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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) -> Rhode Island Comic Con is Next! @astrafauna.bsky.social · 23h

Hey folks, what are you doing for marketing/getting more eyes on your work nowadays?

Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 23h

Woke up thinking about Goblins. Anybody else? Just me? (This lil' guy is made of cosclay, and available at Haven Gallery)

Photograph of a sculpture against a grey backdrop. The sculpture is a fantasy creature in bright greens and deep purples. It's a tree growing from a mossy, rocky bank. In the moss are rose-colored mushrooms, growing around the tree. There is a bowl of plums resting in the moss. On the tree, leaning back with a casual air, is a green goblin man in purple shorts, holding a plum in his hand. He seems pretty confident that you're going to want to try the plum.

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Aaron Miller Illustration --> GenCon! @aaronbmiller.com · 03/10/2026

A little spooky spark, to start your first October weekend... 🔥💀🎃 "Fireseed"

An oil painting in dark browns and bright oranges. A tangle of branches with a bright fire in the middle. The fire comes from and surrounds a small bird skeleton. Creepy!

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bramble & Thorn is a new art book: 32 color pages with process sketches, drawings, musings, and some photos of how the sculptures get made. It's fun. Melissasuestanley.com/shop-prints-and-more And if you use code FRIENDOFTHESHACK, you'll get a discount as a gift from this wee Baba Yaga.

Cover of a book with a painting of a chicken standing in a thorny grass patch with a blue sky behind. The chicken has a little green hut on its back. The little green hut has a mouse in a blue shawl on top. The mouse is talking to a bee and holding a very tiny bloody mary. The title of the book is "Bramble & Thorn".

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This painting was featured by the Chicago Ornithological Society in the fall issue of their quarterly magazine, The Chicago Birder The org does great work with restoring and maintaining local habitats and advocating for protections for our local and migratory birds! www.chicagobirder.org

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ya ever think that, probably, somewhere out there tonight, someone is working on a screenplay about Roku City.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm on a wee break, after the crushing summer (year). I don't mind the breaks like I used to, I know I'll be back soon. Ya gotta take care of yourself, and simmer the art-stew in your brain without disturbing it for a while sometimes. Art life isn't constant production. Ya gotta allow for the stew.

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Red Nose Studio @rednosestudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Rupert” I had picture book plans for this fella’s story, but the industry deemed otherwise. Created as a love letter to what moves us as humans and how we need friends that truly listen.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PEEKABOO FUZZIES (1983) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 16” x 22” The Fuzzy Sapiens created by H. Beam Piper first appeared in the early 1960's and were a welcome contrast to the menacing aliens that seemed to dominate science fiction of the day. #art #booksky 🪐📚

A pair of adorable furry creatures poke their heads out from the cover of dense tropical vegetation. Their huge eyes are strikingly green, cat-like and glossy so that the treetops reflect in the light. Their noses lie long, wide, and flat. Their mouths aren't pronounced like an ape, but thin lips and the slit of their mouths does seem ape-like. Long tufts of light brown hair sweep outward around the eyes like a flaring mane, giving their faces a disproportionately wide countenance. Hair over the pate is smoothed back of their heads. Cat-like ears—soft rounded triangles—are set above and just outside their big eyes. One thick-fingered paw, lacking claws or nails of any sort, extends as if pushing the alien foliage aside.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Touching grass is not enough I need to fight a raccoon over a pizza crust

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my neighbors is absolutely wildly noodling on an electric keyboard right now and playing what I can only image is titled "The Migraine Song", a 45-minute long opus driving the rest of this block bananay.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He grew this for you! (I do not recommend actually eating it.)

Photograph of a sculpture against a grey backdrop. The sculpture is a pink-orange furry creature with big glowing yellow eyes, holding up proudly a strange violet carrot-radish-strawberry looking thing. He's cute.

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tiny Kingdom book preorders are officially OPEN on GalleryGerard.com! My first book dedicated entirely to my oil painting process follows one painting from the earliest sketches and color studies through underpainting, glazing, and final details. Early preorders get a bonus print!

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These little dummies want you to know that they're in my new art book, "Bramble & Thorn", which you can get now at Melissasuestanley.com/shop-prints-and-more Please help them, they are so dum.

Sketches of some weird goblin guys on a white background. The one in the foreground is a stout looking hairy dude with big ears and a big chompy mouth. He's pointing off to the right, where there are more derpy looking beasts. They are Woolbeasts, and they love you.

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Max Bare @maxbare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last day to preorder EVER TRIP! If you like me and my style, you’ll like this book! If you like JRPGs, road trips, wild worlds, fun characters with a lot of heart, you’ll love this book! Created by @acmedina.bsky.social and me! Out Oct 6 from @papercutzgn.bsky.social papercutz.com/product/ever...

