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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't know why it is so funny that a Tesla Dumpster is parked outside. I am surprised it isn't condos already.

Google maps screenshot of the Salvation Army Thrift Store with a dumb Cybertruck parked out front.

I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see this, and I recognize aspects of it. Is this hand colored? We didn't have cheap color copies back then. I recognize ink density info, There are annotations across the color, so this is not what they would mechanically separate from. It feels like color direction, How does this turn into print?

A color guide (?) from an old issue of the X-Men

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's right there. We occasionally get them landing right on the screen, and the close up sound can be quite alarming!

Detail from video showing location of the cicada

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The kid took some video of the cat triangulating the position of a super loud cicada.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I tried inking some of that John Byrne X-Men Elesewhen thing, and found it to be a bit trickier than I expected. I was too literal, and should have gone where the hair suggested, rather than take the line literally I think.

Partially inked and colored image over John Byrne blue lines.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I see that I left out the middle bit while trying to skirt the character limit. Rob shared that screenshot on his FB page, and wrote a screed. I responded to that post and he did not like it. Later I wrote the the text of this screenshot to some friend. Finding cruelty in what I wrote was absurd.

"There was absolutely no cruelty in my wording, and really only a small difference of opinion about the intent of a third party's post that he took as criticism of an artist friend of his (Herb Trimpe) who died some time back. I am guessing he did not like my suggestion that the original poster might not have been meaning everything to be as personal as he was taking it while acknowledging that using anyone as an example to make his point was pretty crass. I shared a link to an article about how Trimpe picked himself up after a professional setback, and how much that story has meant to me over time, and said that for whatever reason, it was nice that so many of us were talking about the man and his work years after his passing. I have been dropped by a lot of people for political and personal reasons, and I wish everyone well. This feels a bit worse, and I am writing this here because there is literally nowhere else to write it. I dislike being mischaracterized and found it strange that I got booted for something he had clicked "like" on some 13 hours earlier."

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You got me to go back an look at what we both wrote at the time. It was not long after Trimpe's death. Someone else made a social media post that I will show (I remembered the wrong image), RL reacted negatively. I don't remember exactly what I said, but RL considered me to be an "apologist".

Different gristle. A jumbled page of 90s Fantastic Four drawn by Herb Trimpe.

Screenshot of a post in which I was declared to be a cruel apologist. A careful one though.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Rob and I were fandom friends back when we were both in high school. We roomed at cons together back in the 80s. We used to talk on the phone back when that cost a fortune. He blocked me a couple years back over the gentlest disagreement about whether this Herb Trimpe drawing was good.

A piece of gristle in a Mr. Fantastic costume next to a a piece of gristle in a Black Panther costume. The Mr. Fantastic one is screaming and waving about an unsupported thing that might be a giant weapon.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have a weird page in an old sketchbook where I got Anderson, Julie Schwartz, and Dan Clowes to sign next to each other

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here's a bit I was able to sink my teeth into. There are nooks and crannies I can noodle on and not weaken it. I love Wood and especially Severin over Kirby because it turns into something new without just laminating the pencils. They always found room for themselves in the collaboration.

Detail of caveman from preciously described drawing.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Been drawing all day. While I have never really understood "cooldowns", I did wanna draw something for fun. So I started doing lines over some Kirby pencils. His is so wonderfully hard to ink for me. He forces me to make choices I don't wanna make. Inserting anything of myself feels unwelcome.

Black lines over blue pencils depicting a devil dinosaur and a moonboy.

Mostly unfinished.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's kind of a sloppy proof of concept, but I designed and printed these brackets to gather and protect my T5 and T7 SSDs. It's working out really well. Not worth printing again since it's working out fine, but I will sand them.

2 slightly different sized SSD drives cradled in some 3D printed brackets

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If I had found this a week ago, I bet I would have gotten a lot of "likes". #RickandMorty

Rick and Morty screenshot of a blue wasteland with bones in the foreground. Caption reads "17 billion snake lives ended on June 21, 2026. The survivors lived only to face a new nightmare.".

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A friend gave me a very generous gift card to my LCS some time ago, & I've been twisting myself into knots figuring out what to get with it. Then I noticed that some random boxes had a small pile of affordable 10¢ comics in it, and that price tag always seemed like magic to me. Love me some old DC!

5 old comic books. 4 Adventure comics, and one Detective comics. I have not checked the dates, but probably all circa 1960

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It's been a good life. I hope I made my family proud.

Screenshot with text reading "You've read your last free article."

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I come across this drawing every once in a while from back when I used to quick-doodle in public. I t's bad because I was also carrying on a conversation. The old old Hot Dougs that had the fire. We knew what we had, and everyone appreciated it, but maybe we should have appreciated it even more?

Drawing of (Hot) Doug slinging dogs at the old Rosco location in Feb 2003.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The lack of shoes is my main point of confusion.

Picture of a shoeless child in a surprisingly good hot dog costume.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I saw this woman at the grocery store this morning, and thought she was so great. I was telling my friends about her, and one said I should draw a picture of her. I did, and now I will share it with you all as well. I hope she is having a glorious day.

