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2017: a pictorial letter for the New Year.

Marvel artists turned Black Influencers and Athletes into super versions of themselves.

Come away O human child to the waters and the wilds with a fairy hand in hand, for the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand

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original storyboards for the title sequence from ‘Batman: the Animated Series’, by Bruce Timm. this won Bruce Timm an Emmy Award.

this sequence has been called the BEST animated representation of the Dark Knight. ever. Not the TV Show (which was great) just this opening 60 seconds of animation. the best Batman story ever animated.

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Bucharest by DincoloDeFatade

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This Tea Rituals Around the World slideshow at Condé Nast Traveler (condenasttraveler) is a tea-lover’s delight! Never before have I seen tea time look so sumptuous. Click through to learn about the tea traditions behind these beautiful and mouthwatering arrangements. Just looking at them has inspired me to make a cuppa!

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Me today.

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Pewpewpew Pups. I. Love. Weenie. Dugs

Color updates on an old project.

#myart

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Here is a cartoon I did for the Guardian in back in 2012! Somehow, it has not become irrelevant since that time.

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Wood by Oddds

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Man, this is lovely.

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We mourn the loss of our friend Robin Williams, who always made us laugh and smile.

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Well, that does it, full-on crying now.

It always baffled me as a teen to see girls who were so self aware that they dotted their i's with round circles or hearts. Also, people who make tiny squeaking noises instead of sneezes.

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I have lied to a lot of hairdressers.

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me.

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California’s calamitous drought drags on

It’s dry in California - historically dry. Water is in short supply, the air is noticeably without moisture, farms are parched and just look at the photo above of the state’s dwindling snow cover. It pretty much speaks for itself.

Meanwhile, various interests are turning to the political realm to try and ensure they get theirs when it comes to H2O.

And the drought has been particularly harsh on agriculture:

Ranchers have begun liquidating herds. Growers are considering tearing out thirsty tree crops such as nut orchards and citrus groves. And tens of thousands of additional acres of prime California soil could go unplanted if farmers don’t get enough water to irrigate them.

Read more on the drought’s effect on California here.

Photos: David McNew / Getty Images, Frederic J. Brown / Associated Press, NOAA, Randall Benton / Los Angeles Times

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This is getting pretty scary. The big river where I ride my bike is almost completely dried in some places, stinking of dead fish and rot. Our big local lake, which was already low last year, is now so low that you can walk across the lake bed in some areas. We were flying back home from vacation last week, and there was hardly any snow on any of the mountains, and all the lakes and rivers were visibly, scarily low. We’ve had droughts in the past, but I don’t remember it being this bad before.

PS, From what I can tell, our drought sounds like it’s connected to all the unusually cold and icy weather in the east coast of the US. A high pressure system, caused by abnormal high water temperatures off the west coast, pushed all of the west coast’s usual storm systems up north where they then hurled down all their moisture in the form of freezing ice and snow on the rest of the country. It’s been crappy for everyone.

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It starts