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Paul Flippen

@flipworks.bsky.social
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Dad, Husband, Painter

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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honored to have my review of The Tumor in the Clay by @iamnfrancis.bsky.social (released by @driftwoodpress.bsky.social ) published on the @graphicmedicine.bsky.social website: www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-review... It's a fascinating work with stunning visuals. Check it out.
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The Tumor in the Clay | Graphic Medicine
Lacking text narration, the graphic novel retains legibility through a flexible four panel layout of stacked horizontal frames whose aspect ratio comfortably alludes to cinematic storytelling.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I just backed Kill Your Idols Part 2: a graphic memoir on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...
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Kill Your Idols Part 2: a graphic memoir
A heartfelt minicomic reflecting on music, role models, and growing up in the 90s
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I really appreciate the way you're constantly boosting fellow creators. Thank you.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two ideas: @cartoonist.coop has a searchable talent database. One of the tags is LGBTQI+ which might prove helpful. Slightly broader net than you're looking for, but a start. @whatthetrans.com is active here on Bluesky, they might know of UK resources.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to support @fieldmouse.press and their @solrad.bsky.social comics journalism. fnd.us/support_solr...
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The Support SOLRAD Warehouse Sale!
We need your help to keep the three-time Eisner-nominated SOLRAD running, and we're offering Fieldmouse Press books published between 2021 and 2024 for 50% off to cover the magazine's publishing expen...
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Impressive. The word balloons, caption boxes, and banderoles look integral to the drawn page (as opposed to pasted). Did he do his own lettering too?
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Those are good drawings.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Looks great!
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
war crime.
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WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator @toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles. Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildst…
How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the MoonHow We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the MoonHow We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For #portfolioday the cover of my graphic novel in progress, Jake.
Cover of a graphic novel depicting a crosshatched black and white drawing of a teenaged boy with abstract curves in the background.  The title reads JAKE a graphic novel by paul flippen.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I dunno. I've been following this project since y'all put out the call for submissions, so I backed pretty early. I'm sure the budget is appropriate, but the ask is a slightly bigger number. That said, I see higher all the time. Maybe showing more art? Hope it makes.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just supported 11:11 - A Palindromic Comic by Ashling Larkin @ashlingdraws.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...
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11:11 - A Palindromic Comic
A surrealist graphic novel about recurring dreams.
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WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How We Made the Moon Cry 🌙 Over 150 Pages 17 Creators 13 Stories It's not just a statement, but a question to you. How did *you* make the Moon cry? Live on #kickstarter now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildst…
How We Made the Moon Cry is still live on Kickstarter and we're getting down to the wire! If you believe in what WildStar Press is about, please help us get to our goal! This entire team wants to see this project thrive and we can't do that without your help!
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Can LVT for urban areas be structured in such a way that they don't incentivize sprawl? Even paired with zoning reform, it seems likely that lazy development would set up shop just outside the LVT jurisdiction and build suburban wasteland. How do we reach urbanist paradise?
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Civil Disobedience by Tyler & Wendy Chin-Tanner could use a little more support on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyl...
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Civil Disobedience
Stories of Resistance
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy to back Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Hotep Heist (one-shot) by Lesly Julien on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/les...
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Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Hotep Heist (one-shot)
Wikipedia Brown, boy detective, has to crack a case that hits way too close to home.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I just backed How We Made the Moon Cry from @wildstarpress.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wil...
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How We Made the Moon Cry
A Comics & Prose anthology about how the moon may feel about those that adore her.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Concluding the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 36 Half Staff - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink crosshatch drawing of Fort Logan National Cemetery, with one tombstone drawn in higher contrast, on a blue-grey ground of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A vocal critic of AI, generally focused on how it is a giant financial black hole that will never be profitable.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Done!
