iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/05/2025

my comic anthology Sci-fi Revue inexplicably continues to get reads on @globalcomix.com, so you should check it out too if you like robots and stuff globalcomix.com/c/sci-fi-rev...

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Sci-fi Revue 2020 | English | GlobalComix

Read Sci-fi Revue 2020 Online. SCI-FI REVUE 2020 collects four scintillating, original tales (one in black & white, three in full...

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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I wrote about significance of both Pope and Saint Francis, especially to cultural Catholics. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-francisw

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On Francis

The pope who chose Catholicism’s most appealing saint for his papal name.

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

happy first nib & ink fest! i have a little comic in the anthology—make sure to grab the “after dark” edition 😈

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

really disappointing behavior from silver sprocket

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 22/04/2025

Hi, I got laid off from Silver Sprocket last week and yesterday was my last day! I'm still so grateful for the chance to support some of the best cartoonists out there and to work with some amazingly-skilled colleagues. Everyone is struggling right now BUT I'm looking for work if you've got it!

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i wonder how far along in this book i’m going to get before i finally think of a title

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

drew a picture of me and my cat

a medieval illumination-style drawing of kit and their cat esmé. kit is seated at a desk drawing comic into a book, and esmé has her paws up on the book, being a nuisance. above them reads “2025” and below them “happy new year from kit & esmé.” a decorative border of stars and botanical elements surround the center drawing, with medieval-style animal heads in boxes at the corners. the whole thing is in black and red ink.

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drew a picture of me and my cat

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

drawings from readings: 1. turn the golf course into a public sex forest! at bluestockings (lyn corelle, shuli branson, adam turay) 2. absolutely packed audience at franklin park for torrey peters, anton solomonik, robert jones jr., lynne tillman, bridgett m. davis, caoilinn hughes)

a black and white pen drawing of three readers seated onstage. all of them are wearing face masks, and the reader in front is holding a mic

a black and white pen drawing of the audience at a reading. most of them are facing the right towards the stage, except for one person who is facing me. they’re wearing a shirt that says i 💜 chili dogs

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

i missed #portfolioday yesterday but it doesn’t hurt to show off anyway! i’m kit, a comic artist, illustrator, and storyboard artist. published: tko presents upcoming: abrams, image, iron circus keep an eye on me for diary comics, medieval ephemera, and wip of my gay anna karenina adaptation 🪩

overhead shot of a rave dancefloor. a young woman is dancing with her friends, then looks over her shoulder. she’s distracted and looking for someone, and pulls out her phone to text.

a trans woman is getting dressed in a sexy nun costume, and then follows another sexy nun down a hallway. neither of them are having fun.

outside of a stand up comedy bar, crowds are arriving. inside we see a comedian onstage, then zoom in on him.

a man is beset by a haunted magician’s jacket. a dove flies out of his sleeve, followed by a bouquet of flowers and a deck of playing cards, spilling out in a mess.

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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”

A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bluestockings Cooperative is an incredible radical space in NYC, and they do do much important mutual aid work in their community. Help them stay open! www.gofundme.com/f/qe29bh-sav...

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Donate to Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces, organized by Bluestockings Cooperative

Comrades, book lovers, queer fam, we have some rough news. … Bluestockings Cooperative needs your support for Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

i do not wish to be out here railing against genAI all the time but it simply bums me out to no end!! it is morally and philosophically bad to outsource human wonder, interpretation, and creativity to a machine that is made out of plagiarism and you will not convince me otherwise

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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Look upon the visage of the Cave Bear, drawn on the wall of Chauvet Cave 30,000 years ago. Do you feel kinship? Do you feel emotions stirring in your heart? Do you feel the crushing weight of history? Its artistic legacy is yours to inherit, as long as you stop fucking generating images in ChatGPT.

a red ochre drawing of a cave bear on the walls of chauvet cave

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

i am committed to the human world of human effort and interpretation!!!!!!! do not debase yourself!!!!!!

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

more of parker posey’s perfect outfits from party girl 🪩📚

a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s standing on top of a table at the library, mid-pose. she has so many colors on.

a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s wearing some kind of leopard print coat over a blazer and an ascot, with red shorts and red striped tights.

a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s wearing a leopard print coat over a green mini dress and some sort of purple shawl, and purple tights.

a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. biiig pants, pointy shoes, pink and blue ball necklaces.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Michalina Janoszanka, Wiosna (Spring), ca. 1920s. One of several paintings made directly on glass by the Polish artist. More of her work in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... And buy a print of this image in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/spri...

Painted scene, in the bottom right corner a frog sat aside a patch of fly agaric mushrooms. To the left of the frog and extending into the distance is a body of water on which float lilypads and upon the banks of the water brightly painted trees emerge all against a stunning coral sky

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

more of parker posey’s perfect outfits from party girl 🪩📚

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

losing my mind and seeking solace in parker posey’s wardrobe from party girl

a pen drawing of one of parker posey’s wild outfits from party girl (1995). she’s wearing a leopard coat on top of a blazer, with tiny shorts and tiny sunglasses

a pen drawing of one of parker posey’s outfits from party girl (1995). she’s wearing huge pants, a black t-shirt, and opera gloves

a pen drawing of one of parker posey’s outfits from party girl (1995). she’s posing on top of a table at the library, in the middle of doing a little dance

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

it is medically necessary for me to lie on the floor and listen to leonard cohen

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 06/03/2025

If you ever have something to write about transness and food get at me and I’ll nag my editors or try to help it find a good home

