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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/09/2026

In the book, they’re Jehovah’s Witnesses who try to get the newsvendor to stock the watchtower. But likely their looks come from somewhere specific.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/09/2026

My nth time reading Watchmen and I only noticed this bit of foreshadowing now. (It’s the comic back cover.)

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mohlezuneapolj.bsky.social @mohlezuneapolj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks to this post by @mrtylercrook.bsky.social I went and tried again to order "Everything Dead & Dying" by @tatebrombal.bsky.social @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social @pipmartin.bsky.social & @adityab.net and was rewarded with a great zombie apocalypse tale from a novel perspective. Very recommended!

Cover of "Everything Dead & Dying" on which a farmer milks an undead cow in a idyllic landscape.

A double page from "Everything Dead & Dying" in which a farmer tells bis daughter about his life. The panels are scenes from his life interchanged with him digging.

A double page from "Everything Dead & Dying" in which the farmer suddenly awakes in a nightmare.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 20/09/2026

On the blog: We've got dates for the release of the IN YOUR SKIN collected edition (pre-orders close tomorrow!) and an explanation for my general absence. www.adityab.net/absences/

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Absences

I feel like I owe some kind of explanation for my recent absence from this blog and from social media. And since I’m not going to be talking about this on social media, I should talk about it here. So...

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 10/09/2026

I’d say so. My usual these days is 120 pages a month, which is a LOT less than most others.

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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

THE PERFECTLY MONSTROUS LIFE OF ADAM FRANKENSTEIN is out THIS WEDNESDAY from @darkhorse.com / @readtinyonion.bsky.social !! in it, you can find the MONSTERS IN LOVE story, “I’VE ONLY GOT EYES (AND TEETH) FOR YOU” by me, @naomifranq.bsky.social, @snibbits.eurosky.social, and @adityab.net !!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Got my comp copies of BEAST OF BORIKÉN #2, that has a back-up story "My Goal Is To Not Be Believed" by me, @oeming.bsky.social, and @adityab.net about internet peculiarity John Titor!

A photo of Jadzia's hand holding a copy of BEAST OF BORIKÉN #2 opened to the back-up story "My Goal Is To Not Be Believed"

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 21/08/2026

Yeah, I think it's my favourite kind of glimpse into process, so when Greg suggested it, I jumped at it.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 20/08/2026

This was a great deal of fun to do - an “exit interview”, discussing the entire comic, with no restrictions on spoilers.

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Fanboy Factor @fanboyfactor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY MEETS THE SUBSTANCE IN STANDALONE BODY HORROR GRAPHIC NOVEL IN YOUR SKIN OUT THIS FALL @imagecomics.com @adityab.net buff.ly/IcMHpoX

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ianarchie.bsky.social @ianarchie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Winter Afternoon Light, The Sycamore St Margarets: watercolour and pencil

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Kness @kness.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🐋 While I'm working on the website, I stumbled upon this painting I created a while back. It's called *40 Whales Left* : The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) has a population that summers in the Bering Sea, and it has less than 40 whales left. It's on www.inprnt.com/gallery/kness/

40 whales left - a painting of what exists

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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This week kicks off a streak of four straight first time guests on Off Panel, and what an absolute pleasure it was to start it off with cartoonist Terry Moore, who joins me for a sprawling, free-flowing conversation about his life, comics, and career. It's a treat. Listen up!

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 17/08/2026

Is Frank Miller's 300 out-of-print? Every time I've tried to buy it, over the last few years, it's been out of stock (at least in India).

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 31, 1910. Yep, people used to get this in their Sunday comic section in the newspaper.

In one of the more magnificent installments of Nemo, the story starts out with Nemo on a tour on an airship (large zeppelin) and the captain has fallen ill. But Nemo still gets a tour of the zoo that contains many unique creatures spectacularly drawn by McCay. Many are similar to animals we know, like an elephant or zebra, but with characteristics of other animals blended it.

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SubversiveGirl @subversivegirl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

More Ripley, first test with acrylics…honestly, I find them pretty tricky to control. Finishing with color pencils and ball point pen (and that's what really saves it) #EllenRipley #Alien #Portrait #acrylics #traditionalart

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I don't know how well threads work on bsky but I'm gonna try and post all my fauxnimated Elric pieces in relatively high resolution in three connected posts. Here we have Elric, Elric's throne room, Prince Yyrkoon, and Princess Cymoril

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

How do you tell what Israel's true intentions are? Look at what actually happens from the perspective of the Palestinians. Ilan Pappe in 2017:

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/08/2026

And, my gosh, happy Wendy Hiller's birthday as well!

