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Buitre ✨commissions open✨ @buitre-del-paraiso.bsky.social · 9h

This comic is so good I couldn't put it down until I finished it! Go give it a read ✨

this spooky season, did you know: I finished a new horror graphic novel this year? and you can read it all for free online?? It’s about finding out your mom has a secret old ex-girlfriend who is bald and wants to kill you. Sound relatable? Start here: www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/001/

The cover of The Goblin Throne by Mel Gillman, showing a one-eyed goblin woman framed in moonlight extending her hand toward the viewer

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 11h

I’m taking myself out to see the new Resident Evil movie, as a person who knows absolutely nothing about Resident Evil. Who can explain Resident Evil to me in one (1) sentence

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I ran an acorn foraging workshop today for a colleague’s food history class! Knowing some students would inevitably come face to face with their first acorn weevil while cracking nuts, I made a few little pins as prizes for weevil-finding 🐛

Four round black pins with smiling weevil larva painted on them, and gold lettering saying “fear no weevil”

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a post for, I think, Brazilians and New Zealanders? The random feijoas that occasionally get planted as decorative street shrubs in San Francisco are doing their thing and I just baked my first test cake. Anyway, just writing to say you all are Correct about feijoa sellowiana

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today’s recipe-only-a-forager-could-make: vegan California blue elderberry muffins with half-bunya / half-wheat flour! This turned out really nice 💙

A small white plate of elderberry muffins sitting on a fence rail in the sunshine

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Friday night in the studio ✏️

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If It Gets Too Real, Blue Can Always Turn It Off @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My fellow faculty members at Minneapolis College of Art and Design are several bargaining sessions into negotiating our next contract. We’re asking for your support by calling on the board of directors & college leadership to meet our demands and signing this petition. act.seiu.org/a/mcad-petit...

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MCAD FACULTY PETITION

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the drawing board this morning 🖤

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 10/09/2026

Front cover reveal!! Huge shout out to Sunny Lee for her masterful design work on the titling and layout

Front cover of SHOT AND CHASER, showing Tre and Olly in front of a storm cell

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I needed to draw a new author portrait for Goblin Throne, so I decided to do a little riff on one of my favorite old Tales from the Crypt covers from 1952 (by Jack Davis!) Quit wriggling, dude, I'm tryin' to draw here >:(

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I finally timed a bay nut harvest correctly where I could nibble the ripe fruit flesh surrounding the nut — it really does taste and feel a lot like a tiny avocado! (They’re related; this species is native to coastal California.)

A hand holding two yellow-green bay nut fruits, ripening but still attached to the tree.

A ripe bay nut in the palm of a hand, split open yo reveal the contents: a large brown nut, and yellow flesh like a small avocado

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Goss Sheridan @ SPX @katesheridanart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i took this a couple years ago and highly recommend, mel is an amazing teacher!

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Calling all GHOULS: I'm going to be teaching a 4-week online horror comics class next month with @crucialcomix.bsky.social! Got a scary story to tell? Want to sharpen your craft (and your claws?) Registration is on a sliding-scale basis and is open now! www.crucialcomix.com/product/in-g...

A colored pencil drawing of a blood-spattered woman with her hands up, with text reading "In Graphic Detail: Making horror comics with Mel Gillman. Starts Tuesday October 6. Crucial Comix"

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This was so fun…Wally Wood WHO

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

WHO DOESN'T LOVE TO HATE A VILLAIN? ❤️‍🔥 Calling all rivalmancers, heel-enjoyers, and lovers of the baddest of us all: 'Smut Peddler: BADDIES' is officially open and taking submissions! We're fiending for the fiendish, so don't hold back! Can you make them worse? 🔮😈 ironcircus.com/smut-peddler...

In a crop of a cover by gobifrip.bsky.social, a lich in a large intimidating crown lounges lazily on their throne, watching a restrained barbarian in a glowing orb. Two goblins of cute looks but clearly low int scores watch on as the lich chews on their well-manicured nail because they are so eeeeeevil.

Do you have a story you wish to put to print? Join our evil legion! Just don't forget: consent matters!

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m sitting at a coffee shop patio in Berkeley answering a bunch of work emails, and gotta shout out the random old man in a wizard cloak who just ambled past me down the sidewalk, looked me over, and went “ohhhh…a NON BI NARY. Awwwwlriiiiiiighhhhtttttttt”

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I stayed up late tonight so I could use some of my bunya pine nut flour baking a batch of (also locally-foraged) huckleberry muffins for a faculty meeting tomorrow. These turned out SO good. Bunya is high in starch and the muffins have a very light, fluffy, bouncy quality.

A small plate of homemade huckleberry muffins.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A little comic I drew last year for a collaborative zine. Tastes of late summer in San Francisco <3

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tonight’s goofy foraging experiment: the invasive ice plant that grows everywhere on the California coast grows fruit with a figgy center, and in South Africa people make jam with it. I took my harvest one Icarus-wingspan closer to the sun and made ICE PLANT FIG NEWTONS

A close up on two ripe pink ice plant fruits growing in a patch

A messy homemade fig-newton style cookie bar, cut into two pieces

A hand holding a slice of the homemade ice plant fig newton, showing off the jammy insides.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Want to get to know the rest of the midwestern goldenrods? I have a (free!) zine for that: 7c140796.flowpaper.com/goldenrodboo...

