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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Solidarity with the Silver Sprocket cartoonists!

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 17/07/2026

Creators at Silver Sprocket have released a public statement regarding longstanding concerns with the business practices of the company which alleges issues around payment of royalties, poor treatment of staff, and lack of professionalism. Please read their statement: cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art...

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Nero Villagallos O'Reilly @itsnero.com · 27/05/2026

We NEED to bring back calling people sellouts. People should feel shame for betraying their artistic communities for money. We gotta shame and boo artists who backstab others for corporate greed. (TO BE CLEAR: this is different from doing things you don't want to to make rent.)

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Heads-up that I am participating in the Fantasy Comics Roundtable as part of Cartoonists United's Nib & Ink Fest this saturday (the 23rd)! Mark the date! nif.cartoonist.coop/event/fantas...

A social media graphic promoting an event for NIF 2026, featuring mascots Inkling and Nibford! The event is "Fantasy Comics Roundtable", hosted by panelists Jen & Kate, Riotbones, Kelci D Crawford and Bruce Delo on Saturday May 23 @ 12PM PDT /31PM EDT / 7PM GMT / 5AM AET on Zoom! Come check it out! Learn more at: nif.cartoonist.coop

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SEN 👾 @shmupdb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Mobile Police Patlabor

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zac 3amsoda @3amsoda.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

beatrice

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Amber T @amber-tee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Nobody told me there has been a really good SILENT HILL movie already out there since the 70s and it is called MESSIAH OF EVIL

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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i stand with my trans homies! 🏳️‍⚧️ fuck this administration and the rotten animals who’re in charge! and fuck the disingenuous losers who are just “asking questions”!! here’s a question i’m “just”asking: when will you die!?

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Bob / S.R. Appavu @bob-artist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

So, my comic was stolen by a youtuber who is deleting anyone who comments and mentions that I am the creator. The video has 2.4M views. Any help spreading the word is appreciated! My og post: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/8... The video (for ref; don't give em views): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqD...

Preview of Brotherhood of the Orb comic. Full alt text in quoted post.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trying to get a few things buttoned up before the end of the year- new comic uploads (Starbreakers 3 and a little extra), new blog post, plus an overhaul to the gallery pages that's been a long time coming. I think once I get the cover for Starbreakers 3 done we'll be in business. Maybe end of Nov?

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Haven't posted here in a long time but it's because I don't trust Bluesky with my art anymore! Updates are forthcoming on my website; expect something early November.

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Ella @dodostad.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I watched terminator 2 at propeller arcade in june and when the cop asks a kid if he knows john connor and the kid lies, everyone in the audience started cheering and applauding. I love halifax

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Today was terrible comics day and I had mild sleep deprivation and heat exhaustion so what could I do except a nigh-incomprehensible riff on Dune.

A picture of "the artist" sweating and tugging at his collar, with an arrow and the words "THE ARTIST: two day jag of bad sleep; 30 degrees celsius outside; dehydrated; idiot; brain misfiring." The rest of the comic takes place in his thought balloon, where- in full colour- he is walking through the sand dunes of the distant world of Arrakis. He says the following:
"Wwhatup, Youtube?! It's ya boy, Flyknife Comics, here with another classic prank! We took the eighteen youtubers with the highest follower counts and brought them here to Arrakis, just outside the former Harkonnen capitol of Carthag! If they can get to Arrakeen without getting caught by the most bloodthirsty Sardaukar that Salusa Secundus had to offer, they get a CHOAM directorship and their water-weight in spice! Let's check in!"

The first image is the artist, whose eyes are bugging out in shock at the sight of three Sardaukar terror troops standing around a burning heap of bodies, presumably the aforementioned Youtubers. The artist grabs the sides of his head and, panicking, yells "OHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT." Suddenly, over a nearby dune, several officers of the New York Police Department, waving an American flag and trailed by helicopters, point at the panicking artist. "Look, it's the kidnapper!" they say. "Take him down!"

