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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 4h

Erika’s con prep for our booth is reaching UNTOLD LEVELS OF HYPE

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 9h

awwww maaaaan, my age of bronze is collapsing

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Studio MDHR @studiomdhr.bsky.social · 11h

We’re celebrating today’s 9th Anniversary with an Art Contest! From illustrations to animations, share your Cuphead creations with us for a chance to win a copy of “The Art of Cuphead.” But remember: we want to see YOUR creative spirit. Only art created by humans accepted!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? THIS Return of the King poster, with my ticket to the triple feature framed inside, slowly yellowing to illegibility AND… (I can’t find the exact promo shot) a life size Lana Lang from Smallville taped together from individual print outs 😂

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

business cards have arrived and the MERCH PILE for LBX IS GROWINGggGG

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hand quilted con table fixins are almost all done!!! @erkshnrt.bsky.social has blessed me with treasures

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Character designs by Steve Purcell for The Curse of Monkey Island (canceled), dir. David Carson, Lucasfilm

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spoke to some wonderful students at my alma mater last week, and they really want to go to Lightbox next month but they're pretty far from their funding goals. Gonna help em out- if you have the means, consider chipping in! gofund.me/e80904047

gofund.me

Donate to Rhode Island Students Head to Lightbox for Career Growth, organized by Alina Charles

Hello! Our names are Victoria Gambill, Alina Charles, and M… Alina Charles needs your support for Rhode Island Students Head to Lightbox for Career Growth

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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's my birthday today!!! 🥳🙌 So what better day than to share more of these sleek dragons I have been doing for funsies. Here is one inspired by Elasmosaurids!

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Jabberwick ⭐🎪👁️ @jabberwick.com · 24/09/2026

Plenty of fish in the sea 🎣

Digital illustration by Jabberwick. A green man with horns in a red, jester-like outfit reels in a large, paper-like fish. The art is dreamy and storybook-like, filled with patterns, stars and soft pastel colours.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No opinions on the Internet, Nicholas! No opinions on the Internet!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Took these out for a test drive to the coffee shop yesterday and watched the folks with chat gpt on their laptops avoid eye contact 😂

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You ever want to just absolutely dropkick an email into space?

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Current state of all things LightBox Expo 😳 hype and anxiety are both HIGH!!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stickers have arrived let’s gooooo

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I should rise above this and laugh at a trash take from an irrelevant source, but no this fully pisses me off

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Jim Demonakos @jimdemonakos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m pretty stoked this all came together and we’re having Yoshitaka Amano appear @lightboxexpo.com next month!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

devastating character design realization: has everyone else always known which way the blades of a buzzsaw are supposed to point?? I have lived and drawn 39 years assuming it was oriented like sonic the hedgehog

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion

It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."

Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

they're calling them the wettest hylians of all time

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

my coworker lance made this for me and it sparks joy

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danny 🔜 NYCC AA B-39 @danny8bit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it literally looks like focus m nintendo hire this man type shit they just unironically did it for real

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

compare that to the Riven remake, which takes the static renders of the original and appreciates their beauty and aspires only to represent that in real-time 3D youtu.be/LN1TQm942_U

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Riven | Official Launch Trailer | 4k

YouTube video by Cyan

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Morbi @morbi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

my meanest take is that you have to stop fucking doing this to perfectly good designs

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it's my birthday! you could share my art if you like, and maybe leave me a comment with something really beautiful you've seen this week?

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My pre-order just arrived and it sounds crazy good!! Like it’s a really good pressing fr It’s also HUGE! 8 is a lot of discs

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Erika took us to see Cocoon, and I went in blind and LET ME JUST TELL YOU IF YOU WERE GONNA DO THAT ITS A HUGE BUMMER (It’s very good and worth it but just like…be ready for a grave of the firefliesesque time, okay that’s my civic duty done)

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I would gladly watch a live loading bar that shows friends' convention booth sales as they happen, it would give me something to cheer at and help with the fomo

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fanart illustrations/drawings I've made this year

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Vancouver/Canada based folks- any best services for printing low cost/high quality business cards? I haven't printed any since I got married and moved across the border- and I think I'm finally breaking up with Moo

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a big factor I’ve thought about a lot- it’s a good step, to take measures to shut out external crawlers. It’s a much better and perhaps more existential step to pledge not to srape and sell our data THEMSELVES to build their own “authorized” GenAi models, or feed others

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

let's see how this thing plays out, but I will say I like this better than the status quo

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 01/09/2026

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

Gargantuan illustration of a charizard redesigned in the style of a monster hunter elder dragon. There are 4 hunters attacking him and their pikapalico is readying a voltorb bomb to throw. There is so much stuff in there, I spent a damn year on this. I'm exhausted.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

when you're nice to someone about their ai use, you're actually being mean to me did you ever think about that

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yesterday I woke up to this mysterious bone on the floor by the bed, under the (open) window

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve never played a GTA game it seems like a kind of The Sims for the husbands of your wife’s friends that you don’t like to talk to at gatherings-?

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