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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The indie publishing scene doesn’t need a singular hero. It needs bigger infrastructure. More printing options. More distribution partners. Better fulfillment services. More robust digital platforms, and better systems that outlive us all. 1/

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☆ Blu ☆ @blubat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Oh yeah also for #juneteenth can you guys support my KS that's coming out next week? Follow now and get notified when it comes out 💫

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Victor Santiago @warpvector.net · 20/06/2026

I feel like other than the Yeti everyone is dormant if not shut down. The age of the blogger is over.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Who are your go to indie (books, comics, etc) journalists you go to for news/reviews/articles? No click and rage bait stuff please.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lane is a tremendous talent, and I hope you’ll hire them! I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity over the years to see their work and abilities grow. Wonderful creator and person!

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It isn’t the algorithms or follower counts. And frankly what is industry validation anymore? Sometimes it’s just sketching one more panel, writing one more paragraph… Take a step back today to reflect, focus less on where you think you should be and more on the fact that you’re still creating.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi everyone! Are #comics on BSKY still alive? If they are please Check out and follow my upcoming campaign! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea... 💚

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi everyone! Are #comics on BSKY still alive? If they are please Check out and follow my upcoming campaign! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea... 💚

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yo! I want to commission a couple additional covers, and art for A Great & Terrible issue 2! If anyone is interested I’d love to see your work! (If we already know each other send me an email or DM ok?)

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The BCW is a safe space for everyone who wants to create, but it’s hard as hell to run. If you can find it in you to check out Tim’s recent post, and consider contributing to the @gofundme.com you’d be helping not just us, but a whole community of artists and kids. #buffalove #buffalo

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Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Small Press Day is back on Saturday, July 25th, 2026. #smallpressday #smallpressday2026 Let's make this the biggest one yet after last year's triumph! smallpressday.co.uk

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Small Press Day

Join us on Saturday 25th July for Small Press Day 2026. Take part to help us celebrate with small press wonderfulness!

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’ve been digging into learning about @comix.one and everything that they as a platform are trying to bring to the #comics community. I got a brief tour of the crowdfunding portion of the site and I was kind of floored by how well-thought-out it all is.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’m working on editing, cutting down, and re-writing AG&T issue 3/4, and my editor says “let’s cut three of your four breakfast scenes”… and I was like… I wrote four? 🤣

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I wish some people would recognize the level of dog shit they associate with.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Always nice to get to talk with you Cody! Thanks for letting me take part!

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Just saying, I'll do a book cover illustration for $200. www.shaenon.com

A figure silhouetted against the sun, writing, with a glowing monster rising around him. I did this as a cover design for Samuel Delaney's DHALGREN, just for fun.

An elf and an orc who are warriors and in love, in a style inspired by Harry Clarke.

A contemporary guy meeting a Viking warrior woman over coffee.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

If anyone out there needs consulting or help with Shopify I pretty much feel like a pro at this point. I feel like this idea I’ve been working on is gonna be freakin’ radical. 🙏

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I’m working on so many things simultaneously right now, and I’d like to just get on the other side of some of them. Relying on others sometimes makes such a mess.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Holy smokes, I’m exhausted.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s the final 24 hours of the AG&T campaign! I hope if you haven’t yet that you’ll check it out and consider backing it on Kickstarter! Thanks for all the support ya’ll! #comicsky

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

BTW, today is my birthday, so if anyone out there is feelin’ spooky today, backing this #comic and helping me hit a stretch goal would be rad! 6 days left 💚✌🏻

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Frankee White @daydreamcomix.com · 28/10/2025

I JUST CAME FROM HELL has launched on Patreon!! As a gift, the cover and first three pages are free to view both on BlueSky and Patreon! Updates will occur every Tuesday moving forward. If you enjoy these pages, please share and help us spread the word! Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/142138...

Cover of I JUST CAME FROM HELL. It shows a pregnant Jes holding her belly in front of a negative tree. A pair of bloody hands reach out to grab her.

Page 1
Five Panels

1 - EXT. Wide shot. The entrance to Cebe’s Hand, a wild swampland in the Florida Panhandle. While not as wild as being inside Cebe’s Hand will be. There is still tons of foliage and greenery around. A deer drinks from a nearby bed of water. An alligator lies in wait.

JES (Off-Panel): June 6th, 2017.

JES (OP): Lisa Leung arrived in Devil’s Garden, Florida with her now deceased fiancé, Jonathan Johnson, to visit his estranged parents, William & Mary, also now deceased.

2 - The Alligator slowly and quietly swims up towards the deer, who unknowingly continues to drink.

JES (OP): What was supposed to be a day of reconciliation transformed into a night of horrors.

3 - Suddenly, the deer jerks its head up from drinking.

SFX: shf shf

JES (OP) A night where only Lisa would survive.

4 - …and darts away before the Alligator can strike.

JES (OP): Supposedly, a church fire would claim 33 souls that night. Their bodies have never been found.

JES (OP): But that doesn’t explain what happened next.