The artist turns and lifts a knife in a warrior salute as he activates his personal shield with his free hand. "BRING IT ON!" he yells, his eyes now the blue-within-blue Eyes of Ibad common to the Fremen in the Dune series of novels. "May thy PIG KNIVES chip and shatter!" The tail of the thought bubble leads back to the head of the cartoonist in reality, who still looks confused and tired. The words "Long Live The Cartoonists"- a reference to Dune's "Long Live The Fighters"- are written above the artist's signature.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Making sure I've locked in all the major character designs for Starbreakers 3; I usually start with the Zap Jockeys but they're pretty solidified by now so I decided to work from the newer characters first. What is Sivan's deal? Read Starbreakers 3 to find out!

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.

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Ella @dodostad.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Managed to finish something for #mermay

Picture of a mermaid with long, vine-like hair, sharp claws and 4 fins at the front of their body.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I don't usually do posts here unrelated to my comics but I just want to say to whosoever vandalized this sign about a proposed development on a local green space: 🫡

The backside of a plastic-board sign in a local green space. In six-inch high block capital letters someone has spraypainted "EAT YOUR LANDLORD"

The front of the sign in the first picture. The stale, insulting corporate copy has been obscured by graffiti that reads "UGLY + NOT AFFORDABLE" next to an arrow pointing to the circled mockup of the development.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It genuinely makes me so sad that there are artists and writers out there who view other creatives as competition and not fellow freaks in pursuit of telling stories about their blorbos

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I've been seeing previews of this for a while now and it's badass, go check it out.

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Mom Friend S. Pumpkins @momfriend64.northsky.social · 10/04/2025

Before UNDERSTANDING COMICS, Scott McCloud told a story about a gleaming silver-age Superhero, stranded from his sci-fi utopia into our "real world" Of all the moments in ZOT! that stay with me, him comforting a closeted lesbian after a homophobic attack at her school is one of the two strongest

Conversation between Terry and Zot in six panels.
1. Terry: Those guys who did that to Harry...so you have people like that on your world, Zot?
2. Zot: yeah, I guess here and there. The just aren't running the place. That's all.
3. Terry touched his arm, tentatively.
Terry: Zot...on your world...would I be normal?
Zot: Ha ha! Terry, you ARE normal!
4. Terry, weeping, grabs Zot by the shoulder.
Terry: Zot, I mean it! Please tell me! Would they think I was normal?
Zot: yes, of course. Of COURSE they would.
5. Zot dries Terry's tears.
Zot: Tsk. Oh, look at you.
6. A wide shot of Terry collapsing in her friend's arms
Zot: Look what they've done to you.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Took a break from drawing my own blorbos today to draw @grahamite.bsky.social's blorbo, the Disco Bitch (careful following through to that profile, they got the spicy art). I love and respect both this character and Guitar Wolf and their hit 1999 film Wild Zero from which the quote originates.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Also just since it's in my mind right now for reasons, important Valiant Stars information is that none of the characters are cis or heterosexual unless made explicit in the text. Specificity is not always important for story so lots won't come up but you must have this in your brain while reading.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Took a little break from pencils to knock out another mini-based character- Coyote Smart. She scorns showers almost totally. Her girlfriend puts up with it for love. I knew a guy once who thought daily baths would destroy vital oils necessary for skin health, he wasn't as cool or gay as Coyote.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Some of you may be wondering "hey I don't recognize these characters- are they ALL going to show up in Starbreakers 3?" and the answer is that I at all times decline to explain myself. I weave a shimmering, ever-shifting web of bullshit and by seeing my drawings you're now stuck in it.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Realized I didn't update here with the latest pirate character, Zorro Whitewine- his whole planet was destroyed and the psychic scream generated by that act of violence turned his body to star stuff and ensured that until vengeance is carried out, he cannot die (or sleep). Life is hard for him.

