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Eric McConnell

@ericmcc.bsky.social
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Artist, writer. Creator of Remnant comic book series. Trading card artist. Work in Corp America to pay the bills. www.artofericmcconnell.com

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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New art blog post on my website. Talent Alone vs. Practice and Critique. www.artofericmcconnell.com/artramblings...
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Talent vs. practice and critique — Art of Eric McConnell
Every now and then I have someone tell me at a convention or elsewhere that I must be lucky to have a talent for drawing. Often with a follow-up comment that “I could never draw like that.” While...
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
QRT with your black and white arts.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
An important 🧵
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We shouldn’t need to know the name of the president of El Salvador. Yet, here we are. 🫣
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hi! #PortfolioDay I'm Eric McConnell. An indie comic and #sketchcard artist. I've worked for Upper Deck, Rittenhouse Archives, Cryptozoic, Perna Studios and others. Right now I'm focused on my creator owned / self-published comic, Remnant. #indiecomic #comics #comicart #art #drawing
Sketchcards completed for the DC Comics Bombshells trading card set from Cryptozoic. Six cards featuring Batwoman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, Ravager, Starfire, and Harley Quinn.Cover for Indie comic Remnant, issue number 3. Cover art featuring main protagonist, Aryne, with her left hand emitting magic while holding an elaborate sword in her right. She stands facing left but looking back over her shoulder. In the background to the left stands a columned temple surrounded by green and purple trees. In the background to the right, a massive fire ravages the remains of a fortress. Several pages overlapping showing final inks for the indie comic Remnant issue five. A preview / promo from Perna Studios of sketchard art from Eric McConnell for their trading card set "Spellcasters IV: Guardians of Light"
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Day 1 for SC Comicon ended up stretching into the evening as I was working on a Dr Doom for the second day, and this morning before the crowd came in was able to crank out one more (Poison Ivy). Been a great day so far and about 1.5 hrs to go. #comicart #drawing
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It’s SC Comicon! We’re set up and ready for the weekend! Come see me at table 1116 in Artist Alley. Remnant issue 5 is now available from me directly at the show along with original art from the first several issues, original fan art, prints, and I am doing sketch commissions during the show. 
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RIP Val Kilmer
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a group of planes are flying over a cemetery with top gun america written on the bottom right
ALT: a group of planes are flying over a cemetery with top gun america written on the bottom right
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
April 1, 2025
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April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We're a week away from our first convention of the year! I'll be heading to Greenville, SC next weekend (Apr 5 & 6) for SC Comicon, and I hope to see you there! I'll have original art, prints, as well as the debut for Remnant issue 5! #makingcomics #comics #indiecomics #comicart #comiccon
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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jerryplaysguitar.bsky.social @jerryplaysguitar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Cartoonists stepping up.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Last batch of the Fleer Retro Looney Tunes sketch cards I did for Upper Deck. #bugsbunny #looneytunes #sketchcards #drawing #art #tweety #sylvestercat #daffyduck
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Inks and colors from a page in the latest issue of my own series, Remnant. Pencils and inks by me, colors by @elllewrightart.bsky.social
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
More of the Fleer Retro Looney Tunes sketch cards I did for Upper Deck at the end of last year. #bugsbunny #sketchcards #looneytunes #wileecoyote #daffyduck
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More of the Fleer Retro Looney Tunes sketch cards I did for Upper Deck at the end of last year. #art #sketchcards #looneytunes #upperdeck
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Yep
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Coming soon! The fifth issue of my fantasy series Remnant. This continues the story of Aryne, a former knight protector sworn to destroy all magic in the kingdom, now hated by those she vowed to protect, after discovering she can wield magic herself. #comics #indiecomics #smallpress #art
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The key here is what is defined as "illegal". Which is effectively any protest against Trump, his policies, or any actions by his administration.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Some more of the Fleer Retro Looney Tunes sketch cards I did for Upper Deck in the fall of last year.
Six Looney Tunes sketchcards drawn for Upper Deck.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I'm way behind on posting these, but I did these sketch cards last fall for Upper Deck, Fleer Retro Looney Tunes. The set released at the end of 2024. #bugsbunny #looneytunes
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
YES!
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you. The effort is the point.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m sure it’s coincidence. /sarcasm 🙄
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Art by Matt Davies
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
For anyone curious how the rest of the world sees the US, now that it's being made "great again".
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 05/02/2025
Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sneak peek of a WIP currently on the art table. With everything happening right now, their stories are more relevant than ever…
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Michelle Mc @michellemcmotley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”
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Chrystal @chrystalll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Evergreen words from @samsanders.bsky.social from last weeks episode of #VibeCheck. I’ll do my best to remember this.
Words of wisdom from Sam Sanders, co-host of the Vibe Check podcast 

“I've been trying to think of my outrage and my anger as like, a bank account with money in there that I can spend. And I think what Trump 2.0 wants is the people who don't like him to always be throwing out the money from their outrage account and constantly being in a certain kind of debt. Like, there's something to be outraged about every hour with this man, but my outrage is precious and I want to preserve it and use it in the best way I possibly can.

You know what I'm saying? And so I have been finding the voices I trust, the causes that I can give money to and support and saying, let me do that. But what I can't do for the next four years is just like perform outrage against Trump every day because I don't have that much outrage in my account and I want the outrage that I spend to be spent wisely.

So that's like my vibe right now.”

From Vibe Check: The Baddest Bunny, Jan 22, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/vibe-check/id1637476174?i=1000684945608&r=488
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Issue 5 of Remnant coming soon! Cover colors by @porrafabi.bsky.social #indiecomics
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Several years ago I released my first issue of my own comic, Remnant. My editor, @illusclaire.bsky.social described it as a "de-radicalization story in a 90'sesque / Top Cow style". I've put the first full issue up for free on my website. #indiecomics www.artofericmcconnell.com/remnant1prev...
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Remnant 1 Web Preview — Art of Eric McConnell
Exclusive Web Preview of Remnant Issue #1
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 27/01/2025
Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
From issue 3 of my comic, Remnant. Seems like it may be somewhat relevant these days...unfortunately. #comic #indiecomics
From Issue 3 of Remnant - the King of the Citadel orders his daughter to destroy his own soldiers and fortress to terrify the population and justify his war.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great perspective tutorials here!
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic, have fallen with a dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi. Trust in The Force. Do not return to the Temple... that time has past. And our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendships. But we must persevere. And in time, a new hope will emerge. May the Force be with you, always.
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Bad Journalism: 1. Reporting TikTok may shut down Sunday w/o mentioning that the bipartisan law was a Donald Trump demand. 2. Failing to report that Trump's money man Elon Musk wants to buy the app. 3. Failing to report the Trump says he's now pro TikTok because these days "I'm a star" on the app.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Absolutely the plan all along.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Well, well, well...🙄
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John NeSmith @chucktowndoodle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Beastly! Can't wait for issue 5, Eric.
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Eric McConnell @ericmcc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Here there be dragons! Issue 5 of my creator owned series, Remnant, coming soon! www.artofericmcconnell.com/worldofremnant - colors by @elllewrightart.bsky.social
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Michelle Mc @michellemcmotley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it got back. Washington state also subsidized the rest of the country, as did most of the Northeast. That money flowed to Republican-dominated states, which contributed far less to the federal government than they received in return.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
January 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025
Almost ten weeks after the 2024 election, North Carolina remains in turmoil from it.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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