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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 29/05/2026

Tony doesn’t care if I finish my pencils today

A Siamese cat squeezing himself on an artist’s lap at a drafting table where there really is no room for him, making it very difficult to work

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 24/05/2026

Call me when Jodie Foster’s impressed

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 21/05/2026

CREEPY synchronicity watching through Fringe with @chelsmurphy.bsky.social and just happened to watch this episode from 2011 TODAY

A screenshot from the TV show Fringe with flash-forward text that reads “FRINGE MEDICAL NEW YORK MAY 20-2026”

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 30/04/2026

Last day of #repostyourart : "whimsical" “I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why. I'm not an impulsive person.” Blue Ruin. Agent Orange. Name that movie! #Linocut

Two art prints made from linoleum block, one in blue ink and one in orange ink. The images are of a man and a woman touching foreheads together, their brains seen through their heads stretching mingling thought lines across the page. Two figures in winter clothing run down a deserted beach away from the viewer in the bottom-center. presented on a frozen lake.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 29/04/2026

For the penultimate day of #repostyourart , we have "plant." Here's a whole bunch of 'em. #comicart #comicbooks #comics

A man in an orange jumpsuit with brown hair in a ponytail, mustache, and soul patch, smirks at the reader. He is surrounded by lush green wilderness, a few feet from what looks like a prison wall.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/04/2026

Day 28 of #repostyourart: cottage There are a few of them here, and they're burning. Cover inks for The Atonement Bell #2, 2022. #comics #comicbooks #comicart

Three masked, robed riders on horses carrying torches and muskets gallop through the snow away from a village they've just set alight. Three cottages burn within view, smoke rising to the top of the page. A skull with glowing eyes and curled horns looms large in the background. All traditional inks, black and white.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 24/04/2026

#repostyourart Day 24: Fast/Slow Here's a slow burn from 2012--in that it took me two weeks back then to put all this graphite on the page. I've gotten much faster since then, mercifully. #comics #comicbooks #drawing #comicart

A full page of comic art, rendered in graphite, of London burning. The Great Clock of Westminster stands at the forefront, one of its clock faces burst out in flames.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 25/04/2026

#repostyourart Day 25: abstract As an illustrative artist, this Doctor Who gouache painting from 2016 is about as abstract as I get (and it's still not that abstract). #artsky #traditionalart #painting #doctorwho

A gouache painting of elements of elements from the David Tennant + Billie Piper run of Doctor Who in a loose grid pattern. From top-left to bottom-right: Dalek shell casing; K-9, front-facing; Cyberman eye; The 10th Doctor, from Doomsday; two shades of Chucks, the tan and the red; blue TARDIS outer panels; brown trenchcoat; blue suite with red pinstripes; brown suit with blue pinstripes; 3-D glasses; Rose Tyler's purple leather jacket, pink shirt; orange space suit; TARDIS interior panel; Rose Tyler, from Doomsday; Union Jack; The Moment; Davros shell casing

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 23/04/2026

#repostyourart Day 23: Magic How about a whole coven of witches? Inks from The Atonement Bell #1 (2021) #comics #comicart #traditionalart

An inked double-page comic spread from The Atonement Bell of a witch in a long, fur-lined robe and skull mask with curling horns protruding from the forehead points her finger menacingly at a figure kneeling in the bottom-right. The figures are in a winter forest, snow swirling around, while several robed and hooded witches float and fly around the scene, some carrying wood and stone spears.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 22/04/2026

Day 22 of #repostyourart : Paint I rarely paint, but when I do, it's usually some form of ink wash--which is basically watercoloring. Here's about as basic as it gets with a commissioned painting I did in 2021. #artsky #traditionalart #painting #inkwash

An ink wash painting over an ink drawing of a one-story red brick house and detached garage on a grassy hill beneath some green trees

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 19/04/2026

Day 19 of #repostyourart : Fruit Okay, I'm admittedly cheating a bit on this one: this isn't old work. It's the brand-new, never-before-seen cover to the upcoming issue #18 of The Unforgiven. I didn't really have anything older to fit the theme, and I knew this was in the pipeline, so--voila!

