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@maxdbcomics.bsky.social

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Just a young working artist, a cartoonist, and a non-professional comics historian. maxdbcomics.blogspot.com

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thought I'd share my painting #WIP of a friend's dog.

A mostly finished painting of a brown dog with it's tongue out on a gray bed. There is a red mat just behind it.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Went to my 1st comix jam, had a fun time!

Little circle at a computer.

"We will now be brining this meeting of the shape united nations to order."

Circle sips some coffee while a blue triangle with rounded edges glares behind the circle.

The triangle puts it's hand over the mouth of the circle and says "Stay on mute and nobody gets hurt."

The circle splashes coffee on the triangle, getting the attention of the shape UN.

We jump to a court scene where a handcuffed triangle is declared guilty and put behind bars.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you see this, post a female superhero

Big Barda from the opening splash page from Mister Miracle #4 from the recent DC Finest Fourth World collection.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy make a terrible comic day! #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

A two panel vertical comic where a character's:

1. strectching their arms and raising their left foot in panel one and then is

2. doing yoga with an appendage curved like a crescent moon above their head overlapping with the panel above it.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Finally finished the non Campbell arc by Campbell! Issue 3 didn't sit right but was executed well. #6 and 5 drawn by Kampe and Ganucheau were a little slight but I really liked the message of issue 6. Looking forward to talking about this with my bookclub. #comicsky

Issues 4, 5 and 6 of Sophie Campbell's Supergirl in front of a window with trees behind it.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sheep! #handdrawn #animal

A fluffy sheep with four little toothpicks for legs.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Great time seeing It's Not Me (2024) at The Hot Docs Cinema!

Will Sloan and Justin Decloux in discussion about a self portrait film while on a gray stage with a screen behind them.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here’s my doodle for #makeaterriblecomicday2025

Panel 1: A little submarine-y thing is small and alone.

Panel 2: A shuttle suddenly docks & the periscope is now looking behind the submarine instead of ahead.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A panel of this was posted out of context, so I thought I’d share this here. resources.arcamax.com/newspics/339...

A comic strip where the cartoonist says this:

“Hi Folks. Remember reading about “Newspeak” in high school? (He’s holding a copy of 1984)./Well, newspeak, which banned certain words to limit thought, is no longer just fiction! (Word balloons from the Oval Office) “I want only merit-based words! We love merit based words!” 3 word bubbles with “yes sir!” Follow.

“Hundreds of words are now being scrubbed from (U.S.) government sites.” “Words Like equality, disparity, political, status, women, race…” cartoon characters are in the process of censoring the words in this panel.

“So what can you do to save banned words?” says the cartoonist while three figures are slicing up words like “pollution” and “trauma” with a pair of scissors larger then they are.

“Just keep using them! In public! In conversations! In text to friends!”
In this panel, there are characters with bits of conversation shown like “clean energy” “mental health” “disablity” and so on.

The last panel has the cartoonist say “Then commit (those words) to memory - before they’re lost FOREVER!” With a QR code to a complete list of banned words.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’ll try #LetterboxdFriday for a change. Universes (2024) Will Rogers: An American Original (2004) Coney Steps Out (2023) Slouch (2021)

Four posters.

(Left to Right)

The first has an optical light display,

The second has a man at a boat’s steering wheel,

The third has cartoon animals, one of which is a bunny with pants and gloves that is standing on stage. “Charles B. Pigliesinger productions present funnie fantasies IN COLOR”

The fourth is made to look like a music poster of a man made of shapes whining into a microphone with his eyes closed.
The poster has the words “Slouch” with
“World Premiere” below it and smaller.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Some #comicshistorythatsurvives In no particular order: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye The Complete Wimmen’s Comix book 1 (TPL keeps them as two different things) Herbie and Friends: Cartoons In Wartime, “Bing” Coughlin Pulp Empire, Paul S Hirsch

The cover to The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

There are four panels of the titular cartoonist’s comics, cropped to be dynamic with a gutter. The paneling has one big image and three elements of Astro Boy like sci-fi, history, and political metaphor in a painted style underneath it.

“Presented by Sonny Liew”

The complete box set of Wimmen’s Comix. From Fantagraphics’ website. I’ve only read the first volume collection everything from the anthology’s first decade and some later stuff.

The cover to Barry D. Rowland’s reprint of single panel WWII cartoons with the main character Herbie. The name of Rowland is at the top of the book, then the title, then an image of an impish cartoon figure with no mouth wearing a green shirt with a popped collar.

Libby app’s page for Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S. Hirsch

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here’s the last two panels and the whole thing. Hope you enjoyed.

6:01-8:00!

Went out for dinner.

“Victoria De Palma?”

A drawing of a big book.

8:00-9:00

Got home at 8:10

“Thump!”
The End!
Max db

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This was a rushed comic, but it created some good images.

3:32-3:40

Panel 1: Got the call back & gave it to dad.

Panel 2: Dad: “What?” the son is to the right of the drawing.

In the gutters: The phone’s too quiet… even at max volume.

Panel 3: close up on dad: …

Panel 4: same shot as panel 2: dad laughs: “Heh heh.” The son is surprised.

A drawing of words and music flowing above a cartoonists face.