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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 31/03/2025

Hey do me a favor this #TDOV Trans folks: drop your gfm, ko-fi, cash app, whatever in this thread Everyone else: go through the comments and give em your money if able. If you can't, share this post.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Weather's been too cruddy and cold for me to countenance the ~20 minute walk to the print shop to run off my roughs and start pencilling Starbreakers 3 so have another little pirate fella. Parrish isn't part of Kitty's crew, he's kinda got his own thing happening. All his clothes hate him.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Also these are the two latest members of Kitty Kissbang's crew: Bellara Quentin, a livestreamer in the surplus military hardware community, and Marcosa Qrill, a good listener and dessert connoisseur. The roster grows, at some point I will have to get these guys into a book. (It'll happen just chill)

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

After considerable work I have finished the rough thumbnails of Starbreakers 3. Clocks in at 339 pages; once I add in foreword/afterword stuff it'll probably be close to ~350, my longest to date. It's a book about which I have complicated feelings but I'm happy with where it's at.

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〚Ẋ〛 @projectendo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For the sake of clarity; sexism, racism, fascism, nationalism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, apartheid, pro-birth, military power, and all adjacent right-wing ideologies are a form of weakness I do not tolerate. If you're a conservative, then block me and move on. You don't belong here.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Everlasting mood generally, but especially now.

A still from the anime Sailor Moon of the character Haruka Ten'ō (Sailor Uranus) with an annoyed expression, with a Tumblr quote from user verylargedog below saying "i'm not interested in being polite or heterosexual"

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shaydh @shaydh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Also realised I never posted the last guy between Tapioca and Bestopher, Oni Rasalhague. Nobody knows what Oni is, or the specifics of the Angel Rig that they now bear, or what the deal is with the giant sword of light in their arm, but they know the only thing they need to: that Oni is a friend.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The latest pirate in Kitty Kissbang's crew to be drawn: Bestopher Spall, an enigma with a checkered, lovelorn past and poor social skills (generally well-adjusted people do not become space pirates). Also he has a little guy in his gun who makes bullets on demand, as you do.

An androgynous space pirate with a long, canine snout stands in a leisurely pose. They are wearing a loose-fitting blue shirt, puffy blue pants, and knee-high white leather boots with gold soles and kneepads. Their hair is spiked nearly vertically and their fur sticks out in spikes around their cheeks. They're wearing a short cape and gloves, and under one arm they are carrying a lever-action rifle with a large muzzle device fixed to the barrel. Text next to them reads "BESTOPHER SPALL: The hard-hearted Highlander who Hunts the Heat with a High-Caliber Hotshot!"

A caption box reads "The Planet Zegyma, Battle of Kubler Ridge." Bestopher Spall runs in a serpentine fashion towards cover as bolts of energy shoot in from offscreen towards them. Once under cover, they pump the lever on their gun once to eject the spent shell casing.

"Hotshot!" they yell at their gun. "Wake up!"

A tiny hatch in the stock slides open, revealing a small, smiling creature with big eyes and tiny arms with no hands. "Yes, boss?" Hotshot asks, saluting smartly.

"Grenade, 40mm, airburst!" Bestopher barks.

Hotshot salutes again. "You got it, boss!"

The last image is of Bestopher firing their gun and the grenade arcing overhead and exploding above the sandbagged position from which Bestopher was being shot at.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Finally finished this goofy thing- a gag idea I thought of in the shower one morning and used as an excuse to take these characters for a walk. Was supposed to take a couple of weeks, ended up taking almost a month. BREAD (1/3)

Comic page. A chameleon-headed man and a sickly-looking samurai walk through a crowded open air market. Captions inform us that this is "The Planet Adacta; Mercy Street Market", also that the chameleon-headed man is "Alaric Goldtongue, first mate aboard the pirate cruider 'Tigereye'" and the samurai is "Barisov the Butcher, Alaric's muscle."

