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Paul Tobin

@paultobin.bsky.social

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Multiple Eisner winning author of Bandette, Bunny Mask, Plants vs. Zombies, the Versus novels, Heart Acres, Next Door Dungeon & more. Find me at PaulTobin.net or as OgreParty on Royal Road www.royalroad.com/fiction/150796

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 13h

Gonna be thinkin' about this turkey for a while.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 14h

Still researching old magazines and ran across this perfect "side eye while drinking my tea" cover.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 16h

It wasn't a crush, okay? It was / is true love.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 17h

If I was Bulletgirl I'd have an issue with how quick Bulletman just goes "oop! dead!" and starts to wander off.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 17h

Always interesting, when I’m cleaning my rain gutters, to see what presents various animals have left for me.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 22h

Right offhand, I can think of several creators for a comic book of SHE-DEMONS: Female hellhounds lusting for blood and gore. It would have to be a woman writer and there are SO many good ones.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23h

Just scheduled a whole bunch of new chapters for my MY SECRET TWENTY project! If you could use a +1 to your reading enjoyment, give my online weirdo serial novel a try!!! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1731...

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23h

Web-Foot Mose. Glorious.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23h

I really do love the look of these old proto-pulp magazines.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23h

The covers of all those were illustrated by Nelly Littlehale Umstaetter. The back covers are all ads for Sapolio cleaning solution. I kinda wonder how well it worked.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Four issues of The Black Cat, an early somewhat pulpy short story magazine. All of these issues are from 1896

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you have kids, don't forget to read the new issue of Captain Marvel Adventures with them every month.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is probably my favorite cover where a guy is screaming "THE BATHROOM!"

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don’t think I posted these. Two recent grabs for my collection. A pair of pages from the Italian master, Mario Cubbino.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(threatening voice)

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just scheduled a bunch more chapters of my online litRpg serial novel. I truly appreciate all the readers following along, but also a few more would be sweet. Join the fun, ya rascals! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get mad / fascinated by how deftly Alex Raymond illustrated fabrics.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She's been a fave of mine for... a long time. The first time I ever walked into an actual comic store they had an old comic of hers (this issue) on the wall and it struck me, all the weird angles of the cover, the pretty girl, the sheer madness, and a whole history I wasn't aware of.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New random group of comics in the display area.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🦬 🤷‍♂️

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gorilla is serious about this.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Might not be posting for a while. Dealing with some stuff. My wife was captured by apes.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some classic originals. (not mine, dammit) Jack Kirby X-Men page, inked by Chic Stone. An Al Milgrom Captain Marvel page. Kirby / Royer page from The Eternals. Ditko page from Eerie #3.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Working with Carlos on Junk Punch is fantastic because I’ll write police officers into the script and then I get this in the mail this morning.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That was the one and only issue of Flip Flap, by the way. From 1950. The cover artist is Janine / Reina Bull, one of my current fascinations.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hoping, as always, to have myself a flip flap day.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Original Mark Schneider cover art: South Sea Stories V4 #3: January 1964

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lemmy / Motörhead singing "Ace of Spades". CBGB's ~ 1980.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Second date.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Actual image of the dating scene.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From now on I learn history from old Italian comics and nowhere else.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Buffalo Bill thing I posted was used as a cover for this series, btw. Most of the covers suck, but there's a few gems.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just ran across an original 1960's painting for a comic book cover that captures one of my favorite moments in the life of Buffalo Bill.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great original art I've run across online this morning. A François Ravard illustration. Guido Buzzelli page from Plastikon. Osamu Kishimoto page from Whirlwind Kid. And this 12th century carving from the Kilpeck Church.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book design used to be a tad different.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good night from me and the d-loving dolphin.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first word balloon is the only good AI.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my brain

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had no idea that freakin' ERIC STANTON assisted Boody Rogers on some of the Babe stories. (original page Stanton helped out on, the printed colors, the issue it was in, random Stanton original)

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1991 Sears catalog photo. Those of us who lived through this time period are still mentally recovering. Psychiatrists across America steeling themselves and saying, "tell me about the sunglasses and the paint-splatter pants."

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Totally hate it when I make the wrong move in chess and the robot elephant attacks.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sneak peek at a project I'm working on that will see the light of day maybe... around the start of the year? These are Sack Crows. They're like crows but even smarter, have two human arms in addition to wings, and a kangaroo pouch that's basically a Bag of Holding. They're capable-ish of speech.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

original Dracurella pages by Julio Ribera. I wish I could afford one of these.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A couple of the best to ever do it. Alfonso Font and Moebius. (I super do not own these)

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just ran across the original art to this beauty. (art is by the members of Studio Rosi)

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting this one to help out anyone researching the complicated systems of underclothing that a knight would wear beneath their armor.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Lion of Seville.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These guys.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This guy.