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Ted (& technically Ro)

@brandtandstein.com
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We write & draw comics! DC, Marvel, most others. Currently: #WorstManOGN (titan-comics.com/comics/2401-worst-…) “The fancy cheese of comics creators” - Phoebe Hedges Web: bio.site/brandtandstein Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 22m
Hey, in anticipation of the upcoming US release of Worst Man, if any comics pro friends want to read it, reply to this post! We’d be delighted to share it with you
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 1h
Pamela Ewing wakes up, drenched in sweat and very glad none of that happened
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
Worldwide chums! It is just TWO WEEKS until Worst Man is available for you! There is still time to preorder, which is honestly advisable given the first print run ran out three weeks after UK launch
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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 24/08/2026
I’m having a sale on blade pens and so I drew a demon with one and filmed it and then edited the drawing together with some music I made into a video. Use the code TENTENTEN to get 10% off thingsbydan.myshopify.com
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 2h
Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
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Marissa Louise @marissadraws.bsky.social · 2h
As a creator, you get pretty used to death threats. But as a human being, I'm begging you to please stop threatening people who make stuff. There is no way to tell which are serious and which aren't. Especially if someone makes a habit of them.
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Fiona Creates @fionacreates.bsky.social · 5h
I'll be talking history comics with some really cool folks at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in November :D
On The Right Side of History

Sunday 15 November 2026
1:30 pm  2:30 pm
Panel Room 1, Queen's Suite
Harrogate Convention Centre


