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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 6h

oh, that's great! i checked a little online and didn't see it listed, but i'm glad i was wrong!

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 6h

i haven't seen ideon yet. so the answer is only "yes" if you believe in my latent psychic abilities

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 9h

when I saw the exhibit in SF, there was a bonus exhibit about the print production of a One Piece volume, which was especially cool. they had some of the paperwork, video footage of the printers doing their thing, and even had some resin printing plates. a shame the NY exhibit doesn't have it too!

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 15h

i'm watching turn A gundam and enjoying the thought of how each side would react in their different social forums

a digital illustration in the style of an old political cartoon, labelled "the dark side of the moon". there is a WaDom holding a chunk of "Amerian Land", saying "won't you extend the olive branch?" the WaDom is drawn with cloven hooves and a pointed tail. an earther woman remarks "they are great only in size"

a fake social media post by a user named "Lieutenant Ord's left lens" (handle: "memesaber"). it's a meme with a badass guy holding two rifles surrounded by explosions, captioned "how earther soldiers feel right before being turned into a smell by a mega particle cannon"

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 01/10/2026

plus i know for a fact Scrawling Darkly has some bad looking smart apostrophes. i forgot they're used as apostrophes and not just single quotes...

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 01/10/2026

something i plan to do eventually is go back and tune up some of the older fonts i made for the CartUn challenge--i only recently learned how useful kerning groups are, and some of the earlier fonts rely so heavily on automatic kerning, which can come out pretty nasty

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 01/10/2026

My fifth and final font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "Font Selfie", so I made a font influenced by my own handwriting! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/cb-compositi... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "For this font, I took a page out of my own book… literally! Which is to say… the shapes are influenced by the quick notes I took in school!!"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic font.

There's a speech balloon reading "technically most comic book style fonts are handwritten, but what I mean is this is pretty sloppy."

OpenType ligatures make side-by-side duplicate letters different, for a more handwritten feel.

Some letters even have triplicate versions!

There's another speech balloon reading "Wheee!!! Ooooohhh?? Aaaaiiiiiieeee!!"

And for the discerning individual, alternate characters can also be picked by hand! Even the periods!!

There's a speech balloon that reads "and then I was all like, 'blah blah blah'.....", with highlighted letters, discerning which ones are alternate letters.

another image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 01/10/2026

*walks into a room with most of the fantastic four in it* something about this room lacks a human touch #marvelcomics #fantasticfour #spider-man

a digital color sketch of johnny storm, the human torch, poking his finger angrily into spider-man's chest, demanding "stop calling me 'the human touch.'"
spidey responds "interesting proposition... but what is it you're doing with your finger right now?"

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 27/09/2026

naming a font is one of the hardest parts for me, so when i had the idea a huge smile spread across my face. it'll probably be my best-named font for a while

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 26/09/2026

My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 24/09/2026

i read Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, which made me think about semiotics. and when i think about semiotics, naturally, i think about Nancy

a comic that adapts a chapter of Invisible Cities in the style of a Nancy comic.

it is titled "Invisible Nancies", "after Bushmiller & Calvino", and covers "Cities & Signs 4".

Nancy walks into a candy shop in the city of Hypatia.

Nancy is confused, seeing only a sleeping dog inside the shop.

she says "I feel cheated--I'm going to talk to the mayor", walking to the city hall.

she reacts in shock as she only finds a convict in a cell behind the mayor's desk.

Nancy says "something's up--maybe the librarian knows what", walking to the library.

in the library, she finds Sluggo eating an ice-cream cone. she asks him "where's the librarian?" to which he replies "out there", pointing to a playground outside.

the librarian, sitting in the playground, tells Nancy "signs form a language, but not the one you think you know"

Nancy says "I think I'm getting it" while heading to a barn

Stepping out of the barn holding some candy, Nancy says "I could go for some music"

Nancy enjoys music coming from a mausoleum in a cemetery while sitting on a gravestone.