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 15/08/2026

Oh hey!! That’s a blast from the past.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Hey if you like drawing tools that are expressive, fun to draw with and hand made by me, you probably want to buy a pen from me. thingsbydan.myshopify.com

thingsbydan.myshopify.com

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Dan Berry's online shop. The Home of Blade Pens.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

René Goscinny would have been 100 today. Here’s my version of his most famous creations - Asterix and Obelix.

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A THOOM, also from LOBO #7.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An interview with Rumiko Takahashi & Junji Ito about their work and their friendship ❤️ 17-min video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1P...

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Simon Bowland @simonbowland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here’s a deal: if you’re an industry pro, and you want to pitch a creator owned project, I’ll letter your pitch free of charge - only proviso is that you hire me on the project if/when it’s picked up by a publisher. #comics #lettering

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 06/08/2026

Yeah, her Iliad was so much better than her Odyssey – the line restraint really hampered the first version, and I think this second will be way better.

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Goats Flying Press @goatsflyingpress.com · 06/08/2026

JUST A FEW HOURS LEFT ON OUR CAMPAIGN! 🐐🪽💥💥💥 And we’re less than $100 from our final Stretch Goal when ALL pledges of $50 or more get a FREE Erlking Enamel Pin! 🤯 Give this gorgeous Eisner-nominated folklore fantasy by @juniba.bsky.social & @adityab.net a try. You’ll be glad you did! 🦊🐻

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 24/07/2026

💞 Saturn Girl 💞

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 05/08/2026

Yes, but those aren't anti-AI people, and aren't the people being discussed.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 05/08/2026

His implication is that we sneakily like it, when the fact is that LLMs have largely made the experience of using the web *worse*, and most things would be better without them. (e.g. I use plugins to filter out likely AI results, and I've turned off spellcheck because it got bad with LLMS).

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · 04/08/2026

Concept art for Willow (1988). By the amazing #Moebius

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 05/08/2026

Do these … people think anti-AI people use AI? Like, through gritted teeth, sweating, hating every moment, but they simply must use the thing they hate? (Of course, it's projection, like it always is.)

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Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com · 04/08/2026

So, the last issue of IS TED OK? dropped almost a week ago, so maybe now I'll compile some thoughts in a thread!? First, again, huge thanks to everyone who bought it, read it, and helped spread the word. This is a project that managed to keep momentum through six issues and it was so exciting!

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

ZANARDI by Andrea Pazienza (English translation by Jamie Richards, Fantagraphics, 2017): truly nasty comics, in the best possible way; the ultimate loser’s-idea-of-a-winner, the scumbag messiah. Upsetting, ugly, depraved, ‘immoral’ in that Italo-bleak way, with some transcendent cartooning.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 03/08/2026

Rewatched O Brother Where Art Thou? and yeah, still the best filmed version of the Odyssey yet (I say this as someone who thoroughly enjoyed the latest one). The Coen brothers apparently had never read the poem before they wrote the film, which tells you how much that matters for quality.

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Julia aka mizzelle @mizzelle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There's a part in the introduction to @adapalmer.bsky.social "Inventing the Renaissance" where she talks about the trauma the Black Death inflicted on Petrarch and his friends...and thinking how he'd react knowing it can be treated now. (And how close we've come to squandering it.)

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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 02/08/2026

Loaf wip

tiny watercolor painting in progress, a tabby cat laying down like a loaf, with its eyes ever so slightly open

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 02/08/2026

I’ve set up Projectivy with Button Mapper for the moment. Will try out Arc as well and then decide if a jailbreak is strictly necessary.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 02/08/2026

I’m exploring that if an alternative launcher doesn’t do the trick.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 01/08/2026

Now my television has AI and apparently I can't disable it. I don't know, man, if you really thought a technology was genuinely useful to people, you'd tell me it's there and let me decide if I wanted to use it, not pop it up every time I open an app and not allow me to turn it off.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 01/08/2026

I have now fully caught up with Age of Bronze – and this is phenomenal stuff. Anyone who wants an "accurate" depiction of Homeric epic should check this out – Shanower has done more of the homework than you have, almost anywhere. Now I'm desperate to see this story finished. Incredible work.

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