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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

You can now get the ebook version of Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment (a New York Times bestseller!) for just $3, which is less than my coffee cost this morning. This week only!! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

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Play Nice

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for t...

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

SEA LEGS! By @julesbakes.bsky.social and me!! Scholastic Graphix! Super awesome agent @comicsispeople.bsky.social! Dreamy amazing editor @yourfriendmaya.bsky.social! Incredible visionary designer @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social! I love this team & I'm so excited to have a new book out in the world. 💙⛵

Sample page from Sea Legs. Janey is snorkling.

Sample page from Sea Legs. Janey describes a "blue hole".

Sample page from Sea Legs. Janey, still snorkeling, is scared to swim over the blue hole.

Sample page from Sea Legs. Janey is frozen, staring out at the blue darkness.

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We got another starred review!! Thank you Booklist~ ⭐ Sea Legs comes out on Feb 4 from Scholastic/Graphix!

"Inspired by the author's childhood at sea, this graphic novel, by two lifelong friends, is a visually and emotionally vibrant must-read." - Booklist starred review for the graphic novel SEA LEGS

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

STAR OF THE SHOW JANEY

The text is even bigger. "Age-appropriately narcissistic"
Janey sweats a lot. "Um. A-Actually."

The text is bigger. "Age-appropriately narcissistic"
Janey backs up, super awkward, blushing now. "My mom wants me. I'm dehydrated. I have to go."

The text is bigger. "Age-appropriately narcissistic"
From off panel, a word balloon says "Pretend you're important." Janey strikes an awkward pose. "Important."

Astrid is on the verge of laughter, she can't hold it in. "Janey. You are... SO age-appropriately narcissistic"
Janey poses, triumphant. "I KNOW." with a big WAHAHA laugh in the background.

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Janey janey janey janeyyyy

School Library Journal review quote: "Janey is just like any other kid:"

The text is bigger. "Age-appropriately narcissistic"
Janey has three dots over her head as she looks at a phone, sweating.

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Zenith @zenithknig.ht · 15/01/2025

gotchu

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Is Apple Intelligence™ supposed to be an ironic product name or

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

bird zine 2 almost done... it's fun to make a little pokedex excerpt of which local guys I've been thinking about lately

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Whitney🎨Gardner @heywhitney.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🎹👻ICYMI - Yesterday I got to announce my next graphic novel, Free Piano (Not Haunted). This book is the book of my heart. A spooky, musical adventure about chasing dreams, finding your voice, and navigating family and fame. Your support of this one would mean the world to me. bit.ly/FPpreorder

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/11/2024

Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So excited for y’all to read this graphic novel adaptation of THE RAVEN BOYS! @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social, @sasmilledge.bsky.social and Stephanie Williams have put in the work to make a stunning book. #theravencycle #comics #graphicnovels

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George @hannahtempler.com · 20/11/2024

TEAR IT DOWN! from new comic for overwatch :^)

a page from the comic "Tear It Down" for Overwatch's release of a new hero, Hazard. Hazard, a large white man with white spiky hair and punk-stylized body mods, is drawn hanging out of the back of a hover truck with his compatriots, the Phreaks. Boomslang, a black woman with braids and neon stylings + body modifications, and Susannah, a fat, short omnic with rose tattoos and a trenchcoat, fire futuristic looking guns while two other Phreaks hang back mysteriously in the shadows of the box truck. The truck tears through a futuristic looking city backlit by a giant moon in the night sky. The colors are bright neon purples, greens, pinks and blues

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sparth @sparth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I really need to post this one as a reminder to move my butt and do more in this style.

