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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 3h

Making up for lost time. Beer #2 in Portugal at the Time Out Market. A SuperBock Abida. No clue what is is! #Comicsbeerparty

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 3h

Having my first beer in Portugal. I’m embarrassed it’s taken me until day two to try a beer.🍺 I didn’t catch the name but it’s a nice IPA. #Comicsbeerparty

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yikes! Sorry you are going through this. hope recovery is going well. Was thinking yesterday about what a wasteland FB is these days and how I never see the usual suspects/friends posts anymore... and was mentally meaning to check and see if you had been updating the tales lately. Then saw this!

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My grandmother lived in Cornwall ON, and driving there I would always know we were close when the sulfur stench of the pulp mill became overwhelming in the back seat of the car. It closed a few decades ago, but it is still novel not gagging every time I'm there.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I live in the city, but in Ottawa we have the Experimental Farm in the middle of the city (close to me) and the Greenbelt farms ringing the original urban boundary (also not too far), so a few times of year, depending on the prevailing winds, the aroma of spreading fertilizer is overwhelming.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So no table? If I can make it I’ll Try and hit the panel. I’m car pooling so can’t guarantee I’ll be there that early🤣

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

God god, how old ARE you? I kid, i kid.🤣 But seriously, I have cab Calloway vinyl and cds so I might get the jokes, but the last time he was in the limelight was Blues Brothers and I was 12 when that came out! How many people other than vintage jazz heads are going to get Cab Calloway jokes.🤪

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh cool. Didn’t know you were going to be there.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Monarchs have been finding our garden again the past couple of years. There were four in this bush when I took the photo, but I can only make out three.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My basement floor right now. The trench goes from the back where the sewer stack enters to the front of the house where it heads to the main sewer at the street. The “good news” is they didn’t have to dig up the front yard to access the pipe that goes under the foundation. Worst summed ever! 😭

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I always add the text in to my layouts so I know how much room I’ve got. I also send a rough placement guide, especially if ive added panels intending to shift balloon 2 or 3 to the new panel.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That is one of my favourite albums of the 90’s. Maybe all time. Why Bother just kills me.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Splash page from my and Julio Anto's story in EC Cruel Universe #11. In finer comic shops now! #ECcomics #Comics

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hey! I have a story in this issue that just came out yesterday!

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Turned in my second EC story yesterday. I was trying to channel the grim humour of the original Vault of Horror Grim Fairy Tales, especially by Jack Kamen and George Evans. I often try to "realistic out" my cartoony tendencies as I refine the pencils and ink, but I leaned into it this story.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

More work in progress! I'm going to finish this story if it kills me! #Comics #ComicArtist #Wip

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As a guitar player, it wasn't too hard, just getting used to the tiny tiny neck and the different tuning. I never got far with it though, as I would play it obsessively for a few weeks/months, then go back to the guitar or, lately, nothing at all.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Me too. I've basically stopped buying and reading new comics as I have no clue where to find them now. Though, I'm also still trying to work my way through everything I bought on sale when Comixology still existed.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yes. Relatively proficient at the guitar. I used to play in semi-pro bands. I have a mandolin, lap steel guitar, trumpet from school I tried to get into again a few years ago (badly), and have attempted the piano a few times over the years.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I always associate the 8 panel grid as for kids because of its use in funny animal comics, primarily Carl Barks and Disney comics French BD uses 4 tiers, though the constraint with bd is that the pages are two separate 2 tier pages stacked.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I have used it. My basic page template has a 6 panel and 9 panel grid that I use as my jumping off point, but I rarely stick to panels of uniform size. I do a lot of talking heads, and like to add extra panels to break up beats of the dialogue, I think of done up to 12 panels more than once.

