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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 8h

It's the most wonderful month of the year. #halloween

a vintage Halloween decoration of a black cat emerging from a pumpkin.

an original "spook cart" used for haunted theme park rides

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Free update on my Patreon on how I combine collage with my comics. www.patreon.com/cw/ansispurins #comics

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey some of you fellow BBB fans know that I've been working on a non fiction comic history of the Big Banana Bunyip. (a long lost animatronic theme park icon from late 90's Australia) I received new Bunyip pics last week so I thought I'd show them here. #comics #cryptid #bigbananabunyip

the big banana bunyip creature is an Australian theme park animatronic

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Free update on my Patreon on how I combine collage with my comics. www.patreon.com/cw/ansispurins #comics

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are off

The original image, from Girls' Romances 78 by Tony Abruzzo. The guy has a more sinister leer, while the woman has heavier mascara and feels both sadder and more determined. A caption reads "I vowed to myself I would NOT miss my appointment -- that I would NOT go riding with him--yet before I knew it..."

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I made a Bunyip T shirt for sale. 100% of my profits on this goes to a charitable cause. (dr's without borders) ansispurins.threadless.com/designs/b-b-... Get one before I'm made to take it down.

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The absolute least bare minimum you can do is to stop watching NFL football.

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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree!!! NO one will boycott NFL games. New England Patriots will sell out this weekend and the parties will go as planned at gillette stadium

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Skavoovie & the Epitones @skavoovie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We love you Tim. Thanks for giving us and everyone such real and joyful memories. @supernovaska.bsky.social

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my Magic Forest brand #comics are free to read on my patreon www.patreon.com/c/ansispurins

comic of an elf watching humans having a picnic

an elf encounters a nintendo in the woods

a elf thinks about all the things he doesn't like touching

an elf get pecked in face by a bird and is sad and bored

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田中六大 @rokudait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

たぬき姉弟と土瓶・白黒

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

six pages of original art from yesterday’s THE WRENCHIES post are available from the beguiling here: www2.store.beguilingoriginalart.com/index.php?cP... last friday’s free THE WRENCHIES post is here: www.patreon.com/fareldal/pos...

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

going back to old school techniques today and working on a crazy complex #comics panel

cut out pieces of paper in the shapes of leaves

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Werewolf by Night by Andy Fish. #artlife #comics #art

few years back I got a few sketch commissions by Andy Fish. One I asked for artist choice and this was the result. b & w Werewolf by Night cemetery sketch

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Artist Andy Fish has passed away. He was a really good dude and an inspiration to us all.

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cartoonist Matt Smith drew me a Magic Forest trading card featuring a cave ghost eating Cryptmunk. @barbarianlord.bsky.social #comics

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Crunch Bug stickers just arrived from @sticker-guy.bsky.social who always does a great job. These are weather proof, 4 color offset with custom colors and they really pop. Send me a DM if you want one. 3 for 4$ shipped. (US)

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bunyip Comic Stamp

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Shipping out the new Bunyip print tomorrow. My crew means more to me than they could ever know. #comics

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've been doing this for nearly 20 years now and I have never, ever, known anything like this. Wave after wave of requests for reviews, interviews, previews, crowdfunding coverage, event promotion and so on. It takes me days to reply to the small percentage of things that do get responses.

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just re-stocked Savage Beast for the 5th time this year at my local comic shop (Million Year Picnic) and it's rattled my faith in being a full time, non drawing, doom scroller. #comics www.supermagicforest.com/purchase

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 89 years old today. #SergioAragonés

a comic with a vampire and a hippie on drugs

a comic of a man walking into a cactus after being distracted by a young lady

Sergio Aragonés comics cast from his series Groo The Wanderer

a comic about a dog playing a prank on some bullies

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Time traveling cyborg and dimensional seer, Panthers Cloud watches TwitLeaf the Elf and a Cryptmunk Slayer pass thru the dimensional slice gate together. #comics

Time traveling cyborg and dimensional seer, Panthers Cloud watches TwitLeaf the Elf and a Cryptmunk Slayer pass together thru the dimensional slice gate.

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The new bunyip prints just arrived! this a museum grade print. This will ship out to my patrons next week. Edition of 40 and signed, then cast off into the waters of the United States Postal Service www.patreon.com/cw/ansispurins

a fancy print of a creepy pond with a glowing light

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

studio corner with Xolotl and Tarman

vintage chef boyardee can, and some creepy toys

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Nintendo Metro @nintendometro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Birabuto Kingdom enemies 'Super Mario Land' Game Boy

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's nice to see that in my home state, being a jerk to trans kids will end you politically pretty quickly.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Medicare for All. Abolish ICE. Tax the rich. We don't just need a democratic majority in the Senate. We need a progressive majority.

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

IMO, If you seek success and fame you're never going to be happy.

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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These little hearts are being ordered less often now, but I’m always so happy when you choose one. Thank you so much🥰 Work in progress💙💛 www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJe...

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL is 50% off until Monday as part of a sale by my publisher @fieldmouse.press Press to support their wonderful comics journal Solrad! LOTS of other great books too! crowdfundr.com/support_solr...

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Ansis Puriņš @ansispurins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint on location shooting NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

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