Google is great for currency conversion but it really falls down if you want to know how much something cost in beaver pelts in 1748. Fortunately, help is available. https://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-much-is-that-in-beavers.html

Now over 70% funded with just under eight days to go! I have so much to share that you’ll love if you love comics and/or history… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made
https://twit.social/@glennf/112004543167309282

You can also watch a replay of interview last week with @benjclark, the person with the best job in the world as curator of the Charles M Schulz Museum. We spoke about storytelling with objects and the interesting nature of curating one person’s artistic career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUpHPk1ZS8

Shoutout to everyone who just says their name to me at a party even if we’ve met a dozen times before because otherwise I have to pretend that I can recognize you for as long as it takes for me to amass sufficient context clues for a positive iD.

@anjum I use it with some of my recurring writing assignments — that way I can copy-paste the previous column or whatever, strike it all but remember my target word count and review what I wrote last month/quarter whatever bc I will not remember.

As my mom says, success brings many (fake) friends.

The added context is gold 😂

Hey comic nerds! University Press of Mississippi, which has a lot of comic-related titles, are 40% off right now -- I'm grabbing a few books, maybe you need some too!
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Subjects/Comics-Studies

@unpackingpeanuts @natgertler

THANK YOU!!

Hearty congratulations to @natgertler and @benjclark for their Eisner win!
#comics cs

@anjum @endquote @andybaio

Loving the thread! The Billy Ireland is a treasure.

You want Schulz originals?? The Schulz Museum has around 100 on exhibit at any given time. Sometimes other artists, too. Like, right now, there's a Pogo original from the early 1960s that Walt Kelly sent to Schulz in one of the exhibitions.

It’s a magical place.

Went to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum in Columbus, and found myself unexpectedly overwhelmed seeing original art from cartoonists who shaped my childhood: pencil roughs, eraser marks, Wite-Out, and all.

As great as the finished printed strips are, seeing the raw original panels at their full size lets you see all the little decisions and details that went into making each one.

Special Episode - The Six Bunny Wunnies Get Banned!

In this special edition of Unpacking Peanuts, the guys take a close look at three of Schulz’s classic 1972 stories… Snoopy Versus The Cat Next Door, Thompson Is In Trouble, and The Six Bunny Wunnies Freak Out. Plus: Fear and Loathing in Hennepin County

https://unpackingpeanuts.podbean.com/e/special-episode-the-six-bunny-wunnies-get-banned/

#comics #Snoopy #Peanuts

Fun to see Popeye and Olive Oyl in my comic page today. (Everyone else appears regularly)

@glennf Because every "'improvement" to airliners is to improve income for the airline. It's never about passenger comfort. If passengers complain, the airlines tell us to sniff farts.

Another #followfriday why not jump on?!

@mrbee
@tylersticka
@michaelmeckler
@benjclark
@allflooby
@Chancerubbage
@glamcode

dear east coast people: we of the west coast feel your smoke pain

- go to Lowe’s
- buy a 20” box fan
- buy 4x20”x30” Filterete 1900 filters (the blue ones (20” is the important measurement))
- buy wide painters tape (blue matches nicely)
- make a box out of the filters (arrows pointing in)
- tape the box fan to the top of the filter box, air blowing upward
- tape the corners of the fan grill so you don’t get backflow — stick a piece of paper over the corners and it’ll be obvious

family language:

The footrest of a recliner is called the "foomp". When you unfold it, you "foomp" the recliner. To fold it back up, you "un-foomp" it.

What’s a question that you’ve always had about the world that you’ve never seen anyone try to answer before?

I will use answers from this thread as the basis of a future Tedium article. Boosts desired.