Barisov's attention is drawn by a shout from out of panel: "Bread! Git'chor Bread!"

The call comes up from a short, round creature with long, tubelike arms, white gloves, and an expression of mania. "BREEEAAD!", they cry. "Favourite food of humans! Crusty! Flaky! Enjoyed by enthusiasts! Get it! Buy it! BREAAAD!"

Barisov smiles thoughtfully and muses aloud: "Hoh... I could go for a hot, fresh scone... maybe some foccacia with oil an' vinegar... a little naan... wonder if they got any gluten-free..."

Suddenly, Alaric interrupts him by holding his arm out to stop Barisov walking any closer. "Pump the brakes, string bean," says Alaric. "I got an inkling about this one." Of minor note, behind them are two stalls, one with a sign reading "GUNZ N' PORN LLC", and a second reading "NO GUNZ, JUST PORN LLC".

The bread-hawking creature continues to cry out: "HA-OOOGAH! IT'S GOT DA YEAST! IT'S BREAD! IT'S BREAD! IT'S-"

They pause and look up hopefully as a shadow- Alaric's- falls over them. "Bread?"

"Seasons greetings, young man! Interest you in an authentic loaf?" The bread seller addresses Alaric.

"Maybe," Alaric answers. "What kind of bread you got?" We can see that the seller's stall is piled high with bread, but they seem confused by the question.

"K-kind?" They ask.

"Yeah, kind. What kind of bread?" repeats Alaric.

The last panel is a silent shot of the bread seller staring nonplussed into the middle distance.

The first two panels of this page are copies of the last, continuing the bread seller's stare into nothing. Finally he looks down, then back up at Alaric, declaring "Normal kind."

"'Normal kind?'" sneers Alaric. "You got 'normal kind' bread?"

"Sure," answers the bread seller.

"Uh-huh. What's in 'normal kind' bread?" Alaric seems unsatisfied with this answer.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here’s another song from TikTok about the CEO’s assassination. This creator’s introductory comment is “And medical violence is always wrong, but only when it flows one way.” One million views, 182k likes so far. (Direct link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfshson/) h/t @kimlacapria.bsky.social 7/

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is the video that got nuked from TikTok

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

They’re often getting deleted by social media platforms but the UnitedHealth CEO murder ballad is definitely a genre now online.

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moni @monisalado.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

On the ninth twilight, the witch shall revive, and none shall be left alive. #umineko

Maria Ushiromiya and Beatrice the Golden Witch stand under curtains in front of the Golden Witch portrait and epitaph. Maria clings to Beatrice's dress and looks at a butterfly flying to the left. Beatrice rests her hand on Maria's shoulder and the other holds the curtain open, with her face being obscured by it and the butterflies on her side of the piece.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Also for all the new followers, I don't post often because I scorn using social media unless I have art to post. Usually I'm just beavering away on my latest comic, in this case, STARBREAKERS 3: GUNSTAR RUNAWAYS OF THE REBEL SKY VOLUME 3: STARLIGHT DREAMS ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER. Seen here:

A screenshot of Clip Studio Paint's story manager showing a gridded layout of rough thumbnail pages, with the latest numbered 279.

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Flyknife Comics @flyknifecomics.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Took a break from roughing Starbreakers 3 pages to draw more characters based on my miniatures- up next is Tapioca Fisk, Kitty Kissbang's ship's purser. She inherited a gigantic magical book in which she must record every financial transaction across the universe and it's made her a bit stressed.

Cartoon drawing of a middle-aged woman in a grey blazer, burgundy skirt, and puffy yellow hat. All her clothes are patched in several places and worn at the hems. She has a large rifle strapped to her back and under one arm is carrying a large golden book, secured to her belt by a heavy gold chain. She sneers while glaring at the reader. Text next to her reads "TAPIOCA FISK: The Penny-Pinching Purser with the Itemised Index of Iniquity!"

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