Vannotes
@vannotesbooks.bsky.social
Storyteller, comics artisan, and educator. Writer on Piggy, Spy Ninjas, and Bendy. Creator of Tall Tales of Odahi. The pal behind Seasonal Produce Publishing. Repped by Jessica Mileo at Inkwell Literary Management.
Not true but also my advanced fiction seminar was six women last term, and I didn’t reject any men. They’re rejecting themselves.
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 2d agoExcuse me?
We haven’t had good air quality in rural Idaho for weeks due to fires. Everyone’s erratic and grumpy. No one can breathe or stand the heat, but we ache to go outside. I can’t imagine if this is our every summer now due to climate change and terrible wildfire policy.
Batman: The Caped Crusader giving The Joker the affect of Werner Herzog is so inspired it’s blowing my mind.
I have several New Yorkers stacked up right now, but unfortunately all I want to read is Batman comics.
I’m just barely scratching the surface of Dimension 20 episodes and I love table top gaming so much!
I’m dreading finishing the last Milestone Compendium. They’re such time capsules for a specific moment in comics and pop culture. The stewards of this project deserve massive props.
AI could never make artistic challenges as punishing to my hands as I can make for myself while saying, “This should be fun.”
Think I might get depressed about my relationship to my art tonight unless anyone’s got any better plans.
Writing prose is a completely different beast than writing a graphic novel. Time to put in the reps!
100%ed Chibi Robo after not playing it in over a decade and it’s still one of the most delightful games I’ve ever played.
I went to the Odyssey in IMAX on Thursday and I’m truly grateful to have such great friends to go see it with me. I won’t have an official review until I see it twice, because my first viewing I spent the entire time going “so how’s he gonna do this?”
There’s a strange almost uncanny valley effect whenever Stan Sakai draws people, because you’re so used to the characters in that style being furries.
Robert Kirkman truly is bankrolling the most expensive X-Men fancomic ever.
Sometimes it takes an afternoon of reading some real clunker comics to convince you to get back to the drawing board.
What does a comic book writer do? Jot down something stupid like “a space marine shoots a rail gun at a giant horse in a city full of skeleton people” on their MacBook Pro, then lean back and call it a day. They don’t have to lift a finger for nothing!
Saying someone is a comic writer is a nice way of calling them a no good human leech upon this earth! And I should know!
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
cbc.ca
I cannot tell you how shocked I was that the end of The Odyssey, considered one of the influential epics of all time, is Zeus blowing stuff up and Athena going, “well it’s over now.”
Without saying your age, what’s your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
Django Unchained: Jamie Foxx as Django
Alt: Django Unchained: A shot of Jamie Foxx as Django smoking a cigarette.
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David Pepose - Comic Book Writer@peposed.bsky.social · 3w agoWithout saying your age, what’s your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
Saying someone is a comic writer is a nice way of calling them a no good human leech upon this earth! And I should know!
Everyday I leave the house with four pens in my pocket, can’t find a pen all day, then come home with four different pens in my pockets.
My forays into indie comics publishing have only hemorrhaged money and time, so anyone who is trying to do it as a sustainable business is truly a mad person.
Still can't get past the fact they couldn't find a real Latverian to play Doom.