Can comics educate as well as history books? Combining visual art and narratives to tell accessible and engaging tales, historical comics can take us back to both real and imagined worlds. Join host Kate Evans who'll be chatting with Kate Beaton, Yudori, and Fiona Marchbank about using comics as a time machine to immerse us into fascinating and significant moments from the past.
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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 5h
Comics are Sweet and we still have MORE bundles from our friends @idwpublishing.com! We had to get some of our favorites @gwillow.me + @chriswildgoose.bsky.social, @lianakangas.com, and @ssnyder1835.bsky.social together in a bundle supporting BINC AND ORIGINAL COMICS. sweetshop.app/bundles/sexy...
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Sexy Orcs, some Dark Spaces, Kvlts and a lot of Night
Your creator-owned line — The Hunger and the Dusk, Dark Spaces, 30 Days of Night and more.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 5h
Jesus Christ. American chums, if you are yet to see Hundreds of Beavers, this is your sign. It’s one of my favourite movies of the last decade, you simply must watch it
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 6h
Sometimes a page is just inking the same face 17 times with mild differences and distortions each time as you sob a little
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 6h
hi hello! your weekly page of pip and gunko is up! pipandgunko.com
pip holding her phone and looking off-panel saying “i don’t know, gunk. i DO personally feel… hold on-“
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 7h
Artist Dan Boultwood was given a suspended sentence earlier this year for grooming and abusing a 15-year old in 2010, and his victim would like to know if there were others like her.
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CHU artist Dan Boultwood pleaded guilty to preying on a minor
Dan Boultwood was given a suspended three-year sentence earlier this year, for grooming and abusing illustrator Maddie Williams when she was a 15-year old fan in 2010.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 9h
EXCITING TIMES AFOOT
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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 6h
COMICS ARE SWEET! And we can't think of anything sweeter than the EPIC run @heatherantos.bsky.social @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social @hivemindactual.bsky.social have on Star Trek. A portion of proceeds go to BINC, thanks to our alliance with @idwpublishing.com.
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Engage... in savings!
The IDW Star Trek run including the incredible Eisner-nominated team. Just in time for Star Trek's brand news series.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 7h
Ok now I just need the universe to give me a week off so I can read the truly ENORMOUS Star Trek bundle on @sweetshop.app. Never bought a bundle faster in my LIFE
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 7h
Sweet just dropped a $25 bundle with pretty much the entirety of IDW Star Trek prior to the new ongoings. FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h
Make some good (or bad!!) art with your own brain today just bc you can ❤️
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 9h
EXCITING TIMES AFOOT
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 15h
Technofacists be like Don’t you want everything individualized to such an extreme that it is impossible to ever talk about art with another person ever again bc no one will ever experience the same piece ever again? Wait where are you going?!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h
$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 18h
i wrote and drew this one before i decided to take a real swing at pip and gunko as a big boy webcomic, so it isn’t up on the site yet and won’t be for a while, but regardless! i drew it while dragging myself out of the lowest point of burnout and i think it’s one of the best comics i’ve done so far
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 16h
Genuinely at the stage of Worst Man marketing that I don’t know what else I can do but the global release is in 2 weeks and we have a bunch of books to sell
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
ALSO ALSO if you do have it preordered and are excited please consider telling people? If they know you, a trusted and sexy person, wants this book they might too
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
ALSO a reminder that when the international release hits it will also be available digitally through Amazon’s Kindle store, Neon Ichiban or our good friends at @sweetshop.app
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 17h
Good morning, chums!
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
Tonight’s Trek episode is finally pandering to @aplante.com by mentioning Canada. That said, it was mentioned by noted shithead Michael Eddington, so on balance more bad than good
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
All of Hellboy for £18.90? £500-worth of Valiant comics for £30? Seriously gang, you need to check these bundles
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Kenny Meyers @kennym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We just decided to add a TON of new bundles. 15% of Sweet's proceeds go to BINC to help bookstores because we looove themmm. It's gonna be a spammy couple of weeks but please know I got to move these comics, people! sweetshop.app/bundles
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Bundles
There’s a comic for everyone.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
Also, any UK chums who have already read Worst Man, I implore you; PLEASE leave a review somewhere (if you liked it). Amazon, Goodreads, whichever bookseller you bought it from, yelling at locals like a person possessed. Word of mouth is CRUCIAL for independent books. Thanks ❤️
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026
Worldwide chums! It is just TWO WEEKS until Worst Man is available for you! There is still time to preorder, which is honestly advisable given the first print run ran out three weeks after UK launch
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.
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Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences
Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026
It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Ryan Cody - Available for work @ryancody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was chatting with a student last week about some of the best ways to draw a thrown punch, then came across this tonight on a speed-read through old X-Men comics. Man, it doesn't get much better than Paul Smith/Bob Wiacek.
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dearbhla @dearbhlala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ok i've changed my mind and i would like more comics work, hire me please dearbhlala.com
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Dearbhla Kelly | Design and illustration
Portolio website of comic colourist Dearbhla Kelly.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 28/09/2026
Good morning, chums!
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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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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I illustrated a whole book of comics about learning to cohabitate with Imposter Syndrome and I think everyone already knows about it but am constantly reminded that they do NOT! So here it is: buyolympia.com/Item/lucy-be... (For you #GraphicMedicine types, this has been a real hit with therapists!)
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100 Demon Dialogues by Lucy Bellwood
Navigating the rocky shores of self doubt with charm and honesty, 100 Demon Dialogues is a collection of comics for anyone who wants to talk back to the little voice in their head that says “You’re no...
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 27/09/2026
LGBTIQA+ Greens had a day out on Saturday helping campaigning to get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected in H&SP and we had a great time. The H&SP campaign still needs your help though. Details below linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
A photo of members of the LGBTIQA+ Greens group in a park. Some of the people in the photo are holding large 'Vote Green' placards.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 27/09/2026
Silicon Valley turned tamagotchi into pervert surveillance, is nothing sacred
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Tango @tiredsai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just 2 weeks left to FOC (for indies pre-orders are the difference between smaller shops have a few copies or none at all, so thank you very VERY much for those of you who put this on your pull list 🙌)-
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 27/09/2026
I’m really glad Slow Horses is back but I would like a word with whomever is colour grading the photography because it is shooting for style over substance and missing both
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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🌱🍄 Poison Ivy cover 50 🍄🌱🎉 A new era~ We made it y'all ♥️ Thank you so much for the support and sharing stories of how art has connected with and inspired you~ 🌱
Character Poison Ivy holding a needle filled with green liquid in front of her face.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 27/09/2026
I may be working right now, but this afternoon is the session 0 for our family D&D game, and I’m very excited! We’re going to try teaching my mum and brother how to play and I can’t wait
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 26/09/2026
That’s right, it’s me. Sorry
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 26/09/2026
Literally just bought 14 Iron Circus books in the @sweetshop.app sale because at those prices it would be ridiculous not to
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