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones (Gone until late Oct) @sasharjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New batch of ceramic cups are now up on my store! ✨ If you missed grabbing one before they sold out last time, now's your chance to pick something up: sasharjones.com/store?catego...

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brazil!

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Feeling my strength grow as we approached MUSHROOM SEASON *hyped energy legs* 🍄Amanita Autumn🍄 Acryla gouache, airbrush Size: 4" circle $150 (includes US shipping) DM to claim (I take Venmo/PayPal)

Hand holding circle painting of amanita mushroom cottage surrounded by leaves

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Justin Aclin @justinaclin.com · 13/09/2026

New newsletter up! Final order cutoff for Ever Trip is tomorrow, so I'm chatting to the creative team, @maxbare.bsky.social and A.C. Medina! newsletter.justinaclin.com/p/a-lot-to-p...

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A Lot to Process: The Creators of "Ever Trip"

Talking to A.C. Medina and Max Bare about their new kids' graphic novel

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Absolutely no shade: but I did not have a good Dragon Con at all. The folks next to me with the wall of video game art, however, did great. I get how it is, and sure - go get 'em babes, get that cash! But like. I'm still gonna be the ._. weirdo in this picture trying to talk about my original IP.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Best Dragon Con thingy so far: a Dust Wife just gave me a Bone Dog 🥰💖 @tkingfisher.com

Photo of a small plastic skeleton dog next to a sculpted thorn branch

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Watch the skies! Baba Yaga is flying to Atlanta... See you at the Dragon Con Art Show - table 47 Made in CosClay ~ A tribute to the author/illustrator Blair Lent for this year's Enchanted Brush exhibit. One a few *big* sculpts I'm packing along for the show ✨🍓🐓🦇✨

Photograph of a sculpture against a grey backdrop. The sculpture is of Baba Yaga, flying through sculpted swirly clouds, with her hair flying behind her. Bats are coming out of her hair.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This video is over a year old, but I'm finally finishing the beast. Some projects just take as long as they take. Especially the wierd ones... (Also yes, I did re-make all the mini books after I got better at bookmaking 🤣🤪) Soon....

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 31/08/2026

I painted “Skyward” (watercolor, 15” X 22”) using photos and memories from my travels earlier this year. Original- www.joannabarnum.com/shop/skyward... Prints- www.joannabarnum.com/shop/skyward...

Watercolor art of Stonehenge. In the foreground are close up wildflowers. Faintly in the sky is a giant skull with the sun in place of one eye. A flock of corvids flies up into the sky.

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jpicone @me.jamespicone.name · 30/08/2026

Stolen from discord memes channel

Nine-panel Calvin and Hobbes strip, edited.

Panel 1: A bespectacled doctor in a white coat leans over a desk, holding out a small box to Calvin. "Put your right hand in the box."

Panel 2: Calvin, clutching Hobbes, looks up warily. "What's in the box?" The doctor, hand resting on the box: "Pain."

Panel 3: Calvin howls, "Why are you doing this??" The doctor answers with eyes closed and a faint smile: "An animal in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do?"

Panel 4: Cut to the waiting room. Calvin's mum sits in a chair reading a magazine. From off-panel: "No need to call for help. Your mother is behind that door. None will get past her."

Panel 5: Mum reads on, magazine raised. She whispers: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration…"

Panel 6: A jagged burst of shouting from off-panel: "NO!! I'll never cooperate, you hideous bug-eyed freak! NEVER!!" Mum has not moved.

Panel 7: More shouting: "You can contain my BODY, but you can't chain my SPIRIT! Walls can't confine it! Laws can't restrain it! You can try to leave a message, but my spirit screens its calls!!" Mum is staring blankly ahead

Panel 8: Enormous block letters fill the panel — "AAAAAGHHHHHHHHH" — as mum is shocked out of the chair, which tips over backwards.

Panel 9: Outside, mum stands, looking down at Calvin. "What did the Reverend Mother say?" Calvin, striding in: "All history up to this point has been spent preparing the world for my presence."

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've been so completely absorbed with the writing and binding of miniature books (what is my life?) that I totally forgot to close my shop yesterday. I'll leave it open through tonight, but then that's it until next month. MelissaSueStanley.com, discount code below.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New Stickers for Sale! Inform someone somewhere that AI sucks. Both are 4" stickers on vinyl. $4 each. 🔨Hammer: octophant.us/stickers/lud... 😡 Hate: octophant.us/stickers/all...

