Some character design work for the upcoming chapter of At the Inn! Milli and Pryta are a couple with a baby on the way; Matthias is Milli's son from a previous relationship.

My comic "At the Inn" is part of that number! New pages coming soon (late June). Basictelepathy.com When I was a teen getting into webcomics, it was not lost on me that I saw more queer characters there, and I was hungry for it. It's still something I love about self-published & small press work.

Macxi: >:)@macxi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder for pride month that if you want more stories with trans characters, you should read webcomics. I think there’s more trans characters in webcomics than like any other medium lol and I’m not even kidding

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

Austin Lee Matthews 🐭@amtrax.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As important as your passion project may be to you, don’t pull all nighters on it. Don’t hurt yourself in the long-term just to get your art out sooner.

I made a recipe zine! I'll have these for sale at a local event next week, and put it all online sometime later.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

Why Brainstorming With a Chatbot Will Not Actually Help All That Much: So, I saw someone point out that when you're going for ideas, the best thing to do is to throw away the first two and the third will be the/a good one. This is not entirely wrong!

Help Hays Pride (a local Western KS nonprofit) raise funds to support trans Kansans in the face of horrific anti-trans legislation. Buy a shirt, or share our shop! Open through the end of the month. haystees.printavo.com/merch/hayspr...

@tomobriencomics.bsky.social and I collaborated to launch this fundraiser for Hays Pride, a local LGBTQIA+ advocacy group in Western Kansas, in response to the disastrous anti-trans bill our state legislature recently pushed through. Buy a t-shirt, share the link, support trans Kansans.

Hays Pride Fundraiser in Support of Trans Kansans

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I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Neighborhood life when ICE agents terrorize your city. #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

defend612.com #IceoutBloomington #Iceoutrichfield #Iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

There is a *perfect state of being* you can reach when you are writing, where you are solving problems left and right and shit is coming together. It takes a WHILE to get there, you have to go through many drafts. But it's worth it. It feels like how I imagine being able to purr feels to a cat

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social defend612.com

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

I finally got around to editing the footage from this whole encounter, definitely the most beautiful moment of the year in nature for me. Video taken across a 12 minute period, sunset lit water fans will REALLY like this one! Uncompressed: youtu.be/VwQTwF8WlI0 🦑

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 9mo ago

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Haven't posted art recently! I've got updated art for Cass, my minotaur warrior, and new character art for Rukhatin, my dwarven magus. Both are Pathfinder 2E characters I've been playing this fall.

I can't make it this year, but it's a wonderful time with some of the best people. Highly recommended to any comics person.

Alaska Robotics Gallery@alaskarobotics.com · 9mo ago

Comics Camp Applications are open until November 24th

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

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One of the grosser things about “AI“ integration in a lot of search engine results is it’s a furtherance of the hypercentralization we’re all already dealing with; another fucking speed bump to stop you from clicking through to anyone else’s websites.

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.

HARD CO-SIGN!!! Pencil, paper, done.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 12mo ago

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories. EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS. Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Nora is being VERY helpful with the thumbnails for the next chapter of At the Inn.

I'll be there! It's probably going to be the only convention I do this year. Truly an amazing group of people!

Pat Race@pat.alaskarobotics.com · last yr.

CHECK OUT THIS LINEUP. We love bringing amazing people to Juneau and I feel like we hit a real high mark this year.