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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14h

i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 29/09/2026

Finally got to watch the latest episode of HBO's Lanterns, which means I got to read Jarrod Jones' (AV Club, DoomRocket) live-skeet of the episode!

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Leanne @leannewriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 29/09/2026

For @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social I brought 2 pre-show pieces. A #JohnWayne Rooster Cogburn for my pal Marko Domo, and to for the Baltimore Comic Con yearbook's celebration of @eriklarsen.bsky.social's #SavageDragon I watercolored Superpatriot w con mascot Buster!

Copic grayscale marker sketch of John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn. A head and shoulders shot, wearing his long coat, a red kerchief, an eyepatch, and his black cowboy hat.

Watercolor painting of Baltimore Comic Con's mascot Buster the Crab in the foreground, with Erik Larsen's Superpatriot behind him. Superpatriot's right arm has turned into an energy blaster barrel. Behind them, a man in power armor with a busted faceplate has collapsed on the ground.

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hark! a hellcat @harkahellcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anyone around this platform work in public libraries or non-academic library science jobs in MD? I have a colleague exploring potential professional moves outside of their current programming position

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Sarah Satrun @sarahsatrun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's my piece for the annual art show at work. I had a lot of fun with this year's theme, Outer Space! 💫

Digital illustration of a cartoon Space band.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LANTERNS is many things. A Green Lantern show, a good show, a mystery show. It is also a show about jackets. Every episode, someone is wearing a very sick jacket. Much to ponder.

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 27/09/2026

Comics journalist and writer @thatcomicgirl.bsky.social asked for the gayest Ice (and Fire) I could draw. Hadda tag my pal comics scribe @joannestarer.bsky.social! At @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social

Drawing of DC Comics characters Fire & Ice. Ice, in a Dykes To Watch Out For tube top and black sheer button down shirt, yells, “Kristen Stewart! We LOVE you!” Fire, in a flannel shirt and Maggie & Hopey LOCAS tank, yells, “I have a TATTOO of you on my…”

Me and Mars with her holding the deawing. At Baltimore Comic Con 2026.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

make a band non-binary They Beatles

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

masculinize a band Mo' Beach Mo' Boys

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

feminize a band XX

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Marcello Mastroianni at Cannes, with the La Dolce Vita billboard, 1960. #MarcelloMastroianni #BOTD #Fellini #Cinema

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 25/09/2026

Doodling away at @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social! A MAE sketch cover, and Toybox from Top Ten. Here on Fri Sat Sunday!

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The Hero Initiative @heroinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LIMITED supply! Hero has Giant-Size X-Men 100 Project softcovers autographed by @geneha.com and @hackintimseeley.bsky.social with REMARQUES by artist Jeffrey Brown! Limited quantity, go NOW: www.ebay.com/itm/30708209...

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Celebrate the launch of @sweetshop.app, the new digital comic shop for fans of discerning taste, by buying all three of @zandercannon.bsky.social's INCREDIBLE Kaijumax HCs in this incredibly discounted bundle. Kaijumax, of course, comes with my highest of recommendations, and check out Sweet Shop!

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Kaijumaxxing

Rise n' grind (the masses beneath your giant monster feet)

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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

Facts don't care about your feelings. They're too busy proving mine 😘

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 23/09/2026

Heya, when you think of grandmother's cookies? What flavor do you think of? (I did not have this experience, so your feedback is helpful.)

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........

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Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The kids had me watch Backrooms and it was creeping me out so I doodled instead

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Caitlin Yarsky- PROMETHEUS GRAFT #1 FOC 11/02!! @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some art-y advice no one asked for but I have to remind myself daily: *don’t rush to the details* Artists usually want to render details before the basic shapes/angles look right.You could draw a detailed iris, but if the eye is in the wrong spot on the face it’s gonna look weird. Basics first ✨

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Cat Farris @cattifer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Batman Day! I don't draw Batman(almost ever) but I did do this illustration for the Hero Initiative a few years back and I still love it!

Black and white drawing of a cartoony Batman looking awkward and jealous as Catwoman lounges happily in a pile of different big cats/housecats.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okay yes but the moment you start arguing over whether to have trans people or federally funded art you have accepted Republican framing The correct answer is to have trans people and art instead of Republicans

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Traumatic!

Cover to LITTLE DOT 66. Dot is surprised to see that the rain dripping from her red and black polka-dotted umbrella is forming into a red and black polka-dotted pool of water.

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 14/09/2026

George Takei: “We have been together for 40 years, but we couldn’t get married legally as ‘husband & husband’ until 2008, thanks to a ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 13/09/2026

These very early H.G. Wells War Of The Worlds illustrations tell me a story, and that story is that the Martians made the mistake of inserting LLM "AI" into their teapots, teacups and saucers.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 13/09/2026

This is it, right? Obviously - OBVIOUSLY - every genocide needs to be opposed because genocide is EXTREMELY BAD. But also, if someone can't bring themselves to oppose any given genocide, there's absolutely no reason to trust them on any other matter of justice, human rights, safety or health.

