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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

What four classic video games to you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are? These are mine:

Image from the game Timberborn, showing 2 beavers overlooking an idyllic beaver city

Image of the box for the PlayStation 2 version of Katamari Damacy, depicting a cow standing in front of a city and a mountain, with a large Katamari dwarfing the city and mountain, but still under a rainbow

An image of the compact disc for Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Who’s your favorite super-hero? (Without saying Batman or Spider-Man) For me it’s the Red Tornado, for a bunch of weird personal reasons, but also because he never lets being completely exploded stop him from coming back to fight evil for more than a few issues

Who’s Who page of the Red Tornado (the 2nd one (the android)) drawn by Carmine Infantino (although I think the costume was designed by Dick Dillin)

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"he looks more like a comic-book character"

Panel from Dark Knight Returns of Two-Face by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley, but that one panel that shows how Harvey views himself in which both sides of his face are disfigured

Panel of General Immortus from an issue of either Doom Patrol, or My Greatest Adventure, probably drawn by Bruno Premiani

Panel of Professor Ivo from Justice League of America #218, pencilled by Chuck Patton and inked by Romeo Tanghal. Colors by Anthony Tollin.

Panel of Prune Face from the Dick Tracy comic strip, presumably by Chester Gould.

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What video game do you consider perfect?

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I got this when I had to stay overnight at the hospital after hitting my head at school. They used to do that to make sure you didn't have a concussion; I don't think they do any more. In the end, I didn't have a concussion, but I remember this wraparound cover. Just not any of the stories inside.

The cover of World's Finest #255 from March 1979. On the cover, a green, winged swamp monster is holding Superman aloft while Batman is being pushed aside by an alternate Batman in the foreground. Batman is saying "I'M HELPLESS! THE LIVING BAT-GOD IS DESTROYING SUPERMAN!" to which the alternate Batman is replying "THEN ONLY THE ORIGINAL BAT-MAN CAN SAVE HIM!" while a caption below asks "WHO-- OR WHAT-- IS THE ORIGINAL BAT-MAN??" The alternate Batman's name uncharacteristically has a hyphen in it. On the back cover, still part of the larger image, Captain Marvel, Black Canary, Green Arrow & the Creeper can be seen rushing to Superman's aid. A caption box promises "IN THESE PAGES-- THE WORLD'S FINEST SUPER-HERO SENSATIONS-- SHAZAM! BLACK CANARY! The CREEPER! GREEN ARROW!" Abve the actual tile of the comic, trade dress proclaims "68 PAGES! ALL NEW! NO ADS! NON-STOP COVER-TO-COVER ACTION! 4 FULL-LENGTH FEATURES!" In the bottom corner, a triangular caption advertises that "YOU COULD BE A WINNER IN THE SECOND SUPERMAN MOVIE CONTEST! DETAILS INSIDE"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

What movie did you see way too young. I was sleeping over at my grandma's and this was on TV.

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

QRP with your header art!! Mine is a detail of the 1st age of a comic I put up on the internet roughly 6 months ago. You can read it for free at hamf.ist!

$A pencil drawing in blue monochrome of a profile shot of a young short haired child in a plaid short sleeved shirt. The child's head is in silhouette. Within the silhouetted head, a pink monochrome brain is depicted as being split in half by a lightning bolt shaped fracture. Blue energy effects radiate out from the pink brain and out to the edge of the page. A caption near the bottom of the page reads "When I was 11, I broke my brain."$

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

Screenshot of Babe from Babe Pig in the City, specifically from the scene where he turns on the bridge to the dog chasing him and plaintively asks "Why?"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

That's all just preamble to me announcing that I got a new nameplate yesterday. It's early days on the show so so far it's just a generic studio nameplate, but plain as it is, I think it's my favourite.

Nameplate from my new job - A square grey nameplate with the logos for, from left to right, Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Bros Animation & Hanna-Barbara Studios Europe. Under the logos is my name, Heather Maxwell.

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I don't remember when I started doing that, so I don't know if I have any from my earliest jobs. The ones I do have are scattered all around my garage, but I found 2 of the best of them to post here as examples.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Somewhere along the 30ish years of working in animation I started making a habit of grabbing the nameplates from my various office doors and cubicle walls as I left, just to have something to keep as a memento of each specific gig.

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Here’s a screenshot of this congressperson describing herself as a “Constitutional conservative“ on Twitter.

Screenshot of Rep Victoria Spartz’s post on Twitter. The text reads “As a Constitutional conservative who believes that government’s main job is to PROTECT equality of rights and the rule of law I will never let my fellow Americans down for appeasement & political messaging, regardless who is in charge - Pelosi or McCarthy”. There is a picture of her attached. The screenshot was taken at 1:34 when my phone battery was at 27%.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If you see this, post your green #art 🌱

A post-it with a drawing of Jessica Cruz, aka Green Lantern, from the TV show DC Superhero Girls. She is surfing through space on a green power ring projected surfboard. Beside the post-it are 2 markers, 1 black and 1 green.

4 index cards arranged in a grid formation - on each card is a Ninja Turtle, drawn with a green sharpie, except for their masks, whish are drawn in the colours appropriate to each Turtle. 4 markers are placed above the cards - the lime green Sharpie that each Turtle's body is drawn in, & 3 other Sharpies - 1 red, 1 orange, 1 blue.

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Newsweek picked some weird graphics for their child marriage graphic - you wouldn't know this was an article about child marriage from the images. I did a little bit of work in Affinity to fix it, but it doesn't really convey the appropriate sense of coercion.

