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adrian doran

@adriandoran.bsky.social
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Toronto-based art director and graphic designer. check out my work at adriandoran.myportfolio.com

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Rest in peace Sir Sam Neill, passionate environmentalist, actor and farmer.❤️
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Outdoorsy types & lovers of merino socks: The Union of REI workers is asking us to pledge to join a worker lead boycott during the company’s big annual spring sale. Sign the pledge @reiunion.bsky.social 💪🏻 #UnionStrong
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Vote to Boycott REI
Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.
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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“There may be other publishers who have books at this level, but for the Harlequin team that Carina is a part of, this is unprecedented... [Heated Rivalry] is in a category by itself" bit.ly/40TTeAQ
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really enjoyed designing the home page graphic for Quill & Quire’s story on the massive success of the Heated Rivalry books. The font is Matrix 8 and the type is on top of a few duplicated layers, each with different levels of gaussian blur to dirty it up and give a slight 3-D effect.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT
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QuitGPT — ChatGPT takes Trump's killer robot deal
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
you could ask again, but next time with, oh i dunno, legislation?
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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Hey pals, It is the LAST WEEK to donate to the Little Ghosts workshop fundraiser to help us build out our space to host even more marketplaces, workshops, and reading events for our community. If 300 people got a commemorative wall plaque, we would reach our goal! Thanks so much for the support!🤍
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Jimmy Aquino @jimmyaquino.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Koerner Hall New Season Preview is always a fun project to work on, and this years went out in the mail last week. Tickets went on sale this week and if you were one of the people in line outside Koerner Hall waiting for the box-office to open, we salute you!
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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 28/01/2026
Here's one from somebody who is actually local, and proceeds from this go to mutual aid efforts in Minneapolis, don't know if the others are raising money for those efforts or just doing a song.
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Fuck This, by Jeremy Messersmith
4 track album
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
in tribute to the passing of Sal Buscema, one of the artists who defined Marvel Comics in the 70's and 80's, get a load of the double-page spread from Defenders 2.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 23/01/2026
1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
Two article screenshots side by side. The first: Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to US Homeland Security. The second: 'Fantastic news': Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles.
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The Doug Wright Awards @dougwrightawards.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This week is your last chance to enter the 2026 Doug Wright Awards! Entires close at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, January 9. dougwrightawards.com/submissions/
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Cat Fud
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/12/2025
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
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I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
They're nitpicky because they want to FEEL like their input was an important part of the result. And they get that feeling when the slop machine gives them their customized slop.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
the great Steve Cropper has passed. Played on and co-wrote Green Onions, Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay, Knock on Wood, In the Midnight Hour and many more - he's the Steve of "Play it, Steve!" in the middle of Sam & Dave's Soul Man. Funkiest guitarist ever, and frankly, the coolest-lookin' too.
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Very impressed with the @avilewis.ca approach to climate change This is exactly the kind of leadership we need for the NDP & for Canada generally And I especially love the part about making fossil fuel corporations pay for it, because they're the ones who've done this to us
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A Green New Deal for Canada - Avi Lewis for NDP Leader
Address climate and economic crises at once with bold national solutions creating over a million good-paying jobs
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
so say we all. It's a mind-melting experiment in the language of graphic narrative but not at all academic - it moves with the energy of Kirby. And beautifully printed too. Amazing work.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/11/2025
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
8. “Now you’re talking, Noir!” Favourite line in a film noir #NoirvemberChallenge It's a graphic novel, not a movie* but Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips brilliant Pulp is as noir as it gets. The fatalism in this line, just before the protagonists' final act of violent justice and revenge, is haunting.
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Duncan Fegredo @duncanfegredo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Why isn't this being yelled from the rooftops? "every dollar of federal government investment in the arts and culture sector generates $29 in economic activity." www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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Canada’s arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion in GDP, new report finds
The study from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found the industry is growing faster than oil and gas, manufacturing and agriculture.
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The Doug Wright Awards @dougwrightawards.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween from the Doug Wright Awards!