A glowing, full-color peach hanging from a bare, snow-covered tree limb as four gray hands (or the same hand, moving up from the bottom of the page, and aging as it does so--depending on how you want to read it) reach(es) up to grab the fruit.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 14/04/2026

Day 14 of #repostyourart : Yummy In 2019, I created a series of "from life" photos, magazine clippings, and even a cigarette box to use in a photo spread to be cut into fourths for The Uunforgiven's four-part "Strays" story arc covers. Here's the uncut photo, with breakfast. #comics #comicart

A photo collage with a whole bunch of drawings of characters from the comic book series The Unforgiven as though they are photographs taken of them. They are spread out on a brown wooden table. A blueprint, two diamond playing cards, and two childhood drawings underlay the photos. Arranged around and amid the "photos" are a coffee mug, creamer, a pack of cigarettes, a plate with two sunny side up eggs and two pieces of toast with a fork, a cloth napkin, a spilled ketchup bottle, a German textbook, an arrow for use with a bow, a miniature metal Titanic, a miniature metal bicycle, a plastic army man, a wooden pencil, three glow-in-the-dark stars, and a small metal globe.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 07/04/2026

Day 8 of #repostyourart : Silly. Deffo not feeling that adjective today, so reaching all the way back to the not-Halcyon-but-certainly-less-chaotic days of 2008 to bring you this delightful intaglio etching I did of Tony Danza as the King of Hell.

A black and white intaglio etching of Tony Danza, smiling, hands folded in his lap, wearing a black suit and white collared shirt, sitting on a high-backed throne bedecked with flames on the back and skulls on the armrests.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 06/04/2026

Day 6: Bird (2022) #repostyourart #comicart

A black and white ink drawing of a woman with long, flowing hair, wearing nothing but a crown of antlers, emerging from a pit of fire. She steps forward, up out of the flames. The smoke rises high behind her. Black birds fly in all directions. Several robed, hooded figures standing around the fire react with shock. The woman points angrily and speaks to someone off-panel we cannot see.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/04/2026

Day 4: Cat/dog. Since I don't have any drawings of CatDog, and since I already shared my scratch board of Brina for "Bloom," here's a few panels of my cat Miles featured in the latest issue of The Unforgiven. We miss the little guy in this house. #repostyourart

A crop of four panels from a comic book, all rendered in black-and-white graphite except for the human figure and the comic book cover in the first panel. The first panel is a comic book laying opened, face-down, on a stone path, while a cat's paw gently steps on it. The comic cover says "The Unforgiven #14: Dirge for a Dream - Tyler B. Ruff." The cat says "Mrrow?" The second panel is a close-up of the cat, purring, and rubbing himself against a small boy's leg as the boy says "Miles!" The boy has Caucasian skin and muted yellow shorts. The cat, though rendered in black and white, would be an orange and white tabby pattern if rendered in color. The third panel pulls back to show the concrete back patio of a house with white siding, where the boy is crouched down to speak to the cat, who is now rubbing himself against the gray metal screen door of the house. We see now in addition to the previous details that the boy wears a muted teal t-shirt, and is blonde. He says to the cat, "Where's Chester, hm? Where's your brother? Hm? Oh! You want in." The fourth, small, inset-panel shows just the hand of the boy pressing the button on the handle of the screen door to let the cat inside, saying, "Here ya go."

A crop of three panels from a comic book, all rendered in black-and-white graphite except for the figures, which are rendered in muted color. The first panel shows two men seated in the yard of a house, from the side POV. The man on the left--the adult version of the kid from the previous image (blonde, Caucasian, teal collared button-up shirt: Jared), looks into the middle-distance, lost in thought. The man on the right (Japanese, black hair, gray t-shirt: Jon) looks at the blonde with concern, asking, "You okay?" In the yard, we see a medium expanse of grass, across which is copse of trees along a picket fence, and a few out buildings with white siding. The farthest and most detailed and complete shed we can see has a pitched flat roof angled down toward the right, its paint flaking, some junk collected along its West (right) side, and a bird house nestled under its eaves. Approaching from the shed is Miles (the cat from the previous image), crossing a stone path that cuts across the middle of the grass expanse. In the second panel, we see a close crop of the legs and shoes of the figures as the cat wends its way between the legs of the two seated men, saying, "Mrrow." Both figures wear jeans. The figure on the left (Jon) wears brown saddle shoes; the right (Jared), gray and white Converse-style tennis shoes. The third panel shows a close-up of the two men from the shoulders up, front-facing POV, Jon on the left, Jared on the right. Jared looks down dejectedly at the ground, while Jon still looks at his friend with concern, as he says, "That fight...did not go the way I remember it going." "...No," Jared responds. The cat, off-panel, again responds "Mrrow."

