Valentine Barker
@valentinebarker.com
From oil painter to comic artist and a little of everything in between. Artist on The Airless Year. Demi. He/Him/His. https://www.valentinebarker.com
AI sucks ass— It’s designed by fascists whose goal is to extract all value from our lives & enrich themselves with no regard to our quality of life or survival. But generative ai is especially horrid & so is anyone who uses it, because it’s still ruining lives & the planet and it’s UNNECESSARY.
Well, everything I attempted sucked today so I wrote myself a permission slip about that.
My friend, Cat mentioned she has some availability for projects so if you want a collaborator who is imaginative, easy to work with and makes art with charm for days then reach out. She's ready to make another masterpiece with the right material!
Cat Farris@cattifer.bsky.social · 2y agoHey! It's station identification time! I'm Cat Farris, comic book artist and cartoonist. Here's what my art looks like:
Happy 2nd birthday to TrueRef! 🎉 ⦿ 35% off EVERYTHING all through August ⦿ A new pose pack every week ⦿ Weekly freebies in the mailing list ⦿ A super secret fourth thing Look: trueref.io TrueRef: Just the reference you were looking for
Speaking of! A few years ago I started writing a comic that I've been wanting to get back to. This may be the kick in the pants I needed.
Valentine Barker@valentinebarker.com · 2d agoI finally feel... strong enough... to read it, but I've started reading The 1619 Project and I can already tell it's going to be a transformative process.
I finally feel... strong enough... to read it, but I've started reading The 1619 Project and I can already tell it's going to be a transformative process.
Rewatched the Three Days of the Hunter Job episode from Leverage and... it made me real sad. The water is poison... a scandal that won't actually bring down the president... and no crack team of good guys coming to save us? Real sad.
Check out this kick ass art I got @benjamindewey.bsky.social to do of me and @cattifer.bsky.social as Shepard and Garrus from Mass Effect!! With Cocoa Bean as Mordin!
I don't think I'm gonna get to 100 paintings by the end of the year, but I have officially done more paintings this year than any year previous. So... that's pretty cool.
Open for editing! As the layoff situation continues to be less than ideal, I'm available for editing work. Scripts, prose, comics, pitches, if you have a story that needs constructive feedback and support, I'm you're huckleberry! Contact here or mariah-mccout.squarespace.com.
I could really go for a salad rill with peanut sauce right about now. Oh well.
Ten years. Still here even with all the assorted difficulties with getting hands on these books. 💚 It's a feat in this industry to stay in print for this length of time. Thanks to all the readers who love Hail and Co. Thanks for enjoying and telling others about it. I appreciate you. #Booksky
K.B. Wagers@kbwagers.com · 2y agoLinks! Including the Hail Bristol trilogies - The Indranan War and the Farian War A tired, done with your shit, former gunrunner is dragged back home to take over her mother's empire. She's not happy to be here and is going to make it everyone's problem. bookshop.org/contributors...
Bree Wolf @breewolfstuff.bsky.social offering some Blender tips to Zoe Lewis @quark-dynasty.bsky.social as part of a Helioscope mentorship talk. Bree is the author of Hex Americana and Maker Comics: Design a Game.
🎵 Waiting for a text. Oh! I'm just losing my mind. Waiting for a text. 🎵
There's one particular project in the aether that I want to secure. So this is me manifesting it into my schedule.
From a cover I did for @jefflemire171.bsky.social’s Black Hammer Reborn, for which I also drew issues 1-4 and 8-12 (with the middle issues drawn by Malachi Ward) #blackhammer #darkhorse
Nighthawks Volume 1 is live on Kickstarter! I enjoyed the story so much I did not only one, but TWO covers (so far) for this series! @deckyrd.bsky.social has put together something special with this, so check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nig...
Nighthawks, Volume 1
52 pages of mystery, assassins, detectives, and dames!
kickstarter.com
Not me screaming "answer my question!" at my phone. I might have lucked out, but I need an answer to my daggum question!
I've recently discovered that the confidence of a mediocre white man doesn't actually look good on anyone.
Anyway, I hope you come if you're in Portland. (This is terrifying, I have never done this before, please come!) rsvpdx.com/walkingshadow
Tamora's Pie Shop@skyesidhe.bsky.social · last wk.I'm creating my very first fringe show. And it's about Lady M. Because of course it is.
it took four days but my placeholder website is UP. real website later but now you can read my name, click on a link to get to itchio or bluesky, and sign up for the newsletter i don't update if you want! rhiannonrs.com
Rhiannon Rasmussen
rhiannonrs.com
GEN CON PEOPLE: If you get a party invite from "punch bowl", even if it's from an email address you know, DO NOT LOG IN to get more details. It's a phishing scam. I got one from "Green Ronin" and called them to check details and it's not real, but there are others floating around as well.
Anyway, this is the requisite public grumbling before I get it together and actually send something out and it'll be great once I get going. Newsletter is here! There's good stuff therein. buttondown.com/lucybellwood
Lucy Bellwood's Bottleship
An intermittent digest of writing, comics, and creative experiments from Adventure Cartoonist Lucy Bellwood.
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