#Ananth Hirsh

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"Why won't you use me?" / "I know you're using me."

@barbarous 8.1 and 8.27 by Johnny Wander

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Book Review: Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, J.R. Doyle

Two interns, one human and one AI, dislike each other so naturally they’re forced to work together on a new project. Summary:In a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident, and Fawn is one of the first human-presenting AI. They have the same internship at a gallery, but neither thinks much…

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PIXELS OF YOU

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Oni reveals four YA and Middle-Grade Graphic Novels debuting Spring 2025

Oni reveals four YA and Middle-Grade Graphic Novels debuting Spring 2025 #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Oni Press has announced four fantastically colorful and captivating YA and middle-grade graphic novels making their debut in the spring of 2025! Spanning science fiction, action-adventure, and LGBTQ+ stories of self-discovery, these books have something for readers of any age and interest. Get ready for four brand-new worlds created by critically acclaimed knockout writers Ben Kahn (GLAAD Award…

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Book Review: "Lucky Penny" by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota

Book Review: “Lucky Penny” by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota

Lucky Penny by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota (2016) Genre: Graphic Novel, Romance, Fiction Page Length: 208 pages (electronic review edition) Synopsis: If Penny Brighton didn’t have bad luck, she’d have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it’s okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there’s bound to be career opportunities at the…

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🔥WE'RE HAVING A MOVING SALE!!🔥

❤️Johnny Wander's having a big sale before we move everything to a new distro!

❤️Afterwards we'll close the shop for a bit to set up at the new place!

❤️All Patrons get a 20% discount code!

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I wanna take a sec to talk about Lucky Penny.

If you haven’t been lucky enough to have heard of Lucky Penny before now: it is my favorite graphic novel. It has been since junior year of High-school. I am now a senior in my final semester in college (and accounting for my Covid style gap year) Lucky Penny has been my #1 fave graphic novel for six years and counting.

It’s funny, it’s raunchy, the characters feel real, the story is well paced and takes some very fun and unexpected twists! However, the story and art aren’t the only reason I love Lucky Penny. I originally found Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh via their autobiographical book of daily life comics Johnny Wander: Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us, which I had picked up from the local library and was absolutely thrilled to find out was a webcomic that at the time was still actively updating. On their website (linked here!) you can actually read Lucky Penny and their Autobiographical comics completely for free as well as their current (still updating) work, Barbarous.

For me Lucky Penny acts as a bridge and a love letter to middle school me, who avidly read webcomics on solo hosting sights, many of which have been lost to time or have simply stopped updating. Self published webcomics outside of companies like Tapas (formerly Tapastic) and LINE Webtoon have ensured that solo host websites are far and few in between and routinely get looked over. Despite existing in the face of these big companies Johnny Wander lives on.

Lucky Penny is like warm soup. It’s comforting and every read feels different depending on where I am emotionally and just in my life in general. You can find Lucky Penny free to read on Johnny Wander here and even grab a physical copy for yourself here if you prefer paper. Updates on Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh’s current work and activities can be found on their respective tumblrs @aidosaur and @ananthhirsh

If you choose to read Lucky Penny I hope you love it. I’m sure you will. :)

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Day 11 - Indira Visariya from Pixels of You

Pixels of You is a graphic novel written by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota, with art by J.R. Doyle.

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Happy New Years! 🎉🎆🎇 Wishing everyone a happy 2024 ✨

had a productive reading year, finished on 14, though I had hoped to read maybe one or two more books. either way I’m happy and proud of my number of reads and I hope that I’ll get through some great books in 2024 as well! 💖 also had so much fun doing this blog as well as my insta and i hope to make more fun posts an review and take pretty pictures in the new year as well 🫶🏻

My Reads in 2023

• The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

• Wayhaven Chronicles Book 3 by Mishka Jenkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

• Batman: A Death In The Family Deluxe Edition ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

• Robins: Being Robin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

• Blood on the Tracks by Shuzo Oshimi ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

• The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwreaks by Mackenzi Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Medusa by Jessie Burton ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

• Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota & J.R. Doyle ⭐️⭐️✖️✖️✖️