She walks away, saying "now I need to hitch a ride out of here--I know just the place"

Nancy is standing on top of a skyscraper, waiting for a car

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 22/09/2026

LOL, so that's why the color palette felt so familiar to me

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 22/09/2026

i started reading galaxy express 999 and i like tetsuro and his big teeth. he can probably go through apples and carrots like nobody's business #galaxyexpress999 #銀河鉄道999

digital color sketches of tetsuro hoshino in his casual clothes and in his cloak and hat, opening his big ol' mouth

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 22/09/2026

"borzoi" really sounds like a kind of mobile suit, doesn't it?

a digital sketch of a zaku ii that resembles a borzoi dog, because of its white coloration and elongated snout

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 19/09/2026

My third font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This one's prompt was "Sci-fi"! It's very alien! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/turing-pest-... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

An image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's a speech balloon reading "You’ll never be able to break through my alien technology firewall!" and a response that reads "Uhhh... can you repeat that?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one has a lot of unreadable text, which reads:

"The Turing pattern is a concept introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. The pattern arises due to Turing instability, which in turn arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion of chemical species and chemical reaction. The instability mechanism is surprising because a pure diffusion, such as molecular diffusion, would be expected to have a stabilizing influence on the system (i.e., complete mixing)."

- “Turing pattern” per Wikipedia

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's doubled-up text in different styles that reads "Besides the regular style, there’s the more easily readable 'Halfways' style" / "And both of those styles have an 'Empty' version, which only has outlined shapes."

In a very unreadable style, there's a line of text that reads "It’s not very easy to read!!"

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one lists the four styles: Regular, Halfways, Empty, and Halfways Empty. It also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 17/09/2026

So neat! Rough handwritten fonts often really have a nice bounciness to them, so I'm looking forward to how this will turn out. What font editor will you be using?

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garagekit.club @garagekit.club · 15/09/2026

Maxime sent in these incredible photos of a 1/220 Jaguar II Zwei resin kit they purchased from us. These small scale garage kits based on Kazuhisa Kondoh's original Gundam designs have tons of detail and look fantastic, but it's rare to see them built. Great to see such a nicely finished kit!

Lightbox photos of a finished 1/220 scale JAGUAR II ZWEI resin garage kit, an original Gundam mobile suit from author Kazuhisa Kondoh.

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 16/09/2026

i drew this on a whim after seeing a photo of a cat grabbing a beer and hearing that they can drink saltwater, but i don't actually think they'd like it that much. so this cat is like one of those guys who drinks torturously spicy things all for recreation

a comic entitled "cat beer", featuring a fantasy-style humanoid cat and a more regular human.

the cat offers a drink and says "here, try this swill."

the human drinks and says "ugh! so salty! 'swill' is right. I can't stand it" to which the cat responds "pussy!"

the human says "that's rich coming from you." cat says "it just has some flavor is all."

the last panel has a fairy pointing to an informative plaque, that reads "Did you know? Cats have kidneys that are good at filtering out salt, so they can drink seawater without getting dehydrated. It's not like it's good for them, but they can handle it."

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 13/09/2026

♫Nananananananana nananananananana Kamishibatman♫

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 13/09/2026

thank you. i didn't even realize the dogu similarity until you said it, but i totally see it. i don't know yugi-oh stuff so i had to look it up, but your gate guardian comparison is also spot-on. there are many pareidoliac faces hidden in my weapon nine...

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 13/09/2026

good to know she has some focus in there! when i was watching the movie i did think "i sort of wish this was a book instead...", and of course there already is a book, but i'm glad to know it'll clarify some things

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 13/09/2026

My second font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This time the prompt was "Fantasy"! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/thauma-heisler #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

a sign set in the font reads "Abandon all hope ye who enter here," alongside speech balloons that read "That sign’s been there for quite a while," and "Isn’t it about time we got it replaced?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

speech balloons read "Speak my name! Shazam!!", "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!", and "Let me clarify this. Taro, Caro, Salomon!"

Lowercase vowels are underlined.

a rotated caption box reads "Maybe rotate it to disguise the latin alphabet even more!"

You can type in all caps to get rid of the underline effect.

Double curly brackets {{ }} make breath marks with opentype ligatures, demonstrated by a speech balloon reading "Alakaza--(gasp) You interrupted my spell!"

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 12/09/2026

i feel like i'm 🤏 this close to understanding quess, but i can't fully get it. it must be the gravity around me...

