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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Just.... Gonna... Keep posting this. I guess.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Can’t say enough about how much I love Kurt’s paintings and cartooning/comics

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Show is still up until the end of July! Stop by to see it while you can.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I took my class to @peabodyessex last Thursday to sketch from their new show from the @pafacademy collection. Here are a couple of my sketches done while the students were working.

Sketchbook pencil sketch studies of a landscape painting and a carved female wooden head.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Very grateful to be a part of this show at @fortpointarts.bsky.social along with @summerpierre.bsky.social @karlstevensart.bsky.social @natalienorris.bsky.social and @keilerjean.bsky.social! Show is up until July, come by and see it!

Framed original comics pages on a gallery wall.

Framed original comics pages hung on a gallery wall below wall text with the title “Contemporary Narratives” and the names of the participating artists: Kurt Ankeny, Natalie Norris, Summer Pierre, and Karl Stevens.

Framed original comics pages by Karl Stevens hung on a gallery wall

View out the front of Fort Point Arts Community gallery space.

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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 15/05/2025

The credit for X-Men Remastered on the Eisners is wrong. The book collects stories Glenn Greenberg edited 30 years ago, but I'm the sole editor of the book. I'm real happy for the team but crediting "Glenn Greenberg and others" really sucked the joy out of this one. "And others" on my own project 😐

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Solo show is not until February 2028, but paintings take time, and it’s a big space to fill. Cutting panels to size for a series that I’m planning for the heart of the show.

A large aluminum panel is supported by a table in an artist’s studio. Arrayed across the panel in preparation for cutting it, are a ruler, a clamped straight edge, and a mat knife.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

@illdave.bsky.social I have a question about your paper/ink preferences for lettering. I have a commission to replicate some lettering for a piece of original art and they’d like it to look like it would have in original paste-up method. Message me if you would?

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Been gathering work for a show @fortpointarts.bsky.social curated by @karlstevensart.bsky.social & found drafts of 1st pages of “Gulls” from “Pleading with Stars”. 1st is plain ink, then gouache/colored pencil/vellum. I ❤️ it, but vellum scans poorly. Used watercolor in final. (See cut out panel)

Two pages of comics artwork done in black ink.

Two pages of experimental comics drafts done in a mix of gouache and colored pencil.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I haven’t been sharing much art lately, because I’m trying to protect delicate young ideas. But this I think is safe enough.

Pencil sketch of two human figures tying fig leaves around their midsections.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My pithy version: AI will do to our minds what automobiles did to our bodies.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.” Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind. Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You can fax Schumer a document to tell him how you feel: faxzero.com/fax_senate/S... Here’s what I sent him; you could too!

White letter sized image that reads “Gutless. Complicit. For Shame.” in all caps.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Call your senators today/tonight and (if Dem) insist that they vote no on the budget continuing resolution. Also give Schumer a call. (If Rep) express your displeasure about handing power of the purse to Trump & Elon. Find your reps and their numbers here: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

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U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A riff on Rembrandt’s famous etching. Posting will be sparse for the time being.

Pencil drawing that simplifies and riffs off of Rembrandt’s famous etching of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

$32,000 is the remaining PRINCIPLE on our student loans which we have paid 3x over during the past 25 years. Especially damning is this: “If…income growth…remained equitable [since] the 1970s, median household income today would be double what it is now” The rich have robbed us my entire life.

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Christopher Wade ✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.com · 27/02/2025

I think the daylong boycott is a cute, universal good, smart even. But what makes boycotts STICK is a continuous effort to support alternatives and not just for 24hrs. Its not a boycott if you shop at Target tomorrow.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

REMINDER: In 2 days, THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU?

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The teensiest drop in a vast ocean, but it felt good to do SOMETHING.

Screenshot of an automated reply from a Google Search Feedback Form which reads: “Thank you for submitting feedback for Gulf of America.

Here’s what you suggested for Gulf of America:

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This is the Gulf of Mexico. Obviously the ravings of a power-tripping orange felon are not a source of accurate geographic information. Please correct.”

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

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Dan Wentzel @danwentzel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"What more do they want us to do? Handcuff ourselves to polls and get arrested?" No, we want you to be as least as obstructionist as Mitch McConnell was to Presidents Obama and Biden, and daily use your voices to call out Trump's and Musk's fascism and malfeasance.

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Democrats fume over weak early response to Trump

Democrats are fuming about their party leadership’s early response to President Trump. Strategists say the reaction to Trump is inconsistent and not aggressive enough to combat Trump, w…

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please share far and wide: ICE arrested and detained a family of natural born US citizens including a grandmother and 3 year old toddler in Milwaukee because they heard them speaking Spanish while out shopping. All three were Puerto Rican. www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sor...

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ICE Says 'Sorry' After Detaining US Citizens for Speaking Spanish: Report

A Puerto Rican family, all US citizens, was wrongfully detained by ICE in Milwaukee after speaking Spanish.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Advice to nerds forced to watch football, think of it like Magic: The Gathering. Its a turn-based strategy game, each team is a deck and each player has different stats and abilities, and the reason they constantly stop the clock is bc they have to tediously consult the rules manual after every play

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Transferred and outlined in oil paint.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Gap, oil on board, 11 x 15 inches, 2021.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Trying to figure out how to bring this painting to resolution.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sailboats and Storm, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 2022.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Safety Cone and Paper Flowers, oil, paint stick, oil stick, and grease pencil on aluminum panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2024.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Eleven Soldiers Field, oil, paint stick, oil stick, and grease pencil on aluminum panel, 48 x 48 inches, 2023.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Pencil sketch of a Rodin piece. From earlier in 2024.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Finally took a nice photo of this completed painting today. Ellis Pond, oil and paint stick on aluminum panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2024.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Sketch of a man deep in a Twixtmas chessmatch with a friend at Starbucks.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I know all y’all love BlueSky for its Twitter format minus the ragingly toxic billionaire boyo, but this format enables the worst firehose of all the sm firehoses. I ain’t got time to post every 30 minutes on here, therefore I am invisible.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

New batch of mini landscapes up on my Instagram. Please message me there to claim one!

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A little holiday miniature art sale going on over at my instagram acct. These are about 2.5x4 inches. $30 each, includes US shipping. DM me on Instagram to claim one!

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Sketch of Jen on a day we had inexplicably to ourselves.

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Abandoned sketch from October.

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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

if you live in or near boston!! i am doing so many things there this weekend! talk at harvard countway library with @noethematt.bsky.social on thursday at noon, BU keynote speech with @joelchristiangill.bsky.social friday at 6pm, and a panel at @massmice.bsky.social saturday at 1pm! please come by

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Kurt Ankeny @kurtankeny.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m @massmice this weekend! Tabling with @ohboycomics at the @radiator_comics table. Unfortunately I think I’ll only make it for the tail end (nudge nudge) of Saturday, but I will be there 12-5 on Sunday, except for when I’m leading the City Living, Living City panel at 2pm! Catch you there!

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