameSpot
Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social Official account for The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)!
TCAF returns June 6-7, 2026 at Toronto Metropolitan Universityโs Mattamy Athletic Centre.
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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & drama & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/romantic-media-and-wartime-networks?tab=1
Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social Comics friend.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
AIPT @aiptcomics.com News, reviews, and more in comics, gaming, movies, pro wrestling and more. Independently owned and operated.
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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app There's a comic for everyone, find yours! A digital comic store. https://sweetshop.app
Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social that kangaroo what makes the game rec threads and such
Janis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social ๐ MLA, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
Isaiah Smith @isaiahsmith.dev Developer building and breaking things online | @GamesAndNotGames.com co-host | dev & design behind Photomode.io, @PenToPixels.com, and more
Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University Copenhagen | Making the world's knowledge reliable and accessible w/ ML + NLP | Former UCPH, UMSI, AI2, IBM Research, UCSD | https://dustinbwright.com
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Paul OโBrien @ifdestroyed.bsky.social Writes about comics at housetoastonish.com
Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social Leader of Albertaโs NDP.
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Cartoon Crossroads Columbus @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social CXC is a FREE comics, art & animation festival in Columbus, Ohio!
https://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/
Next CXC Festival: April 15-18, 2027
Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social Check us out at Mangasplaining.com or wherever you get your podcasts! And we have a Linktree, too: https://linktr.ee/mangasplaining
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obamaโs summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE ๐๐, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth ๐, horse girl ๐ด, roopikarisam.com
Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest Local queer/trans woman of color owned comic book store in Seattle's Central District. We carry all ages comics, local/small press stuff, queer/trans comics, 18+ comics, art from local artists, MtG, and more!
https://campsite.bio/crowsnestcomics
ngoziu @ngoziu.com NYT bestselling graphic novelist. DC Comics, The New Yorker. โrep'd by @chelseberly, business q's @grohac
ngoziu.com
Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social journalist, editor-in-chief of Tripwire Magazine and writer/ co-creator of graphic novel series Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders 
an ocean of emotion @betarayben.bsky.social Fiction writer. Queer in his bones (menacing), not always safe for work. Nerd trash who reads too many (but not enough) comics. White settler Canadian living on lษkฬสทษลษn territory (Victoria BC). He/they