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

• In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

• A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Ditlevsen: En Biografi by Jens Andersen ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

• Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️✖️

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All the books I reviewed in 2022 (Part II: Books for young people)

I. Pixels of You, by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and Jenn Doyle

A sweet, smart tale of art, bitterness, enmity and camaraderie, packagaged as a YA sf graphic novel. Pixels is a buddy story, one where the irreconcilable is reconciled, where hate flips to love and back again, and where art is debated, created, destroyed and finally remade — where one buddy is an orphaned cyborg with a digital eye, and the other is a human-presenting AI desperate to fit in.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/08/wall-street-landlords/#young-doyler

II. Crazy in Poughkeepsie by Daniel Pinkwater

A standalone, demi-sequel to 2020’s “Adventures of Dwergish Girl,” a YA novel about a sort-of Catskills leprechaun girl whose coming of age involves moving to human civilization, learning the art of pizza-making, getting involved with community radio, venturing to New York City to drink papaya juice and learn mystic secrets from a junk-store owner, and, ultimately, resolving an existential threat to human civilization based on weaponizing a large cohort of Civil War ghosts (she gets help from an ancient witch).

In “Crazy,” Pinkwater introduces us to Mick, who’s just come home from his first overnight camp experience. While he was away, his older brother, Maurice, has gone trekking in Nepal to find a guru (Maurice has been sold on gurus from superhero comics where having a guru is a surefire way to acquire mystical powers).

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/12/klong-you-are-a-pickle/#who-you-calling-weird

III. The Big Box of Sparkly Unicorn Magic by Dana Claire

A boxed set that includes the first four ‘Phoebe and Her Unicorn’ bound together in a fat, satisfying paperback, that’s big enough to feel exciting, but not too big for small hands to grasp. The ‘Phoebe’ books tell a hilarious, sweet, and unsentimental story about a kid and her imaginary friend ripped straight from the Calvin and Hobbes playbook, but with new, lateral moves that are strictly her own —anarchic kid humor, snarky adult humor, slightly over-their-head jokes that kids enjoy once they’re explained. Included in this anthology is the third Phoebe and Her Unicorn book, Unicorns vs Goblins, which contains the introduction my daughter Poesy and I co-wrote.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/heavenly-nostrils/#better-than-calvin

Next up: Nonfiction (part 1)

https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/702452370056101888/all-the-books-i-reviewed-in-2022-part-ii

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"It feels good." / "Did it feel good?"

@barbarous 8.2 and 8.28 by Johnny Wander

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Queer Comics: Graphic Novels to Check Out

Pixels of You by: Ananth Hirsh (Co-writer), Yuko Ota (Co-writer), J.R. Doyle (Artist)

A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends—and maybe more—in this moving YA graphic novel In a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident, and Fawn is one of the first human-presenting AI. They have the same internship at a gallery, but neither thinks much of the other’s photography. But after a huge public blowout, their mentor gives them an work together on a project or leave her gallery forever. Grudgingly, the two begin to collaborate, and what comes out of it is astounding and revealing for both of them. Pixels of You is about the slow transformation of a rivalry to a friendship to something more as Indira and Fawn navigate each other, the world around them—and what it means to be an artist and a person.

The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC's LGBTQIA+ Characters by: Jadzia Axelrod

Discover the rich history of DC’s LGBTQIA+ Superheroes in this inspiring gift-title featuring detailed character profiles and comic book artwork Celebrate Pride with DC’s LGBTQIA+ Superheroes. Written and curated by DC expert Jadzia Axelrod, The DC Book of Pride profiles more than 50 LGBTQIA+ characters in detail, including Harley Quinn, Superman, Nubia, Robin, Batwoman, Aqualad, Dreamer, Green Lantern, and many more. Discover their fascinating origins, amazing superpowers, and key storylines. This title is an indispensable and celebratory companion to the DC Pride comic books.

Spectacle #1 by: Megan Rose Gedris

Fan-favorite webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris (Yu+Me Dream) crafts a compelling tale of magic, deception, and wonder in this stunningly illustrated comic about the bond between sisters. Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural... until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. But how can you solve a mystery when everyone around has their own shady secrets?

