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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Restock of Gutter Hunter number 4 at @pfbvan.bsky.social on main st here in Vancouver. And while you're there, you can pick up the official pulp fiction t-shirt designed by yours truly! Bookish girls for the win!!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

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Shae @youarebeautiful.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oh no. Hell, no. THE agency that tracks and exposes hate groups. Does anyone at all doubt the deliberate intentionality of this move? Support the @splcenter.org. Donate $35 and match me. Read their posts. Spread the word. #ThrowDown We cannot afford to lose them. Donate $$ here: splcenter.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What do Levi’s, Hanes, and Chewy have in common? California AG Rob Bonta just revealed evidence alleging that Amazon used its power to pressure them, and countless other brands, to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme.

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Frank Cho @frankchoartist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Wonder Woman, Lake Como Comic Art Festival art commission. Packing my art and my art supplies for my Lake Como trip this weekend. Still sore as hell from previous workouts. Once I finish packing, I'm gonna take some Advil and take a power nap.

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Tristan @tjl24.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

California and Virginia actually let their voters have a say in redistricting! Did Texas let their voters have a say? Nope!

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/04/2026

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.

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funkyartlady.bsky.social @funkyartlady.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I hope and pray for you Hungary. Get that fucker out.

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

some original art pages from last friday’s PROXIMA CENTAURI post www.patreon.com/posts/proxim...

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Comic Tropes @comictropes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Arcane Comics in Seattle announced they’re closing. Since I’ve moved here, I’ve seen three other stores I used to shop at close: Comics Dungeon, Zanadu, and Dreamstrands. This is an area that seems to love comics. Portland has lots of great shops. Not sure why Seattle can’t make it work.

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Ayo Denali @the-dallas-denali.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If the president of the company I work for tweeted what the President of the US tweeted today he would be suspended and fired within a day lol

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Steve Chung @freestevechung.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Is wishing the happiest of birthdays to artist Arthur Adams.

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

www.oglaf.com/papercuts/

a book with 'great titties' written on the cover turns out to be full of teeth and mauls a man.
In some ways, though, you want a little danger in your literature.

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Shelly Bond @sxbond.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🖍️🩸⚔️For the person in the nosebleed section who asked nicely: I started annotating FILTH & GRAMMAR: The Comic Book Editor’s (Secret) Handbook on filthandgrammar.com this week. Here are snippets. FREE signup to see what you’ve been missing since the site launched on 01.01.26:

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Thomas Benner @thomasbenner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Cartoon by David Horsey | The Seattle Times

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Most California voters support the state’s newly proposed billionaire tax, according to new polling. Meanwhile, rich Californians are plotting a $500M slush fund to influence the state's politics. So they can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

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Donate to Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need, organized by Dianne M

On March 30th, the Rutherford County Library Board terminated Luanne James from her pos… Dianne M needs your support for Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need

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Cartoon Art Museum @cartoonart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Our condolences to the family, friends, and fans of comics creator Sam Kieth, who passed away on March 15. We were honored to be able to showcase an array of his work in our 2013 exhibition 'Sam Kieth: Samplings and Dabblings.'

Cover of the Cartoon Art Museum's exhibition catalog for 'Sam Kieth: Samplings and Dabblings' (February 23–June 16, 2013

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Erik Larsen @eriklarsen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Saddened to hear of the passing of Sam Kieth, a brilliant artist, writer, and all around human being. One of the earliest artists to jump aboard Image in its infancy. Sam used Mako and Savage Dragon in the Maxx and I used the Maxx in Savage Dragon. We only collaborated once and Sam bailed on that.

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…” - attributed to Albert Einstein We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!

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Bill @artisanalcomics.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Working on some new pages for Toon Chronicles Too. Super hyped for this book. Mire info coming soon.

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Frank Cho @frankchoartist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

MegaCon, Day 4. Finished the final sketch cover commission, including new characters and few “battle damaged” gals. (They will be in the next Outrage collection book.) This show has been a monster. Definitely putting it in my “must go” annual show list.

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Michel Fiffe @michelfiffe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

CANIFF. OTOMO. GOLDEN. Tracing the roots of cartoony heads on realistic bodies, a tradition I first saw articulated by Frank Springer (in a talk about Frank Robbins). You don’t choose style dissection as a lifestyle, it chooses you.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Way too many blue wave liberals on here sharing AI images making fun of Trump or whatever. Please stop.

Batman breaking a gun comic panel saying : This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

store.fareldal.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Trump's DOT has officially scrapped a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by airlines. Flying already sucks — and Trump wants to make it suck even more. youtu.be/eTzaMXXelew?si=OghvJOMzUq2…

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Why Does Flying Suck so Much? | Robert Reich

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Shae @youarebeautiful.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thread! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 @altnps.bsky.social

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Bill @artisanalcomics.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

If I was in charge of the customer experience at Comcast/XFinity...I'd be embarrassed. Because its the same level of customer service that jail inmates get.

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Bill @artisanalcomics.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Comcast/xfintiy is such trash. They DO NOT want you talking to an actual human being that can actually help you. They just have like 4 different things they can help you with. And if your issue isn't covered ? Too fucking bad. They just hope that you fucking go away. Like health insurance...

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Mergo Petrichor @mergo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Issue one in progress…and in color!

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Frank Cho @frankchoartist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

DC K.O. #1” featuring Wonder Woman and Power Girl, variant cover. (colored by Sabine Rich.) Just got word, this mother will hit the comic shops this Wednesday, right in time for NYCC. DC K.O. #1 – Cardstock DC K.O. #1 – Blind bag foil (super rare foil variant randomly-inserted in blind bags.)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

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Alex Skolnick @alexskolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Threats- whether directed at politicians (“Do what we say or we’ll primary you!!”), journalists (“Write what we like or we’ll slander you!!)” or artists (“Keep quiet or we’ll unfollow!”) - to keep someone “in line” says EVERYTHING. If pressure is required to support an idea, it’s probably a bad one

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The third comic strip for To The Sun has been published today! You can find the strip on the Power To The Panel website. To The Sun # 3 Drop by and check it out for FREE! www.powertothepanel.com/blog-post/to... #comics #webcomics #solarpunk

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Is Donald Trump trying to start a recession?

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Tony Wolf @tonywolfness.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

word origin of "cobwebs" ... as Halloween time approaches! written & drawn by me; colored by @sirgryphon.bsky.social - Full story readable free at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/cobwebs-tony... etymology - #comics

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