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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This year’s addition to my con offerings: tiny colorful linocut prints.

Small linocut prints on colorful cardstock in different colors of ink.

Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Some friends I will have in Juneau this weekend thanks to the kind folks at saturnstickers.com, it is delightful to use local vendors to produce high key nonsense

Three stickers: a lemon saying SUCK IT, a skeleton in a colorful blanket labeled GRUMPY, and a Greek vase with a butt and text NICE. OP’s hand giving a thumbs up.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My five year old has discovered my giant omnibus of New Yorker cartoons and insists I explain the jokes to her, which is like doing a round of Expert Panel with @davidmalki.com but with an aggressive countdown timer and a bucket of Nickelodeon slime wobbling over my head

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Sure it’s great to have resources that delineate the unique calls and songs various birds make in the wild, but what’s still lacking is a formal classification of the embarrassingly specific sound effects I make in response to spotting them

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 06/05/2025

EXPERT PANEL streams today at 1:15 PM Pacific! Me and @dylanmeconis.bsky.social will continue reading 1930s comics from BALLYHOO magazine!

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm going to be at the library in Willamina, OR today for Free Comic Book Day from 12-4! I'll have my new risograph minicomic CEMETERY + a table of supplies so you can make your own minicomic/zine with just one piece of paper, and showing off how I make my lil hand-carved stamp art/linocut prints.

A risograph single page minicomic in neon pink and blue, featuring a skeleton looking at a cemetery gate and a crow saying "Let's Look!" Title: CEMETERY by Dylan Meconis

A small linocut stamp/print in red ink, of two cats peeking out a window, with a gouge tool, ink pad and the stamp block overlapping the paper.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

WE'RE ON talking about weird old cartoons!

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Uber but for one perfectly ripe avocado

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Nothing on earth is better than the fact that the pine siskin’s scientific name is “spinus pinus”

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 01/04/2025

EXPERT PANEL stream w/ @dylanmeconis.bsky.social also happening soon! 10 minutes!!

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 27/03/2025

IN TEN MINUTES: @dylanmeconis.bsky.social and I continue reading the seminal work of cartoon art, THE GAY NINETIES

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Wild that people keep writing novels with the plot “married professor has disastrous but richly observed affair with student,” or “rich friends reunite in middle age after inciting event uncovers [manslaughter??].” I can’t imagine the chutzpah it takes to submit that manuscript in 2025

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 18/03/2025

Today we'll be reading a book called THE GAY NINETIES, so if that don't pique your interest, idk

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Just to give everybody fair warning, the 100th person to tell me “oh, I’m a terrible artist, I can’t even draw a stick figure!” WILL be thrown into a volcano. However I will not be disclosing what number we are at now

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I finally got to draw one of my signature penguins on a book cover. Blessings upon the whole History Smashers team for this opportunity 🙏

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I will absolutely never get over the pronunciation of “dour.” Just unconscionable

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🧵I’m female and have a name which is traditionally used for boys and girls, but in the US is usually read as masculine. I was constantly assigned to boys’ cabins at summer camp, a male roommate in college, had to find subtle ways to slip third person references to myself in e-mails, etc.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If you belong to any religious organization, please contact leadership about this morally abhorrent update to the USAID story and demand a collective, public condemnation. Catholics especially should come down on Rubio like a ton of bricks. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Sometimes an old sketchbook brings you a lil gift

A simple doodle of an ancient Greek vase, prominently featuring a person’s tight lil butt

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 18/02/2025

EXPERT PANEL returns today at 1pm Pacific (12 minutes from now!) @dylanmeconis.bsky.social and I will be streaming at twitch.tv/davidmalki

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Once again @davidmalki.com and I will be embarking on EXPERT PANEL, an archeological dig into 1930’s gag panel cartoons, where we attempt to unearth the missing context of their ancient punchlines using only the power of our small, wet brains 1pm Pacific at twitch.tv/davidmalki

a graphic for EXPERT PANEL, featuring a photo of David and Dylan, and a cartoon of a weird French guy in a mask chasing a lady with outstretched hands.

