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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The #kickstarter 100% totality of the Surgeon Turtle Island Cycle #graphicnovel paperback is wrapping up in about 48 hours and we're still a little short of funding. If you want in, now's the time. Tell yr friends n enemies. Link below #comics #makecomics #indiecomics #postapocalyptic #western

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The Surgeon, Vol. 1, the complete 180+ page graphic novel, only has a couple more days left on #kickstarter and still hasn't quite funded. I'd love to see this thing finish strong! Rally 'round, y'all! Let's push this sucker up the hill. #comics #graphicnovel #postapocalyptic #western

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

OK. LET'S GO. The complete 6-issue arc of stubborn little #comics series, #TheSurgeon, is being released as the big-ass trade paperback it was always written to be. New reacharound cover by @meghanhetrick.bsky.social, behind-the-scenes documentation, fan art, alt covers, and all that. #kickstarter

A painterly image of a post-apocalyptic Western scene - a woman relaxes and looks into the middle-distance far from the base of Mount Rushmore. A tattered red cross flag flies above her head; a wrecked truck rusts away. Bison graze at the foot of a palisade wall where dozens of arrows are stuck.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'll be WIDE AWAKE in no time for Day 3! It's been a really great con for vibes, hustle, and the filthy lucre! Excelsior. #indiecomics #makecomics #planetcomicon

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Yesterday's dust and wind. It was unpleasant

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Single digits to snatchin skeeters out the air

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sci fi did not prepare me for the slouching-toward-Thunderdome fashion trend of everybody wearing neon hi-viz clothes

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Waste from unpacking a grocery run, promoting/demoting leftovers, etc

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

in a couple weeks, i table at @planetcomicon.bsky.social and it's a weird feeling, kinda like coming out from under COVID again. lots has changed in the past year. i knew the people i'd likely run into at ATL, SC, Heroes, etc. who's in the midwest? or is this the west?

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We ate the whole thing. I personally have regrets, but there we are.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Waste from making a spinach lasagna, 2025. Mixed media.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

An hour of feel-bad jams I put together for y'all open.spotify.com/playlist/3Bh...

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North American Scum

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Yeah, okay, I hear you, but here's some jambalaya and collards.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Notice how many apps and subscriptions are updating their terms of service?

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I guaran fucking tee you that the President of the United Fucking States and the Richest Man in the Fucking World have talked together about the chaos and uncertainty their bullshit would cause My Demographic and laughed. And that is not some Jello Biafra tinfoil hat paranoia.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I mean, for your uncle who's a MILlionaire, cool. leave him alone. just the BILlionaires. that's like a thousand times more money.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

oh. ok. or we could have taxed billionaires at about the same rate i'm taxed.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That's just it! There's a million other candies i like better, but sometimes you just need to feel how your teeth fit in your skull

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Well, hell, I got some exercise and had a bag of Haribo Golden Bears, so I reckon it ain't ALL gone to shit.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Ok, but if you're going to buy Gaza, you gotta get rid of some-" "DON'T TELL ME TO SELL THE MOON AGAIN!"

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

So if you just say, "On Spotify, play some Lee 'Scratch' Perry," you might get 3 or 4 "Chase the Devil"s right in a row and I could easily go an hour more. Dunno about y'all, but I'm gonna put on an iron shirt and chase the Devil off-a the earth.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

As one does, sitting on the couch eating a watermelon radish like an apple, the poor hound dog BEG-GING for it. I got to the fibrous part near the root and gave it to her. She didn't actually like it! Imagine that! Hound doesn't like radishes.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

(her parents were cracking up the whole time. this was 100% supervised)

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

NEW BFF ALERT (2 of 2) - on the way out she accidentally hugged a guy at another table, forgetting where I sat, but then came over and gave me the REAL Grinch hug. But by then it had gotten awkward and she had to give Shelley and that other guy's wife a hug too. Best daggone hug in a while. NEW BFF.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

NEW BFF ALERT ( 1 of 2)- on an impromptu date night, the little girl at the next table (who was 3, and wanted you to know) was stomping and growling and she snarled at me. I snarled back. She goes, "Are you a Grinch? 'Coz I'm a GRINCH," and I go, "Awww yeah," and we fist-bump.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Well done! You deserve a treat!

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hi. How are we holding up mental-health-wise? I'm actually doing okay for this time of year. Holler.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

molasses Bourbon or rye coffee milk or 1/2 n 1/2 it's extremely civilized

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A little kid just gave me the most sincere, delighted look of awe for the skill with which I built my cone at the free soft-serve machine in Jason's Deli. #humblebrag #softserve

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Taylor Sheridan has Jon Hamm unironically saying "ain't" four times in one minute (Landman).

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

sure, you know there/they're/their, but how are you with palate/pallet/palette? this language is like johnny cash's psychobilly cottonmouth cadillac.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thumbs way the fuck up. Hopefully a leopard [print] pillbox hat will come into play soon. Cigarette holders [with black Twizzlers] are all the rage

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Like "I'm into that concept" or literally in them at this moment? Both are excellent.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Feeling cute, might dissolve into the cold swamp mud later, IDK

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

everything is coming together perfectly

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I started a new job recently. Today, I had to sit through some mental illness/substance abuse/suicide awareness training that was at once extremely boring and hella triggering (missing some friends here). So, bored, sad, bordering on anxiety attack, and this comes to check on me every few minutes.

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had that Waid Wieringo and their "cheapest comic ever" (9 cents), SIGNED by Ringo, and I sold 'em to pay an artist....

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John Pence @johnnypence.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Word up. Ow. It's the code word.

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