It’s National Coming Out Day so lemme reshare and reiterate that I am Bea. I am a trans woman. And every day since telling you all has felt more real than the last. Into the wild pink yonder~
Gale Galligan
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🐰 Cartoonist, bunfriend, learnin the drums 📚 BABY-SITTERS CLUB 5-8 🪀FREESTYLE & FRESH START✈️ 🦔 http://galesaur.com/quick-links/ 🏳️🌈 they/them new book: BSC Super Special! (Sept 2026)
this guy likes making movies enough to eat live cockroaches and they thought he’d take himself out of the equation????
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayNicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
Press conference in the Bronx after the ICE shooting - - @cndelarosa.bsky.social speaking
Hi friends. I'm writing about the comic industry again, and I moved the whole thing off of Substack. Join me over at Ghost. theindirectmarket.ghost.io
The Indirect Market
Dispatches from the frontline of graphic novel (and comic book) retail.
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It's finally here! @ananthhirsh.bsky.social and I have launched the kickstarter for our new 18+ story, Feast of the Unicorn! 🔪🦄🍽️ "Once upon a time, there was a miraculous creature, and a stranger from a distant land..." www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...
Feast of the Unicorn - Chapter 1
Once upon a time there was a miraculous creature, and a stranger from a distant land... An 18+ original series.
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A great day to pre-order Unauthorized Bread! bookshop.org/p/books/unau...
Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Graphic Novel
New York Times bestselling author of Enshittification Cory Doctorow presents Unauthorized Bread—a near-future dystopian graphic novel about how we use our technology…and how it uses us.Salima’s new hi...
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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 6d agoAnti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
If you have no other option, you should absolutely use bookshop over amazon or anything affiliated with them, but their bookseller affiliate program is the equivalent of getting a small monthly payout for a fraction of sales as opposed to the full amount
As your frequent bookseller friend, I will tell you that direct orders from a bookstore will always go farther than a bookshop dot org order, as much they are useful with their affiliate system. Your local bookstore likely can ship your book to you too, and get things bookshop won't/can't carry!
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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It's ghost story season, and there are new pages for my Eisner-nominated webcomic, SABLE: A GHOST STORY sablecomic.com
i hate being the buzzkill who's like "here's why i don't participate in the thing that's wrecking our planet / platforming nazis / directly funding an author who wants trans people dead" but like, it is kind of fucked up that all of that is happening
It's anti-prime day again!!! A reminder that I have a bunch of comics for kids & kids-at-heart, available through bookshop with free shipping today & tomorrow! bookshop.org/shop/caitlin...
Caitlin Rose Boyle Bookshop
Caitlin Rose Boyle is the author and illustrator of the Frankie Fairy series for early readers, and the illustrator and co-creator for the series JONESY, as well as the co-creator of the Nickelodeon s...
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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 6d agoAnti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
i bought the podcast underwear for years! never looked back after this. they are fully aware. there are one billion other underwears
Celine@celineloup.bsky.social · 6d agotalk about a brand that started out basically perfect and then proceeded to saw its own legs off for the next 15 years until the final strip of flesh finally parted from the gangrenous stump this morning, and we can kick the body over into its grave:
PRAYERS TO THE FUTURE update #2 is live!!! irfan is met with a, uhhh, interesting surprise in this one. enjoy!! prayerstothefuture.com
one must imagine sisyphus taking a moment to draw a cute little face on his rock
I'm really proud of this series! Give it a read!
Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 7d agoToday, @xtramagazine.com launches Comics Against Censorship, a series of five original comics tackling issues of LGBTQ2S+ censorship, guest edited by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social. Original comics! About librarians and webcomics and trans Albertans and so much more!! xtramagazine.com/series/comic...
Yep! An artist we know had a contract with ironclad delivery dates. The publisher ate up a full year of his work time with edits & rewrites, then expected him to draw 120 pages in 30 days or give back his advance.
Gale Galligan@galegalligan.bsky.social · 7d agoAll of this!! And especially 📢INCLUDE TIME FOR EDITS📢 edits are two-pronged: (1) you will wait to receive notes at several stages of the process. could be weeks! could be months! talk with editor so you understand THEIR turnaround (2) once you have notes, you will need time to edit 🙂↕️
my current plan for Drawing Prompt Month is: play with ink, make fanart for books I want people to read!!!! A lot of grownups don't know what's going on in early reader/middle grade (understandably so), but the holidays are coming, it's almost your niece's birthday, I wanna draw, everyone wins.
Mr. Wolf's Class (@mrwolfcomics.bsky.social) is a frequent reread here! It's a kind, funny, and very thoughtfully grounded slice-of-life series about a group of fourth-graders. I have a soft spot for ensemble stories and this one is SO special. Also, the nature spreads are killer. 🍂 #booktober
All of this!! And especially 📢INCLUDE TIME FOR EDITS📢 edits are two-pronged: (1) you will wait to receive notes at several stages of the process. could be weeks! could be months! talk with editor so you understand THEIR turnaround (2) once you have notes, you will need time to edit 🙂↕️
Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder@nilahmagruder.com · 7d agoShe's yelling about graphic novels again. I wrote a blog post about how to track work hours and do the math to build better work schedules. This speaks to graphic novelists specifically but it's good info for any freelancer!
I also learned you can't always count on your agent to go to bat for you. Agents that lack experience in illustration and comics will not see the red flags. It's in an artist's best interests to document their workflow so they can understand it and protect it fiercely.
She's yelling about graphic novels again. I wrote a blog post about how to track work hours and do the math to build better work schedules. This speaks to graphic novelists specifically but it's good info for any freelancer!
Graphic Novel Math
How comic artists can track work hours to manage time and build better graphic novel production schedules.
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Banned Book Week includes manga, too. Here's Coop Bicknell's discussion with librarians last year about the swath of titles targeted by interest groups.
Manga in The Crosshairs: The State of Manga Bans in 2025
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A donation to us will help us further professionalize this work, and ensure that this organization can keep living even once our original founders (including me!) step back. The goal here is long term health and efficacy. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.