A map of America, withy the states color-coded based on where child marriages are most prevalent. Newsweek, in their original graphic, added clip art images of a groom and a bride with their backs turned on the left, and a masculine hand putting a wedding ring on a feminine hand's ring finger. I resized the bride and the feminine hand in both images to be much smaller.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 20:

A tilted panel showing a rotting, grinning, one-eyed, green-skinned character happily shouting "TWIST ENDING!"

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 19:

A long vertical caption reads "FLESH AND BONE TWIST AND WARP IRREVOCABLY UNDER THE UNFORGIVING INFLUENCE OF THE INFECTIOUS HORMONE'S UNDENIABLE ENERGY, FORCING A SERIES OF BIZARRE AND GROTESQUE PHYSICAL TRANSMUTATIONS!"

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 18:

The words "My editor thinks you can skip these two pages anyways." are contained within a pink frame composed of brain matter.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 17:

A single-panel comic strip in black & white. A cherubic girl character is holding her hand out intersecting the dotted outline of a missing, larger cherubic character. The text reads "love won't... ...fill in the blanks of a missing partner."

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 16:

Picture of a child in an oversized blue smoking jacket with yellow trim leaping out of a large salmon-coloured chair. The child is saying "NOPE! I'M DONE DECIDING STUFF!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 15:

A series of word balloons emanating from an old lady offscreen. They are arranged in something of a choose your own adventure style. The 1st balloon reads "This is your son? Oh, but..." leading to 3 choices, either "...his hair is so pretty..." or "...his eyes are so beautiful..." or "...his eyelashes are so long...". From those 3 balloons the line can finish with 1 of 2 choices, either "...it's wasted on a boy!" or "...he should've been a girl!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. I stole this line from Jack Kirby, but I can't find the source again for proper attribution. It's either from New Gods or Thor, I think. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 14:

A picture of a helmet split in half on a still-smoking battlefield. A caption reads "FINALLY, NOTHING REMAINS... BUT SILENCE!!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 13:

A drawing of the back a silhouetted couple sitting in a dark movie theater, watching something red. A blue caption in a white frame reads "IN SPITE OF THAT, THE DATE GOES WELL."

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 12:

A monochrome blue drawing of a lethargic cavewoman, resting in a nest of hair. She is surrounded by a pink farming made of brain matter. She is saying "That looks like it might be trouble."

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 11:

Scattered word balloons over an apocalyptic background of fire and debris, reading "-- CAN'T -- LET FEELINGS... OVERWHELM ME..." "...MUST... WORK..." "HARDER!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 10:

A weird pink growth with eyes is protruding from a person's neck, but is partially obscured by a blue striped scarf. The growth is saying "I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Anyways, in that miniseries, Hawkman’s people, the Thanagarians, invade Earth, not with spaceships and lasers, but with their mind-scanning Absorbascon and lots of blackmail. Here’s one page of the Thanagarians at work.

Page from "Shadow of the Hawkman" #4. Panel 1 shows the Pentagon. Panel 2 introduces us to rising military captain Jerry Olcott, describing his impressive military talents. Panel 3 shows Jerry in his room, with women's clothes visible in the closet, and 2 Thanagarians appearing through the wall, surprising him. In Panel 4 the Thanagarians make demands of Jerry, threatening to expose his secret double life if he doesn't comply. In the 5th and final panel, Jerry is alone and distraught.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 9:

Monochrome blue drawing of an old woman in an antiquated kitchen, holding a cleaver and looking back over her shoulder at someone screen right. Her word balloon reads "Now why on Earth do ye have weeds in your hair, ye daft wee lassie?"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 8:

A blue caption with a white frame over a yellow background, which reads "SUCK ON THAT, HARRY BENJAMIN."

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. This line is from the TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati", season 3 episode 5, "Hotel Oceanview", written by Lissa Levin. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 7:

A jagged word balloon, suggesting the text therein is from a broadcasted source, reading "HERB, I BET YOU'D NEVER GUESS - I WAS ONCE A MAN!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 6:

Monochrome blue drawing of an excited young child in an oversized lab coat. The child is framed inside of a pink brain, with a word balloon that reads "Time for more BRAIN SCIENCE!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 5:

Picture of a young child with a soda in a theater. The child has tears in his eyes, as do the people behind him. The child is saying in a word balloon "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 4:

2 panels of a middle-aged person standing naked in the rain. The first panel is a close-up, the second a medium shot. A caption above the panels reads "THE WORLD MAY HAVE CHANGED... ...IT JUST HASN'T CHANGED ENOUGH."

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 3:

Drawing of a thought balloon emanating from someone's head over a soft orange background. It reads "THIS WILL WEAR OFF IN 24 HOURS, RIGHT?"

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 2:

The words "I just get more dysphoria from my face than my butt" are framed inside a drawing of a pink brain.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

From @sayaashrah.bsky.social - I'm posting mine here so I don't gum up her replies. A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters

Drawing of a pink lump with a face growing out of someone's neck - the pink lump has an excited, ecstatic expression. The lump is yelling "WHEE! LET'S DO THIS!"

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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Let’s play a game — how many people are y'all blocked by? It used to be about 5 or 6 but then I got added to some troll-generated blocklists.

Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I wanted to try my hand at #hourlycomicsday but the whole day just felt like this - I did it under an hour so maybe it counts anyways

Hourly comics with bunches of overlapping transparent panels, alternating between doomscrolling, drawing, sleeping and snacking. In the middle is 1 opaque panel that says 12:00: walk the dog, with a drawing of a small dog being walked