Zack Quaintance
Comic book writer in Brooklyn.
Reviews editor at Eisner-winning comics site, The Beat. Formerly ran Comics Bookcase. Wrote about comics for NPR Books.
Once had a short story published by Tin House.
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- I simply can’t imagine many people will use the ALL ADS platform long term but what do I know there are still people using X
- my pick of the week is High Strangeness, never know what this book is going to do but know it’s going to be good plus, four other strong recs and the usual release lists www.comicsbeat.com/top-comics-t...
- updated my letterboxd favorites after much (painful) deliberation, took away 2001 for step brothers because that’s where I’m at
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- Reposted by Zack QuaintanceRED SHIRTS HARDCOVER. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. THE BLOOD IS SPOT GLOSS.
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- this morning’s album: everybody’s gotta learn sometime (2026) by beck year of the cover
- alternating volumes of these two manga and wow it’s been a tonal shift
- addressing both the horror of the news and my phone addiction by watching footage of alex honnold climbing that skyscraper without any ropes, which is good because it makes me put my phone down and sit with a different better sort of anxiety
- Reposted by Zack QuaintanceTEXAS KID, MY BROTHER written and drawn by Igor Kordey adapted from a story by Darko Makan Coming soon from Goats Flying Press 🐐🪽🔥🔥🔥
- Reposted by Zack Quaintanceanyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this
- i really like the 'cold open' preview concept @ignitionpress.bsky.social has used to launch its new series, good stuff, better than just showing the first 8 pages imo
- now obsessed with juliette lewis singing pj harvey's "rid of me" from this movie, especially the 'don't you wish you never met her' end that starts at 3:10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3s...
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- universal tv language for stress-induced near breakdowns has become clenched hands, blurred first-person POV, and screeching sound...rather than the true-to-life saying something weird and shitty, doubling down, and going home to eat 3/4 a frozen pizza alone while watching reels you hate
- humiliating, this man recorded an interview and now has to listen to himself asking questions
- to the extent i'm IN comics (never feels that way tbh) about 5 1/2 years...my first crowdfunder funded in August 2020 and published in May 2021 crowdfunder #4 is in production now, prepping to launch later this year
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- Reposted by Zack QuaintanceViral #comics4liam project launches for 5-year-old detained by ICE: The comics community has launched #comics4liam a project to make art for a five year child taken into custody by ICE
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- as far as I can tell the difference between Industry and Euphoria is whether you want to watch horny young people doing drugs with jobs or without jobs
- I’ll be honest it was fucked up going outside today and I’m glad it’s over
- proof of life from icy new york city
- just watched: strange days (1995) dir Kathryn Bigelow total banger
- it has been 0 days since I thought I saw Benedict Cumberbatch in New York and was wrong
- new hat
- what was working for an old school newspaper like? on a summer internship with the Peoria Journal-Star, I wrote that a place was "90 minutes away from Peoria"...and the weekend editor chewed me out over not specifying whether it was 90 minutes drive or 90 mins as the crow flies
- me: "three upvotes? wow, definitely stopping here on the one vacation i have planned in the next two years"
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- it’s been a macho week #LastFourWatched
- Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 📲
- now watching: the terminator (1984) dir james cameron
- Reposted by Zack QuaintanceFellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
- well, this was great, and maybe my favorite vol yet, really escalating the action now
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- i am simply not going to spend my one precious life watching 4-minute videos of some rando recommending 10 movies or books or restaurants or whatever, half of which i'm already familiar with
- every issue of high strangeness has been complex AND a total banger
