The Rocket Ships of La Jolla — This Week’s Links

Features Clark Burscough | July 24, 2026 Summertime and the living is hot, just constantly hot and humid and sticky, it’s all I can think about, and there’s no amount of ice lollies and gelato that can make up for this — I’m permanently be-jorted at the moment, but I can’t put comics or novels down on my legs, as even my knees and thighs are sweaty, so covers will debride after a few minutes, leafs curling recto/verso in a vain attempt to model a golden spiral in communion with Sol, and it would honestly just be nice to work on this week’s links, below, without the chorus of laptop fans harmonising as though they’re about to blast my device up to the heavens and finally release me from the torments of the online age. Anyway, Eisner Award results detailed next week, and then it’s basically autumn, right? Right. DOOMSDAY — Alexye (@oldbabyyoda.bsky.social) 2026-07-21T17:18:08.683Z This week’s news. Starting this week’s selection with our semi-regular check-in on just what it is that’s going on with Silver Sprocket, as, almost exactly a calendar year since The Comics Journal reported on financial woes at the publisher, which has recently enacted layoffs necessitating GoFundMe’s from f...