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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · yesterday

Supremely bummed to reach the end of KAOS and find it unfinished, but at least there’s MRS. DAVIS, which feels like it captures a lot of the same energy and is actually a complete story.

Mule Summer School continues next week when me and @erikahall.bsky.social tell you how to just do things! Scary? Maaaaybe. Fun AF? You bet. Let's go! www.eventbrite.com/e/1998510914...

How to Just Do Things!

Who's stopping you? Is it you?

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · yesterday

So here's the thing about hanging out with 60 passionate book-making people in a Zoom room for two hours on a Friday: IT WHIPS.

We added a couple extra seats to How to Make Books, starting in just over an hour. One of them could be yours. www.eventbrite.com/e/1995733566...

How to Make Books

You have a story to tell, we wanna help you tell it. Mike Monteiro and Lucy Bellwood wanna help you put it in people’s hands.

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Getting ready for today’s book-makin’ workshop. We’re gonna have fun.

A selection of printed slides that read: heist time, friendship is magic, your book team, and marketing books.

Virginia Greene Nature Art@virginiagreene.bsky.social · yesterday

Virginia is one of those artists I start following and think “how have we not crossed paths before this is WILD” and then also there are things like this????

Also check out this hickory horned devil we found during a prescribed burn the other day. One of North America's largest caterpillars! And apparently completely harmless (I did not test this). #caterpillar #bugs #hellyeah

Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · yesterday

You meet a traveler coming the opposite way along the snow-packed road. You're not sure if he wants to sell you something, or add you to his merchandise. - I made a birdbeast! Patrons can see the recording here: www.patreon.com/posts/167882395?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share

An unsettling bipedal vulture creature with white feathers stands on the snow against a dark blue background and wearing a large, heavy pack that seems to hold various items of organic origin.

Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 2d ago

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having a responsive and reasonably well-equipped public library can have you feeling like a child king. buy me that book. now this one. oh they have it two hours away? bring it to me.

Larisa@thelolrus.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is amazing! Thank you Libby. I got literally 75+ notifications the other day about books I can now borrow.

“What's New in Libby
Some of your libraries have lending partnerships with other libraries. Libby now automatically checks title availability at every partner library.”

Then an image of my library card, labeled Larisa - Cambridge

ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 3d ago

you need to look at bugs every day for your health

oh hell yeah got my ankle glamour shots (unremarkable) back from the doc

Two x-ray views of Lucy's left ankle which the physician saw fit to describe as "unremarkable" in the visit notes and frankly I find that insulting because it is clearly a very good ankle even if at present the tendons around it are in agony.

Alexandra Gallant-Lee 🔜 SPX A3B@alexandragallant.com · last mo.

You know what I love? Everyone sending delightful stuff through the mail. The postal business is booming. You can get so many neat tangible things from your favorite artists. It's a goddamn renaissance.

Frog by Day, Frog by Night, Frog by Mail! $125 for the 4-month subscription, each month for the rest of the year (starting in September) you'll get a little felt frog friend, some treats, postcards, a NEW Frogby comic exclusive to the Mail Club and more! frogby.bigcartel.com/product/2026...

2026 mail club September October November December

comics

a frog in the mail

a frog each month and a note from frogby

art stickers

and extra goodies

spots are limited

Sean Poppe @seanrunamok.bsky.social · 3d ago

Over the summer, I drew one Little Guy on a whiteboard we have at work. The semester started Monday, so I took a picture of All the Guys. And now I’m posting it!

Photo of a whiteboard with a bunch of doodles of round guys with little antennas and simple smile faces and little feet standing in the grass. Drawn with a black whiteboard marker

Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 2d ago

More castle cutaway pencils. Still gotta do the outbuildings, towers, auxiliary building, etc, but it's underway! Reconciling the "entirely made up as I went along" interior scenes with the exterior is a fun puzzle. Reckoned that if they could do it with the Star Warses, *I* should be able to, too

Been mostly couch-bound/on crutches for the last six days and my hold on sanity is tenuous at best BUT I've got a hell of a Seacritters launch document coming together as a result

Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec brandishing a handmade doll and saying "Do you think a depressed person could make this?"

