Just hearing this news.
Karl was the artist for my book Concrete Jungle from Scout Comics.
I still remember sending him the script years ago and praying he'd like it and want to draw it.
And then those first pages came in...
I was stunned.
Floored.
In disbelief.
Dude he literally running New York like the average joe in a movie who gets elected into office as a gag and then fixes everything simply because he is not a politician and an earnest regular guy.
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup.
Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament.
The beautiful game belongs to everyone.
ALT Mayor Mamdani attends the match between Morocco and Brazil with some of the New Yorkers who won the World Cup affordable tickets lottery.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
NEW JACK CITY (1991) had no shortage of great music, but Troop and LeVert performing “Livin’ for the City” is the kind of scene that lives rent free forever.
idk man. I’m sure the script wasn’t specifically written for a black man and i feel like black characters are allowed to be bad people without it being taken as racist
Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.
Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.