Glenn Fleishman
Glenn is a person who drops many names. He spent most of his career as a technology journalist, but over the last decade, has moved more into printing and comics history. His Eisner Award-nominated book, How Comics Are Made, is available in bookstores worldwide. Glenn somehow won two episodes of Jeopardy! His recent books include Flong Time, No See (upcoming, fall 2026), Six Centuries of Type & Printing (2nd ed, 2025), and London Kerning. He also edits books and consults on Kickstarter campaign
Has anyone ever sent you a poll in Apple Messages?
Hell can never be too full to exclude one more hypocrite.
I have tried to not make my feed an infinite scroll of this, but here is a reminder: That One Matt Bors Comic is an anthology of Matt, writers and cartoonists, and randos from the internet who are/have riffed on “we should improve society somewhat.” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic
I forgot that I forgot about RSS, which has once again become part of my daily life. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/how-i-restarted-using-rss-and-actually-noticed/
If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area, make a trip to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on May 23 for its grand gallery re-opening! Chris Ware headlines, plus a new permanent exhibition on—surprise!—the Story of Comics. Yours truly has a video in this that runs perpetually. https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2026/04/28/billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum-reopens-may-23/
A crow came up to me with a look in its eye while I was walking. I paused. “Can I help you?” It hopped off, not far off. I cross the street. It flew over, not hostile. “What’s up? Do you want something?” It cocked its head. I checked my pockets. I found a key ring and removed the keys.
All the Bluesky bubble people showing their whole ass, as their comments reveal the paucity of who they follow. The bubble is inside yourself. Also, grow up; it is just a fancy CB radio, not the future of humanity. Unless you’re on X, which is a network of Nazi walkie-talkies.
The Pope wrote “fly from AI, you fools.”
I took a walk yesterday at what must have been baby o’clock: every single baby and toddler was out with their parents. Must have been the end of Uniform Nap Time, which we observe in the Socialist State of Seattle.
Join @mattbors@mstdn.ca May 27 at 10 am PT/1pm ET on Reddit to Ask Matt Anything about cartooning, running the Nib, writing Toxic Avenger, the decline of alt-weeklies, what’s it like to have a meme take over your cartoon, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/
What’s a Matter, you? I sort out a long-running Apple Home issue with a garage-door sensor and now understand much more about Thread. @sixcolors@zeppelin.flights https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/pulling-the-thread-to-know-if-my-garage-door-is-closed/
Every extreme religious leader in every denomination and sect gathers power to hide scrutiny of their physical abuse of others. https://apple.news/A2MP__9dbSOe0wc7wdUV-9w
A mailing list has 10 to 20 times the impact per subscriber/follower than social media. That said, I have 20 times more followers than subscribers so the impact is often similar!
Mister Plimsoll, my Mac disk-approaching-full monitoring app (free, in beta), now supports Pushover notifications. https://misterplimsoll.app
Join @mattbors@mstdn.ca on Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for an AMA about Toxic Avenger, The Nib, being a tiny publisher, comics journalism, and our upcoming That One Matt Bors Comic book. Click through to get a Reddit reminder. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/
I just discovered a new* way of adding emoji to Messages on an iPhone or iPad! And wrote that up plus many other ways to incorporate the tiny stories that are those symbols. @sixcolors@zeppelin.flights https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/orange-you-glad-i-didnt-say-emoji/
*Apple introduced 10 years ago in iOS 10