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 35 Salute - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink crosshatched drawing of the three shell casings presented to my mother along with the flag at my father's veteran's funeral service on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 34 Stillness - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink crosshatched drawing of ripples in a liquid spreading out and settling into stillness, over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 32 Rest - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched drawings of my grandfather's antique tools (a ball peen hammer, a screwdriver with a wooden handle, a pair of pliers, and a pipe wrench) that I inherited from my father, on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 32 Heirloom - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched drawing of an antique wristwatch with the time set to 9:13, over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 31 Comfort Care - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched drawing of one of my father's gold toe dress socks and the black boxes of a crossword grid, over a background of blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 30 A Matter of Kindness, recto - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched drawing of half of an hour glass with a large wing, forming the Tempus Fugit symbol - time flies/life is brief - with graphical lines descending, all resting on a background of blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 28 A Matter of Kindness, verso - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched drawing of the balance and hourglass from Durer's Melancholia print superimposed over a series of medical monitoring graphs descending to flatline, all on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 27 Driving as Love, coda - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatch ink drawing of a US Army Jeep hovering above an extreme close up of a liquid droplet from an IV causing ripples in the fluid, with a line abstracting the tubes and monitors from my father's hospital stay running vertically along the left of the composition, all superimposed on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 26 Listening To Dad - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink drawing of a tomato plant, an image of a hare from a Durer woodcut, and a cloth tape like the kind used to restrain my father's hands to his hospital bed railing, all layered over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 25 Parking Lot - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink drawing of a car seat with seatbelt diagrams and parking lot lines superimposed over a blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It's a great project. Looking forward to seeing updates as you print it. (You absolutely nailed the expression on Biz Markie - something about the mouth that shows the set of his jaw.)
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Looks good! The flat, bold color will work great in riso. I'd be curious to see what it looks like bringing each background color into the name plate, under the black. It feels like you're choosing colors to communicate about the subject, maybe that can extend to their name and dates too?
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 24 Saying Goodbye - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink line drawings of a 737 airplane like the one my brother flew out in, my mother's Subaru, and my own Ford station wagon, layered over a crosshatched landscape of the Rocky Mountains, all resting on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 23 Plans - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink drawing of a stack of files, my mother's journal, and a Medicare & You handbook with numerous notation flags sticking out, all superimposed by brackets, underlining, checkmarks, and various annotations my mother obsessively added to every document she received from the hospital. The background is a blue-grey field of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 22 What Optimism Looks Like - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black crosshatched ink drawing of an IV hanger with one pouch and one bottle hanging down with tubes leading off the bottom edge of the drawing.  Along the right hand side of the page, a measuring scale descends.  All of the imagery is superimposed above a blue-grey field of layered and sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Brilliant! I might need to make "Immer sehr busy, so Ich kann nicht much writen" my out of office email.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 21 Odd Jobs - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black line drawing of a fluorescent light bulb and my Dad's complete set of pots and pans, layered over a blue-grey field of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 20 Hopeful - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black ink wash drawing of blades of grass, most cut to a level, but a few eager blades extend past the cutting, on a blue-grey background of layered and eroded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 19 Out of Bed - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
A crosshatched drawing of a close up a liquid drop from an IV, along with a black line drawing of a hospital recliner bracketed by a line abstraction of the a hospital hallway, all superimposed over a blue-grey background of layered and sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 18 Generation of Judgements - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black line drawing of balance scales adapted from Durer's print of Death, layered over black line drawing of a graph of the survival rates of leukemia patients, both superimposed over a blue-grey background of eroded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 17 Tracheotomy - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black line drawing of a tracheotomy air flow collar superimposed over a medical cutaway diagram of lungs above a heart rate monitor reading scrolling across the bottom edge of the page - all of the black linework is on top of a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 16 Platoon - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
A black ink drawing of a stethoscope floating above a line drawing of a classic white doctor's lab coat, with four more coats arranged like paper dolls in a register along the bottom of the composition, all superimposed above a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 15 An Uncomfortable Pattern - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black line drawing of a human brain in profile with some hatching, above flowing lines from medical monitors, and paired with ornate clock arms from my parents' antique clock, the angle of the arms indicating the date my father went into the hospital, all resting on a blue-grey background of eroded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 14 Stay Strong - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
A black line drawing of my mother's heirloom punchbowl resting on a mirrored rococo display base, framed by a meandering line articulating the nurses' station in the hospital, all superimposed on a blue-grey background of eroded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Recorded Books has an excellent audio version. That's how I made it through.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Fair.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Nicely observed.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 13 Burr Hole Surgery, part 2 - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
A series of black line drawings, in the style of patent images, depicting various drill bits used in burr hole surgery on the brain, connected by a confusion of gracefully curving lines that tangle and intersect, all floating above a blue-grey field of eroded acrylic paint.
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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 12 Burr Hole Surgery, part 1 - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art
Black line drawing, with light hatching, of a human brain seen from above with the location of a surgical intervention highlighted by a circle, lines emanating from that point lead off the page, all superimposed over a blue-grey field of eroded acrylic paint.
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