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Goldenrods in Bloom: A Quick ID Guide

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Someone needs to invent a Cartoonist’s Mug (a regular mug with a magically-resizable base for whenever you need to trace a circle and you use whatever random round thing is sitting on your desk rather than digging out an actual circle-drawing tool)

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve been digging into ye olde sketchbook archives while getting started on the making-of essay for the Goblin Throne Kickstarter, and I’m finding some old gems from the scripting days.

Sketchy doodles of a goblin woman in a tree watching a mom and a boy below, doing the “squish your head between my fingers” thing to the boy and chuckling to herself. Followed by a doodle where the mom is on her knees saying “I already have one child’s blood on my hands…you cannot ask me for another’s.” To which the goblin woman replies “Why NOT?!”

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A friend and I spent the day harvesting bunya pine nuts! I knew going in these were one of the largest & heaviest pine cone species in the world and they’re famous for killing people by dropping on their heads, but even then, I was unprepared. We harvested all those nuts from just 11 cones.

A 110 year old bunya pine, seen from below

Pine cones filling the bed of a large truck

A large bowl of pine nuts, each one about the size of a golf ball

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is absolutely superb.

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yearning aficionado 🇵🇸 @elloelloh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

do yourself a favour and read this *incredible* piece of queen art. I will be thinking about this comic maybe for the rest of my life.

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Pyrena Windfall @ SPX W81 @pyrenawindfall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

and here's page 11 of Growing Season, my brand new 18+ yuri comic! 👀👀👀 That's the end of the preview, but you can get the comic at @flamecon.bsky.social table G13 THIS WEEKEND in NYC, or SPX table W81 or BICS or MICE!! 21/x

preview of Growing Season by pyrena windfall

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A cute little acorn bread loaf for a friend’s potluck tonight 🥖

A small loaf of brown bread sitting on a yellow table

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh, now that Goblin Throne is done, I can post my secret part-three playlist :0 — this was a real Cass-Elliot-heavy chapter, I will not explain why open.spotify.com/playlist/1tI...

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mel is SO powerful and The Goblin Throne is such a delicious treat!!!

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In case you missed it yesterday: The Goblin Throne is complete! For the first time, you can read this whole dang 140 page adult lesbian horror romance in one sitting. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/001/

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And that's the story. Want an ebook edition of Goblin Throne? You can still late-pledge to the Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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The Goblin Throne by Mel Gillman

Beware the promises you make to the Goblin Queen . . . especially if you plan to break them. An all-new graphic novel!

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Callisto⭐️chan @callisto-chan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you haven’t read The Goblin Throne, now is the time! It’s a beautifully drawn story, and each part is an emotional roller coaster in a different way. I’m sad it’s over but I very much enjoyed reading!

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Goblin Throne Pt III page 74 is up! This is it -- the final page 🥲 www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/137/

A colored pencil drawing of a goblin woman, eyes closed and bleeding from the mouth and one eye, with a beatific expression as a gold-colored hand holds one of her cheeks.

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Callisto⭐️chan @callisto-chan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Urghhh…I knew that hypothetical wording was going to be a doozy. Amazing how @mgillman.bsky.social can completely change how you see a character in a short amount of time, excellent writing and visuals

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy book birthday to "Who Circled the Globe in Seventy-Two Days? Nellie Bly", written by me & illustrated by the incredible @rmickmooks.bsky.social! This new graphic novel from Who HQ tells the story of Nellie Bly's famous 1889 round-the-world race 🌏 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752031...

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Goblin Throne Part III page 73 is up! Today's page: a big if. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/136/

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I spotted my first acorn on the ground this weekend, and you know what that means: time for me to remind you YOU CAN EAT THEM I drew a 20 page comic about harvesting & processing acorns for food! You can download it for free (or get a print copy for not-free) from my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/8d34f77329

A vintage photo of a strongman with a poorly-photoshopped squirrel head, carrying acorns and surrounded by acorns. Text reads: Acorns will make you strong!! Read more:

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Zak Kinsella @zakkinsella.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But hey it’s not all sad bastard rants today. I am fortunate enough to be on the #kidney transplant list. You can help! I need that sweet #mutualaid

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Goblin Throne Part III page 72 is up! Today's page: patience. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/135/

A colored pencil drawing of a goblin woman sitting pensively by the side of a creek.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sidewalk chalk yuri in my neighborhood…wow what an excellent point, I never considered :,)

Sidewalk chalk art of Betty Boop and Lola Bunny holding hands, surrounded by little hearts

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today was a Huckleberry Day 🫐

Mel, smiling deep in a huckleberry patch, with a half-filled jar of huckleberries in one hand

A twig full of ripe and unripe huckleberries

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Athenaeum Comic Art @athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To celebrate our five years in business, we have opened Athenaeum Gives for another round! Athenaeum Gives is a $1500 award for up-and-coming cartoonists. Applications are due by Monday, August 17th. Please share with anyone that you think would be a good fit!

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Goblin Throne Part III page 71 is up! Today's page: a long time. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/134/

A colored pencil drawing of some snowdrop buds popping out of the snow.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Goblin Throne Part III page 70 is up! Today's page: carried home. www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/133/

A colored pencil drawing of a small cabin, covered in snow.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For Goblin Throne readers: I’m so sorry to do this again, but I’m going to have to pause updates for a couple days! Dayjob work got in the way, but I’m aiming to restart updates on Thursday. We’re close to the end! Thank you for your patience 🖤

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hey comics people, The Dark Horse union needs your support right now. Senior editors do more work than most of you can possibly imagine and they deserve to be apart of the union. Some of them have been waiting a long time for this. Stand with them! Please sign and share this petition!

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