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Johanna Draper Carlson

@johannadc.bsky.social

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Graphic novel/ manga/ comic book reviewer. Created longest-running independent comic review site online, ComicsWorthReading.com, and SherlockComics.com. Mycroft Holmes fan.

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@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:17 PM

There’s a new Sense & Sensibility movie out? I don’t know how people get their movie news any more. It seems like movie-going has become a hobby you have to track and seek out info on.

@littlegreybook7.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:05 AMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

Trust no-one

#readchristie2026 #agathachristie #mysterybooks

@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:37 PM

It’s bizarre what has aged really badly (Arte Johnson’s blackface bits, talented as he was) and what hasn’t aged at all.

@iaculus.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:00 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

It was Shigeru Mizuki - comic artist, antiwar activist, folklore archivist, and general cultural titan.

@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:12 AMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

An under-the-weather weekend, but I did zoom through this 500-page book on the history of Laugh-In, which was surprisingly readable. Made me want to watch the DVD box set again.

“From Beautiful Downtown Burbank”: A Critical History of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, 1968-1973

amzn.to/4ic3r4Z

Cover to "From Beautiful Downtown Burbank": A Critical History of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, 1968-1973

Shows Dan Rowan and Dick Martin in tuxedos against an orange and yellow bubble background.
@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:12 AM

An under-the-weather weekend, but I did zoom through this 500-page book on the history of Laugh-In, which was surprisingly readable. Made me want to watch the DVD box set again.

“From Beautiful Downtown Burbank”: A Critical History of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, 1968-1973

amzn.to/4ic3r4Z

Cover to "From Beautiful Downtown Burbank": A Critical History of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, 1968-1973

Shows Dan Rowan and Dick Martin in tuxedos against an orange and yellow bubble background.
@explodingpiano.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:42 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

someone made this with snoopy

snoopy showing the steps to making a martini
@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:18 PM

We are the stupidest society.

@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:52 PM

The secret history of the most middle-class comic strip.

@bwalker81.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:00 AMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

Very cool demo showing how the folks working on “A Rum Case in Fogtown” do their virtual production setup with puppetry!

@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:57 PM

Congratulations!!!!!! Well-deserved.

@greatdetective.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:08 AMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

I wonder if anyone might know where this illustration is from. All I could find is that it may once have appeared in an Italian magazine alongside The Sign of the Four.

@greatdetective.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:08 AMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

'Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we still have to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.'

THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) #BookWormSat 💙📚

Sherlock Holmes plays the violin for Watson
@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:46 PM

Reading a press release promoting jumping-on stories for new readers that will have plenty of variant covers. Somewhat contradictory, no?

@mikotoby.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:10 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

“the best part of being newly married was when i went right back to sherlock holmes to hang out with him”

acd holmes

The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods.
@greatdetective.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:36 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

The Saint title screen
?Unknown authorOct 9, 2026, 3:56 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

‘October’s “bright blue weather”, A good time to read’
Albert M. Bender, 1936-40

www.loc.gov/item/98509532/

october
bright blue weather
a good time to read
a person reading a book, with ghosts and a haunted house and a detective as part of the tableau
@mattmiller.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:55 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

Hey Kids Comics sign on a spinner rack
@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:29 PMReposted by @johannadc.bsky.social

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
@johannadc.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:07 PM

Wow, this has reminded me I haven’t watched any movies in a month. I should fix that.

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