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The reason gullible people believe all protesters are paid is because they can't conceive of anyone giving a shit about anyone other than themselves.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
like watching the Brazil 70 team scoring that last goal in the final:
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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair's "You Were Made for This World" tops this weeks Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers chart, and Sophie Escabasse's latest in her Witches of Brooklyn series is at 9.
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What a woman! I'll always remember this heartwarming goodbye hug when she brought the chimp back to his home in the jungle. May you rest in peace, Jane Goodall 💔 #RIPjaneGoodall
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tonight, let's all follow Jane Goodall's nightly ritual: watch the sun set, with a glass of good scotch and a passion to leave the world a better place than how we found it. (Illustration by the great Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social )
Matthew Dow Smith's illustration of a young Jane Goodall, holding binoculars and sitting, smiling, on a rock in the jungle, surrounded by monkeys
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
if you’re at Word on Street today, check out the these fab (& exclusive to the festival) mini comics by Howie Shia, Kiki Hamazaki, Sandra Dumais @sandradumais.bsky.social and Rosena Fung @rosenafung.bsky.social at the Annick Press booth. Brilliant idea by Annick’s comics editor Serah-Marie McMahon.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
just waiting for @avclub.com to post their Terrance Stamp obit so we can all go to the comments section and kneel before...
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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“League of Extraordinary Assholes” catapults this very very good review into the stratosphere of greatness.
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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thanks fucked up United States medical system! GUESS WHO IS OPEN FOR WORK! (Including comic writing / drawing)
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8.5x11 Digital Commish
ONE character! ONE background! This isn’t a physical piece - but that really accentuates its digital colors, don’t you think? 8.5x11 . So printable* and so framable.  After payment clears, I'll hit yo...
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Pat Brosseau @droog811.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Creators, if you use WeTransfer to share files, stop it now and find an alternative!
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The Doug Wright Awards @dougwrightawards.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We're happy to have the writer, artist, and television producer Jay Odjick hosting the Doug Wright Awards for the first time this year! Come see him at this year's ceremony on June 7th at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New work: single sheet design, folded twice, with a trimmed-off corner to produce a square "viewing" frame inside the opened brochure for artist Bogdan Luca at the theartistproject.com/home/ , with a stand-up business card from the off-cut. He's at booth 822 - right beside the big inflatable letters
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Chris Sotomayor 🇵🇷 @sotocolor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If TCAF has meant something special to you, we ask that you support us with a gift this year. If everyone who attends TCAF this year donates just $5, we’ll be in a great place! Plus, every donor who gives over $5 will be recognized on our website in gratitude. www.torontocomics.com/support-tcaf
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Support TCAF | Toronto Comic Arts F
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Finally watched Raiders of the Lost Ark in black & white, as recommended by Steven Soderburgh. It really makes it look like a movie from well, 1936 and showcases Douglas Slocombe's glorious command of tone and composition. It's the only way to watch it - i mean, look at this:
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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
And Good Morning. Realising today that the Society of Authors (that I'm a member of) might be able to help with comic artists' right to be considered an Author. Which will help clarify where we need to be in the metadata, on systems, databases etc. It's a fundamental artist's right.
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Gary Taxali @garytaxali.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This Thu the 27th, we're having an election in Canada for Ontario's premier, as called by incumbent Doug Ford. Ford has left the province with a whopping $6.6-billion deficit, slashed funding to social programs galore all the while selling huge swaths of our greenbelt to private corporations.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The 2nd time I drew Superman, 2016. This is a fundraiser poster I made for the Siegel & Shuster Society here in Cleveland. Young Jerry Siegel in front of his boyhood home on the East Side, dreaming of Supes. This is in the permanent Supes display at the Cleveland Main Library. That's darn cool.
Derf poster. Jerry Siegel in front of his boyhood home dreaming of Supes.
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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Centenary, New Yorker. Bruce McCall's tribute in the 75th anniversary issue is just the best ("Midtown Feb 13. 1925, 11pm")
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