Blackwater by: Jeannette Arroyo, Ren Graham  

Riverdale meets Stranger Things in this debut queer YA graphic novel, developed from a hit webcomic. Set in the haunted town of Blackwater, Maine, two boys fall for each other as they dig for clues to a paranormal mystery. Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent aching for his dad’s attention and approval. Eli Hirsch is a quiet boy with a chronic autoimmune disorder that has ravaged his health and social life. What happens when these two become unlikely friends (and a whole lot more . . .) in the spooky town of Blackwater, Maine? Werewolf curses, unsavory interactions with the quarterback of the football team, a ghostly fisherman haunting the harbor, and tons of high school drama.

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How many comics have I read so far this year:

246 plus an additional 10 if you count partial issues that are collected and another 10 if you count graphic novels.

Here’s the receipts in alphabetical order if you’re curious lmfao (or want to check my math)

Comics read this year

Action comics (1986) 698-700 +Last Son of Kyrpton collected (844-846, 851, 866-870, annual 11)

Action comics (2016) 1058-1066, 2023 annual 1, +metropolis burning and House of Kent collecteds (1017-1028)

Adventures of Superman (1986) 511-513

Adventures of Jon Kent 5-6

Batman (1940) 443

Batman the cult 1-4

Birds of prey Progeny collected (92-103)

Birds of prey (2023) 3-10

The boy wonder (2024) 1

Damage (1994) 1-5, 7-8

The flaszh (2023) 10

Green arrow (2023) 5-13

Green Lantern (2023) 7-12

Hal Jordan and the green lantern corps vol 6-7 (37-50)

Helen of Wyndhorn (2024) 1-3

Infinity inc vol 1 (issues 1-4 + all star squadron 25-26 and annual 2) additionally issues 5-18

Jay Garrick the flash (2023) 1-6

JSA by Geoff Johns vol 1 (1-15, secret files 1)

Justice League of America (1960) 4

Justice society of America the demise of Justice (1-8 + stories from advecomucs 466 and all star comics 57)

New Superman vol 2 (7-12)

The new teen titans (1984) 0

Nightwing (2016) 109-110

Power girl (2023) 8-10

Return of Superman 30th anniversary

Sinister sons (2024) 4

Spider-Gwen smash 3-4

Spirit world (2023) 1-6

Speed force (2023) 1-2

Steel (1994) 5

Superboy (1994) 4-5

Superboy the boy of steel collected (collects Kon’s stories from Adventure comics 2009 from issues 0-3, 5-6 and a portion if Superman secret files 2009)

Supergirl (1994) 1-4

Supergirl (1996) 71

Superman (1986) 89-90, 662, 668

Superman (2016) 37

Superman (2023) 7-15

Superman house of brainiac special

Superman lost 8-10

Superman the man of steel (1991) 33-34

Teen titans (2016) 43

Titans (2023) 5-10

Titans beast world tour (whole event -Atlantis) 1-6 + Waller rising 1 + world tour (metropolis, star city, central city, Gotham) [titans beast World evolution contains two fully reprinted issues Teen Titans 1966 #6, tales of the new teen titans (1986) #3

Young Justice by BMB (1-20)

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The marble queen by Anna Kopp

The Fox maidens by Robin ha

Transitions by Élodie Durand

Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

Long Walk to Valhalla by Adam Smith

Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh

Grand slam romance: major league hotties by Ollie Hicks

Barda by Ngozi Ukazu

Mister miracle the great escape by varian Johnson

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PIXELS OF YOU

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books read in October and November 2023:

October:

Crudo by Olivia Liang

The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell

And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu Lopez

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

The Last Fallen Moon by Graci Kim

Superman: The Harvests of Youth by Sina Grace

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

Invincible Compendium vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson

Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

Lucky Penny by Ananth Hirsh

November:

Victor and Nora by Lauren Myracle

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Invincible Compendium vol. 2 by Robert Kirkman

Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood

Mem by Bethany C. Morrow

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Lightlark by Alex Aster

Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood

The House of Kent by Brian Michael Bendis

White Holes by Carlo Rovelli

Parasocial by Alex de Campi

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld