#oddball x kat

[spooky-daggers]

"I'm so sorry, cyar’ika..."

Kat and Oddball have a rough time after Order 66. It takes some time, but they make it back to each other.

[moonlit-imagines]

DCTV Masterlist

(Updated Immediately)

Gotham

Groups

Preferences

Innocence - male!Gotham Rogues x reader

Edward, Jerome, Oswald are dating reader, who is a bit on the innocent side.

Edward Nygma/Riddler

Gif Imagines

Riddle Training - Edward Nygma x sibling!reader

Eddie, reader’s brother, leaves riddles for their training.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Monster - Edward Nygma x reader

Eddie snaps and drops the “nice guy” routine, showing up in reader’s apartment with a proposal of sorts. (Monster - Imagine Dragons)

Oddball - Edward Nygma x reader

During a hostage situation, the Riddler recognizes his childhood friend, reader, in his crowd. Because of their early friendship, he isn’t so rough on them.

Jerome Valeska/“Joker”

Gif Imagines

Interrupting - Jerome Valeska x reader

While reader and their boyfriend, Jerome, are making out, Barbara Kean enters the room.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Back Again - Jerome Valeska x reader

When Jerome comes back from the dead, he returns to reader, his former s/o, and tries to win them back by any means.

Bad Habit - Jerome Valeska x reader

Jerome and reader served time in Arkham together, meaning very much to each other. When reader left, they tried to leave it all behind, but could they really? (Bad Habit - Ben Platt)

Double Act - Jerome Valeska x reader

Reader and Jerome, a double act for Haly’s Circus, work great together on stage. Only what happens behind the scenes?

Hate Is Such a Strong Word - Jerome Valeska x reader

Jerome visits reader, an old flame he was thrown into Arkham with, asking to return a favor by wreaking a little havoc with him. Reader reluctantly accepts.

Forever - Jerome Valeska x reader

Jerome appreciates reader, his s/o, and tries to make them laugh, just sharing a few sweet moments together. (Forever - The Beach Boys)

Looney Bin - Jerome Valeska x reader

Jerome makes an effort to stop reader from being taken to Arkham.

The Snake Charmer’s Son - Jerome Valeska x reader

Reader, a Haly’s Circus act, has their boyfriend, Jerome in their audience every night. While winding down at night, Jerome’s mother arrives and ruins the mood entirely.

Turn - Jerome Valeska x reader

Reader and Jerome are ready to start their lives together, making a daring escape in the process. (Turn - The Wombats)

Text Messages

Hitch a Ride - Jerome Valeska x reader

Jerome texts reader to let them know he needs a ride away from some trouble.

Selina Kyle/Catwoman

Drabbles + Oneshots

Kat - Selina Kyle x reader

Selina and reader are roommates in an abandoned apartment, supporting each other through everything as best as they can.

You Don’t Own Me - Selina Kyle x reader

Reader is unimpressed by Selina disappearing for as long as she does, but cherishes the time they do get together. (You Don’t Own Me - Leslie Gore)

Titans

Groups

Gif Imagines

Copycat - Titans x reader

Reader shocks the Titans with the fact that they have the same powers at Gar.

Jumpscare - Titans x reader

The Titans have a habit of jumpscaring reader.

Preferences

In Love - Titans x reader

Dawn, Dick, Donna, Jason, Kory realize they’re in love with reader.

Dawn Granger/Dove

Gif Imagines

Jealousy - Dawn Granger x reader

Reader kisses Dawn, their girlfriend, in front of Dick and he gets jealous.

Paris - Dawn Granger x reader

Reader comforts Dawn while she exhaustedly mourns Hank.

Headcanons

Pride Parade - Dawn Granger x lesbian!reader

Reader, a lesbian, and Dawn are dating and go to a Pride parade.

Dick Grayson/Nightwing

Gif Imagines

Couch - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick carries reader to bed after they fall asleep on the couch.

CPR - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader saves Dick by giving him CPR.

Cuddling - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick and reader cuddle on the couch with an unusual serenade.

Dyslexia - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader has dyslexia and Dick notices their struggle reading a passage of a book.

Favorite Show - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader and Dick watch their favorite show together.

Goodbye Jason - Dick Grayson x sibling!reader

Dick arrives in Gotham after the death of Jason and comforts reader, his sibling, while they mourn.

Hank’s Savior - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader, Dick’s s/o, having powers that are able to deactivate Hank’s bomb.

Mother’s Day - Dick Grayson x mentee!reader

Reader gives a “Mother’s Day” gift to Dick, their mentor.

Surprise Party - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick and the Titans throw a surprise party for reader, Dick’s s/o.

Training Mishap - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick feels bad after accidentally hurting reader during training.

Headcanons

Latina Girlfriend - Dick Grayson x latina!reader

Reader, a Latina girl, and Dick are dating.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Back to Haly’s - Dick Grayson x reader

While visiting Haly’s Circus, Dick comes across reader, his childhood best friend and first love.

Coma - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick lays unconscious in the Titans Tower hospital room while reader, his s/o, sits beside him to keep him company in his time of need.

Cut It Out - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick and reader prepare for a vacation together and are sort of insufferably head-over-heels for one another.

Detroit - Dick Grayson x reader

When Dick arrives as his new workplace, Detroit PD, he gets partnered up with reader, who figures him out faster than he’d expect.

Don’t Forget About Me - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader is rendered unconscious during a mission, but when they wake up, Dick, their boyfriend, is mortified to find out that they’ve lost their memories.

Family Bonding - Dick Grayson x reader

Movie night in Titans Tower with the whole family, including Dick and reader, the loving couple that get teased for being a tad affectionate.

“In The End” - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick runs into his childhood best friend and current anti-hero, reader, after they brutally finish another mission and argue over right and wrong.

Love to Love You Again - Dick Grayson x afab!reader (smut)

Reader and Dick, ex-lovers, join up again when he needs their help with the next generation of Titans. One thing leads to another.

Masterminds - Dick Grayson x fem!reader (smut)

Dick and reader aren’t very fond of each other, but Rachel and Gar know better and convince them to go on a mission together, which forces them to confront that sexual tension.

Out of Commission - Dick Grayson x pregnant!reader

Reader, Dick’s pregnant girlfriend, is kidnapped by a dangerous villain and a seriously worried Dick does everything he can to get her back.

Panic Room - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick’s s/o, reader, is kidnapped and forced to confront a deep fear while the villain settles the score with him.

Reckless Reckoning - Dick Grayson x reader

While on a mission, Dick gives up and lets the enemies begin to beat him senseless. Reader can’t handle the sight of it.

Revealing the Unexpected - Dick Grayson x reader

Reader, Green Lantern’s former sidekick, and Dick secretly get together and start their life together after the first Titans team breaks up, breaking the news to their friends when the team starts back up.

When He Sees Me - Dick Grayson x reader

Dick recruits reader, a vigilante he’s never met, to the Titans while assuring them that they’d take to the reader just fine. He was much kinder than expected. (When He Sees Me - Waitress Soundtrack)

Series

Robin and the Stray (1) (2) - Dick Grayson x reader

A journey through how Robin and reader, Catwoman’s protege, fell in love.

Donna Troy/Wonder Girl

Gif Imagines

Front Page (Blurb) - Donna Troy x reader

Reader shows Donna the front page of the newspaper, featuring Wonder Girl.

Love - Donna Troy x reader

Reader tells Donna they love her for the first time.

Meet the Titans - Donna Troy x reader

Donna introduces reader, an Amazon, to the Titans.

Red Kryptonite - Donny Troy x reader

Donna has to fight reader, her Kryptonian s/o, when they are exposed to Red Kryptonite.

Scary Movies - Donna Troy x reader

Donna and reader watch scary movies together.

Headcanons

Best Friends - Donna Troy/Kory Anders x reader

Reader, Donna, and Kory are best friends.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Childhood Best Friends AU - Donna Troy x reader

Reader and Donna have been closer than most since childhood, but grew apart as soon as the Titans split up. When they were called back in for duty, all those old feelings came rushing back.

Danger Zone - Donna Troy x reader

Donna and reader enter an unsettling building for some investigating and are shocked to find what’s inside, desperate to leave.

Gimme Love - Donna Troy x reader

After losing their girlfriend, Donna, reader mourns while looking at an old picture their girlfriend took of them and pondering memories that went along with it. (Gimme Love - Joji)

Titan Slayer - Donna Troy x batkid!reader

Reader is kidnapped by Deathstroke, causing Donna, their girlfriend, and Dick, their brother, do go on a manhunt to save them.

Garfield Logan/Beast Boy

Headcanons

Halloween - Garfield Logan/Rachel Roth x reader

Reader, Garfield, and Rachel celebrate Halloween together.

School Stress - Garfield Logan x reader

Gar comforts reader, his s/o, when he notices how stressed they are with school.

Sick Day - Garfield Logan x reader

Gar takes care of reader when they’re sick.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Dead Meat - Garfield Logan x reader

While reader babysits their niece at the tower, Gar lends a hand and shows them both a joyful afternoon.

Green in the Gills - Garfield Logan x reader

Reader goes on a shopping run to get supplies for Gar while he’s sick.

Mr. Brightside - Garfield Logan x reader (x Jason Todd)

Gar had a crush on reader for some time, but he waited so long to say anything that Jason beat him to it, agitating Gar as he struggled to keep calm in your presence. (Mr. Brightside - The Killers)

One and the Same - Garfield Logan x reader

Gar and reader, his s/o, are weirdly similar and the team begins to notice.

Onesie - Garfield Logan x reader

Reader, Gar’s s/o, does a bit of shopping and comes home with a new onesie that their boyfriend finds very cute.

Right Place, Wrong Time - Garfield Logan x reader

Gar and reader, his s/o, run into some danger while going shopping and Gar gets a little protective.

Jason Todd/Red Hood

Gif Imagines

Apple Orchard - Jason Todd x reader

Reader and Jason go to an apple orchard together.

Halloween Movies - Jason Todd x reader

Jason and reader cuddle and watch Halloween movies until Gar and Rachel interrupt.

Mourning Interruption - Jason Todd x reader

While reader mourns the death of Jason at his grave, he unexpectedly shows up and gives them in an attempt of recruitment.

Pumpkin Patch - Jason Todd x reader

Jason and reader go to a pumpkin patch together.

Relocation - Jason Todd x reader

Jason reveals his identity to reader and brings them to San Diego with him.

Stark/Wayne Feud - Jason Todd x Stark!reader

In this crossover, Tony Stark discovers that reader, his daughter, is dating Jason Todd, his rival’s son.

Headcanons

Fall Night Adventure - Jason Todd x reader

Reader and Jason, their boyfriend, head out on a late night adventure.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Alarm Clock - Jason Todd x reader

Reader attempts to wake a reluctant Jason up on a Saturday morning, but it doesn’t work out so well.

Cold Cold Cold - Jason Todd x reader

When reader gets cold, it’s up to Jason to warm them back up.

Defense - Jason Todd x reader

Reader jumps to the defense of Jason when the team picks on him, comforting him during the aftermath and warming his cold little heart.

Drumroll - Jason Todd x reader

Jason comforts reader during a thunderstorm, which they are deathly afraid of.

Even Titans Get Sick - Jason Todd x reader

Jason takes care of reader when they’re sick.

Shy - Jason Todd x reader

Jason knows reader, his s/o, is a bit socially anxious and makes sure to account for that when they’re out and about.

Slipping Away - Jason Todd x sibling!reader

Reader, Bruce’s child, stresses over the evidence of betrayal of their brother, Jason. They worry about what Jason has become and make a revelation as to how their brother returned from the grave.

Text Messages

Exposed - Jason Todd x reader

Jason texts reader about his Robin training—only, reader didn’t know about his side gig.

Overwatch - Jason Todd x reader

Jason gets worried about his s/o going home alone, so he catches up to them while on patrol.

Jericho Wilson

Gif Imagines

His Friends - Jericho Wilson x deaf!reader

Reader, Jericho’s deaf s/o, gets introduced to his friends, the Titans.

Drabbles + Oneshots

That’s a First - Jericho Wilson x reader

Jericho goes all out for Valentine’s Day after learning that reader has never had a valentine before.

Kory Anders/Starfire

Gif Imagines

Amnesia - Kory Anders x reader

Reader discovers her best friend, Kory, doesn’t remember them.

Headcanons

Best Friends - Kory Anders/Donna Troy x reader

Reader, Kory, Donna are best friends.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Bones - Kory Anders x reader

Something feels a little wrong after reader and Kory have date night away from the Tower. (Bones - Alexandra Savior)

Not Your Business - Kory Anders x reader

Reader, an antihero, crosses paths with Kory quite often and things always get messy from there.

Rachel Roth/Raven

Gif Imagines

Nightmare - Rachel Roth x reader

Reader comforts Rachel, their girlfriend, after she has a nightmare.

Panic Attack - Rachel Roth x reader

Rachel comforts reader during a panic attack.

Pride - Rachel Roth x reader

Reader and their girlfriend, Rachel, go to Pride together.

Headcanons

Dating - Rachel Roth x reader

Rachel and reader are dating.

Halloween - Rachel Roth/Garfield Logan x reader

Reader, Rachel, and Gar celebrate Halloween together.

Drabbles + Oneshots

Angel and Demon - Rachel Roth x reader

Reader, an angel, goes after Rachel in an attempt to protect her.

Necromancy - Rachel Roth x reader

Rachel and reader, a necromancer from an evil family, bond over their bad bloodlines and make a promise to do better.

Normal - Rachel Roth x reader

Rachel runs away after battling with the burden of her demonic ways, but calls reader to come get her. Reader tries to comfort her in her time of need.

[yandere-society]

Besides BTS what are other groups or artists do you admins listen to?

I listen to a lot of different music so can’t really categorize in one thing. Some of my other favourites in K-pop are: Red Velvet, NCT, Monsta X & EXO. Idk if you are like into indieish music, SALES have really good music, and underrated tbh. Oh Wonder is great too! Lofi hip hop music beats to relax to and classical music is my go to when idk what I want to listen to ^^ - ambi ♥

I’m a HUGE carat, so these 👇🏼☝🏼 guys will probably tell you I never shut up about Seventeen. I also love Stray Kids, Dreamcatcher, Red Velvet and Noir. I also listen to K R&B and K HipHop artists like DEAN, Saay, Loco, and DPR Live. As for non-Korean music: Tame Impala, the Gorillaz and Daft Punk. -🥀

Oh boy, there’s so many. I listen to music in not only English and Korean but in French, German, Italian, [my mother language], Mandarin, Japanese, and sometimes Thai. For French I love Stromae, MIKA, Alizee, Serge Gainsbourg, Dalida, Francois Hardy, France Gall, Edith Piaf, and Jacques Brel. For German, definitely Rammstein. Italian, I love Dalida and Mina. For Japanese, I love all the well-known visual kei bands/artists like X-Japan, L’arc En Ciel, The Gazette, Miyavi, etc etc. I also like J-rock artists in general like One Ok Rock and Gackt. For J-pop, Perfume is my go-to and Arashi, Hey!Say!Jump, KAT-TUN, and AKB48 has some tracks that slap. For Mandarin, I like classic pop bops like Fahrenheit, A-Mei, Jolin Tsai, and Show Lo. For K-pop, I’ve been a fan since 4th grade so I listen to all of the 2nd generation artists. For this generation, BTS are the only ones I truly follow but I love the indie scene with artists like Loveholic, Hyukoh, Roller Coaster, and 10cm. For K-R&B, DEAN, Punchnello, and RadMuseum all the way - 🐰

Ok so mostly I listen to kpop atm. The songs I listen to in English tend to be mainstream stuff. Bts are my faves but there are some others I also listen to. For boy groups, EXO, Monsta X, Stray Kids, Got7 mostly. Then Twice, G-Idle, Red Velvet, Sunmi, Taeyeon, IU. There are a few oddball songs I like but that’s about it. Oh and Panic at the disco! -🐯

I used to listen to a lot of Japanese music and OST that were usually composed by Japanese musicians. But, now I typically listen to KPOP. I mostly listen to BTS, and if not I’ll listen to MAMAMOO, Twice, HUTAZONE from BTOB, Ariana Grande, Sunmi, TXT, and Izone’s new album. I don’t stan anyone else besides BTS so I guess I’m a casual listener for all the other groups :) -🎉

Hmmm, besides BTS, I listen to a lot of other groups but I don’t stan any other ones . . . well, besides ITZY. My favorite english artists are Chase Atlantic and Doja cat, but I also listen to a ton of music from like, 1960 onwards. - 

👀

uhhhhmmm higher brothers, joji, billie eilish. the beatles, the smiths, post malone, rich brian, seventeen, monsta x, amine, ariana grande, the 1975, shinee, dean, khalid, conan gray, sf9, dominic fike, f(x), and that's all I can think of atm =) -⛓

[newyorkarttours]

Marcus Weber at Thomas Erben Gallery

A paper floats into the frame of a Krazy Kat cartoon, and Krazy questions the ‘kwee mokks’ all over it. This scenario captivates one of Marcus Weber’s oddball characters, who are themselves unexpected and unexplained. Though their unibrows suggest an adult seriousness, they avidly read the funnies, positioning their identity somewhere between adult and kid and tantalizingly out of reach. (At Thomas Erben Gallery in Chelsea through May 19th). Marcus Weber, KWEE MOKKS, acrylic on cotton, 79 x 77 inches, 2018.

[thesinglesjukebox]

KEITH APE X SKI MASK THE SLUMP GOD - ACHOO! [4.83] It's not even allergy season tho!

Kat Stevens: Get these lads some Lemsip, stat. [7]

Maxwell Cavaseno: Keith Ape's relationship with rap represents a lot of people's relationships with rap this decade: parasitic, condescending, hollow. "It G Ma" was a sea of hollow cliches by a kid who had management who recognized the inane Tumblrwave orientalist visual mess and sonic drivel of Yung Lean and the One-Note pun of OG Maco would be totally suitable for a media savvy teen from Asia to pimp out, to the point music press didn't bat an eye at how obviously patronizing a kid shrieking "BITCHES IS BITCHES 'CAUSE THEY BITCHES" is for anyone who cares about making subtle distinctions in who's actually trying in as redundantly misogynistic a genre as rap can be. I mean, I deliberately eat Taco Bell instead of proper Mexican food and the intestinal shredding I end up with is perhaps due justice for my willful desire to ingest trash, but you'd like to maybe imagine someone has regrets about letting this kid cook as long as he's done. "Achoo!" is slightly better because its a showcase for Slump God, one of the more nimble tongued of his phase of rap; a kid who is supposed to be peers with Yachty or Rich The Kid but always accidentally reminds me more of P.E.A.C.E from Freestyle Fellowship for all his inane babbling. Theoretically, someone will look at Slump God who hadn't heard him before, and he'll make fans. Last time Keith didn't even bother to be so charitable to whom he made look like a bad joke. [2]

Alfred Soto: The cacophony's as loud and the word play as bizarre as on a random Migos track, with a similar intention on drilling its programmed hook into your brain. [6]

Ramzi Awn: The repetition doesn't do any favors for "Achoo!", which attempts to reinterpret an early aughts hip hop styling that doesn't hit nearly as hard as it wants to.  [4]

Leah Isobel: The beat, combined with Keith Ape and Ski Mask the Slump God's overlapping ad-libs, feels at first like an onslaught in a good way, a pleasantly pulverizing sort of thing. By the third listen I was bored. I like this kind of momentum but there's no space to breathe and no contrast to set it off. [3]

Julian Axelrod: In a post-Thugger world, trap has become an eccentric's game. Only the most left-field rappers stand a chance at transcending the Soundcloud scene. Luckily, Keith Ape and Ski Mask ("please, Mr. Slump God was my father's name") have weirdness to spare. The throwaway intro line "Woke up on a cloud of sauce" is the perfect distillation of their spacey, aggravated vibe, especially on a song that feels like riding public transportation at rush hour while zonked out on cold meds. The duo's oddball charisma and dizzying flows obliterate the language barrier -- by the time you reach Keith's verse, words have lost all meaning. No matter your state of mind, it's impossible not to get on their wavelength. [7]

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[karlchristiankrumpholz]

I was honored to be asked to do a presentation about my life and artwork at Lighthouse Writer's Workshop's quarterly event 'Making a Mountain' on Feb 24, 2017. In addition to showing slides of my comics and artwork, I also gave a short speech.

Here is the full text:

LIGHTHOUSE - Making a Mountain.

There was always art in my house. My uncle was a painter. So, as a child, I was always surrounded by art. We would visit his house and I would see these pieces painted on plywood as well as scattered around his studio and think “I want to do this.” Now I could have followed his lead and been a painter and create static scenes filled with color, but I also wanted to tell stories. So, I could have been a writer, but I also still wanted to create images. I chose to be a cartoonist.

There is a quote I once saw, I think it was from the cartoonist Robert Williams, that said “If you ever fail at being a cartoonist, you can still always be an artist.”

How did I find comics? Like almost everyone else as a young child, it started with newspaper strips: Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes. But then you want more. Soon after, it became Mad Magazine, where I discovered the artwork of Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Wally Wood, and Harvey Kurtzman. Of course, I didn’t know their names. Just their art. The names came years later.