Caption reads: "DYLAN MECONIS & DAVID MALKI ! attempt to decipher 100-year-old comic strips"

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So many parents fret to me about their kids always wanting to read Dav Pilkey books (because they're "not real books") assuming I will agree with them, and their expressions when I tell them I'm a children's author with a literature degree and I think they're sophisticated and brilliant 💩

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 04/02/2025

Expert Panel is streaming again today at 1pm Pacific! As @dylanmeconis.bsky.social said, "Hey nerds, it's the nerd show for nerds" twitch.tv/davidmalki

Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

describe yourself in 4 characters (embarrassing edition)

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Once again I would like to apologize to any French speakers who suffered through my dramatic readings of 19th century cartoons about Floozies™️ but honestly my entire public career should have warned you of this inevitability

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Attention nerds, the Nerd Show starts in 30 minutes

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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What Do Potential Tariffs Mean For Comics Publishers in 2025 By Gina Gagliano www.tcj.com/what-will-po...

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Had cause to pull up a drawing of my last D&D character, one in an extensive series of snarky, long-suffering male elves. DMs love to torment them with especially humiliating mishaps, which only encourages me

A bored-but-amused looking elf in rock and earth colored gear and leather armor, waving to the viewer, with climbing grapple and staff tied to his back, labeled AUNDO

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you haven’t yet made yourself a playlist of energetic pop songs in the key of “fuck you”, I cannot recommend it enough as a new year activity

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy End of Winter School Break to all who celebrate

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Sophie Yanow @sophieyanow.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Cozy is not a genre; wholesome is not a content rating.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Some wonderful things happened for me this year (an entire baby!) and some horrible and sad things, too. All of them were physically and spiritually exhausting. My only goal for 2025 is to spend time with people, let them know how much I love them, and build little niches of safety and joy with them

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My illustrator and I noticed you across the bar and we really like your vibe

The back of an old Serendipity book featuring very 1970’s photos of illustrator Robin James and auhtor Stephen Cosgrove.

Text: Robin James & Stephen Cosgrove

Serendipity books have warmed the hearts of young and old for over a decade, becoming classics in children's literature. Each beloved tale teaches youngsters how to deal with the challenges of their world, providing them with positive solutions to difficult problems.
Join the whimsical characters in this beautifully illustrated collection of over forty books as they entertain and inspire every reader.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#dudel doodle of the day — the Dowager Countess.

A whimsical cartoon overdrawing a stylized snooty lady over an abstract coral blob

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Argo Tuulik @mixedmartialarx.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Fighting a malignant millionaire CEO has brought me and my family on the verge of a very real bankruptcy. This is not a drill, I genuinely need your help. Please, take a look at my fundraiser and share it if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco...

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Donate to Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter, organized by Argo Tuulik

I am Argo Tuulik, one of the key creatives responsible for bringing you the (… Argo Tuulik needs your support for Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The next time I get a note from an editor about a gigantic plot hole I’m gonna try using this line

Image from article on UCLA course created with AI “assistance”

Text:

The cover of the Al-generated textbook appears to have seemingly incomprehensible text elements,
"but they aren't a failure of Al," according to Elizabeth Landers, a graduate student at UCLA and one of the book's developers. "They're an intentional artistic choice that prompts students to question their assumptions about language, meaning and historical truth."

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

After all this we just got the call that we were denied financial aid for northwestern / @artbrister.bsky.social’s cancer treatment so guess who is extremely open to work and has a webstore. soengery.com/collections/...

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SUPER SECRET MEDICAL COSTS

Life comes at you hard and fast, and then your husband gets diagnosed with Stage 3B Rectal Cancer! My husband and I are both freelancers. Rob is a Muralist/Senior Art Director and…I’m a cartoonist. I...

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In fairness, you could blame Disco Elysium for just about any instance of antisocial behavior

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Nuts that people with no kids enrolled in the district, not district admins, no qualifications in education or library science, can trigger a review using right wing copypasta, and actual parents, educators and students have no recourse to appeal. Only the complainants. www.opb.org/article/2024...

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Grants Pass School District removes two books from high school library

Grants Pass School District removes two books from high school library. This marks the first time the district has removed challenged books from its libraries.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Something a lot of Europeans don’t seem to understand about why American government social supports (like healthcare) are so non-existent and/or terrible:

A chart of comparative global military spending in US dollars. The US is at 916 billion; the next closest, China at 296, Russia at 109.

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