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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Happy #FollowFriday! These are 5 comic artists from my city – Berlin – you should subscribe to: @mawil @Elke_Renate_Steiner @jorisbasbacker @Ullilust @thilokrapp 👉 Which 5 comic artists from your city or region are an inspiration to you? #comics #comic #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #mastoArt […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

I met this Manga artist at a book fair this spring and bought two of her books. Today I wrote her how impressed I am with her work, and how exceptional her drawings/flow/humor/dialogues are - which they truly are. She was so, so happy! Immediately wrote back a long email and shared how she was […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

The poetry of these children arises from the fact that we find in them all the problems, all the sufferings of the adults, who remain offstage. [...] They are the monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of industrial civilization […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Drawing by Charles M. Schulz of all the main characters of his comic strip Peanuts, which debuted on this day 75 years ago.

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Went to my kids' school yesterday for parents' night, and boy did my body exactly know what to do: Huddle in the back row, mind-wandering mode on, scribble for your life! It was like I never left. #dadtoot #artistslife

Crappy picture of my notebook.
Apart from, well, notes, it shows what I doodled with my pen during parents' night: First it was a rock with some moss and grass, then came a whole underwater world with plants, a snail, a big fish and some smaller ones as well as creepy eyes in an underwater cave.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly.
Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers:
“Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Welp, the next few comic pages will be a wee bit wonky :BlobCat_Bandage: #comic #comics #artist #artistslife #artistsonmastodon

A hand in front of a grassy background, the pinky is wrapped in an orthesis (for the next couple of weeks).

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

How I wish this #manga by Mizuki Shigeru would be translated into English! He portrays the life of one of Japan’s most fascinating intellectuals, Kumagusu Minakata – naturalist, Buddhist micobiologist and probably Japan’s first environmental activist. 1/2 […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A black and white double page of a manga drawn by Mizuki Shigeru. I don't understand the Japanese word balloons, but across these pages, you can see the protagonist, Kumagusu Minakata, having drinks and talking to other older men, you can see trees, talking cats and weird microscopic fungal structures - an interesting mix!

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

GPT-5 plateau-ing is giving me hope that maybe all isn't lost 🌍💚🤞 #ai #gpt5 #ClimateChange #climateCrisis

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

I’m a huge admirer of comic artist Larry Marder, and love this #FantasticFour-themed cover by him. It was FF-co-creator #JackKirby who – through his art – introduced Marder to Native American designs, especially #Hopi kachinas. Very elegant how this abstract […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A cover of Larry Marder's comic book "Tales of the Beanworld" issue number 19, published by Eclipse comics in 1991.
At the top you can see Heyoka, the bean who does everything upside-down and backwards bean, flying through a constellation of shapes reminiscent of the Fantastic Four. It's hard to describe the way this arrangement hovers between abstract and figurative, using basic geometrical shapes that correspond to the way the Fantastic Four have been portrayed in the comics by artist and co-creator Jack Kirby. If you know the comics, though, certain colors and textures form an unequivocal portrayal of these comic characters.

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

No shade but while folks on other platforms might be drawing "comics", us Fedi artists are creating #gravy novels.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats

Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843

Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying
"Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read)

A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward"

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Just stumbled upon this box my daughter glued together for me many years ago, when she was just beginning to write single letters. I love the floating island she has drawn on it, but the secret highlight are all the zigzag lines around it. I remember asking […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A wooden box with thick walls, crafted together rather roughly. On one side, you can see a children’s drawing with black marker, depicting a floating island with trees on top and a whole swarm of the letter N all around it.
It’s an adorable little nothing box.

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

"Angoulême - Comic-Verbände drohen mit Boykott des größten Festivals der Branche in Europa Rund 400 Comic-Autorinnen und Autoren haben zum Boykott des bedeutendsten Festivals der Branche in Europa aufgerufen. Hintergrund ist die stillschweigende Vertragsverlängerung für den Veranstalter im […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

[USpol / faeries ––– [Just a normal children's book signing in a normal country, nothing to see here]] > “You can’t fire the fucking faeries. You can’t put the muses into gulags.” – Musician-turned-children's book author Tori Amos calling for artistic resistance last month in LA […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2025

[Cosmic transphobia in the Sandman comic “A Game of You” (adapted in Season 2 of Sandman, coming this July) – CW: Neil Gaiman] Today saw the announcement of the 2nd and final season of the TV series #Sandman There's something that has always irked me about its source material, the story "A […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

I miss Iceland and won't be seeing it for quite some time. Still such a privilege to immerse myself into its breathtaking landscape every day 💚 #comic #comics #graphicNovel #graphicNovels #panelPreview #mastoArt #fediArt #PenAndInk #brushAndInk #lineArt #wip #iceland

A comic panel, landscape format and landscape content: In black and white (with light blue penciling here and there) you can see an Icelandic landscape with hills and a waterfall. A road runs through, with two cars visible, but they are very small compared to the surrounding nature.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 16/04/2025

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

Email screenshot:

From: noreply@bsky.so...

Alıcılar: ben

Türkçe diline çevir

Hi there,

We are writing to inform you that we have received a formal request from a legal authority in Turkey regarding the removal of your account associated with the following handle (@carekavga.bsky.social) on Bluesky.

The legal authority has claimed that this content violates local laws in Turkey. As a result, we are required to review the request in accordance with local regulations and Bluesky's policies.