Rough drawing of a woman wearing a teal and pink and cream '80s winter coat with a full body fleece cow print jumpsuit under that. Also, some shiny rubber high heeled winter boots

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

First night umbrella always takes the pressure off!

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

"Who was that guy who got shot? Chris something?"

Graph showing that people searching for CK dropped to almost nothing almost immediately.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When I hear people say "warfighters".

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I was starting to think I was never going to get that umbrella

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

RFK Jr. does not think you should have access to vaccines.

A mean joke using an image from "I Think You Should Leave" .

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I am a big fan of Pete Bagge, going way back to his Weirdo/Neat Stuff days Although a legitimate case can be made that his chronicling of Buddy Bradly and his family is what he will be remembered for, I have to say that his 2013 biography of Margaret Sanger, "Woman Rebel", is his finest achievement

A comic page from Peter Bagge's "Woman Rebel". A comic biography of Margaret Sanger.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A message for anyone who might see this in the future, I think you are talking to his sister's sockpuppet. I have several reasons for thinking this. Make of that what you will.

A screenshot of similar bsky postings from veradams3 and jcleaves from a month apart.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Every once in a while, I try to ink some Jack Kirby sketch. I think his best inkers submitted to him (Chic Stone being my favorite), except for the very best inkers who laminated him with their own styles. A best of both, like Wood and Severin. I don't see any of that in my effort, which frustrates.

My digital inks over some Jack Kirby pencils.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This one is from the January 1966 issue of Archie’s Christmas Stocking #137. Those prices held pretty steady. Slight difference in the offerings.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ad from Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals no.37, Summer 1969. I can guess that none of those are performed by the original artists, but I am surprised I never really saw many examples of this sort of thing used. Did people find them to be more disposable because they are inorganic covers?

Comic book ad listing 60 song titles that can be had on LP for $2.98

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My almost 10 year old Yiynova MVP22U Digital Pen Monitor (pictured on the left) died this morning. It paid for itself 600x over, and cost me pennies per day of usage. The company is dead. They no longer sell the styluses. I will miss it.

Photo of my drawing desk, featuring multiple screens. Situated in a corner, with blinds drawn to shut out the hateful midday sun.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Near as I can figure, this is what is going on under that dress. Except, nothing was ever going on under that dress. There were never any real legs, and in the attempt to create an image where none existed before, no one, not even a computer, mapped out where the legs would be.

Drawing on top of some AI slop depicting a 9' woman with rubber limbs.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Live in such a way that the worst people speak this way about you.

Some dumb Nazis wrote a blog post titled "Ozzy Osbourne is dead, but his dark influence lives on"

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

Cover of "Mommy's Little Monster" by Social Distortion

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

People buy these one time only. It looks like it is going to be amazing, but it tastes like a salad made by a dead person.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Screenshots do not look like what someone wants, they capture what was said. Just like in the screenshot I will attach here. If this is what you consider heartless, so be it.

screenshot of post from earlier in the thread that reads: Better to live, change, make amends, and do better.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I long for the unending disappointment people would be expressing right now for President Harris not having made everything perfect already. America got bored with prosperity and the ability to occasionally do noble things.

A broken system requires fixing. If that system is central to our lives, there is no benefit in entrusting it to people promising to destroy it. We can make the Democratic party better, or we can be murdered (fast or slow) by the Republicans. There is no choice there for me.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

What remains of the sequential art samples I did that did not result in me becoming the new comic sensation of 1991.

Photograph of some comic artwork of a character named VOLO 7.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Been well over a year since I wrote this, which inexplicably drew a hostile reaction. Everything is indeed much worse now, for us, our children, and for Palestine. The worst Dem is better than the best Republican. It does not mean that we need to accept the worst Dem, but we have to be pragmatic.

Screenshot of a post I made on Jan 28 2024 that reads" "I don't expect to change anyone's mind. Just like I have never for a second thought we dodged a bullet when Hillary Clinton lost. Biden has never been this far to the left in his life. I hope he can be dragged further, but right now, there is no better realistic option. For the US or Palestine"

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today's comics pick ups! Or most of them. I had a gift card for the shop. I was super close to using it to pay for most of a Hate box set, but the chance to fill in some holes in my 4th World collection was too tempting. I already had the Glory Bost issue, but it is so good I wanted it again.

Old comic books fanned out depicting Archie, Frankenstein, and Jack Kirby characters

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Post you from a different era I was doing my best. I am always doing my best.

Picture from 1989 of a me person with fried hair.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is literally the first Google image result.

The "Director" of the FBI looking as though you just caught him masturbating.

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I Spit John Your Grave @john13.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Closeup of Josh Bronlin's (as Corey Webster) Skateboard in 1986's Thrashin'. I paused it on rewatch a coup[le years ago, because you cannot read it in real time. That rare moment in time where Johnny Cougar AND the Nip Drivers fans overlapped.

A closeup of an old style skateboard, dressed in the janky fashion of the time

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