5 - Lisa, the noise that alerted the deer, walks down a dirt road, naked and bloodsoaked.

JES (OP): The following morning, as the sun’s light broke over the horizon…

JES (OP): …Lisa was seen stumbling, naked and bloodsoaked, down an old dirt road that leads from Cebe’s Hand, a tangled web of swampland that stretches across the Florida panhandle.

Page 2
Seven Panels

1 - Sheridan Porter, a white man in his late 50s with leather tan skin, drives a middle of the road pick up truck. Not new, but not a beater either. It’s well maintained despite its age. He had a quizzical look on his face as he tries to make sense of this figure he sees ahead.

JES (OP): Sheridan Porter, a Good Samaritan, who happened to be driving to his favorite fishing spot, was the first to find her.

2 - Wide shot of the truck pulling over as it nears Lisa.

JES (OP): When he noticed the state Lisa was in, he pulled to the side of the road to help.

3 - Sheridan exits his truck as Lisa passes him by.

JES (OP): As Sheridan approached, he could hear her talking to herself.

LISA (to herself): I don’t know. I don’t know. I took a leap of faith…

4 - Sheridan approaches Lisa who does not notice him at all.

JES (OP): If this all wasn’t strange enough, Lisa didn’t even notice him.

JES (OP): It was like she was somewhere else. Lost in her own mind.

LISA (to herself): This isn’t right. It shouldn’t be possible, but you’re still here.

5 - Lisa collapses into Sherdian’s arms.

JES (OP): Sheridan stopped her and asked for her name and she immediately collapsed in his arms.

SHERIDAN: Ma’am, are you okay? What happened to you?

6 - She weakly looks up at him. We can see both of them in this panel.

JES (OP): She looked at him, finally realizing where she was, and quietly uttered a single sentence.

7 - Extreme close-up on Lisa’s exhausted, bloodsoaked face.

JES (OP): M-my name is Lisa Johnson, and…

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

While I have my own stories I’ve wanted to make for a long time now, my priority is still helping others. One way or another, trying to lift up the rest of this community, as high as it can go.

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Jonathan Hedrick @jonathanhedrick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

2️⃣ DAYS REMAIN to back FOOTPATH: DANGEROUS NIGHTS on @kickstarter.com! ⌛ Now's the time to visit our project page and check out the fantastic rewards that we're offering in this campaign. Do it now before it's too late! Synopsis in the alt text. ⤵️ #ProjectWeLove 💚

FOOTPATH: DANGEROUS NIGHTS 🎯
Live on Kickstarter! #ProjectWeLove 💚

Synopsis:
"An exclusive mega-party is held annually by the wealthy host at his mansion on a private island.
But what if the event is just a front to auction off horrendous experiments to the highest bidder in a secret lab underneath the estate?
That's the mission! Find the lab and shut it down by any means necessary. Rowan Kelly, aka 'Footpath,' has her hands full when the mission runs into a brick wall. A brick wall that fights back!
Get ready for 'Footpath: Dangerous Nights'!"

Written by Jonathan Hedrick
Pencils & Inks by Marcelo Salaza
Colors by Matheus Huve
Letters by Saida Temofonte
Created by Alfred Paige

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Freakin’ amazing piece of art by @mesiasart.bsky.social of Liz. I’m super appreciative of this opportunity I’ve gotten to work with such an awesome team to make AG&T a reality. ✌🏻💚 #comicsky

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ty Luke!! I’m gonna have to check this one out! 💚

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I’m convinced that getting the word out on your campaign on social media is just completely broken.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Seeing who backs your campaign, who doesn’t, and who does but then drops their pledge is wild work and I kind of hate that. I get that it’s analytics, but dang. 🫠 Anyways, we lost some backers, and if there is anyone out there that wants to support an #indiecomic based on the Wizard of Oz… hi 👋

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Holy crap today has been insane.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

That’s what I’m talkin’ about! @wellsthomp.bsky.social you’re a terrific person too!

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Sometimes this #comics community feels broken and fractured beyond repair. Let’s start this weekend saying something kind about someone, their work, and I’ll share it! Post it in the thread!

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Kody @kodyisover.com · 17/10/2025

hello to all the new folks here! this is my entire deal. I pour all my energy and passion into making this comic and it would rule if you checked it out.

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Lost a backer last night and that’s super sad, but we’re still funded and can make it up! If you pre-order my 30-page comic, and add-on a limited cover or print, I’m sending 15% back to the artist that created the piece as a bonus. I hope you’ll jump on board and help me make more. 💚✌🏻

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

What does the independent publishing industry really need?!

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Happy Monday! What’s everyone working on?

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John Ward @johnward.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I can go first. I helped put together this incredible 380-page horror anthology, featuring some incredibly talented writers from around the world. Help us bring this book to life. www.kickstarter.com/projects/229...

Consumed is a horror anthology now on Kickstarter

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Dead Hours @deadhours.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Ever just feel like you’ve completely run out of the energy to be altruistic?

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