As I hit awkward adolescence, it was superheroes that I found among the racks at 7-11: Batman, Daredevil, and the X-Men. White long boxes filled with comics and backing boards started appearing in my room. I grew older, got into college, and discovered the other side: indy comics like Milk & Cheese, Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Hate, Eightball, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Palookaville, Billy Coorigan, Black Hole, etc. With all of those books came the idea that you can do stories without capes, smaller stories that says something about your life and surroundings.

Eventually, I worked at a comic book store for a couple years where I learned more about the history of the field and discovered older artists that opened my mind up on what the craft could be: Winsor McKay’s Little Nemo, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, and the names of all those Mad Magazine artists that I knew so well.

It was around this time that I started to get my own ideas of what I wanted to do and started to create my own comics and zines. My original pages were pretty raw stuff about my life and relationships. After a few years, I started moving away from that and into my own fictional stories. Felt that people would not be interested in me talking about how depressing I thought my life was.

Why did comics appeal to me? Well, it’s an open field. You can do anything. Everyone has a different styles, points of view, and approaches on an art as well as story level. You want to do a small story about being raised in a fundamentalist household? You can do that through comics. A teen’s search for meaning and sexuality? Comics. A story about a giant space squid’s bloody invasion of Earth? Comics.

I was doing self-published and distributed zines for about ten years before a publisher picked up my book. That was called ‘Byron’ and it was published by SLG Publishing in 2009. A second series started appearing online, but I found it not to be very fun. Looking back, I was simply doing the exact same thing that hundreds of other cartoonists were churning out. It wasn’t my own voice and I grew bored.

So then, what is my voice? What was it that I have to say that is different from everyone one else. This seems to be something all artists have to come to terms with. When I started thinking about it, the one thing that has always fascinated me, which also seems to put others to sleep is history. The idea of what has happened before and how did we get to this moment. What are the stories that make up a place? I think about this constantly and can easily see another reality where I would have wound up being some sort of teacher in this if I had any sort of patience with instructing students.

Now, these sorts of history stories are usually in two forms: The grand and the small. The grand stories being: This building was built over 100 years ago, several people died in the construction, and Teddy Roosevelt once slept here. The small stories being the streetwise tale of a kid living on the street just trying to make it through her day. Both these sorts of stories are interwoven and make up a community, city, and culture.

The other thing that I find myself drawn to are the rebels, the outsiders, oddballs, artists, musicians, and drunks: The Beats, Howlin Wolf, Joe Strummer, Hemingway, Thelonious Monk, Hunter S, Bukowski, Tom Waits, and the Pogues. How could I bring all this together?

Now, it didn’t come at me overnight. Inspiration originally came from smallest of places: drinking in a bar.

What would make up my current comic career started as a drunken conversation, likely at the Lion’s Lair around the corner. The conversation started randomly, as drunken conversations always do, looking around and asking each other: Who is the King of the City? Since Colfax is pretty much the main artery and right outside the door, it was thought that any such person would likely some sort of hobo king.

This idea about the city being personified moved onto stories about Colfax itself and what makes up a city. As you could likely guess, my friends and I spend a lot of time in the bars. One of the things that seems to seep into you, almost unconsciously, are the stories that surround you in these places. They could be weird, odd, brilliant things that happen while you are there: Some drunk homeless guy wanders in, pukes, and slips in his own vomit. Or things that happened while you were away: did you hear about that one time that the bar back was sleeping above in the crawl space and fell through the ceiling into the bar? or even things with deeper pathos: someone alone at the far end of the place wondering aloud where they are going to stay that night.

All of these are small stories make up the history of a place. So, I started collecting, telling them, and slowly developing my own voice. 30 MILES OF CRAZY! started weekly back in June 2013. The name itself comes from Colfax itself, which is approximately 30 miles long. Though it started out as stories about Colfax and Denver, it’s it quickly moved to stories from other cities as well. Boston, Philly, San Francisco, anywhere. If you have a good story, I wanted to hear it.

I’ve always called my comic “True-ish Tales of the City”, True-ish since there is almost always a slight adjustment for artistic integrity. However, all the stories are true, either witnessed by myself, my friends, or even related to me. I’ve been doing the comic long enough that people seek me out, hoping to get their stories illustrated. In this sense, the comic takes on an almost oral history of life on the streets. And these are not just stories about drinking and bars, though they can have that aspect to it. These are all stories about the city, the events, happenings, characters and strange people that you meet … and yes, in the bars as well. I like to view my slice of life comics as something akin to a Tom Waits’ song or a Bukowski short stories. Things that happen late at night, around last call when people are despairing or lonely. I want to tell stories that may make you laugh, but may also rip your heart out as well.

I’m also using this comic as a stage that I set up to explore some of my own issues, like my relationship with my father, which is all tied up to my introduction to alcohol and bars. Again with comics, you can do anything.

I grew up on the East Coast, spending most of my life in Philadelphia and in Boston. Both cities have a strong historical vein running through them, which could be another reason this subject has always fascinated me. Looking back though, one of the reasons I originally moved to Denver was that I had spent my entire life along the East Coast. Sure Boston and Philly are about a 6 hour drive apart, but culturally they are pretty much the same with slightly odder accents. I wanted to experience a different culture in the West. I’ve been here ten years now. Sure there are superficially differences and points of view, but the people are still the same. The small stories that I hear in Denver are pretty much the exact same ones that I hear back in Boston. I know that it’s only about 2000 miles apart (I know that cause I looked it up), but this still makes me happy. That a Chowdahed on the Bay and some rhinestone cowboy-wannabe at Union Station can somehow relate. That even in slightly different cultures, we still experience the same things, same troubles, and tell the same stories.