Following a thorough review, we have determined that the content in question violates local laws in Turkey, as outlined in the legal request. In compliance with these legal provisions, we have restricted access to your account for users.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square.
The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW.
The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX

Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro
Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller
Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber
Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

"When the overall economy gets sick, the #comics business gets pneumonia," Rob Salkowitz wrote last year in an article for ICv2. Now it seems to be starting: From July, the #Spawn titles from Image Comics will see a price hike from $ 2.99 to $ 3.99 USD – that's 33%. This is remarkable for a […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

Spilled my india ink today, damn that stuff is powerful – what a heavily pigmented mess, all over myself, the table, the parquet floor. Not grumbling too loudly, though, ‘cause against all odds, the current page has been spared. Plus it won’t happen again for quite some time now, there’s a […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

On my way to the Leipzig Book Fair to negotiate Secret Side Project. 🤫 #lbm #lbm25 #comic #comics

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2025

This year it'll be 10 years since webcomic A Softer World ended its 12-year run. If you missed it, you can still go back and read them all, starting from asofterworld.com/index.php?id=1 But in the meantime, here's one of my very favourites: #note #comic Via: 🔗 […] [Original post on danq.me]

A Softer World comic #937. Three frames: the first shows a close-up of the chest and arm of a woman wearing a black sleeveless top; the second and third show the same woman spanning both frames. Across the three frames are typewriter-styled captions, reading: 'Sex is better if you're feeling', 'horny and silly in equal measure.', and 'Most things are!'

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

I love how #comic artist @Ullilust goes all in with her recent #Fediverse promotion. (The picture above is from a window exhibition in Vienna - the #Mastodon plug is as big as her new book!) And if you think about it, there truly is a connection between the […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

The same picture as before, zoomed in on the Fedi promo.

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

✨ Ulli Lust, spring goddess of German-speaking comics, has entered the Fediverse: "It's time to build up a community in a healthy environment." Please boost and give her a warm welcome @Ullilust! 🦣💚🙌 #comic #comics #comicartist #bd #GraphicNovels #UlliLust #DieFrauAlsMensch #feminism

An Instagram post from Ulli Lust, reading: It's time to build up a community in a healthy environment. You can find me on Mastodon from now on. I will keep updating Insta for some time, but links to reviews and events you will find on Mastodon and NOT on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me there!

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

#Berlin comics scene showing up at today's demonstration against the return of fascism in Germany. The claim in the upper right corner of the sign reads #NoComicsForFascists. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 #b0202 #WirSindDieBrandmauer

A crowd of people walking along a street, holding up protest signs.
A prominent one looks like the iconic cover of Captain America Comics #1 in which Cap punches Hitler. Here, instead of Hitler, Björn Höcke is punched, a prominent figure of the fascist AfD party slated to receive 20% of all votes at Germany's snap elections in three weeks.

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Cress 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻 @lexicaleigh.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025

signal.org/download It's open source, encrypted, and more importantly perhaps, not associated with #Meta in any way. #Signal

A sign with WhatsApp on the left, with a large arrow pointing to Signal (another messaging service) to the right. Atop, it says February 1st 2025: National Switch Day

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

I’m a proud dad today. In her English test my daughter was told to read an autobiographical text and then infer the author’s gender from hobbies like ”skateboarding”. She wouldn’t have any of it. #Gender #School #Sexism #Education #GenderEquality #Feminism #GenderNorms #Stereotypes

An actual English test for a German class. The task reads: “Read the text again. Who do you think wrote it? Is it a boy or a girl? Explain your decision by referring to specific points in the text.
I think it’s a boy /it’s a girl, because…”

The handwritten answer of the student reads: “I have no idea if it’s a boy or a girl. And there are no arguments for one side, because every girl and every boy writes differently, because we are all different people with different characters, so why should I decide on a gender group? Maybe it’s neither a girl nor a boy. And I know I write “he” but that was just a reflex (a bad reflex). Especially in an exam or in normal class we should not tell people that there are typical gender roles or that a girl writes likes this and a boy like that. I hope you understand me, because I really can’t find arguments for one side and I also don’t want to.

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Jitsch @yellowjitsch.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

Kurzfristiger Veranstaltungstipp für #Hamburg gefällig? In der „Fabrik“ in Altona ist heute Comic- und Mangaconvention. Viele kreative Menschen, unter anderem ich, zeigen hier ihre Comics und Goodies mit Manga- und Anime-Bezug. #convention #artistalley #kreativ #kunst #Comics

Foto von einenm kleinen Stand mit vielen Comics vorne, bunten Bildern, Stickern und Ähnlichem.

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Secret mini comics collab in the works 🤫

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025

Archiving last year’s pictures and #comic-wise, it was a pretty good year. 🔹 I finished a long and complex chapter of my comic and feel like I nailed the landing; 🔹 I received a comics grant for working on my #GraphicNovel 🔹 In connection to that, I had […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Two people in a museum hallway, standing in front of a few framed comic pages on the wall.

A close-up of the comics pages. Every black frame contains a double page - sometimes originals, sometimes prints.
The pages are black and white in front of a white and turquoise background.

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David on Formosa @davidonformosa.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025

National Taiwan Museum of Comics (國家漫畫博物館) in Taichung The museum is on the site of the Japanese-era Taichung Prison with the Budokan Martial Arts Hall the premier building #Taiwan #Taichung #Taiwanderful #台灣 #台中 #museum #Comics #manga

The comic museum is located in a cluster of Japanese era buildings with the Budokan Martial Arts Hall the premier building

Banyan tree in the grounds of the National Taiwan Museum of Comics

Collection of comic books at the National Taiwan Museum of Comics

Comic drawing of a bit causing a school bag in the Comics Museum

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2024

I’m feeling increasingly stupid not to use #AI on my #comics. Comics are abuzz with AI craze, and it’s not just the big corpos. It’s indie artists who let LLMs draw their panel borders, or comic scholars using #AIArt's limitations - its hallucinatory, multi-thumbed surrealism - as means of […]

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