Substacks recommended by Escape from Clowntown

Recommended by Escape from Clowntown | Comics of E.R. Flynn

André Carrilho

Illustration, editorial cartoon, caricature, animation and picture books

Letters from Village Books

By Village Bookstores

Where the Page and Ocean Meet

Pat’s Substack

By Pat Higgins

My personal Substack

Yuck! Travel Magazine

By YUCK! Travel Magazine

Your wormhole to sci-fi humor. Your portal for inter-dimensional escape. Contains everything you need to know about where you’re at in the multiverse with detailed instruction on ways to leave and critical advice on why you should.

Imagine a travel magazine used in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that has the perfect amount of metaphysical weirdness and you get Yuck! Travel Magazine.

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Notes on Illustration

By The Illustration Department

Thoughts, Insights, and Lessons on the Art, History, and Practice of Illustration | Written by Giuseppe Castellano

Colleen Doran's Funny Business

All these years in the comics industry, I have opinions.

Woke Political Cartoonist

Woke political cartoons

Third-Eye LASIK

By Bradley Vee

I write esoteric fiction. Here I brain dump about other things.

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

Auraist: picking the best-written books of the month

By Sean

32K+ readers. Followers, please note that only free or paid subscribers receive our picks of the best-written books from US & UK prize shortlists & major reviews, & masterclasses by their (sometimes world-renowned) authors on prose style.

I'm always looking for great books to read and I'm glad Auraist is here to help me find them.

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Ring Around the Basin

By Sue Cauhape

Poetry, stories, and essays about the beauty of the Great Basin, Truckee and Santa Cruz, and Utah. Welcome to Ring Around the Basin.

Amorimcartoons!

Amorim is from Rio de Janeiro/ Brasil and started at the newspaper Pasquim in 1984. He publishes in dozens of newspapers and websites . www.linktr.ee/amorimcartoons

The Dandy's Noose

By Michael Gerber

A Substack about neckties—collecting them, obsessing over them—by The American Bystander's cravat-crazed Michael Gerber.

JL's Stories and Musings

By J. L. Sullens

Stories and thoughts that occasionally flow.

Hope For Film

By Ted Hope

We need a vibrant alternative to mainstream culture, especially a non-dependent cinema ecosystem. Let's build it together & examine what got us here in the first place -- including how we can each build our own sustainable & generative creative practices.

Pepperspectives

By David Pepper

Saving Democracy: A User’s Guide

The Bob

By Bob Eckstein

Sharing Cartoons, Humor & Writing Tips

Comic Fiction

By John Bluff

Comic fiction to make you laugh, forget your troubles, or just put a smile on your face

Illustrated Journalism

By Bill Russell

Bill Russell writes about visual journalism, artists covering the news and great reportage artists past and present.

The Creative Shift by Dan Blank

Helping writers and creators share their work and connect with readers in meaningful ways. Digging deep into marketing, book launches, and platform development. Get my weekly newsletter every Friday.

Dan's writing has helped me to expand my thinking on how best to get my art out and into the world.

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Pencil Pals

By Helen Stephens

Hi, it’s me Helen Stephens. This is a juicy chat between illustrator pals. I’ll be sharing stuff about making picture books that you might feel daft asking. When you sign up you’ll get the Illustrators Freebies. Yes-please-thank-you!

A.M. Sketching

By Sue Clancy

A bit of creativity, often whimsical, from Clancy's sketchbook to go with your morning coffee.

Sue Clancy is a fine artist and author/illustrator whose whimsical and playful style will not only appeal to you visually, but her stories provide insight into life, perceptions and the simple joys of art. Buy her books, they're fabulous!

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Jim Hightower's Lowdown

News and shows about the progressive, democratic populist rebellion from former Texas Ag Commissioner and NYT best-selling author Jim Hightower.

: lower black pain

By Jd Michaels

A weekly series of words arranged, typed, and spoken by Jd Michaels.

An excellent newsletter on issues of diversity, fatherhood and the African American history of wonder, invention, adaption and creation.

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Illustrated Zelda

By Zelda Sydney

Illustrated newsletter by illustrator-writer-editor Zelda

Juke

By Tonya Morton

A creative journal with dirt in the corners.

Respectful Smartass

By Ariana Newhouse

A funny Friday newsletter flirting with the silly and serious.

Want more chuckles in your inbox? Subscribe to Respectful Smartass, a funny Friday newsletter flirting with the silly and serious. Try your best not to pee your pants while you learn from snarky how-to’s, embrace a new nemesis, and more. It’s FREE!

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Dave’s Newsletter

By Dave Channon

Vegetarian? No! Humanitarian!

the micro mashup.

By Amie Mcgraham

weekly 100-word microstories about islands and road trips and writing. sometimes food will be involved.

Seeing Things

By Liza Donnelly

New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, more...

Newsletter to Socials

By Krager

A Newsletter about Growing a Newsletter. How Ironic!

Hill Heat

By Brad Johnson

Climate science, policy, politics, and action

FrameLab

Moral Politics, Meta Narrative, Language and Your Brain

We Rise Project

By Héctor Iván Lira Hevia

Un espacio para todos los atletas sin importar su nivel o disciplina, un sitio para aquellos que cuidan y desarrollan su mente y su cuerpo.

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Betje’s Comics

By Betje Comics

Auto bio comics from an imperfect climate activist, overthinking enthusiast, professional oversharer.

Adetokunbo Sees

By Adetokunbo Abiola

Adetokunbo Sees by Adetokunbo Abiola, a newsletter on developments over the environment and climate change in the coastal areas of Nigeria

One of the best newsletters reporting on the environment and climate crisis across the world. Adetokunbo's writing is smart, in-depth and provides an important foreign viewpoint on these issues which is overlooked in major media.

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Made From What's Not Real

By David Perlmutter

The writings and musings of Canadian historian and speculative fiction writer David Perlmutter

No longer on substack

By Ed's Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List

I’ve moved - sign up here -https://edscleanenergysustainabilityjobs.com/

The Forgotten Files

By Peter Pappas

Because the past is still teaching

If there's one thing I love it's rediscovering forgotten history. Peter Pappas does an entertaining job showing us lost treasures from the past.

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Theory Gang

Playing with ideas through science, philosophy, and culture. Sometimes low-brow, always irreverent.

Pen Strokes

By Nick Anderson

Progressive editorial cartoons, musings and sketches from a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

Weirdo Poetry

By Jason McBride

Illustrated, cozy essays and poetry comics about the wonder also make room for the melancholy and bittersweet found along the way.

An artist and poet with a very unique and wonderful view of the world.

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Situation Normal

By Michael Estrin

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

A great comedy writer. Very funny and always entertaining.

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open to change

By darren harley

poetry about the human condition

MoMa Weekly

By MoMa UK

Art competitions. Creative resources. Wonderful things.

An amazing curation of art contests, shows and opportunities from across the pond in the UK and Europe.

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The American Bystander's Viral Load

By Michael Gerber

Funny writing from The American Bystander, "the world's best print humor magazine."

The Best Damn Humor Magazine in the US. What are you waiting for? Buy a subscription!

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The Art of Noticing

By Rob Walker Art of Noticing

Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.