Liam Donnelly✨

@liamdonnellyart.bsky.social

he/him • cranky queer cartoonist • organizer of READ TO FILTH reading series and COMICS CRIT CREW workshop group • proud member of @hbgworkers.bsky.social Portfolio: liamdonnellyart.com Insta: liamdonnelly.art Comics Crit Crew: tinyurl.com/critcrew

I Am Still Doing Too Much for D&D (feat. a new party of heroes that hung out at a cute grove for a bit before setting off to the Feywild to see a magical flower bloom, only for them to wake up separated from one another with no memory of what had transpired since xoxo)

How comics actually work: some pages take an hour and some pages take eight hours and they're not always the ones you'd think. There are sometimes entire weeks taken up by research that MUST be completed before you can progress. And you also must account for several days lost to the Horrors

I Am Still Doing Too Much for D&D (feat. a new party of heroes that hung out at a cute grove for a bit before setting off to the Feywild to see a magical flower bloom, only for them to wake up separated from one another with no memory of what had transpired since xoxo)

Tiny gripe: Got sent a 20 minute youtube video, a long appreciation of a comic series I drew: "Superior Foes of Spider-man." 51K views! The video is made of screenshots, mostly Nick's writing & my art, and not once in those 20 minutes is there any mention of who wrote or drew the comic. Wild.

Really blown away by how X-Men '97 constantly uses knowledge of comics continuity to help scaffold its stories and character arcs without being burdened or beholden to it. Like it is truly a masterclass in adaptation

Guess I'm as qualified to comment here as anyone, having made my "rep" on historical narrative. Not buying the accusation of plagiarism with which the prof and her allies are filling Bluesky, as I've detailed in other posts. But Tillie and D&Q made a few key mistakes that would have prevented this.

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · last mo.

ultimately the fallout of all this is that cartoonists who aren't necessarily trained in academic citation, history and historiography, and don't have a background in that, will be terrified to draw anything nonfiction. and that's not on the academics who feel slighted. that's on comic publishers

I didn’t take a single actual photo of her because I was too busy drawing and being star struck. Five years of capybaras for this book and this is the first time I’ve seen a real live one!!! Her name is Poppy!!!!!

A selection of sketches of Poppy the capybara lounging around and looking incredibly regal.

There's a couple things I want y'all to do when you see allegations on the internet provided from one perspective: 1) Were good faith opportunities taken advantage of before going public? 2) What is there to gain from going public?

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

Another campaign in the books!! I staged these pics after everyone went home, but the party took down the corrupt Open Lord of Waterdeep by swaying public opinion against her and also shooting her in the face w a crossbow ❤️