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 02/04/2026

Day 2: Bloom #repostyourart

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 03/04/2026

Day 3: Spring #repostyourart "Springs Eternal," hand-cut collage on paper, 2023

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 01/04/2026

I'm bad about posting my art online anymore (for myriad reasons), so gonna try and stick to this themed schedule for the month to appease the algorithm gods (and for people who enjoy viewing human-made art, obv). Today: Hello! "Here I am." #repostyourart

An illustration of a Caucasian man with long blonde hair and an arrow protruding from his face (and several other parts of his body), sits lopsidedly at the end of a trail of his own blood against a graffitied stone wall beneath a ruddy window in a derelict warehouse littered with detritus. The man wears a long brown hooded trench coat and blue armor with gold accents. The text box reads, "Here I am." The title page of an issue of a comic book series, the issue information is also written on the wall ala graffiti: "The Unforgiven, written & illustrated by Tyler B. Ruff. 2.2.1: Strays, Part One."

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 08/03/2026

Please note that any film made using Ai is henceforth to be referred to as a “slopcorn flick.” Thanks! - The Management

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 19/02/2026

I was never good about posting my art on socials to begin with (would rather be spending the time making said art), but at this point I just have zero desire to put it out there for slopmakers to scrape and steal. Everyone loses! The future is awesome!

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/02/2026

The new issue of The Unforgiven is out TODAY! It’s a comic book tour through a bunch of different traditional mediums, from charcoal to collage—even crayon for one scene. It’s a visually unique and fun entry in the series that I hope brings a bit of light into the overwhelming dark these days.

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The Unforgiven #14 is available now! — Tyler B Ruff

An unknown entity has been plaguing Jared and Serena with nightmares for weeks. Now, the entity appears to be casting an even wider net...

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 26/01/2026

That said, my manager will be mad if I don’t remind you all there’s a new issue of my comic series The Unforgiven coming out next Wednesday, because we still have to keep the lights and the heat on while everything falls apart. So here’s that link.

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The Unforgiven #14 is available now! — Tyler B Ruff

An unknown entity has been plaguing Jared and Serena with nightmares for weeks. Now, the entity appears to be casting an even wider net...

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 03/07/2025

This Independence Day: a reminder that countries and borders are completely made up. That no person or people has or have any more right to exist than any other, and no amount of maiming, murdering, or otherwise will make that true. 1/

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/06/2025

Congrats to NYC for dogwalking the entire democratic establishment

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 19/06/2025

The people developing and pushing this AI slop-making technology on people are trying to get them to voluntarily cede their ability to think for themselves and let the oligarchs conquer the final frontier: your brain. And it’s working! time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As a cisgender woman who is childfree by choice, I was somehow already aware of birth injuries, pregnancy and maternity discrimination, and the motherhood penalty. I've managed to learn all this through one weird trick called "giving a shit about people with different life experiences to my own".

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 12/05/2025

The most unrealistic thing about Jumanji is that Aunt Nora got that whole huge house cleaned up and decorated in a single school day

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

People vehemently believe that there are safety nets in place if you become disabled. That no matter what, you have all of your needs met. If you believe this, you’re in for a rude awakening if you ever become disabled.

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

To all the people who stop and think before meeting up with a chronically ill or disabled person, and let them know you/someone in your household isn’t feeling well, so they can cancel if they need to, THANK YOU. We are SO sad to have to cancel, but so grateful to be protected. #disabilitysky

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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is all happening because no one in Democratic Party leadership had the integrity to state the obvious: that Biden should not have run for reelection

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

You know what would be great is if these weird assholes could get to know exactly one trans person and see that they're just people trying to get by like everyone else

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 07/01/2025

Do we have to keep doing this?

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in: -California -Colorado -Illinois -Massachusetts -New Jersey -New York -Ohio -Oregon -Pennsylvania -Missouri -Texas -Washington The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 19/12/2024

Inks for the WIP cover of the third printing of The Unforgiven #1! Hoping to have a good ‘ol ‘90s-style foil variant as well

A black and white ink drawing of a heavily-muscled, demon-looking guy—horns on his head, long, shoulder-length hair made of fire, white eyes, and pointed teeth—shown from the waist up, naked, and screaming toward the sky as he snaps the chain of the manacles that bind his wrists. A silhouette of a futuristic city wraps the top of the image, forming a negative space like a white halo around the guy’s head. Silhouettes of five dirigibles also hover in the air around him. These are the coverinks for a comic book issue

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

a fun byproduct of being an audiobook person is sometimes the book is so good it tricks me into doing chores so i can keep listening

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Since we’re talking about how much billionaires suck again, here’s a reminder that your local indie bookstore deserves your business this holiday season. They have gift cards and are happy to mail stuff out. Same goes for @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Buy books. Give books. Support bookstores.

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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/12/2024

Time for the evergreen post “If you don’t want people celebrating your death, don’t spend your life being a piece of garbage”

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