'Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red' (2021) Paperback On Sale Now

Hi, all.

I wrote a story for this new paperback — a collection of last year’s digital-first series from D.C., Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red — AND I got to work with one of my favorite artists, Marguerite Savage.

Based on the “true” story of Harley Quinn stealing a pirate train — our story is about Harley Quinn taking back a subway train from the D.C. Universe’s fabled Subway Pirates (there’s also some Warriors and Snowpiercer in there). Anyone who has ever ridden the NYC MTA will immediately recognize it as essentially a documentary.

Pick it up from a local comic shop near you, via mail order, or digitally here. Cover & Info below.

Harley Quinn Black + White + Red Paperback – June 1, 2021

by Various

One of the crown jewels of the DC library is the inimitable BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE - innovative short tales of the Caped Crusader, told purely in primal black and white ink. Unfortunately, now Harley Quinn wants in on the action...and she's got her red pen, and some NOTES.

In HARLEY QUINN: BLACK & WHITE & RED, 14 tales of Gotham City's craziest clown princess are presented in nothing but black, white, and bold splashes of red. See how Harley's story unfolds in worlds beyond the DC Universe, in the alternate timelines of Batman: White Knight, Harleen, and the Harley Quinn animated series! Witness her darkest hours and her happiest moments! Wait, did she just...win an underground rap battle?!

An incredible array of award-winning talent from across the comics industry have put their reputations in jeopardy to bring you these stories--so show a little gratitude, will ya?

Podcasts: 'Competitive Literature' & 'Everyone's a Critic'

Listen to this episode from Competitive Literature on Spotify. Writer of comedy, comics, children's novels and more Daniel Kibblesmith joins Grace and Julie to talk about John Gardner's Beowulf-inspired novel Grendel. But who did a better job of reading the book and is therefore an objectively smarter, more important person?

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I went on the Competitive Literature podcast with Julie Greiner & Grace Freud to talk about one of my favorite books, Grendel, and obviously it spiraled into an explicit deconstruction of Big Bird. I assume they left that part in.

Then I went on Yiannis Cove’s Everyone’s A Critic to talk about how it’s humanly possible that Roadhouse only has 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Jennifer accidentally buys me a bagel and also desperately wants to talk about Roadhouse. I assume they also left that part in.

Listen and subscribe to both at the links above.

'Good Job' Everyone Who Didn't Do A Terrible Job.

Hi, all. The previous administration is over.

Not pictured: Jennifer’s Rainbow Bagel on account of it being disgusting.

Not pictured: Jennifer’s Rainbow Bagel on account of it being disgusting.

Whatever happens next, whatever fractious nightmare, whatever entrenched evil, whatever global catastrophe defines the next era, it will not be this exact flavor of cruelty and stupidity and for that alone I am grateful.

This entry is a bit of an experiment — I’ve moved the newsletter over to my website’s blog section so that I only have to update one website and it still (fingers x’d) reaches your inbox. You have a lovely inbox, by the way. I saw a spider on my way in, but I didn’t kill it because guess what I DIDN’T see? That’s right — other bugs.

My plan for this blog / newsletter going forward:

  1. Shorter.

  2. More frequent.

  3. More interesting, honestly.

  4. Entirely free.

But thank you to everyone who had a paid subscription, now more than ever because—

First official Dad Joke.

First official Dad Joke.

We’re having a girl and Jennifer is due in July. If you’re able and feeling generous, our baby registry is here: http://babylist.com/kibblewright

— because, oh god, they need so many little chairs WHY DO THEY NEED SO MANY LITTLE CHAIRS?

Okay, good luck everyone. Let me know if you want me to take the spider outside on my way out and deposit it in the grass, I’ll need an index card and a Dixie cup.