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Marc Michaud @marcmichaud.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happy cartoonist day! Treat them nice

opeye strip explaining why cartoonists are dumb animals and how to treat them well.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@tomfowler.bsky.social does them for fun. We had one on a t-shirt in an issue of Books of Magic

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Actually, i lied. I did print out some from a webcomic i did ages ago, so i could put them in an art show of my work for the Rendezvous-Vous de BD in Gatineau 2o years ago. Ive printed some from an unpublished comic for portfolio purposes.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I don’t. Kind of figure the printed comic will do. Maybe I’ll want to have access to view the originals of my wfh that will be lettered and coloured by someone else.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

‪Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈‬ ‪@craigtaillefer.bsky.social‬ · 11m If anyone wants to nominate me for a the #RingoAwards I would be grateful! ☺️ Why not! I doubt micro-published work like mine will get any traction but it doesn't hurt to put it out there! More info at www.craigtaillefer.com

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If anyone wants to nominate me for a the #RingoAwards I would be grateful! ☺️ Why not! I doubt micro-published work like mine will get any traction but it doesn't hurt to put it out there! More info at www.craigtaillefer.com

A blatant plea for folks to nominate my comic Sîan for a Ringo Award for Best Cartoonist

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I started doing that because of an experience inking over one artist who drew all the blacks in, BUT, he had worked with a really soft lead and even the sheet of paper I had under my inking hand was smearing the pencils everywhere so I started spotting the blacks first to reduce the smudging.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

/... I had no idea that comic books were periodicals and not "Books" like Asterix, and could never figure out why I couldn't track more than 4 or 5 down. First Floppy series was Uncanny X-Men with #150 (and 149 bought at the same time).

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Asterix. They were being translated and showing up in the local bookstores and I would get them for Christmas and birthdays and started buying them myself. I think I had them all by the time The Great Divide came out when I was in grade 6. I wanted to collect Turok Son Of Stone, but .../

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I sometimes I ink lines painfully slow and the edit box will pop up when I wasn’t going for it. Fortunately undo takes you back to the unedited line I put down instead of erasing it.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I do that too, but this is so much faster. I freehand curves in pencil, but instead of trying to find the right curve with the French curve, you just freehand the curve in “ink” and hold at the end of the line to make it editable. It’s a brilliant upgrade for me.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Yup. Space ships and alien cities were a breeze instead of my usual French curves and plastic ruler on the Cintiq .

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I upgraded from 2 to 5 just for this tool. I Wouldn’t use it to clean up organic lines-but freehanding a curve or circle and using this tool is so much faster than using the line tool or Elipse tool. I used it a ton drawing space ships and alien cities on my last job.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I’ll probably still pull out the clear plastic ruler when I want to do something like that. But last time I did sci-fi I was using the curved line tool and going over it carefully with a brush to get some thick and thin to the line. And drawing a rough ellipse and being able to edit that!🥳

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I rarely bother upgrading, and it was definitely worth it this time.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

That one got me to upgrade! Just jumped from 2-something to to 5 (even though I’ve been paying for the pass) when I saw a demo of that. Just did a scfi 10 pager and used it a ton for the backgrounds.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Lots of artists are good at both, but many are better at one or the other, and prefer one or the other. I occasionally do pinups, but I’d rather spend the time drawing a story. Covers are a necessary evil of being a one-man band self-publisher. If I could put the first page as the cover I would!🤣

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

True. I was just mentioning SSOC because that’s what I think of when I hear the word pin-up. But there are definitely different skills needed to do good single image illustration vs Sequential’s. I think I’m a good storyteller, but pinups and covers are kind of like pulling teeth for me.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Honestly, that’s why I went looking for WFH a few months ago. I spend some much time getting into my head about my own work, hemming and hawing. I found myself paralyzed. Figured someone giving me a script and a deadline and saying “Go!” Might help scrape the barnacles off. So far it’s working.

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Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈 @craigtaillefer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I really need to get my ass in gear and put together samples and hit up titan. Conan is probably my only WFH “want”. My latest self-pubbed comic started out as “Sian meets Conan” but by the time I scraped off the serial numbers my stand in didn’t really look much like Conan anymore. 🤣

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