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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 · 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 · 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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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 · 24/01/2025

describe yourself in 4 characters (embarrassing edition)

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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 · 07/01/2025

Reddit really coming in clutch on this one

Screencap from Reddit. Text:

Local-Equivalent-151 • 9h ago
I watched a few episodes recently after hearing it was a hit show based in portland.
The show highlighted how much portland has changed. I have been here nearly a decade and have seen no werewolves or leprechauns. So either this show lied or taxes pushed them out too.

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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 · 24/12/2024

Literally took this live reaction photo for a fellow Homer nerd friend who sent me the cast list

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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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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Their latest photo on IG is their booth at Flamecon and the setup and description of the stuff they were selling matches your photo.

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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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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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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Edit: i’m sorry I didn’t mean to laugh at you and your life” is going in my permanent files

Screencap of a reddit conversation:

(Anonymized post) 21h ago
Broxten was my dream baby name with my ex circa 2009. The universe obviously was not pleased with me, as I am now single and childless 15 years later.

(Anonymized reply) 21h ago
Haha the universe hated the name Broxten
Edit: i'm sorry I didn't mean to laugh at you and your life, only the comment. I hope you find what you are looking for.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Cassowary style. Butt down, legs out, everything else stacked like an off-duty scissor lift

Picture of a cassowary, a large black feathered ostrich-like bird with a red neck ruff, blue neck and face, black beak and a bony head ridge Shutterstock picture 1087139531

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is in the room of the house dedicated entirely to his Bogart memorabilia. I drew this fanart of the Falcon when I was four. Totally normal childhood

A small child’s scribble of the Maltese Falcon, labeled as such in child handwriting, with credit “Artist: Dylan Meconis, Age 4”

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hard to say which is a better likeness

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I have been very gradually building a silly emoji wingdings font. I am now accepting your suggestions for additional glyphs

Several dozen line drawings of silly emoji expressing various moods and cartoon reaction conventions, by Dylan Meconis, Helioscope

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Live pic of me realizing why face ID suddenly wasn’t working to unlock my phone

Picture of OP, frowning, with a big piece of toast in her mouth covering a third of her face, a baby slung over her shoulder, and 19th century Japanese theatrical poster art on wall behind her

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Nobody can accuse the Merlin bird identification app of failing to understand its userbase

An app notification banner reading: Need a moment of peace today... Step outside and see what birds you can find!

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I really enjoyed the first issue of LIVING HELL, @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social ’s new series from Dark Horse. I have negative minutes to draw anything for fun right now that isn’t art-directed by my preschooler, but Jerome’s character design is basically a trap for me, personally 🙏😔✌️💔

An angular beaky guy with longish pulled back hair with a white streak, looking v angsty

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Made a sketchcard of Gambit for the studio Etsy store. I’ll let y’all know when he goes up. Feels nice to draw for fun after months of mostly juggling a baby ❤️

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I remember when I was a child and saw an image of Kali for the first time. My reaction to her was approximately:

The Tiger by Nael, age 6

From They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You know, I’ve been wanting a nice South Asian textile to use as my video call backdrop, I think this one has the energy I’m going for in 2025

A traditional tapestry of the goddess Kali wielding a demon’s severed head, wearing her traditional garland of severed heads and dancing atop Lord Shiva’s prone form.

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Found this lovely neo-formline orca friend at my favorite local secondhand shop here in Portland. Unsigned. I hope I can track down the artist someday!

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Picked up Tiffany’s Griffon and HECK is it delightful. Art that is hilarious, cute, beautiful and sly. A sweet story that really captures the angst of the over-smart, under-seen, achingly lonely fandom gremlin teen — and the anxiety of the burned out adult creator. Also: cute lil griffons SQUEE

Cover of Tiffany’s Griffon by Magnolia Porter Siddell and Maddi Gonzalez

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Emily Heller did this with a clutch bag on a red carpet and it was amazing. The Getty photographer there was apparently stoked and every other photographer was extremely put out

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Preschooler asked me to draw “a ghost in a box”

A little paint marker drawing on scribbled-over brown kraft paper; a small smiling white ghost poking its head out of a box labeled “FREE ghost”

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

Hi everybody— I’m a cartoonist who makes graphic novels about dead people, nerds, and dead nerds. I enjoy unpopular pastimes such as font design, printmaking, yelling back at crows, being gay, and having children. I once rescued a Pusheen from the mean streets of Portland.

A Pusheen the cat stuffy lying sodden beside a pile of leaf litter on the autumn sidewalk, staring up at the grey skies

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

@swordsjew.bsky.social Fine news from the digital wing of the nation’s second busiest library system —

Screenshot from the Libby app for library e-books through the Multnomah County Library (Portland OR)

“Talia Lavin
Wild Faith

You are 18th in line (started: 36th). 7 copies in use. 61 people waiting in total. 9 people waiting per copy.
Your library has acquired 4 more copies since you placed this hold.”

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