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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social hey, birthday-buddy! I hope you have a fantastic time today!

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Brick & Mortar Books @brick-mortar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Independent Bookstore Day is upon us! 🎉 Bookie Monster is ready to take pics with you and your favorite books. Open til 8 today! #booksky @natentaylor.bsky.social @americanbookseller.bsky.social

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Brick & Mortar Books @brick-mortar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

More Spirit Week shenanigans! On Wednesdays we wore bookstore shirts (and posed with our Bookie Monster photo op - designed by @natentaylor.bsky.social !). We'll have Bookie Monster ready to take photos with you on Indie Bookstore Day, this Saturday 4/25! #booksky @americanbookseller.bsky.social

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I only had hockey toques & the hockey players annoyed me during the Olympics by supporting a fascist, so I got a coffee-drinking capybara toque (it’s actually a patch sewed on a plain black toque) & I know that capybara is never gonna turn out to be a jerk, so: new profile pic

It’s me, dang it, in a black hoodie with a patch featuring a bird saying I poop on fascists, and a black toque featuring a capybara cradling a cup of coffee

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#fbf to this retired goblin adventurer enjoying the finer things. Also painted in CSP from a pencil drawing.

A goblin wearing a robe and slippers sits in a padded chair before a large fireplace. He has a pipe in his mouth and a small, thick book in one hand. All around him are trophies and books, and a scimitar rests on pegs above the fireplace.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

#tbt learning Clip Studio by painting a Woodstock/Chocobo Final Fantasy thing! Should I do more of these?

A digital painting of what looks like a grown-up Woodstock (from Peanuts) in fantasy adventurer clothes and carrying a sword.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Throwback to this pun James had to make while we were doing art for Button Men. He’s… ready?…. He’s Mutton Ben! He’s a sheep who drives a taxi! Because reasons, obviously. Thanks for stopping by!

It’s a cartoon of a sheep wearing a cabbie’s and jacket while driving a taxi. Its mouth is open in a comically over-the-top bleat, and a worried pssenger sits in the back seat.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

#tbt some character design sketches for the hacker from the previously-posted “A Simple Withdrawal” illustration. There’s nothing more fun than character design. For me, I mean. You do you of course. Unless you use AI. In that case just don’t. #noai

A variety of pencil character sketches depicting a tusked and hunched beast alien wearing futuristic clothes.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The book just looks so good I want to eat it! BUT I WON’T. I’ll just sign them, I swear. My daughter might help. Come by @grimoakcommunity booth #26008 and get yoursef a copy that includes my new short comic story “Here and There!”

A cartoon version of Nate is wildly gnawing on a copy of a book titled “Grimoire: ECCC 2026.” Text over the image reads “ECCC Signing (not eating)! Saturday 11am-12pm! See my new short comic! Grim Oak Press Booth #26008.”

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#fbf to this old piece for ECCC’s charity art book. I was feeling some real Fifth Element vibes with this alien hacker and human gunslinger. “A Simple Withdrawal.”

A comic-book-style scene of a heist gone wrong. A large alien covered in wearable tech stands at a futuristic ATM yelling at his gun-wielding partner who is yelling back. A future cop is approaching from the side of the building.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#tbt to this test piece of Ichabod Crane I did for a Sleepy Hollow project that got cancelled midstream. C’est l’amour!

A stylized depiction of a thin, anxious man in Colonial Era clothing walking through spooky woods at night.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“America isn’t the way it is because Trump is President. Trump is President because America is the way it is.” Do not lose hope. Things will change for the better if we stand up in the face of this authoritarian thuggery.

A cartoon of an ugly, bloated humanoid creature wearing sagging cargo shorts, hiking boots, and a t-shirt with a backwards American flag on the sleeve underneath a combat vest. The letters ICE on the vest are overlayed with a red Nazi SS symbol. In the creature’s hands is a shotgun that goes flaccid at the end. Beside him are the words “Let me in. And I’ll burn down your house.”

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Getting a “draw this pose in your style” just in under the wire for December. Oh, and Happy New Year, of course! This has been…well, one for the history books, that’s for damn sure. Here’s to living while we can. #dtpysdec25 #pinup #happynewyear

A cartoon drawing of a sultry woman with horns and a tail wrapped in ribbon. Text behind the woman says Happy New Year!

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

He gave us so many great movies including my favorite of all time, The Princess Bride. And the end of his story was so tragic, I can’t even comprehend it. #robreiner

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Started sketching some faces from imagination, but then realized I needed to do some reference sketches because my mental library was LOW. To be continued! #sketch #face #pencil

A collection of faces sketched in pencil. Some are based on photos, others are from my imagination.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I like to think, as a boss, Santa’s okay with taking personal calls at work. #christmas #elf

A cartoon elf sits with his legs propped up on his workbench while he talks on a candy cane phone and holds a mug of cocoa.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What have I been up to? Oh, just making comics for @grimoakpress.bsky.social and their new Grimoire. This 10-page short will be available at ECCC (and on their website of course). I love making comics!

A cropped image of a comic book page featuring an intense conversation between two women in a public hallway.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The holiday Lego village finally grows this year with the gingerbread AT-AT! I think everyone will get along, but the Golden Brown Lord of the Sith must make a dramatic entrance!