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 12/09/2026

Never knew! In TCJ Ellison repeatedly called Fleischer crazy, but great. www.cbr.com/harlan-ellis... CBR “Even when they seemingly settled the issue, they continued to attack each other (thanks to Heidi MacDonald for the head's up about Ellison and Fantagraphics' continued issues post-settlement)!”

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How A Controversial Harlan Ellison Interview Won a Victory for Free Speech

Harlan Ellison's controversial interview with the Comics Journal led to a libel lawsuit from a comic writer. The judgment was big for free speech!

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Philjimeneznyc 🏳️‍🌈 @philjimeneznyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Woah

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 12/09/2026

I have a vivid head canon and opinions about the book(s) Peter Pan ie Peter & Wendy by J.M. Barrie. Addition to the thread: the immortal and cruel faerie Pan maintains its human boy form by stitching the shade of a dead human boy, Peter, to itself.

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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Top 10 character designs by @geneha.com. I love the comments and observations about how the designs evolved. I appreciate that Ha is open enough to share where initial ideas were a bit of a misfire or didn't quite work out. It shows that design is a process involving actual work not just ideas.

TOP 1O GALLERY

Designs by GENE HA
based on concepts by ALAN MODRE.
Comments by Gene.

TOYBOX:
I designed Toybox as an artsy do-it-yourself punk.
There are little bits of "chopper" and "hacker" thrown in.
I really didn't want her to be too much of a Barry Allen clean-cut engineer.
I was specifically inspired by a friend who takes thrift store baby dolls, sprays them white, and turns them into "Borg Babies."

JEFF SMAX:
This was a bit of a wrong turn.
I mean, if Smax is indestructible, why would he need a helmet?
If it looked cooler, I might have left it in.

KING PEACOCK
Alan's original concept had the peacock feathers around the collar.
I couldn't make it work.
Shortly after the first issue came out, I saw costume designs where it did work, including various Las Vegas showgirl costumes. Oh well...
The big advantage of my design is that the feathers are usually behind him, and I don't have to draw them.

GIRL ONE:
I knew wanted Girl One to be weird, but I wasn't sure what to do.
Somewhere along the way I gave up on a real costume and just decided to make her a closet nudist.
I thought this would be an eternal secret, but this became one of the major subplots in issue two.

JACK PHANTOM:
My original concept for Jack was Judy Garland singing "Get Happy" in "Summer Stock," but I couldn't find reference.
Somehow it just looked better on Frances Gumm.

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 10/09/2026

See ya in B'more and St Paul, I'm vaxxed up vs #ConCrud for Baltimore Comic-Con @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social and @mncbaorg.bsky.social #FallCon in Minnesota! For #flu and Covid-19. I've literally only seen 1 post that the new #Covid #vaccines are out at Walgreens and CVS.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Figured today would be a good day to repost this.

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Doodle I made to piss off chuds over on Facebook. It worked. They commented a bunch, got me up in the algo, more eyeballs on my page, and a couple of Patrons. It's depressing this is how the world works now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026

they tried, through sheer force of will, to finally make twitter into real life they failed miserably

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The Hero Initiative @heroinitiative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just FOUR copies left, do NOT miss out! Hero has Giant-Size X-Men 100 Project hardcovers autographed by @geneha.com and @hackintimseeley.bsky.social with REMARQUES by artist Jeffrey Brown! Limited quantity, go NOW: www.heroinitiative.org/hero-initiat...

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Giant-Size X-Men 100 Project HC w/Jeffrey Brown remarque, Gene Ha, Tim Seeley autos • Hero Initiative

Please be advised: Some of these copies have small dings ... Read more

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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David Petersen @mouseguard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Art process post for a piece in my most recent Mouse Guard sketchbook of Sienna sheltering from the rain with a bee from the Lockhaven hives www.patreon.com/posts/143837...

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While I am bummed this happened to one of the best guys in comics, @jimzub.com , it is kind of a blessing to know it’s not just me.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A former Republican operative, previously charged with sex offenses, donated $10,000 to Ramaswamy. Amy Acton-called it out. So the operative’s brother, armed with guns and a taser, tried to attack Acton-hurting bystanders Rather than back down, Acton-a doctor-went to treat the injured victims Hero

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This bellicose, corrupt regime is a national embarrassment and an international danger. We could not hope for a more steadfast and welcoming ally and neighbor than Canada. 🇨🇦 I love Canada 🍁

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wowwwwww AI opening up whole new ways to do racism

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Akira linetests. Always a treat.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/09/2026

The pandering and the lack of integrity.

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Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Metal AF

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Look, other than friends I grew up with, 97% of the people I know are from comics. Which means I know a lot of cool trans ladies. But concern is appropriate because y'all live all over the country and WHAT DID I DO to bring you all together?

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