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

can’t see the readers at the reading so i am drawing the listeners at the reading

an ink drawing of two long-haired women from behind, dressed in black, standing close together. one has a fuzzy black shoulder bag and a leather jacket, the other has pigtail braids and a face mask on. they’re in front of a glittery party streamer.

ink drawing of a handful of seated people from behind. behind them are some hanging party streamers

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can’t see the readers at the reading so i am drawing the listeners at the reading

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

just thinking about this old comic about bikes and brains from a few years ago

the first 4 panels of an 8-panel comic.
panel 1 - kit and a bike mechanic in a bike shop. the mechanic is fixing a wheel. he says: “okay, this should make things a lot easier for you.”
panel 2 - closeup on kit, who thinks: “easier?? why the fuck would i want anything to be easy?”
panel 3 - another kit appears, wearing sunglasses. they put their hands on the first kit’s shoulders and say: “hey. its me, you 12 hours from now after you e had time to process this weird reaction. i have news.”
panel 4 - new kit puts their arm around first kit’s shoulders and says: “there is no inherent value in suffering.”

the last 4 panels of an 8-panel comic.
panel 5 - new kit whispers in first kit’s ear. “creating difficulty for yourself does not make you a better or more interesting person.”
panel 6 - new kit leans away. “and neither does riding a bike.”
panel 7 - first kit puts their hands over their face. “you’re right but who am i without an identity constructed around doing things the hard way out of spite?”
panel 8 - new kit smiles and gestures in a letting-go movement: “you are no one. be free.” first kit groans. “ugh.”

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

by association/whether or not i think the books would be friends with each other

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just thinking about this old comic about bikes and brains from a few years ago

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Probliknaut @probliknaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Oh whoops they have a bsky now, @mitkills.bsky.social

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

i did like 30 of these sketch rewards last year and am ready to do more :)) this is a very concrete way to help people in gaza stay connected AND you get a little custom art token in return

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Houndsaint🔜 MFF @houndsaint.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It has been brought to my attention by my boss (the skeleton inside my body) that using an office chair found in a dumpster in 2014 is not, perhaps, sustainable in the long term. I'm a bit hard up at the moment, so doing a sale to help me afford a chair that an adult would use! houndsaint.etsy.com

A sad dog sits on a green rug next to a beaten-up office chair. the text reads "Houndsaint's 10% off sale"

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 03/03/2025

CHECK OUT THESE SICK COLORS! Jordie Bellaire over Kit Mills on our trans surrealist horror OGN SURRENDER

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

jordie is getting WEIRD with the colors on this book and i’m so excited

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/02/2025

I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

the comics devices library is an incredible info resource for artists AND it looks so nice

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

in the stage that i call Bad Thumbnails, where i purify myself and absolve all logistical scriptwriting sins to prepare for the round of Good Thumbnails later

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 25/02/2025

THE CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE... The very first DIGITAL COMICS RESIDENCY! A PAID opportunity for comics creators AROUND THE WORLD. Learn more at our journal: cartoonist.coop/journal/anno... (Art by @amandajealous.bsky.social !)

Inkling and Nibford getting sucked into cyber space. “The Cartoonist Cooperative, Digital Residency. Applications open in May! Paid opportunity open to anyone around the world.”

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

dispatches from your friend who likes to sit in a room with other people and draw on a friday night

figure drawing in pencil of a standing nude model from behind. one hand is on her head, the other on her hips.

sketchbook spread of two-minute gestural drawings of a nude model, in pencil

watercolor painting of a nude model from the side. she’s sitting back with one leg up, and one hand resting on her thigh

watercolor painting of a nude model from the side. she’s leaning forward with her chin resting on her hand, hair flowing down behind her

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

okay now that i am thumbnailing my own script for big book, i am learning that there are some basic logistical rules in comic writing. for example, you must make sure that in your script your double page spreads start on the correct side of the page 💀

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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

the backgrounds in this movie are just really beautiful pieces of midcentury illustration

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/02/2025

Hey zine makers and zine librarians: Tranzmission Prison Project, an LGBTQ+-centered prison advocacy and abolition group, is looking for digital files of zines on specific topics. They will print paper copies to share. If you can help them out, please consider it! 📚

Slide 1: WE NEED ZINES. Transmission Prison Project sends free books and zines to queer incarcerated folks. We would love help sourcing digital copies of zines for us to print and mail out that are informative about topics we frequently get requests for (next slides). SHARE WITH tranzmissionprisonproject@gmail.com

FREQUENTLY REQUESTED TOPICS: INCARCERATED RESOURCES
resources made specifically for incarcerated people, including reentry resources, and especially information and resources on being queer and trans in prison. SHARE ZINES WITH TranzmissionPrisonProject@gmail.com

FREQUENTLY REQUESTED TOPICS: QUEER TOPICS
information about sexuality and gender spectrums, identities, resources, and erotica. SHARE ZINES WITH TranzmissionPrisonProject@gmail.com

FREQUENTLY REQUESTED TOPICS: We are looking for informational zines about:
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
yoga; equipment-free exercises; meditation; mindfulness; grief and grieving
CREATIVE PRACTICES
crochet patterns; how-to drawing, cartooning, and manga; lettering and calligraphy; origami; coloring page zines
SHARE ZINES WITH TranzmissionPrisonProject@gmail.com

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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Gonna go further here: When we delegate our reading, our writing, our thoughts, creations, and communication to machines — then we diminish ourselves. Why would you squander the divine within you?

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