This has become my love. Finding and telling these stories. Stories about people, their views, their struggles, and the city.

Now there is also the other kind of stories that I mentioned. The GRAND stories. Yes, I have been here for a decade, but in some ways Denver still confuses me. I still encounter some things that makes me baffled like a dog shown a card trick. One of the ways I found to deal with this confusion is to figure out the grand stories of the city around me. Again, this started out as something that I would do on my own. I’d be out with friends walking through a park and someone would casually mention: Hey, have you heard about all the bodies buried here under Cheesman Park? … sudden stunned amazement. Tell me more… This how it starts to lure you in.

I got my chance to start telling my own versions of these grand stories in 2015 when the Westword hired me to be their new cartoonist. This was the start of The DENVER BOOTLEG. Again, this was something I had to work on and develop. I was originally hired to tell the stories of the various venues in the city: Larimer Lounge, Lion’s Lair, Bluebird, etc. This is why it was named The DENVER BOOTLEG (Denver Boot… Bootleg music… I thought it was clever.) It was only when I pointed out to my editor about a year or so in that there is only a finite amount of venues in the city that I was finally able to move the comic into a more historical direction: The Rainbow Music Hall, Denver’s Great White Way, The Bonfires Memorial Theatre, and Cheesman Park.

Now, it is all great to be able to create and show these comics, hopefully to be read, entertain, and maybe teach someone. In the end, these are still comics. There is a great Jack Kirby’s quote that every cartoonist worth his salt seems to know: “Comics will break your heart.”

So, what are the difficulties on being a cartoonist, aside from ink stained fingers? Well, there are a few.

To start off, there is the basic view of comics that it’s a childish, a thing of superheroes, and adolescent power fantasies. That it’s a low art, something cheap to be found in newspapers. That it’s something cute and free to be found on the internet. That with the decline in publishing, it’s a dying art form. All of this is to say… there is little respect or money in it.

It’s a lot of work as well. You can spend hours working on a single page, only to have a reader zip through that same story in moments.

Also, as much as people like think that you are only drawing funny little pictures all day, there is also the hours you have to spend plugging away your work on websites, various social media sites, and traveling to conventions. There is always the problem with getting your work in front of someone. Either through finding a publisher, or a distributor, or online, or in their hand at shows. I’ve always called this “banging your head on the wall of indifference.” Like most things, you need a degree of luck, a lot of persistence, and wade through many rejection letters. Things are not impossible, but can be difficult.

The great thing about being a cartoonist or any art really, is that anyone can do it. The bad thing about it is that anyone can do it. There is so much out there that it can be hard to be heard over all of the noise.

Then why do I or anyone do it? Cause I love art. I love telling stories. I love comics. And I cannot see myself doing anything else.

Thank you.

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Peacock: NBC Streaming Service Release Date, Shows, Price, and News

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The streaming service field is becoming more fractured, as more and more media companies break from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in favor of creating their own streaming services. NBCUniversal—the Comcast Corp. division that owns NBC, MSNBC, USA, and the Universal Pictures movie studio—is next up with new streaming service Peacock.

Peacock will feature content from NBC, Bravo, USA Network, SYFY, Oxygen, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, NBCSN, Golf Channel, Universal Kids, A&E, ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, HISTORY, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Illumination, ViacomCBS, Paramount, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and Blumhouse.

Here’s what we know:

Peacock Release Date

Peacock was made available to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform subscribers on April 15, 2020. The service will officially roll out to the rest of the country on July 15, 2020. NBCUniversal has plans for an international release of the service but no timeframe has been announced yet.

Peacock Price

What is Peacock going to cost? Well…that’s complicated. NBC is deviating from WarnerMedia, Disney, and Apple by incorporating pricing tiers into its service at launch. Peacock has three potential pricing options: free, $4.99, and $9.99. Here is what you’ll get at each price point:

Peacock Free includes 13,000 hours of NBCUniversal content, including still-airing series a week after they premiere. It will also feature advertisements.

Peacock Premium (with ads) is the $4.99 option and will include everything that the streaming service has to offer (over 20,000 hours of content) including Peacock originals and next-day availability of current TV shows…but also dumb old commercials. 

Peacock Premium (without ads) is $4.99 for Comcast subscribers and $9.99 for everyone else. It will include the full spectrum of Peacock content with no ads. 

Peacock Platforms

Peacock is available to be streamed on the following platforms:

Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD.

Google platforms and devices including Android, Android TV devices, Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices.

Microsoft’s Xbox One family of devices, including Xbox One S and Xbox One X; and VIZIO SmartCast™ TVs and LG Smart TVs. 

Comcast Xfinity X1 and Flex users, as well as eligible Cox Contour customers, can use Peacock Premium included with their service at no additional cost.

Starting the week of July 20, Peacock will be available Sony PlayStation 4 andPlayStation 4 Pro. 

Notable absences on this list include two of the most popular streaming device providers in Roku and Amazon Fire. Just as WarnerMedia was unable to cut deals with either company for HBO Max, so too was NBCUniversal unable to do so with Peacock.

Peacock Originals

NBCUniversal has revealed the first batch of original programming coming to the service:

Available July 15

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

“Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to Lassie’s side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever.” – Read more about Psych 2: Lassie Come Home here.

