🤌 Julia Rago 🤌

@juliarago.bsky.social

she/her | Aro Ace 🖤🤍💜 | Art Director, Illustrator, Graphic Designer by day, Mysterious Tiny Horror by night. Associate Art Director at DC Comics https://linktr.ee/juliarago

I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.

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If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 23h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

In an absolutely incredible “what a small world” moment, I did the publication design for this book and was SO delighted to see Trick’s name in the credits! Don’t miss this one, it’s fire 🔥🔥🔥

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Trick Weekes@trickweekes.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited beyond words to have a story in DC’s Hawk-Girl Summer! Let’s hit the beach! Writer: Me Art: @nikolacizmesija.bsky.social Colors: @francescosegala.bsky.social Letters: @droog811.bsky.social Thanks to editor Katie Kubert for making it happen.

Panel from a comic book showing Shining Knight (Ystin), a hero in gold armor with a sword, and Kid Quick (Jess Chambers, Earth-11), a hero in red and black, introducing themselves to one another.

I am in search of interior line artists who like drawing mecha and anticipate having about 32 pages worth of time over the next six months or so. Please share your portfolios. I know that the commission-me-now bots don't actually read posts, but if you are a bot I shall cry.

If you’re at SDCC, don’t forget to gaze upon my giant pillar wraps I didn’t realize we were making! All those vines are hand drawn by me for A Thing you will see soon! (Photo courtesy of a wonderful friend who’s at the con) 💚

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On every possible level of creative work these fucking piss-brained charlatans will find some kind of "friction" standing in the way of their genius ideas. Can't draw for shit? Friction Needing to do research? Friction Can't think of a thing to actually write? Believe it or not - also friction

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It’s hard not to be cynical about a massive letter talking from Bethesda about all the games they’re working on when Xbox as a whole reeks of desperation. I mean, they reportedly announced Senua with the express intent of selling Ninja Theory. How can I be sure this isn’t another ploy?

Game workers and allies are taking action at #SaveOurDevs rallies! Earlier this month, Microsoft reported that they would be laying off thousands of workers across the company – impacting hundreds of union jobs. An injury to one video game worker is an injury to all.

A photo of workers at a rally against layoffs!A photo of workers at a rally against layoffs!A photo of workers at a rally against layoffs!A photo of workers at a rally against layoffs!

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

If you want to avoid AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.

If you've ever seen these photos online, you may be interested to know I took them about 15 years ago You may also be interested to know that I did a 3D scan of this exact same Asaro Planes of the Head model, and you can get that scan here for zero moneys: drive.google.com/file/d/1_W-2...

Several images of a John Asaro Planes of the Head model from the 1970s. It sits on an off-white background under soft natural light.

What difficult news for me as a big Obsidian & NV girlie. I love Obsidian but I refuse to give Microsoft a single cent ever again. Not only do they lay off staff, but they lock players into a binary choice. If you want to support devs you love, you have to give money to the machine that kills them.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...