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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 15/08/2026

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s my contribution to this year’s Baltimore Comic Con 2026 Annual, Red Vengeance runnin’ around with Savage Dragon! Motion lines! Bring one by my table and I’ll sign it! I dare you!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll be at the mighty Baltimore Comic Con this weekend, Booth 719. Come say hi and pick up art, a commission, print, book, or a friendly fist bump!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Missed it by a day, but Happy (Belated) Batman Day! Here’s some random Bat Toy pics!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can almost picture the artist of this Popeye plush doll as they attempt to draw the backside of the figure. As they finally give up after their umpteenth attempt to get the hand right, they finally succumb to defeat, muttering softly to themselves, “ I yam what I yam……”

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Last month we passed a milestone without my realizing: I have now done over ONE THOUSAND STRIPS since I took over FLASH GORDON in 2023. I cannot thank you all enough for reading, discussing, and sharing the comic these past few years. Truly the best gig I've ever had. Much, much more to come ⚡

Unused promo art of the cast of my run on the FLASH GORDON daily strip. Clockwise from top left: Adrane, Flash Gordon, Doctor Hans Zarkov, Bok, Empress Aura, Dale Arden, and Queen Fria. We also see Sky City and a couple Frigian airships.

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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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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wake up, Popeye….we all know Wimpy just wants to grind them all into hamburgers.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

More Menko Card Madness! Fronts and backs.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Batman Japanese Menko cards, 1960’s. A couple of these poses you can tell were taken from Adam West promo photos. I love semi-bootleg art like this where details like colors are a bit off model, and probably unlicensed. This time period was rife with this kind of Batman merch, especially overseas.

Batman illustration of him chained up, lying on the ground surrounded by armed thugs. Japanese art style, Batman’s suit is red colored with blue cape and cowl.

Japanese illustration of Batman and Robin dropping down on criminals in a city street.

Japanese illustration of Batman in red outfit with cape flowing in a city street, with a helicopter flying overhead.

Japanese Batman and Robin in a rocket ship, with a missile taking off behind them.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Would have loved to grab a copy of this poster from this year’s SDCC. They just don’t make toys like this anymore.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If only the show runners of Mad Men had included these in the series’ final seasons when Don, Peggy, and company were working the Burger Chef account…

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Blessing the timeline with a 1935 photo of EC Segar in his studio.

Segar's studio is gorgeous with high ceilings and a polished wood floor. There are rifles and musical instruments neatly on display. Segar is turned away from his drawing board playing a cello.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Late birthday hang for me! Always a swell time to drink, dine, and converse with these gentlemen! @sandyjarrell.com @rhombusz.bsky.social @enemyrobot.bsky.social

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And let’s not forget the projects he probably had the most eyes on, his animated TV commercials for Crest toothpaste (Cavity Creeps, anyone?) and Honeycomb cereal.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I love how they’re walking arm in arm, as one does when you’re a superhero with magical powers and your friend is a talking tiger in a suit.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Can’t wait to see all my pals in Baltimore in the Fall!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

RIP Gerry Conway, author of countless seminal comic stories from my (and so many other’s) childhoods. I especially loved his pairings with artists Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Don Newton, John Romita and Jim Aparo. A great writer and human.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Milton Caniff, the creator of the newspaper comic strips Terry & the Pirates and Steve Canyon, on the cover of Newsweek dated April 24, 1950.

The cover is self portrait of Caniff at his drawing table with a color Sunday strip of Steve Canyon in the background.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Charlton Bullseye (1975) Covered by… •2 - Joe Staton •3 - Frank McLaughlin •5 - Alex Toth Bonus! House ad - before they joined the Distinguished Competition!

“Action Heroes? We Got ‘em!!!

Thunderbolt, Peacemaker, Captain Atom, Judo Master, and Blue Beetle

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’ll be at Nostalgia Newsstand (my old ECU/Greenville NC stomping grounds) next Saturday for Free Comic Book Day! A fun, great time will be had! Come join us is you’re in the area!

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 21/04/2026

Yesterday I spoke at a high school in Calgary, giving the students a quick rundown of my creative career and things I wish I'd known when I was their age. Here's a summary of key points I covered: • My career is nothing like what I envisioned when I was young, but key parts of it shaped my future.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

DC Comics Presents 24 (1980) was covered by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, who also provided the interior art for a Len Wein script.

Story page 13 - six panels of Superman and Deadman.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Today is the birthday of Will Eisner (March 6, 1917-Jan. 3, 2005), one of the most influential American comic creators of all time.

A front page of the Spirit newspaper supplement, a cover to the Spirit comic book, a cover to PS: The Preventative Maintenance Monthly, and the cover to his graphic novel Contract to God.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I enjoyed watching the 2026 Winter Olympics, but I’ll say the ice skating events lacked a few things….namely the classic comedy duo of Roy Clark and Jabberjaw, and these eerie versions of the Banana Splits, among others. I hope Bonnie Franklin didn’t fire her agent. youtu.be/ilY8Wp8iWQU?...

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Hanna Barbera's All Star Comedy Ice Revue

YouTube video by Weird Tapes R'Us

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

So wait, there was a fast food chain called Burger Queen? And they got Abe Vigoda to sell the FISH? Whoa. youtu.be/FYK9SuPCU7w?...

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Burger Queen - Go Fish - Abe Vigoda - 1978

YouTube video by Druther's - Burger Queen

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Start planning all your low budget horror adaptations now!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In my reality this would have been the Go-Go’s album cover for “Vacation “.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Totally rad Jumbo Machinder Shogun Warriors for today’s nostalgia dopamine fix. Look at that price!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/01/2026

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expos…

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Road Warrior Bert and Ernie riding in Lord Humungus’ road gang in the Wastelands.

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I just love how Batman and Robin seem to be looking at Superman out of concern, like he just sharted as he was taking off or something.

Old vintage toy catalog photo of 8 inch Batman, Robin, and Superman MEGO figures.

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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

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Patrick Cotnoir @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It’s a Holiday Weekend, which means it’s the perfect time to catch up on the Star Wars live reads! Here’s a clip from the Return of the Jedi reading with Jack Quaid as Han, @richsommer.pizza as Luke, Jon Cryer as 3P0 and Eric Edelstein as Chewie. Watch em all at swliveread.com for free!!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

That’s not Popeye! He rows from a dingy of lies!

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Tubi comes through again! There’s real gold in them thar free streamin’ hills! #TimeAfterTime #HGWells

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Since it’s premiering in a week, here’s the t-shirt design I did for the cast and crew of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Season 5, given as production wrap party gift. They wanted an animated style, “Scooby Doo” type of vibe. #StrangerThings #Netflix

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

UltraHuck and Kamen Sawyer, together again

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Today is the birthday of artist Stan Drake (Nov. 9, 1921-March 10, 1997). He is most known for drawing the newspaper comic strip, The Heart of Juliet Jones, from 1953 to 1989, the comic strip Blondie from 1984 until his death, and the Kelly Green graphic novels.

A color Sunday from The Heart of Juliet Jones

Original art from The Heart of Juliet Jones

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm old enough to miss the happy feeling of getting a new tv guide in the mail with a great Jack Davis cover.

TV guide with the cast of MASH on the cover.

With the cast of Welcome Back Kotter on the cover.

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Today we have a bit of process/ work-in-progress of the page 8-9 double page splash from Batman: The Last Halloween #9! This, and the rest of the first 12 pages for the issue, are currently up for auction on eBay! 🐈‍⬛ 🦇 www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...