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

No matter what age you are, I hope you get dressed up and enjoy all the candy you can! Happy Halloween!

A cartoony mummy and a bat sit at a bistro table and clink cauldron-shaped mugs. The text “Happy Halloween” is above their heads.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s done! It’s done done done! As my three-clawed hands transform back into humanoid paws, I’d like to revel in the enormous body of work I’ve just created (this x46). Stay tuned here and at @mindforge_media_ltd for news about when the Kickstarter launches! For now, though, I’ll be on the couch!

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Whenever I hear someone say AI.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Just thinking about how creating something “completely unprompted” is probably going to have two meanings soon.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

There’s nothing like the stomping of a 5-year-old who has to go UPSTAIRS to get dressed, ugh fine.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ah, a rainy PNW day, perfect for staying in with a cozy blanket and a hot drink. Ah, a blisteringly hot PNW day, perfect for staying in with AC and an iced drink.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Here’s lookin’ at you, Norm.

A caricature of George Wendt as Norm from Cheers, lifting a beer stein in a toast.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Just heard a door slam upstairs, and all house occupants are confirmed either asleep or downstairs. Been in this house 12 years, so isn’t it a bit late for a ghost to come around?

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

May the 4th be with us. Rebel.

A cartoon ink drawing of Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 from their escape from Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back.

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Sir Lonebuck's House of Comics & Geekery @sirlonebuckscomics.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It’s almost here! Join us THIS SATURDAY for free comics, face painting, fund raising for Pierce the Darkness, and huge sales!

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Re-reading Legends and Lattes by @travisbaldree.bsky.social and I can do character sketches this time! It’s only an obsession if I can’t stop.

A collage of sketches of characters from the novel “Legends and Lattes” by Travis Baldree: Viv, Tandri, Cal, Thimble, Hem, Pendry, Lack, Kellin, and the Madrigal.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It was a sad day to lose such a talented actor. My childhood wouldn’t have been the same without the roguish swordsman, hedonist gambler, and mouthy genius. RIP Val Kilmer.

Pencil portrait montage of Val Kilmer from Willow, Real Genius, and Tombstone.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It was a very good Saturday at ECCC! I got to meet new people, talk with good friends I don’t get to see often enough, and even connect with one of my new favorite authors, Travis Baldree. I am so grateful for everyone I was lucky enough to hang out with yesterday.

Nate Taylor sits at the Grim Oak Press convention booth drawing inside a special edition copy of the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’ve been terrible about updates, but I WILL be at ECCC today! Signing at Grim Oak at 11am, then hunting down friends and favorite creators. Hope to see you there!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you like creature design, you will LOVE this Kickstarter.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I got permission to share some of the remarques I’m doing for the special edition Name of the Wind from Grim Oak Press. Non-remarqued copies are still available at grimoakpress.com!

A black and white illustration of Cinder, a white-haired, black-eyed character from The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. He is smiling wickedly and pointing a sword toward the viewer.

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Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The beast is launched! Creatures & Creepies Vol.2 is live! I will now be *that person* for a month because, frankly, I need to be. Shares are greatly appreciated! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha... #artbook #conceptart #creaturedesign #kickstarter

image of the cover of the book overlayed above a collage of sketches both traditional and digital. text: Launching on kickstarter feb 4th' Creatures & Creepies Volume 2' and 'charamath.com'

two page spread of the book depicting pencil sketches of animals and creatures from mythology

two page spread of the book depicting digital sketches of mostly horse-like monsters

two page spread of the book depicting pencil sketches of bipedal, dinosaur adjacent creatures and some busts

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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sumrow @sumrow.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Alright, making an official pinned post for my bsky. Reposts appreciated! My name is Sumrow & I’m a New Mexico based illustrator. My clients include ASIMOV Science Fiction, Chaosium Inc., Mythmere Games, Monster Magnet, etc... Site: www.johnsumrow.com Email: john@johnsumrow.com

Cover for ASIMOV's Science Fiction Magazine. Story "Sisters of the Flare", space nun holding a candle in a psychedelic reactor

Is that a present for me!? (Winter wizard) A wizened wizard tries to hide behind a tree and conjure a spell (orb). A blue dragon pokes its nose through snowy limbs ...

Heavily armored tiger warrior titled "Of Claws and Moon", going into a dank dungeon facing off against skeleton warriors.

Painting "Awaken the Bones", a female necromancer casts a spell and disturbs cold banes back into life.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/01/2025

If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

My Therapist: So what’s on your mind? Me:

Cartoon sketches of characters from Star Wars Skeleton Crew: Fern, Whim, and SM-33.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Star Wars Skeleton Crew is pure awesome. What a great finale!

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I love every one of the main characters in Star Wars Skeleton Crew. Neel can’t get away from danger fast enough, and KB always seems to be curious about the threat. Tuesday can’t get here soon enough!

Cartoon versions of the Skeleton Crew main characters running away from something.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy 84th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki :-]

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

First original story by me in…10 years? And I’m in AMAZING company.

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Nate Taylor @natentaylor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Okay, just finished Skeleton Crew episode 1, and that was pretty damn great! All the main characters are fun in their own ways, and it was SO WELL PACED! Gotta get time for episode 2.

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