If someone is doing real damage and demonstrates a sustained lack of interest in accounting for it then, imo, the time for talking about “accountability” is over. Then it’s time for talking about how to best attack and undermine their power to do that damage. Changing their heart is not a factor.
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Comics illustrator/painter by night, boring corporate graphic designer by day. ⏱️ She/her, age 39😎 Covington, KY, USA🪴 has 2 cats and a garden 🐈🐈⬛🌻 Married to @mtscomics.bsky.social💗 https://linktr.ee/wingedelfgirl
So, I have a surprise bill I need to pay and it would be very appreciated if anyone would want to buy stuff from my shop or commission me. 🙏😬 Shop: zombieisok.bigcartel.com Commissions: vgen.co/zombieisok Shares are also very appreciated.🩷
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Song stuck in my head when I woke up this morning: Shut Up And Dance by Walk The Moon
Proud to be the 3,637th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Vessel - A Feature Film From Cinema Therapy Studios! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
The Vessel - A Feature Film From Cinema Therapy Studios
Cinema Therapy presents its first feature film: a horror comedy where a group of college friends get together for their annual weekend of fun and reminiscence. When things get weird, they're forced to...
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FAST BREAK is getting some great reviews! Order your copy of this amazing graphic novel about hoops, family, and friendship, created my yours truly and the incredibly talented @delartstuffs.bsky.social! Got to FASTBREAKCOMIC.COM to get your copy! @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Ok, to be fair, there is a lot of dopamine in finishing a fieldtest that's sat stretched on your side table for two months.
If you're running an indie comics show, it's a good idea to make sure people tabling have comics to sell and not a wall of fanart and tchotchkes. 🤔🔍 If it's just some random media con with "comic" in the title, you as a cartoonist should know what you're getting yourself into (still... ugh). 😑🤦♂️
So... can we talk about this
Timelapse of a Chaotic Draw Along prompt during the Issaquah Culture Festival. Can you guess the prompt before the reveal at the end?
We cannot advocate for wildlife and science, without also advocating for science based policy. Politicians have sold our legacy, our few remaining pristine places for greed and short term gain. We turn it around now Or fade away into smoke and ruin In 43 days we vote
I can't believe I'm launching 17 new Louisiana greeting cards at Livingston Book Fest
Did you crowdfund and fulfill your own comic last year? We want to hear from you! If you make webcomics, graphic novels, direct market comics - If you write, draw, letter, color, or all of the above - If you make any kind of comics in the US, we want to hear from you! airtable.com/appLRxNDI7Yj...
Have you filled out the third annual Comic Worker Survey? If not, this is the time to support your fellow comics workers! Your answers will help address pay disparities for a more transparent and equal comics industry. Take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor... Art by @urnash.com
Trans rights, disabled rights, and kids rights, or else. None of us are free until all of us are free.
this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
I'm currently feeling overwhelmed by the beauty of this background painting from the 1946 Looney Tunes short "Baseball Bugs".
I forgot to mention, many of my customers have severe social anxiety so I try to make my table as self serve as possible and we have short elevator pitches behind each book (but also deliver live pitches) and will flip thru/hold items for folks in fursuits or who are otherwise not able to do it.
Yo book producing friends, what are your best tips for selling your books in person?
My @antigravitymag.bsky.social bushkiller cover amidst the bushkiller in my backyard. #invasivespecies #invasiveplants #neworleansgardens #nolalife
Our new paper may be one of coolest studies I've ever done. We show that the structures of visual storytelling in comics aligns with the word order of the languages of the comic authors. Here's what we did... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Syntactic headedness aligns with visual narrative structure
Recent research has highlighted how visual narrative sequences involve similar structures and processing as syntax in language, yet no work has asked …
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Paying off ONE (1) of my two student loans, and finishing the art for the first graphic novel I've drawn (something I thought I'd be able to do 10 years ago)!!
Been thinking about a PC build ($4k -$8k) & starting a clan (don't know what game yet).
One of the annoyances of traditional inking. 🥲 It is a very cool splatter pattern though... I'll be sad to ink over or white it out.
Worse for wear, and not wearing it well. There are freshly annotated EPIPHANY: EXEGESIS pages live for all subscribers on https://patreon.com/irisjay and https://subscribestar.art/irisjay !
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
You have no idea. I saw a lot of impressive and somewhat funny quilts too, but another that took the cake was a Joan of Arc design I saw on the opposite side
Our incredible volunteer Web Dev team is so excited to show off the overhauled Cartoonists United website! This update showcases more of our labor advocacy work, the CartUn Journal, the CartUn podcast, as well as a brand new Worker Grievance Form! Check out the new website here: cartoonist.coop
Sketches from my roadtrip to and from Montana! 38 hours in the car gives you a lot of time and also apparently might trigger shingles :(( Most of these were sketched in the car and finished with color later.
Early use of speech balloons from a 1797 political cartoon by James Gillray.
The “Serious” Turtles – Josh Nickerson A new and very grounded comic by @joshnickerson83.bsky.social yokoikids.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/t...
The “Serious” Turtles – Josh Nickerson
Josh is a cartoonist and illustrator who has far more Game Boy cartridges than he really needs. Find him on Bluesky and Instagram @joshnickerson83.
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