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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Makes me insane how credulous every news outlet is about the shit these guys say.

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s cool, it’s drizzling, and there’s a crow nearby going “CAW!! CAW!! CAW!!” This is what it’s all about…

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks!! :) she’s externalizing his pining and yearning, I think… so in a way, yes!

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know I had to do this one for these two! 3. Fire Witch #inoscularum #inoscutober

A drawing of Nox and Ariadne. Ariadne is standing behind Nox, who is sitting. With one hand, she’s pulling fire out of his mouth. With the other hand she’s holding his face. Nox is holding Ariadne’s hand that’s on his face.

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Audra Stang @audra-stang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

hypnotic margaux vampire

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's OCD Awareness Month so if you have OCD remember to be aware of it at all times so you can finally solve it

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More Inoscutober (taking -tober lists and making Inoscularum drawings from them)… 2. Candle! #inoscularum #inoscutober

Nox kissing Ariadne while she holds a candle

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A day late, here’s Ariadne being a moon witch! #inoscularum #inoscutober

A scribbly drawing in pen, marker, colored pencil, and conte crayon of Ariadne grinding some herbs and flowers with a mortar and pestle under the full moon

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s my last hour of my last day at a job I’ve been trying to leave for 3 and a half years… I think I can have one (1) Hopes and Dreams, as a treat

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Doodled some Ariadnes while sitting out under the moon #inoscularum

Some doodles of Ariadne being a silly goose

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New customer wildcard: old man who rode up to the shop on a motorcycle and took off his leather jacket to reveal a t-shirt reading “HAWK TUAH 2024: SPIT ON THAT THANG”

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And having that “gotta share this” worm in the back of my head has, at least in my case, led to many instances of me sacrificing genuine self-expression for the sake of palatability, even when just making something on my own! I’m still trying to break out of that panopticon mentality.

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I think I’m learning that there’s actually nothing wrong with going, “I need to make a comic about this so I can articulate it, but I hope to god no one ever sees this.”

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From a comic I started and didn’t finish because I realized it’s actually way too easy for the political cartoon you’re making to suddenly become terrible

Me kicking elon musk in the crotch while he exclaims, “muh birthrates!”

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m sorry but uh, no shit, Sherlock??

Nyt article headline and tagline:

The Working Class Face a 'Class Ceiling' in Elite Occupations
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kind of hard to pick 9! Honorable mentions are Mob Psycho, Honey & Clover, Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Princess Jellyfish, & Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

9koma grid-
Land of the Lustrous, March Comes in Like A Lion, Beastars, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki Kun, Nausicäa, Drifting Classroom, Fruits Basket, and Shiver (put here as a catch-all for basically all of Junji Ito’s works but especially his short stories)

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Biggest little free library find of all time???????

It’s NIMONA!!!!!!! When I was a teenager, reading ND stevenson’s comics and reading kate beaton’s comics were some of the most inspiring things to me

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t have anything interesting to say, just… it’s a book!! Yaaaaaaay!!

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wahOOOOOOOOO it’s here!!!!!

2 copies of Inoscularum #1, the comic book I’ve been making for the last 2 years

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Redemption: today a lady placed an order for dog towels, and when I let her know there’s a 3-week turnaround she said, “That’s okay. They’re dogs. They don’t know.”

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would love for her to look someone who lost their child in the eye and say “I know exactly how you feel. I have been waiting for my choir robe for almost a week now.” I think it would go over really well!

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well here’s a new one: today a customer said “I’m as upset as if someone just killed my child” because her order wasn’t ready yet

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Walking home from the drugstore comix

“So I heard this crazy podcast today… it was called something like, ‘the wacky religion behind the ai boom?’”
“Oh god, rationalism? Euch.”
Wha-yeah! That’s it! So like, what’s the deal with it?”
“It’s basically a belief system that turns you into a human ulcer.”
“It’s hard to explain, I don’t even totally get it myself. All these tech guys are into it, and it’s about, like…
So you know that guy I dated for four years who was horrible? I think he was a rationalist.
He would send me all these reddit posts… self-serious but ultimately pointless variations on the trolley dilemma… ‘look at this snuff image or youre not enlightened…’ ‘difficult truths’ that are really just conservative talking points…
And when I heard rationalism described to me once, it instantly made me think of those posts. It’s like life is a video game to them, but not one they even have fun playing.”

Like, they wanna have tons of sex but they don’t even like it. It’s like they’re just trying to boost their stats, grind for exp! They think everyone around them is a mob of npcs.

Weird…

And they’re OBSESSED with the white birth rate.

Of course these rationalists, these self-important open sores of human beings, think that
1)they can make a “superintelligence,”
2) if they make it, it will want to wipe out humanity.
They have no imagination! A superintelligent being that had no physical body, that wouldn’t age or die… obviously it would figure out how to make itself portable and see the universe and learn as much as it could! But these ketamine-addicted manbabies are completely uncurious.

What scares me isn’t that they’ll make a killer machine god. It’s that they’re “aligning” this technology they do have with these ideals. Their technology isn’t unbiased at all.

A tiny handful of misanthropic nerd boys,deciding what kind of slop propaganda gets put out there. Who keeps their job and who gets fucked. Holding this threat of “superintelligence” and infrastructure hacks over our heads until they get what they want.

So uh, yeah. Long story short, rationalism is a philosophy that makes you okay with doing that kind of horse shit.

Buncha Freakin’ NERDS. Wanna play scattergories?

Yeah. :)

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blind Alley No. 445

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January @januaryfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching a movie with my mom

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What in the Urbain Grandier am I looking at here

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reposting at not 2 AM lol

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Walking home from the drugstore comix

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Book 2 is shaping up to be probably 10 pages longer than book 1, but hopefully since I’m faster at like every part of making comics it won’t take that much longer than book 1 to make…. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

book soon book soon book soon………

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은민 @em913em.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

갈대밭의 두마리

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yeah that sort of thing, or like just striking up conversation with someone who’s looking at your table makes sense to me! It’s the like, “HEY! YOU THERE! YOU LOOK LIKE YA LIKE X MEN” thing is when it’s out of hand lol

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like, if their comics can’t speak for themselves they shouldn’t make it everybody else’s problem lol!

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yeah, the thing about people with big displays/ hucksters is that they’re clearly coming at shows with the mentality of like, “everyone else here is my COMPETITION!” and that’s just so opposite the type of energy people should be bringing to these events!

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh yeah, I think giant displays, even if they are mostly comics/original artwork, are pretty inconsiderate! I guess now that I think about it I’ve seen some pretty huge displays at our local show.

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Like, *is there* always some girl filming herself at the gym? Not nearly as often as you see people posting about how much they can’t stand girls filming themselves at the gym. Or like for another analogy for no reason I’m getting some “check your kids’ Halloween candy” vibes here.

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And I would say every indie comic expo/ zine show app I’ve filled out this year has had similar rules included. Like I don’t doubt that it happens, but it also strikes me as the same sort of thing as when people say “ugh I can’t stand the gym because there’s always some girl filming herself there”

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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I see people talk about this a lot and I guess I’ve just been lucky to have never come across this? The largest indie comic/zine show I’ve done is FLUKE, and they’re awesome about having height restrictions on displays, making sure your table is at least 50% comics and/or zines, etc.

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