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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d ago

nymag.com/intelligence...

Portraits of Ferguson’s Most Tenacious Protesters

Despite the break from the tear gas and riot gear, they’re not giving up.

nymag.com

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · last wk.

Got a new tapestry needle and it's such a game changer holy shit

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 2w ago

of course my kindle decides it's time for a charge when i have a book review deadline 🙄

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2w ago

sending a raven that i trained to do the jack off motion to the opposing army's commander

✪ Beware the Gray Ghost! ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Americans have protested like the French They’re just the ones with the wrong skin tone or you don’t see it at all

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Bird of Venus

A parody of the paining, ‘The Birth of Venus’, painted with penguins replacing each human character.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · last mo.

so hes just jerking himself off at the UN. okay. great.

Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · last mo.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey but it’s penguins, inspired by #penguinsprogress

A digital painting of The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, reimagined with cartoon-style penguins replacing each character.

Grendel @grendelmenz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A zine about eating your fruits and vegetables or something (1/3)

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Wtf is a wellness darty" - Orteta, probably #fhr #chargestep

A digital drawing of two characters. One lays on his back with his arms sprawled out, while the other drinks from a fast-food to go cup that is balanced on the crotch of the character who's laying down.

Amelia Quinn @soundofmind.bsky.social · 3mo ago

COMMS OPEN!!! Signal boosts appreciated if anyone thinks others would be interested!

foppish michael (scary)@dryltt3.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i get sad when i see olruggio called a bum too often... leave my man alone he has delayed sleep phase disorder low iron untreated ptsd 15 unpaid invoices and a twenty year situationship living 10 yards away. of course he's fucking tired

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

popping the biggest bottles rn

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret, a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).

beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a meerkat is seated and speaking to the “camera” in an interview style. The meerkat says with an intensity, “nobody knows the real story. I was there.” Panel 2: another dramatic Netflix documentary interview style shot of the meerkat. It continues, “it’s a cult.” Panel 3: title card on a prairie landscape which reads, “MEERKAT MANOR: Tunnel of Lies”

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

got the laboratory :D sorry to the vake but im gonna use this for evil

corv@wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

trying to get a lab built in fallen london via the Correspondent route so im grinding out my Scholar of the Correspondence, Notability, Making Waves... so far the best path seems to be churning out a bunch of symphonies.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

loving feudal club penguin. the king just went to take out an afk penguin so i got the king while they were doing that

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

Revised the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture. 1/2

Text: TANGENTS
In geometry, a tangent is when a line touches a curve at a single point.
(images illustrating this, with a curve and a circle touching the lines)
The point where they touch is called the tangent. in a drawing, this is what I call a “bump-up” tangent (more on that
later), but the term “tangent” is a bit more flexible when applied to visual art.
When an artist (or art critic, or art teacher, etc) mentions a tangent, they’re generally referring to any relationship between lines (or elements) in a drawing that interact in a way that the artist didn’t intend.
When I was a teacher, I found it helpful to differentiate the various offenses that fell under the catch-all term “tangents” and give them each a name, to make identification of problem areas in a drawing easier.

An earlier version of these examples was published online in 2011 under the title “The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.”

Text:
Long-Line Tangent
The “long-line” tangent is when the line from one subject in the drawing leads into the line of another.
(image where the line from a figure's wide-brimmed hat"becomes" the line of the roof)
See how the hat of this fella runs into the line of the roof? that’s bad!
(image where they do NOT intersect)
Not so bad!
Try to avoid near-tangents, too! Even if a line doesn’t actually connect with another, “close” isn’t great, either.
(image illustrating this point using the same iconography as above)

Text:
Bump-Up Tangent
A bump-up tangent is when one element of a drawing bumps up against another.
(image where the outside a figure's elbow touches a wall)
When the bump-up is the result of different subjects touching, correct it by making one clearly overlap the other.
(Same image repeated twice, but in one the elbow is in front of the wall, and in the other behind it)
Either of these works just fine!
Sometimes using the principle of “what’s closer?” overlap won’t always be the best solution. you can do that (like the nose in the example) or you can just redraw the offending lines (like the lapel).
Images: a drawing with tangents, and that same drawing with the tangents eliminated

Text:
Beyond just the drawing itself, make sure to avoid bumping your image against the formal components of the comic: word balloons, sound effects, panel borders, etc. They’re in the image, therefore, regardless of what stage they’re introduced into the art, they’re PART OF THE COMPOSITION, and need to be treated as such.

