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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 For the 3rd book in the Iron Man Marvel Team Up graphic novel series - Iron Man: Spidey (Non)Sense! From Abrams Books. Written by @halespawn.bsky.social With interior colours by Ian Herring. Release date 05/01/27 pre order available now @ link in bio! 🟨🟥

Cover to the 3rd Iron Man Team Up graphic novel from Abrams Books. Iron Man flies towards the reader as Spiderman swings behind him with chaos on his trail. Two Skrull pirates, a dinosaur and Mysterio messing up a supermarket!

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

RIP Jennifer Finch, L7 bassist www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We used to think about the rental market as an actual functioning market where landlords compete with one another for tenants. What it has actually become is a cartel where landlords compete en bloc with all other potential uses for a person’s income, even food.

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Dean Hale @halespawn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Happy Book Birthday to Iron Man: Super Smash! This was so fun to write! It has so many of my favorite things. Giant monsters! An enormous robot suit! The Hulk! And @douglasholgate.bsky.social totally knocked it out of the park on the art, every page is a delight. So happy this is out in the world!

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Skribls @littleskrib.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here" The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨ #queer #lesbians #illustration

A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Final cover reveal…! In stores July 29th from @idwpublishing.com Written by @ethansparker.bsky.social and @grifsheridan.bsky.social, illustrated by me!

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Joshua Pruett @zombietardis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It’s real! Out April 28! Nearly six years and 4 books. What a blast!

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Friends! My new fantasy adventure comic, OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE, has begun, with new episodes releasing each Wednesday. Read it on webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou... Or read it on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/ChrisSchwe... Shares and word-spreading very much appreciated!

Rectangular comic panel showing an old timey urban street at night, lit by multiple lamps. A barricade has been erected across the middle of a street, and armed folks mill around. A teenager with a basket is calling out "Got more arrows!"

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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Days late to #portfolioday. My name is Douglas - I'm a comic book artist and cartoonist, predominantly working in middle grade publishing from Australia. Work includes the NYT bestselling Last Kids On Earth series. And currently the Marvel Team Up: Iron Man series. I'm pretty middle aged and tired.

Cover illustrations for Iron Man Super Smash. Iron Man flies at the camera as Hulk smashes a cliff face and Fin Fang Foom rises from the earth!

Cover to Last Kids On Earth and the Destructor's Lair. Jack with his monstrous arm, eyes glowing stands in a cloak, powering up and ready to fight.

Cover for Big Trouble with Angry Chairs. Maddie Claire and Dad surrounded by an uprising of chomping chairs as lighting strikes and Angry Chicken Roars.

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Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

i am enormously honored to have written an essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social edition of Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." enjoy—and go get yourself a copy! www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Killers of the Flower Moon: A Formal Feeling

In this true-crime epic, Martin Scorsese combines his career-long exploration of amoral gangsterism with a sobering meditation on what it means to live on American soil.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 09/02/2026

Imagining wanting less of this in America lol. Skill issue

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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The irrepressible Miss Kaninna. First in a series of portraits I want to put together this year of young musicians and artists making explicit political work. #alwayswasalwayswillbe #auspol

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/01/2026

ICE are abducting toddlers and using them as bait. They murdered a mother of 3 and executed a VA ICU nurse. They're beating, pepper spraying, and gassing US citizens protesting their actions. When is it enough? This needs to end immediately.

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fellow progressive, Liberals and leftists... Sure, or unsure, what to think about what's happening in Iran Please watch this video ⬇️ (From a left-leaning progressive of Iranian ancestry) Please don't delegitimise us #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 #FreeIran

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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If I posted the best parts of this I'd just be posting the whole thing. So go read it, then read it again. An absolute must for anyone working in film or publishing. Brilliant.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 - Iron Man: Super Smash (A Marvel Team Up) Book 2. From Abrams Books. Written by @halespawn.bsky.social. Interior colours by Ian Herring. Release date 26/05/26 pre order available now @ link in bio! 🟨🟥

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Looking for the violent? Look for the guns

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skid vicious @skidvicious.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

mum's on the drug mum's on the drug mum's on the drug that gave me the tism

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Some tips for this (1/2): - Just turn up! - If you haven't got a portfolio, you can make 8 pages by mid Nov if you start now. - Just bring your finished work. - Print it out unless its a webcomic (crappy printing is better than no printing). - Think about your storytelling - A4 p/copies are fine.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

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Douglas Holgate @douglasholgate.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Some photos from Tyler The creator @ Rod Laver Arena last night. #tylerthecreator #feliciathegoat #donttaptheglass

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Again, can't post much of what I'm working on at the moment (so many fingers) but hat I can post is this, especially now that Alien: Earth is out and all the prints have (finally) been sent out and covered! If you're still waiting for yours, please email me or shoot me a DM!

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

A screenshot from the transcript of the Movie Show review of 'The Replacements' from 2000

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Good morning Diana Ross finishing a rib. Photo by Ruven Afandor

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Today's folk monster: the Kappa, a cucumber-loving, sumo-wrestling, water-headed horse-drowner

Watercolored drawing of a man-turtle holding a cucumber with a yellow background. It looks quite a bit like a giant alligator snapping turtle I found when I was a kid

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

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Mar Julia ➰〰️➰ @marjulia.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

conveniently ratio'd for either legal or half letter size, so you conveniently can just print it out on any printer if you like, whose going to stop you (not me)

a poster that reads CHINGA LA MIGRA above a drawing of several alligators crashing a generic looking truck with ICE agents in it into the swamp, below it reads NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/08/2025

I wrote about how, even beyond Trump, the blurring of real and artificial is one of the central challenges of the era. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...

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Blurred world

I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviews Iron Man: Something Strange, by @halespawn.bsky.social and @douglasholgate.bsky.social, published by @abramscomicarts.bsky.social: goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2025/07/29/i...

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Iron Man: Something Strange | Review

Abrams and Marvel continue their

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Toni Morrison said that fascism “changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good...It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons.”

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Saw this batch of old Judy comics for sale, and as a collection they really show the gamut of pin-ups available for teenage girls in the 1970s.

Four editions of Judy magazine from the 70s, each featuring a drawing of a male popstar. Clockwise they run - Demis Roussos, Roger Whittaker, Paul McCartney and Harpo.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

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