3:41 - 4:00

Started… this again

“I Never Left My Home Town

(Matt Farley)”

The Motern “no jokes” albumn [yes, I misspelled it in the comic.]

A drawing of the artist holding a guitar. It’s based on a photo a family member took.

4:00-5:00

“Finished all the songs.
Sometimes played along.

(Helped with bringing groceries in.)”

Drawing of a pen nib and a leg and arm of devil dinosaur.

“5:00-6:00

Finally finished Inking.

“Couldn’t find a hunt 182”

Resorted to… Microns.”

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here’s the rest of the first page for my first hourly comics day.

A sticky note that is mainly words with a tiny simple drawing of a hoooded guy with a big chin.

“2:01-2:50~

Finished Chapter 1 of Coda, a comic about a faded wasteland made of stolen inspirations.

Got the puzzling set up, broke up the old 1.”

Next to the main character of Coda with the word “scribble.” and the words “dear wife…”

Drawing of an outline with curly hair.

“3:03-3:32

Called Grandma

“Can I call you back?”

Below is “drew this before hand.”
And “waited.”

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here’s the first four panels of my two page story for hourly comics day and my birthday.

Hourly Comic Book Day

11:40-Breakfast

It’s my birthday!

A word balloon with a question mark and another with an “X” meaning a question and the answer no. The panel has a plate with a tall slice of a “Dutch Baby” pancake with a fork to the right.

12:20
Telling the world (on discord) I

Read the story Offshore Lightning & Parakeet God*

Also got a phone call…

*90’s manga by Saito Natzuna (this footnote is on the decorated edge of the sticky note panel).

There’s a cramp doodle of me on my bed, reading a book with the window open and a lamp helping things.

A view of a person couch from above, drawn on a sticky note.

1:36-2:00

Panel 1: “Read ‘bout 15 pages of Coda Chapter 1* (In smaller lettering) Long first issue…”

*[Si] Spurrier & [Matia] Bergara.

Panel 2: A arrow points to a cropped leg on a couch with the some of the leg on a foot stool. The opposite end of the arrow has the words “Dad’s busy playing Pikmin or (scribble denoting grumbling.)”

Panel 3: (words on top of the drawing of a fold out card table) “Started moving the puzzle board in place” Sound effect: S L I I I

Drawing of a hand with a micron pen

1:02-1:35

I carry up laundry, am told we’re going out for dinner… Oh! I also started making this comic!

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The last time I can confirm my reading Jules Feiffer was June 2023, sad days ahead. Alt text: A comic w/Lyndon Johnson, a comic in six panels with invisible gutter, all black and white. Lyndon Johnson is always holding a piece of paper. Click the image to read the rest of the alt text

Lyndon Johnson, a comic in six white panels with invisible gutter.
Lyndon Johnson is always holding a piece of paper.

Panel 1:
Johnson asks “Will you believe me?”
A White Man: No.

Panel 2:
Johnson: Will YOU believe me?
A black man: No.

Panel 3:
Johnson: YOU believe me, boy?
A white man with a pipe in his mouth and a suitcase in hand: No.

Panel 4:
Johnson, legs in a strength stance but shoulders haunched: Honey, will you believe me?

A woman Johnson is touching: No!

Panel 5:
Johnson: Is there no one who believes me?

A small child: I believe you.

Panel 6:
Johnson reads a speech: In the interest of freedom and in the pursuit of peace we have today bombed-

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I’m think of continuing “Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice” to the complete 14 weeks and the conclusion. Would anyone be interested in reading (& seeing) that here?

Photo of “An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, cartoons, & True Stories” spine has a regal style inside of a bookcase, the photo only shows this one book, with dust jacket, drawn and lettered by Seth. The words Graphic Fiction are significantly larger than any other word, everything is in all caps but in an elegant font.

The colours are black, white and gray.

At the top of the spine is an illustration of a hand with a pen nib above four empty panels on a page.

There is a four panel comic strip in a block of two-by two, it’s at the bottom of the spine.

First panel: ‘Ivan Brunetti’ is drawn in a style two circles for a nose and face and has black hair, glasses, and a black shirt, it is a big head style with clarity in mind.

He is in an otherwise empty panel besides what he is reading. The way his reading material is draw suggests it’s a book.
He has a thoughtful like expression but doesn’t say anything while staring at the pages.

Second panel:
‘Ivan’: “HA HA!”

‘Ivan’ has a triangle for a smile with lines separating the teeth. The words appear above Ivan’s head without a word balloon.

Third panel: same image as the first panel, likely redrawn.

Fourth panel:
‘Ivan’: “SOB!”

‘Ivan’ now has diagonal marks above his head, as if bursting from his mouth to above his cranium, the figure is arched forward.

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maxdbcomics.bsky.social @maxdbcomics.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Here is my comic for #makeaterriblecomicday2024.

A five panel comic: Panel one is the words Make A Bad Comic Day with the cartoonist’s signature in an oval.

The 2nd panel shows an overweight character in glasses raising their right hand with an ellipses next to them.

The 3rd panel shoes the figure surprised by what they see.

The 4th panel is just a pizza with a mushroom slice, black olive, and pepper.

The fifth panel shows the person, mouth wide open, throwing the already devoured pizza slice down their gullet.

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