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#Sketchbook Sunday! (1) Some early sketching for the look of my main character. (2) Anatomy practice and a sketch of my sleeping cat. (3) A mini-strip that I imagined while I was bored. #IndieComics #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

Ah what the hell, here’s some #Jimothy fanart. #IndieComics #NoAI

A black and white illustration of a misshapen raccoon in a defensive posture, and a crazed look in its bugged out eyes, with its teeth bared. It is signed “Tito 07/23/26”

Embodied Punk@naturistpunk.bsky.social · 2w ago

So happy!

I reviewed the wonderful new comic by @titoadler.bsky.social over on Planet Nude! Go give it a read!

Early version of a gag in my book about where nudists keep their stuff. The dog acted as a censor, but I quickly decided that wasn’t the humor I wanted. Wish I would have kept that dog, but I forgot about him. This is also why they carry backpacks or tote bags in the final draft. #BTS #IndieComics

A black and white cartoon panel, featuring an exchange between a nude male ice cream vendor named Buster and a nude female surfer named Sunny. Titled “Bark Comedy.” Panel one: Buster, frantic, says “Sunny! That was the chilliest breeze I’ve ever felt and I’ve lived in this town my entire life.” Panel Two: Buster says “Something’s wrong!” and Sunny says “Let me check the weather app on my phone!” Panel Three: a dog pops out of nowhere yelling “BARK” in large lettering. Panel four: Buster says, looking out at the viewer, “Hey, friendly reminder. This is just a cartoon. So relax and don’t ask too many questions. Sunny says, looking at her phone, “Maaan, I got sand on it.”

I declare today, for myself, as Sketchbook Sunday! I still like to think with my hands and sketch out my ideas. Here are some examples of sketches I used to plan some panels in my book, available on Amazon. #HumanArt #HumanMade #IndieComics #NoAI

A photo of a page in a sketchbook. The paper is preprinted eith a dotted grid. Four comic book panels are loosely sketched out in red and blue pencil. The first panel depicts an exterior shot with speech bubbles coming from a good truck. The second panel depicts a tight shot of the driver’s window, with speech bubbles coming from the radio and the driver looking concerned. The third panel depicts the driver squinting his eyes as he says something. The final panel is a wide shot of two food trucks in dramatic perspective, one following the other.

Ahmed Raafat@theahmedraafat.bsky.social · 3w ago

Huge fan!

Aliens (or as James Cameron likes to call it, Alien$) came out FORTY (!!!) years ago today! Did this for Alien Day, today is a good day to reshare!

Huh…that…was unexpected. I’ll take it! #IndieComics #Comics #NudistComics #BookSky

A screenshot of the Amazon new releases landing page for Comic Strips and Cartoons on Kindle. It it timestamped “Fri Jul 17 8:56”. The number one book featured is “Unsexy Nudie Tales From Pretty Beach! The Day The Pool Became Ice Cream! By Tito Adler”

Planet Nude@planetnude.co · 3w ago

Check out my Q&A on @planetnude.co! Thanks for the shout out! This really made my day! 😁

Magical nudism with Tito Adler www.planetnude.co/p/magical-nu...

Hey, Top 5 in New Releases on Kindle as of this writing, not too shabby! Good company too! 😁

Screenshot of Amazon new releases for Kindle eBooks landing page showing the book “Unsexy Nudie Tales From Pretty Beach! The Day The Pool Became Ice Cream!” sitting at number 5, below Garfield Half-Baked: His 79th Book at number 4.

Thanks to everyone who’s picked up the book, shared it, or told a friend. Seeing people discover Pretty Beach has made launch week really special. 🏝️

Tito@titoadler.bsky.social · 3w ago

My book has launched on this #NationalNudeDay! Get your copy and leave a review! #IndieComics #NudistComics #Comics #BookSky

A color cartoon of a nude man of African-descent wearing glasses, happily running along the beach as he pulls an enormous kite in the form of a space shuttle.

THE WAIT IS OVER. A creator-owned comedy about a nudist ice cream man whose latest idea turns an entire swimming pool into popcorn-flavored ice cream. BUT HOW?! My new book is available now on Kindle, so get your copy and find out! a.co/d/0cKrJ4vq #IndieComics #Comics #Cartoonist #NudistComics

A promotion for the book “Unsexy Nudie Tales From Pretty Beach! The Day The Pool Became Ice Cream!” The promotion depicts the book cover, which is a color illustration of an above-grojnd pool filled with ice-scream scoops. Below is a banner that reads “available at Amazon.

The first page in the story from my book! After two years of working on it on and off, it’s finally happening!