A 4" vinyl sticker featuring black and white graphic depicting a two-headed hammer in black, upright as a capital T, where the head intersects with a black ring that intersects as well with the bottom of the hammer's handle. Horizontally in the head and vertically in the handle, reversed out in white bold text are the words 'Ludd's Hammer'. At the intersection of the ring and the handle is a 🚫 over black letters 'AI'. Within the ring in white text is the phrase 'These engines of mischief have been sentenced to die', which is a modified lyric from the traditional Luddite song 'The Triumph of General Ludd'. All of this has been rendered in a rough,grungified manner. Like it's rendered in smeared machine grease.

A 4" square vinyl sticker. Extremely bold hand lettering in weathered white on a gradated orange background reading ‘ALL MY FRIENDS HATE AI’.

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Mr. Walters @nerfect.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here’s my contribution to the “Inspired by Kewpies” art event for Kewpie Day at The Mini Time Machine. . #inspiredbykewpies #kewpie #kewpieday

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bucktown’s tomorrow! If you live in Chicago and you wanna see 200+ ritualistic looking cups, come see me at booth 142! I’m on the street - not in the park! (Thanks @artbrister.bsky.social for the sick photo of his cup)

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Tom Taggart @taggartart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me and Arthur plaster over rigid foam

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mail day rules. I have a whole box of these things, so many different wonderful ...things. Get on it.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A staple of my kitchen is The Whatever Tart, and next month Mail Day patrons are getting a printed copy of this illustrated recipe. As you might imagine, it is the easiest tart to make and great for clearing out your vegetable drawer.

an illustrated recipe for the Whatever Tart, a basic tart guide that can use whatever is in the fridge, as long as there is puff pastry, some sort of cheese and some sort of filling.

a real life example of the Whatever Tart made with gruyere, corn, red onion, some tomatoes and basil.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oil paint portrait of a young girl with her brunette hair up in braids, wearing a tank top, looking to the left

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My shop closes FRIDAY as I head off to Atlanta - so from now 'til then I'm having one of those sale-thingies. The code HEREBEDRAGONS will getcha 12% off through Friday. 💖 MelissaSueStanley.com

Photo mock-up of a book against a blue-green background. The book shows a picture of a chicken in a thorny field with a mouse sitting on it, talking to a bee. The title is Bramble & Thorn

mock-up of two art prints against a purple-grey backdrop. The prints are of small strange furry creatures.

Photo of a sculpture against a grey backdrop. The sculpture is a blue-green furry creature holding a staff in one hand and a small radish-sprout creature in the other.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My shop closes FRIDAY as I head off to Atlanta - so from now 'til then I'm having one of those sale-thingies. The code HEREBEDRAGONS will getcha 12% off through Friday. 💖 MelissaSueStanley.com

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 25/08/2026

It’s my birthday! I’m 42! That means you have to share my art- that’s the law, right? Incidentally, I’m currently looking for interesting publishing projects for the first part of 2027.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This summer's discovery (for me) was Watermelon Rind Pickles. I didn't know watermelon rind could be pickled or that it would be delicious. I'm currently enjoying some bits in my tuna salad and it's great. Also: chopped into relish on hot dogs, wow. A+, weird little pickles.

Two jars of watermelon pickles on a speckled-grey countertop. The pickles are rectangular and orange and jammed into the jars with a syrupy brine.

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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Some more tiny books for Baba Yaga's Little Free Library - a sculpture that's collected short stories from friends and fellow illustrators. Coming to Dragon Con... !

Photograph of a black desk with four miniature handmade books on it, along with some bookbinding tools

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh hey hello! I have a small piece in a group show at the Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The show opens this weekend, but online sales are already underway. My piece is titled "Long Term Memory." beinart.org/collections/...

Ceramic, sculpted creature skull with abstract shapes rising from the top. A sculpted eel weaves among the shapes.

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Max Bare @maxbare.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm proud of our new book w/ @acmedina.bsky.social so: Get to know the EVER TRIP party! MEET NEDD! The smaller of two brothers and the brains of the operation NEDD doesn’t believe in a no-win situation and his heart for adventure knows no bounds despite his compromised immune system.

Color illustration of NEDD! NEDD is an islander kid with curly wild hair, bespectacled with one eye doing most of the work. He has a red & white striped bandana and an earring in his left ear. Dons a red cape like the hero he is. NEDD is missing his left arm and his right is decked out in scalloped shoulder armor, cloud tattoo and fingerless glove. A device bracelets his wrist with a screen. He has a fanny pack wrapped around his chest. He wears chain mail, tropical board shorts and armored sandals. A big automatic wrench hangs from his utility belt. You can see in Nedd's gleeful expression that he is a kid full of excitement.

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