Brave New World

“Based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking 1932 novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.” Read more about Brave New World here.

Available August 6

Hitmen

Best friends Jamie (Mel Giedroyc) and Fran (Sue Perkins) are trying to make their way in the world with only each other to rely on. They also just happen to kill people for a living. Fueled by their antics and frivolous bickering, each job inevitably gets derailed, leading them into bizarre misadventures, full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.

Available August 13

Five Bedrooms

Five singles meet at, of all places, the singles’ table at a wedding. After several bottles of champagne, they decide to pitch in and buy a house together. Five singles buy a house together – what could go right?  It’s a grand social experiment with one glaring problem: they’ll have to actually live with each other.  All while journeying together through disasters, life-turning crises, and  moments of love, joy and heartbreak. The series stars Kat Stewart (Offspring), Stephen Peacocke (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot), Doris Younane (Frayed), Katie Robertson (Rosehaven), Roy Joseph (Halim), Kate Jenkinson (Wentworth) and Hugh Sheridan (Packed to the Rafters).

Available September 3

A.P. Bio (Season 3)

“When disgraced Harvard philosophy professor Jack Griffin loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher. As he comes crashing in to Whitlock High School, Jack makes it absolutely clear he will not be teaching any biology. Realizing he has a room full of honor roll students at his disposal, Jack decides instead to use the kids for his own benefit. Eager to prove that he is still king of the castle, Principal Durbin struggles to control the force of nature that is Jack Griffin.” Read more about A.P. Bio season 3 here.

Available September 17

Departure

Passenger plane Flight 716 shockingly vanishes, and brilliant investigator Kendra Malley (Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife), alongside her mentor Howard Lawson (Christopher Plummer, Knives Out) are brought on to lead the investigation. When battling forces threaten to undermine their work, Kendra must find the truth and stop it from happening again. The series also stars Kris Holden-Reid (Umbrella Academy), Rebecca Liddiard (Run This Town), Tamara Duarte (Longmire), Mark Rendall (Versailles), Peter Mensah (Midnight, Texas) and Sasha Roiz (Suits).

Available TBD

The Adventure Zone 

“Based on the McElroy Family’s wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons podcast and No. 1 New York Times best-selling graphic novel series, The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world.” – Per THR.

Angelyne (limited series)

“Limited series based on The Hollywood Reporter feature that explored the identity of L.A.’s mysterious billboard bombshell.”

Battlestar Galactica

“Battlestar Galactica returns to television with Sam Esmail producing.” Read more about this reboot here.

Clean Slate

“Old-school car wash owner, Henry (George Wallace), is thrilled that his estranged child is returning to Alabama after 17 years. However, Henry has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as the determined, proud, trans woman, Desiree (Laverne Cox).” – Per THR.

Division One

“Division One is a coming-of-age comedy about an underdog women’s collegiate soccer team that gets a new female coach — a former professional soccer player who’s fallen from grace — and must decide whether or not they’re going to take the risk of trying to be great.” The show will be produced by Amy Poehler and soccer star Abby Wambach. – Per THR.

Dr. Death

“Based on Wonderly’s hit podcast, Dr. Death tells the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Jamie Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), set out to stop him. Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us.”

Expecting

“Ellie, a fiercely independent but perpetually single music manager, has always wanted a family but never found a man worthy of the role of ‘father.’ That is, until her 39th birthday, when she decides to ask her gay best friend and co-worker, Jonathan, if he’ll be her sperm donor. When Jonathan surprises himself by saying ‘yes,’ it sets off a chain of events that turn Ellie and Jonathan’s personal and professional lives upside down as they try to turn their ‘chosen family’ into a biological family. Mindy Kaling will executive produce.” – Per THR.

Hatching Twitter

“Through exclusive access and exhaustive investigative reporting, New York Times best-selling author Nick Bilton draws on hundreds of sources, documents and internal e-mails to tell intimate true stories of companies behaving badly and technology gone awry. The first installment of this anthology series will be based on Bilton’s acclaimed book Hatching Twitter, a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles that accompanied the meteoric rise of the infamous tech company. 140 characters and a few lines of code changed the world, disrupting the very fabric of the way people communicate. This series will explore the real masterminds behind it all, how it was done, and the colossal ramifications the technology will have on our future.” – Per THR.

MacGruber

After rotting in prison for over a decade, America’s ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past — Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber (Will Forte), Vicki and Piper must race against time to defeat the forces of evil. Only to find that evil … may be lurking within. – Read more about MacGruber here.

One of Us Is Lying (pilot)

“Based on Karen M. McManus’s best-selling novel, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.”

Punky Brewster (pilot)

“In this multicamera/hybrid continuation of the iconic ’80s sitcom about a bright young girl raised by a foster dad, Punky is now a single mother of three trying to get her life back on track when she meets a young girl who reminds her a lot of her younger self.”

Rutherford Falls

“Ed Helms portrays Nathan Rutherford, the eponymous denizen of a small New England town, who is having difficulty facing the inevitable changes to his way of life.”

Saved by the Bell (reboot)

“When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the over privileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality.” – Read more about the Saved by the Bell reboot here.

Straight Talk

“Straight Talk examines what happens when two opposing ideologies are forced into an odd coupling. The main characters will be challenged by one another, making the moral lines at which they once stood harder to define.”