Kate Milford@katemilford.bsky.social · 3w ago

THAT'S OUR BABYYYYYYY

Updated my website, no big deal, now it has SEACRITTERS ALL OVER IT: clockworkfoundry.com

A graphic novel cover for a book called SEACRITTERS! A little badger in a blue coat holds a red ditty bag in one paw and an hourglass in the other; a little capybara swings from a line with a knife in her other paw. In the background, a schooner under sail on a blue sea is surrounded by four magenta tentacles.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d ago

We can do good things, actually <3

You ready to make Philadelphia a more biodiverse city?? Join us for volunteer nights of prepping packets of native plant seeds for free distribution across the city! Together we can make Philadelphia a better place to be a bird or bug 🪲 RSVP at Lu.ma/dgs (that stands for do good shit).

A pigeon holds a plant in his little beak and struts down the street with seeds falling from the plant. The words say "Native Plant Prep Party Sulimay's October 5 & 19 Nov 2 & 16
6:30-9pm 632 E Girard Ave Philadelphia, PA

Only TWO seats left for tomorrow's How to Make Books workshop! What kinds of books have *I* made? Well, here's some process stuff from 100 DEMON DIALOGUES for starters. Join me and @monteiro.bsky.social to talk about spot foil and other print pervert delights: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-mak...

Four photos of the cover design mock-up for 100 Demon Dialogues.

A screenshot of the 100 Demon Dialogues spot gloss layouts in PDF form.

The finished softcover edition of 100 Demon Dialogues, a square black book with little demons cavorting across the cover in spot gloss.

Lucy Bellwood@lubellwoo.bsky.social · last mo.

nvm, figured it out

A puff adder skin coiled neatly in a lidded quart jar of glycerine and alcohol.

Anyone in this joint know about tanning snake skin?

demon core vidal 🔜 PAX @regretagarbo.rip · 3d ago

girl ask me where the mizzenmast is. shit.

demon core vidal 🔜 PAX@regretagarbo.rip · 3d ago

me, after reading COUNTLESS books about ships in the last like two and a half years, “… you know, what ARE ‘gunwales’? OHHHHHH” can i pronounce it? yes. do i know what it is? i do NOW

Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spent the afternoon/evening watching Cheers and signing/packaging copies of The Art & Making of Highlander - I sold out my stock as the night went on. I’ll order more tomorrow, feel free to check out the shop - I have bookplates for US orders: ko-fi.com/jonathanmelv...

Would you believe I’m *still* finding new stuff in my dad’s desk four years later? He left behind such a wealth of Mysterious Objects.

Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 3d ago

Friday! Bring us your burning questions about book-making and we'll turn them into little bonfires of motivation, accountability, and camaraderie.

🚨 ONLY A FEW SEATS LEFT 🚨 It’s been a week. And on Friday, we can bring it to a soft embrace of a landing by talking about books. Join me and ADVENTURE CARTOONIST @lubellwoo.bsky.social as we talk about how to write, make, design, edit, and promote books. Fun? YES! Informative? You bet.

John Singer Sargent @johnsargent.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sketching on the Giudecca https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/sketching-on-the-giudecca

We had a "What movie encapsulates your gender" discussion at Wayward this year and a majority of the selected films—animated, live action, whatever—starred Tim Curry.

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · 3d ago

HARD ENDORSEMENT FOR THESE. I had an incredible time revisiting the books through his voice. Mogget is unhinged.

does everyone know Tim Curry narrated the first Sabriel trilogy btw. This was news to me when I discovered (and subsequently devoured) the audiobooks a couple of years ago, they're SO delightful and delicious and as you might expect, the villain voices are fucking incredible libro.fm/audiobooks/9...