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 10/09/2026

NEWS 🚨: Paul Chadwick's early CONCRETE stories finally return to print in a paperback omnibus format, coming June 2027! Details: bit.ly/4xIbJXC Volume 1 of this release collects the first two volumes of Concrete, Depths and Heights. By @paulchadwick.bsky.social

Cover of Concrete Omnibus Volume 1, illustrated by Paul Chadwick

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 08/09/2026

thank you, i really appreciate it :)

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/09/2026

Mary Jane Watson's famous debut line from Amazing Spider-Man #42 ("Face it, tiger... you just hit the jackpot!"), always credited to Stan Lee, was most likely ghostwritten by a young gay playwright named Ron Whyte For more:

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A Swingin’ Surprise or Two

The best-kept secret in the history of Marvel Comics was in high dudgeon by the time he sat down at his typewriter. It was a July afternoon in 1971, and Ron Whyte, a playwright and activist, was about...

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 05/09/2026

My first font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "romance", even though the font doesn't traditionally look it... You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/tell-em-shak... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly typeface.

a caption reads "comic book lettering seen through ghibli tears??"

a comic speech balloon reads "uhh... I have something important to tell you--I... err... I love you!"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026!

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font.

a speech balloon reads "ursula! oh, ursula!! how I’ve missed you!" some of the letters are highlighted in blue.

Opentype ligatures make side-by-side doubled characters different. Alternates can also be picked by hand.

another balloon reads "don’t you (sob) love me anymore~~?"

breath marks and a shaky line that’s more wiggly than the em-dash (—) can be typed with {{ }} and ~~ respectively.

the font is pretty versatile!

there is an evil-looking balloon, with white text on black background, reading "come on and follow me into the darkness...", and a balloon that resembles a fishbowl full of water, reading "what? can’t you breathe underwater?"

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 01/09/2026

i love lettering in comics. nice lettering really elevates a comic. honestly, when i draft up my own comics, the stage i feel the most happy at is when i've put in all the dialogue into empty panels: there's enough structure to make it feel real, but infinite possibility for the art to be great

a comic spread lacking any images, only being text in empty panels. the dialogue is taken from frank belknap long's "the hounds of tindalos"

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy Letterer Appreciation Day!

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 27/08/2026

it's also just fun to play with the effect. one of my friends astutely said this looked like ai-generated food

a closeup of the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15, but made out of turing-pattern goop. i think some of the shorter globules look like jellybeans

the full cover of Amazing Fantasy #15 but made out of turing-pattern goop. at a certain scale it just looks like weird noise. which it is

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 27/08/2026

it works well with fonts with contrast (which is when, for example, the sides of the A are different thicknesses), and the way the lines propagate out remind me of very weird serifs

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 27/08/2026

it also easily lends itself to animation (I chose some corny words, but short ones work better and these are what came to mind...)

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 27/08/2026

recently I've began playing with making Turing-pattern-style images in photoshop. it's fun to see things distort and expand outward. I'm surprised I haven't seen more of this in designs because it's pretty simple to achieve

really warped text that says "DANGEROUS SPECIES"

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 07/08/2026

i used to imagine scenarios in which i was being questioned about something i didn't do, but for some reason i defaulted to "figuring out how i would have done it without leaving any traces, and then explaining why i didn't do it because if i had done it, i wouldn't have been caught"

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 07/08/2026

this feels a little stereotypical, but it makes me feel seen. i think your art tackles feelings and actions that are pretty unique to the modern era, stuff that i don't see depicted in art all that much (though i'm also not looking hard for art that sets out to depict that kind of stuff)

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 07/08/2026

it might actually be my favorite gundam show, though it's hard to compare it to first gundam. they're very different things i wonder if anyone's ever thought about doing like, a fan-compilation-movie-set for zz, even with new scenes. it'd be nice to see some of the villains' endings fleshed out more

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 07/08/2026

i did finish gundam zz a while ago, and eventually i'm going to watch cca, but in the meantime i'm taking a robot anime break and watching princess tutu. also i still want to draw more zz stuff because i like the characters and designs

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POSTBOY now on BLUESKY @p0stboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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