Make it even weirder must be our battlecry as the book biz declines into drooling imbecility.
Mahendra Singh
@mahendra.bsky.social
Illustrator and author, ie., hopeless dreamer, accomplished loafer. Montreal, Earth. Portfolio, interviews, books for sale: https://campsite.bio/mahendra_singh Prints/Posters: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mahendra_singh/
"No, they do not beg; they have the dignity of the wretched who die of wages..." André Suarès, Le Voyage du Condottière
Read an excerpt of Ishmael Reed's forthcoming novel, The Terrible Fives biblioklept.org/2026/08/03/r...
Read an excerpt of Ishmael Reed’s forthcoming novel, The Terrible Fives
Rex Stuart (T.2s) had made a pile as the star of the soap opera Sorrows and Trials. He’d set up his film company to cater to the streaming market. Right now, Afro-Futurism is hot. He asked his agen…
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The fever dream of Le Corbusier + Punjabi insouciance.
Theo Honohan@theohonohan.bsky.social · 3d agoJane Drew, Higher Secondary School, Sector 23, Chandigarh, 1956. RIBA photo
Heads up for INDIE Indian 🇮🇳 authors, a new independent bookstore is opening in India! There is an interest form on their Instagram page which I've copied here, bc i think a couple of my mutuals would be v interested in this!! 💖 #TheFableJar #booksky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Indian Authors Interest Form
Hello! Thank you for showing interest in The Fable Jar. As mentioned in the post sharing the link to this form, this is ONLY for INDIAN AUTHORS. The reason The Fable Jar was created is to support the ...
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Excellent illustration/art direction!
The Arab League of Misfits@arabmisfits.com · 6d ago🛵 Greets you by day and robs you by night. Meet Neighborhood Jagal, our final Shatara Usloob card reveal, based on Lebanese classic stereotype of street-smart show-off. The team is now shifting focus to preparing our Gamescom showcase build and a potential public Steam demo. #indiegame #ALoM
I was bummed they cut Odysseus' soliloquy about how, if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the minnow would be lost.
Happy unbirthday to Marcel Duchamp, who made a posthumous appearance as Concerned Neighbour in The Adventures of Mr. Pyridine, published by Fantagraphics back in the days when such things were allowed into print.
Wallace Polsom, “Dream House CXIX” (21 Jul 2026), paper collage, 21.2 x 30.2 cm | wallacepolsom.com/post/8227689... #papercollage #collage #art #contemporaryart #dreamhouse #surrealart
This is one of those reskeets where I'm recommending a book liked thirty years ago but have no idea if I'll like it now.
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you're interested in these sorts of things, Kandinsky's "On the spiritual in art" is an interesting read. And it's freely available here, at the @archive.org archive.org/details/onsp...
The rules for ZZOTA's "SNARK!" seem to be quite challenging. And I am very slow in generating virtual playing cards from my scans of the original cards. Nevertheless, if you can imagine playing the game (snrk.de/the-snark-ru...) for 2 to 4 players on a virtual desktop, please follow @snark.games.
The SNARK! rules – The Hunting of the Snark
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SNARK!@snark.games · 5mo ago1a/🧵 I rescanned the rules of the SNARK! card game. ※ 10 MB PDF file: snrk.de/wp-content/u... ※ Text: snrk.de/the-snark-ru...
Time for another episode of my Why Not Say What Happened? podcast, in which I discuss memorable hate mail received while writing Captain Marvel, my unsuccessful score on a DC Comics proofreading test, and more. Listen as I'm borne back ceaselessly into the past! www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
Nicely put! Also applies to us picture wallahs, simply substitute words with lines. The balance is everything, sometimes it's even an unbalance.
D. A. Powell@dapowell.bsky.social · 3w agoHalf of poetry is finding the right words. The rest is just finding the wrong words. For balance.
Crossbreeding horses and donkeys to make mules was a a way to control the transportation industry in Mesopotamia by Big Ass
And now for something completely different. Parody of infamous US advert for muscle-building correspondence course. It's fun being the art director AND illustrator, cuts out an often unnecessary layer of mindless blather and endless meetings. The editor wanted to cut the final hubba-hubba. No!
On Mervyn Peake's birthday, why not listen to our podcast about Titus Groan, one of Anthony Burgess's favourite novels? Our guest was the brilliant @profrmaslen.bsky.social. www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...
Ninety-Nine Novels: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...
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none of these vacuities would have mattered, had it not been for the pince-nez Lees-Milne banger
Episode 15 of In the Picture is out today with author illustrator @meenalpatelstudio.bsky.social (link in bio) Share with friends and fellow kidlit creatives. Don’t forget to POST A REVIEW to feed the algorithm.🙏🥰 Also, go order her books for your home or library! They're 🤩.
QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers.
EventHorizon@eventhorizon451.bsky.social · last mo.QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers
Celebrate US campaign finance laws by financing me with this tee-shirt. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5361...
Hell Is Other Corporations by mahendra
So French, so wow.
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My art school God of Illustration and Design. He also had the luck (and willpower) to have some enlightened clients.
Joachim Boaz@joachimboaz.bsky.social · last mo.Artist Milton Glaser (1929-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1959; R, 1952 #scifi #sciencefiction #art
