Nurds of November — This Week’s Links

Features Clark Burscough | November 6, 2026 This week’s links, below, is, as Disturbed would have it, currently down with the sickness (ooh wah ah ah ah), so, while coughing oneself awake at 2 a..m on a regular basis, it’s nice to be up and about in the wee hours during a period in which, thanks to the joys of time differences, the vast majority of the terminally online population has been posting their way through what is admittedly a very funny run of election results. Novocaine for the soul, indeed. “Triceratops at Ueno”(2025) — 生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) (@nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social) 2026-11-03T08:47:09.127Z This week’s news. • Now that the dust has settled from the failed legal blocking actions against the festival, announcements were made this week about what form the new iterations of annual comics events in Angoulême will take, with the reveal of the newly (and pithily) titled Angoulême Bande Dessinée, which will take place from 28-31 January 2027, under the stewardship of the Morgane Group’s subsidiary, M:BD. • In memoriam, remembering those the world of comics has lost, as ICv2 shared the news of the passing of librarian, writer, and comics advocate Katharine Kan, who has...