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Jesse McManus @jessemcmanus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our Foremost Duck Cartoonist has apparently, always, also been a compulsive mark-maker and phrase-monger extrée ordinaire. Fun reading this knowing that it's just the beginning of something that is still alive and cooking, despite itself (!?)
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Domino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Newly added to the archive, it's a super early and super rare work from the great Dane Martin, Salt Mines No. 1 from 2008! nycartoonlibrary.org/danesalt1.html
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I had the yellow one in college.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Excerpt from Ceramic page 9. #altcomics
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Straw-use in the comics...
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Danny Markin Diary, 7/5/25: We're moving back to the Middlewest. I might start drawing regularly again. I think I saw a weasel today. I keep thinking it's 2006.
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Tfthggggttrf @feather.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
i don't like robert crumb and i wish picturebox was still publishing
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Animals, They Speak! Episode 2: "Fauntleroy and the Chancellor"
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"The Animals, They Speak Words! Episode 1: Goosens Toonder and Lessus Moore"
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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
episode 066
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Salt Mines Comic Book No. 1, Page 1 || A Danny Markin Comic Book || A Comic Book For You ~ A Comic Book For Me
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I don't know. #altcomics
The 1024th Horror of the Gag comic strip shows a rabbit's head in a starry night-field. On top of the rabbit's head, there is handwritten text that says, "You see... nothing is more permanently on fire than the limitations of my own thoughts. (paragraph break) I feel the boring burnjng at all times..."The 1025th Horror of the Gag comic features a rabbit talking. He says, "I don't tell you these truths to receive false sympathy... or even the real thing. I am merely explaining the fabric of my life. I am a historian and a math-maker... and a sobber in the night." The rabbit is smoking a cigarette and also holding a candle.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I drew hundreds of pages of comics on this as a kid between 1996 and 1998 or so. It was my sacred, happy ground. It had animated cows at the press of a button. You could make easy comics grids if you were like me and had a learning disability that prevented you from understanding rulers. A treasure.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I've drawn a comic strip in called "Horror of the Gag" since 2012. I'll do it until I die. It's meant to be a meandering exercise in spontaneous writing. Here are two recent strips from this week, parts 21 and 22 of a story in progress. #altcomics
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It's true... I am embarrassed. But that's very kind! I might make a little book of these recent neurotic bunny strips.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Recent Horror of the Gag strips.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Is this headline from a 1994 issue of Gamepro a "When Harry Met Sally" reference?
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My name is Dane Charles Martin; I work menial labor customer service jobs, and I like Moby Dick and candy.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I wish people would give up insisting that "clarity" is important in comics. It seems like an untrue scam to try to make more money and keep people in line, pumping out products. My favorite things in the world are beautifully murky and unclear.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is my favorite social media account I've ever seen.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I hate doing almost anything, I'm sorry.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Glimpses of a hell to look forward to.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So much yimmering, so much yammering. The internet is a dead light-up horse, eyes aglow. I can't believe I am addicted to something I hate so much. I have a lot of deep scratches on my telephone screen from when I throw it at the wall.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Horror of the Gag No. 1013: "The Miasma Store, Part Twelve"
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Horror of the Gag No. 1012: "The Miasma Store, Part Eleven"
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I highly recommend this Egg Money Quilts Youtube playlist. Have fun. Thank you.
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Egg Money Quilts "Friendship and Christian Cross"
YouTube video by Quilt in a Day
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Several pages from Sketchbook 2025 No. 1.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie. No one can know about this. It happened like that earlier. I was speaking about the other night. I have known since I was seven."
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
music.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9_...
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Many Questions (Outtake)
YouTube video by Mary Healy - Topic
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
From Skin of the Sun page 75.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I have gotten rid of the majority of my books and possessions lately (I never had the organization skills or finances of a collector), but I can't see myself disposing of my bootleg Jim Tyer collection from Gwandanaland. His faces are straight from a troubled soul looking back at a broken world.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Someone once told me "the ghost-pressings of the pen on the back of the page tell you where the flaws are." I can't remember who it was, and it might have been myself. I'm not sure if this rule applies to my all-flaws drawing style.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Trying out the one-panel-per-page format partially as a tribute to Mark Beyer, the cartoon master.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My first "long story" is going to open up soon, and it will become very meandering and exploratory while asking a lot of "the reader." I think the only comics I truly like are ones that take you on a confused journey of emotional isolation and internal indulgence of an individual unhealthy mind.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My entire childhood (and presenthood). Skin of the Sun panel 82.
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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Who is ready for me to start a Twitch channel where I play only "Toonstruck?"
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
My Instagram was hacked and deleted immediately. I guess I'm not allowed to exist. It's good to know. I most likely shouldn't be showing comics in public at all. The Bad Fates tell me this every day in various ways. I see them making fun of me when I open the ice box.
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Danebooks @melblancswhisper.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I'm thinking about this gentleman today instead of that boring pedestrian holiday.
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