Peacock Library

TV

Peacock has been designed to mimic the experience of flipping through channels on a terrestrial television. To that end, both the free and premium tiers are launching with curated channels of NBC-themed content. These include channels that contain the best moments from shows such as The Office (“Office Shorts”), Saturday Night Live (“SNL Vault”), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (“Fallon Tonight”), Late Night With Seth Meyers (“Seth Meyers Now”).

There are also exclusive genre channels like CNBC Make It, TODAY All Day, CNBC Ka-Ching, American Greed, 80s Mixtape, True Crime, Kiss Me Deadly, Peacock Reality, Out of This World, Caso Cerrado and I Love Jenni.

The free tier will include current NBC TV shows one week after they air. It will also include select episodes of Peacock originals. Most importantly it will include the following library content at launch:

30 Rock

Parks and Recreation

Saturday Night Live

Saved by the Bell

Punky Brewster

The Johnny Carson Show

The Carol Burnett Show

Real Husbands of Hollywood

Everybody Hates Chris

Friday Night Lights

Downton Abbey

Parenthood

Monk

Heroes

Psych

The Game

Suits

Sacred Lies

Royal Pains

Battlestar Galactica

Columbo

Hunter

The Rockford Files

Dateline

21 Jump Street

Highlander

Leave It To Beaver

Munsters

Murder She Wrote

Below Deck

Southern Charm

Chrisley Knows Best

Botched

Flipping Out

Million Dollar Listing New York

Pawn Stars

Storage Wars

Real Housewives of Dallas

Jay Leno’s Garage

Shahs of Sunset

Undercover Boss

Top Chef Masters

Hell’s Kitchen

Hollywood Game Night

American Ninja Warrior Jr.

Kong, The Animated Series

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

Fievel’s American Tails andWoody Woodpecker

Betty en NY

I Love Jenni

Reina De Corazones

The Riveras

Preso No. 1, Caso Cerrado

El Baron

El Chema

Larrymania

Perro Amo

Mi Familia Perfecta

Quien es Quien

Victoria

Donde Esta Elisa.

Added library shows for the premium tier include:

Two and a Half Men

Everybody Loves Raymond

George Lopez

Jeff Foxworthy Show

King of Queens

Superstore

Frasier

Cheers

House

The Affair

Yellowston

Law & Order

Law & Order: SVU

Ray Donovan

Swedish Dicks

American Ninja Warrior

DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk

Care Bears

Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot.

Future Peacock TV library titles feature:

The Office

Chicago P.D.

Chicago Fire

Chicago Med

Roseanne

3rd Rock from the Sun

Bates Motel

 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

 Real Housewives of Atlanta

Real Housewives of New York,

Real Housewives of New Jersey

Real Housewives of Orange County

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Vanderpump Rules

Millionaire Matchmaker

Top Chef

Married with Children

Curse of Oak Island

 First 48

 American Picker

 Ancient Aliens

Cold Case Files

Charmed

Movies

The free tier of Peacock movies available at launch includes:

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

Tully

Phantom Thread

The Interprete

American Psycho

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

The Blair Witch Project

The Mummy

Joe

Fletch

Fletch Lives

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

Fear

Psycho

Do the Right Thing

Howard the Duck

Billy Elliot

The Birds

Willie

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

The Last House On The Left

I Am Ali

In The Name of the Father

Lone Ranger

The Hitcher

Law Abiding Citizen

The Sting

What Dreams May Come

Fried Green Tomatoes

One True Thing

Gosford Park

Dracula

Dragnet.

The premium tier adds:

Shrek

Lone Survivor

Ted

Identity Thief

Children of Men

Charlie Wilson’s War

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Frankenstein

Kicking and Screaming

Larry Crowne

You, Me & Dupree.

The following films are expected to arrive on Peacock sometime after launch:

Trolls World Tour

You Should Have Left

Croods 2

Boss Baby 2

Spirit

Mama

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

The Purge

Riddick

Ride Along

E.T.

American Gangster

ANTZ

Fast & Furious

Fast 5

Fast & Furious 6

Field of Dreams

The Express

Knocked Up

Bridesmaids

National Lampoon’s Vacation

National Lampoon’s European Vacation

Wanted

Evan Almighty

The Conjuring

Dawn of the Dead

The Dark Knight

Beetlejuice

The Big Lebowski

Scent of a Woman

Meatballs

3:10 to Yuma

Lost In Translation

Brokeback Mountain

Pitch Black

The Graduate

Police Academy

The Great Outdoors

Hostel

The Bone Collector

Robin Hood

The Hurt Locker

The Break Up

Open Water

It Follows

Carlito’s Way

Sinister

Peacock Sports

Peacock is notable in its offering of live sporting events, something that only ViacomCBS’s CBS All Access can compete with among the major OTT streaming services.

Live sports available to free tier users include:

Four exclusive English Premier League soccer matchers on July 15.

Coverage of the U.S. Men and Women’s Open Championships in golf.

An NFL Wild Card Playoff game.

Select events from the now-delayed Tokyo and Beijing Olympics

Premium tier highlights include:

175 exclusive EPL matchups for the 2020-21 season.

Cycling events like the Tour du France.

More than 100 hours of WWE content arriving in August including series like WWE Untold, and Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions. And compilations like John Cena’s Best WrestleMania Matches.

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Long time no see, Tumblr. I've been posting mostly to my Insta these days, but it's time I stopped ignoring my account here. Prepare for a lot of Star Wars related art. I hope guys like the clones.