A comic page, in the layout of newspaper Sunday funnies. The title reads “The Day the Pool Became Ice Cream! by Tito Adler.” A blurb reads “BUSTER BUNNE HAS ONE GOAL: TO CREATE THE NEXT ICE CREAM SENSATION! WE JOIN HIM AS HE PONDERS HIS NEXT MOVE...” We see a shot of a notebook with a list strange ice cream names scratched out and pencil. Cut to the main character, Buster Bunne, wearing an ice cream vendor hat, a blue backpack and sandals. As he walks along the beach, he looks worried, mulling ice cream names: “MANGO MIRAGE...NO! PIÑATA PARTY...NO! BANANA BANDSTAND.. NO! PEACHY KEEN LIME PIE...NO!” Cut to Buster raising his fist in defiance: “UGH! NO, NO, NO! I'VE HEARD OF ALL OF THESE! WHAT'S A FLAVOR THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF BEFORE?!” Cut to him looking down at his keys, annoyed. Cut to him standing next to his home door ready to open the door. He cries out in frustration: “SANDY CHURRO? GRUMPY SUNSET? FRIED AIR?!“ A nude elderly gentleman quips behind him: “HEY THAT SOUNDS GOOD, WHEN DO YOU OPEN?” A dog sitting next to the old man scratches his ears.

Boy it’s a hot one. Cool off with a panel from upcoming book.

A color illustration of a nude man in a yoga pose floating on a cloud. Behind him a bright light radiates from behind the nude man against the blue sky. The nude man has what looks like a melting scoop of ice on his head as a hay. Floating ice cream cones in different flabors float alongside him. The nude man has a peaceful expression on his face, with closed eyes and a closed and soft smile.

It’s #SkinnyDipDay! Below is a particularly dramatic skinny dip from my book, “Unsexy Nudie Tales From Pretty Beach! The Day The Pool Became Ice Cream!”

Two long and horizontal black and white cartoon panels stacked vertically. The top panel depicts a nude woman in the foreground, diving dramatically into turbulent waters. Way in the background is a clothed lifeguard, shocked at the diving nude woman. The nude woman yells “I’M GOING IN!”, as the lifeguard yells “WHAT?!”. The bottom panel depicts the nude woman completely submerged as she swims toward the reader, bubbles from the dive trailing behind her. The room’s ceiling is visible through the surface of the water above and darkness radiates from below the nude woman.

Super fun to draw panel from my book.

A black and white cartoon of a heavily distorted man’s head with bulging eyes screaming at the top of his lungs. Large and rough lettering spelling “AHHH!!!!” radiates around him.

Deep beneath the sands of Pretty Beach, somehow there is a cavernous, high-tech sanctuary of ice cream justice and sugary wonders! Sample panel from my book.

A long, horizonalt black and white cartoon panel depicting an interior scene. It depicts an underground laboratory, with a large cylindrical elevator shaft, dessert models hidden in a corner, a floor to ceiling painting of a dessert in a glass container, a supercomputer, an ice cream van and a gaping hole leading to what appears to be an underground cavern.

Another one of my favorite panels from my upcoming book.

A full color cartoon depicting two women in the lower left hand corner. The leftmost woman is a lifeguard dressed in a red shirt, black shorts, flipflops, a red cap and sunglasses. She is running frantically with her arms extended, towards a nude blonde woman wielding an orange megaphone. The nude woman is screaming obscenities, represented metaphoricaly with abstract symbols including stars, a skull, a lightning bolt, and squiggles. The speech ballon is explosive and spiky in shape, taking up most of the space in the panel. The speech balloon represents the roaring volume of her swearing.

Sample panel from my book. I dreaded drawing this but ended up in a zone and now it’s one of my favorite panels.

Long, black and white horizontal cartoon panel with a bit of white space above and below. The panel depicts a fast moving whirlpool with a group of four senior citizens wearing inflatables, floating in the vortex. They are playing a card game and seem indifferent about their situation. One senior speaks “Go Fish!”

Pinup sample from my book.

A color cartoon depicting a surf scene. Two surfers are riding an enormous wave. A male surfer in the background is wiping out as his surfboard goes flying out from under him. A female surfer in the foreground is surfing confidently and with great skill. She has an expression of joy on her face.

Drew a pareidolic face I saw in my eggs.

Two images set side-by-side. On the left, a a single pair of fried eggs on a plate that has been cut in a way that looks like the larger top slice is a face and the smaller lower slice is a severed jaw. On the right is a black and white digital surreal drawing of a distorted, skeletal face inspired by the shape of the fried egg. The “eyes” are highly detailed, with one resembling a cross-section of fruit and the other a swirling, hollowed-out socket. The nose and mouth area are filled with texture like cross-hatching and woven lines, while the lower jaw is a separate piece with small, jagged teeth. The drawing is signed “TITO” and dated “07/03/26.”

Have about four comic ideas beginning to brew; spent all morning sorting out folders for project management 😵‍💫

Spent the morning sketching examples of sci-fi/fantasy weapons from fiction