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Sara Alfageeh @saraalfageeh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello! Happy to finally be here! I'm Sara, a Jordanian illustrator working in publishing + video games! ⚔️I'm co-creator of the award-winning graphic novel SQUIRE, among other books. ✨I draw covers, posters, and books that re-define what a protagonist looks like

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Miranda Harmon @mirandaharmon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Talking on the phone

A cat in her pink bedroom talks on the phone to a bird in her magic castle

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Dr. Jess Hebert @jesshebert.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Amet consectetur egg sandwich

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Just realized Bluesky has moderation setting? I set mine to "sensibly horny posts only"

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Every time a rando book karen emails a literary agent about something a client said on social media, an angel gets its wings.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

First of all it's not a "distraction" that state governments are banning books. Second, the people banning books are *also* gutting public education! It's the same fucking problem! www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/o...

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I want to reprint my train good sticker (and WTYP fanart !) but maybe with more designs on similar subjects.

Sticker illustration, a train with monster truck tires crush cars.
Text : Train good Car bad

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Why are so many of these comics sites - Comic Watch, I’m looking at you - a total fucking mess? I try to read a single paragraph and shitty ads constantly push it up or down out of sight. I get you need to make money but have some respect for the actual content, y’all.

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Every time I log into Bsky.app, I think of Gadof Blinsky from the Curse of Strahd: “Is no Blinsky, is no fun!”

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

So thrilled that @katleyh.bsky.social will be working with S&S on SPOKE, a post-apocalyptic slice of life GN about a bicycle courier. If you loved the optimism of "Station Eleven" - that is, the idea that art and culture are what define humans, not purely survival - then this will appeal to you.

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Congrats to @cullenbunn.bsky.social on the sale of his horror novel debut: BONES OF OUR STARS, BLOOD OF OUR WORLD! 🌌🔪📖 (True story: his literary agent is a wimp and had to read it with the lights on. 😅)

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

SO excited to finally announce this book!!

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Just discovered the feature of Microsoft 365 that reads my documents aloud to me. The text-to-speech has gotten lightyears better than it used to be - the cadence is almost convincingly human.

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Ivy Noelle Weir @ivynoelle.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Are you looking for an entry level job in publishing? Do you like kids books, horror books, unconventional lifestyle books, and just generally good books? Do you dream of me being your boss? I'm hiring a Publicity and Marketing Assistant for the Quirk Books team! www.quirkbooks.com/jobs/

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Jobs - Quirk Books

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sammy @hamotzi.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

✨My graphic novel with Estelle Nadel, The Girl Who Sang, is coming out 1/23/24! ✨ You can preorder now at the caard link in my bio! All my love to Estelle, and thank you again to my editor Mekisha Telfer and my agent @comicsispeople.bsky.social for your amazing help and support.

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Nadia Shammas @nadiashammas.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I literally don’t care anymore. Look what happened when we were pitching SQUIRE in 2018. Literally the first response was about “anxiety” as if these major publishers don’t publish Zionist works constantly

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I had to make a video about this for Other Apps and I HATE making videos, so please come see me on Friday so it's worth it!! (I am very anxious about an empty bookstore.)

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Seeing everyone posting table numbers in the run-up to #NYCC makes me sad that I'm missing it this year! But I'm planning to do my bit in looking after this little newborn potato. I hope to see y'all at MoCCA and TCAF though!

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Charlie Olsen @comicsispeople.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

👉 "The company spent years sacrificing profit for scale, until it had so many customers that sellers couldn’t ignore it. Now that it extracts billions each month from those sellers, it can afford to ignore those customers—or at least prioritize them less."

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The Best Thing About Amazon Was Never Going to Last

If shopping on the site feels different now, that’s because it is.

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Kyle Starks @thekylestarks.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

NYCC preshow is open - taking requests now! Since Bluesky doesn’t have DMs you can contact me here www.kylestarks.com/contact

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George @hannahtempler.com · 27/09/2023

LRT exactly… also the WAY you draw* (purposely not using the word “ability” here) is ONE tool in your artist toolbox. your work is informed by taste, experience, vision, narrative, storytelling, communication skills, and countless other things. art is not just “learn to draw”

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Stephanie Cooke @hellocookie.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Today's the last day to get 25% off your preorders. Be sure to get a great deal on some of your future faves!

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