(Image: example drawing where the balloon and panel borders are creating bump-up tangents with the drawing)

There are many publishers who insist on live (editable) balloons and dialogue text to make easier foreign sales and online publishing; I vehemently disagree with this approach, because it makes flexible what should be the sole purview of a cartoonist: the intersection of lines in the art, and lines in the art, like it or not, iNCLUDE the lines that surround a word balloon.

For this reason, LETTERiNG SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE iNKS. Then your inks can accommodate the balloons. This was standard practice until the advent of digital lettering, and while there’s nothing wrong with digital lettering, its placement in the pipeline order generally results in a poorer overall comic than would be the case were it done between the roughs/pencils stage and the inks.

beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three panel comic. Panel 1: two friends are playing cards. There is a birdcage hanging behind them, just peaking out of frame. Friend 1 asks, “does your bird talk?” To which friend 2 replies, “Please… don’t.” Panel 2: friend 2 continues, head in hand, “he’s on this alpha male influencer thing right now.” Behind him, the bird - posed and wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket - is leaning forward on a tiny easy chair in his enclosure. Panel 3: with his hands clasped, easing back into his chair, the bird says, “stops eating seeds. Focus on your net worth.”

Steven (with a PH)@sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Rewatching The X-Files. Can't believe that I was watching this as a 9 year old. Not because of the monsters, but because I just don't think that a child should know of the bureaucratic frustrations that occur whenever multiple government departments have to work alongside one another.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Nobody:
Me eating a:" with a screenshot of the neuromancer trailer as listed in youtubes recommended. Several poorly drawn stick figures are depicted eating the same image below.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Positioning a trans actor as the moral voice of reason, an unwavering advocate for Zeus’s law, and a man whose ultimate betrayal symbolizes the destruction of civilized Greek society for the sake of the 'victory' at Troy, is especially pertinent to where we are currently."

Them@them.us · 3mo ago

A spoiler-filled discussion of the film’s moral themes — far beyond the casting of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong'o.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I PULLED THE SKIN OF THE BAZAAR CARD!!!

a 'i used to pray for times like this' meme

corv@wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

trying to get a lab built in fallen london via the Correspondent route so im grinding out my Scholar of the Correspondence, Notability, Making Waves... so far the best path seems to be churning out a bunch of symphonies.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

it feels important to note that i'm watching the national Mullet Championship simultaneously

corv@wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

trying to get a lab built in fallen london via the Correspondent route so im grinding out my Scholar of the Correspondence, Notability, Making Waves... so far the best path seems to be churning out a bunch of symphonies.

corv @wafflehouseindex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

trying to get a lab built in fallen london via the Correspondent route so im grinding out my Scholar of the Correspondence, Notability, Making Waves... so far the best path seems to be churning out a bunch of symphonies.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled to announce The Strange Architect series over at Variety. There were several possibilities, but thankful to FSG for stepping up and creating a home for it. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

‘The Strange Architect,’ New Series by ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer, Sells to Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Seven-Figure Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

'The Strange Architect,' a four-part series by 'Annihilation' author Jeff VanderMeer, has sold Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a seven-figure deal.

variety.com

Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Poor bastard’s starving

Cookie Monster: For every goal today, me going to eat a cookie

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Argentina has subbed in what looks like a huge wooden horse??

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

literally this match is eleven spanish players versus Emiliano Martinez

Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 4mo ago

QUÉ COMEMIERDERÍA ES ESTO