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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12h

It’s here it’s realllll AHHHHH Jellybots hardcover book is debuting at #lightboxexpo2026 and will be available for order online in November 🥹🥹🥹

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

I could not be happier with how it turned out...feeling Big Feelings seeing it on my desk after all this time. And it's only one (the chunkiest) of 3 books I'm debuting at the expo this year

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Brad Rohrer @bradrohrer.bsky.social · 9h

Very proud of my friend @nicholaskole.bsky.social ! Jellybots foreverrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

it's been a long journey!! It takes a lot more effort (and money) than I thought to conjure up a physical book...PDFs are wayyyy easier 😅

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

hahaha hmmm he might need a few design tweaks before he's ready to cross dimensions

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

waaa thanks Ziggy, that means a lot!!

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Foxtober F(r)iend 🦊 @zigorously.bsky.social · 11h

My buddy has been lovingly crafting the Jellybots setting for YEARS and to witness it as a for-reals book (with an ACTUAL ORCHESTRAL THEME SONG) makes my heart soar, what a joy to see cool friends get to make cool things 🥹

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

I could not be happier with how it turned out...feeling Big Feelings seeing it on my desk after all this time. And it's only one (the chunkiest) of 3 books I'm debuting at the expo this year

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

LightBox in Pasadena Oct 23-25, after that I’ll be launching an online shop attached to my website :)

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 11h

He’s just a little guy, he’ll get there some day

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12h

The music was written by the INCREDIBLE Nolan Markey ON A WHIM. To this day, getting this email out of the blue, and the video a couple months later, is the greatest creative experience I’ve ever had 🤯

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12h

It’s here it’s realllll AHHHHH Jellybots hardcover book is debuting at #lightboxexpo2026 and will be available for order online in November 🥹🥹🥹

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 14h

nah, you DID recommend Mixam and they have been great to work with!!

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it's not the camera- something happened and they aren't owning up to it

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

did you have any color or resolution issues with them? these are large, expensive poster prints and they look like dookie up close in like 3 distinct ways

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I really wanted to like Jukebox print, but maaaan they are treating me like I'm a rube and keeping $500 of my money for prints I can't sell...

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 13/10/2026

Reminder that I have a starter pack of artists who will be at Lightbox Expo! Even if you’re not going, you can totally follow them anyway. They’re super awesome and make really neat art.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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VER @ drawing comics @verface.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Kanto Beginnings, Myths & Legends

A little mosaic of stylised images of representative Pokemon from the Kanto region

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 12/10/2026

Not playing whatever this is sounds so easy

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They develop these things with a lack of care and a disdain you could only muster up if you assumed the audience was obligated to buy whatever you make like they’re paying taxes. I hope they earn exactly what they deserve.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I had an offer for principal on their Disney project and every day I wake up grateful Cuphead showed up to rescue me

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s actually amazing how you don’t have to play video games. Like it’s not obligatory. We can simply never think about this or speak of it again and nothing about our lives would change.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why should we pay epic games for clamping open our mouths and regurgitating artificially generated IP equity directly down our throats like a psychotic and abusive mother bird with gambling debts? Oh, it has lightsabers? Captain America gets to hold a LIGHTSABER? barf it down me mommy

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Who wouldn’t want to play a AAA billion dollar budget shoot em up developed with the kind of “if I don’t pay them back they’re gonna kill my family” desperation of an uncut gems situation

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Gee willickers, what is it that makes this brand new game from the minds behind Fortnite and Walt Disney studios so ✨magical✨?” “We uh honestly don’t know, we just turned the crank and whatever came out was what we shovelled into your troughs.”

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Because nothing says “Disney Magic” like hot slop pouring out of every corporate orifice

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Nesskain @nesskain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

WIP - Will I see the end? 👩‍🎨🖌️

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ya'll just wait 🐠

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dry wiping is for Neanderthals, respectfully

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If a politician wants to run on nationwide public restroom bidet adoption, my vote is for sale

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Claire Hummel 🔜 Lightbox Expo @shoomlah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

getting an order in juuuust under the wire for a new sketchbook for @lightboxexpo.com! Volume 2 of WIP, a monument to messy, painful, extremely human process:

cover for my new sketchbook WIP volume 2, featuring a scan of a moleskine sketchbook covered in sketches and post-its.

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I hate that this is the reality that's been forced on us but I agree. There are quite a few pros-turned-sloperators working & thriving out there. They usually aren't forthcoming with their audience, agents or clients. Pointing to someone's prolific pre-AI history isn't the be all & end all proof.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also the most recent ai post he made was in May of 2026, so.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2023 was *identical* to 2026 in terms of ai discourse among artists

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok, you feel your way and I’m going to continue to feel mine. I don’t think I’m being crazy or irresponsible and i suspect we’re just going to disagree indefinitely

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wasn’t born yesterday, and I don’t think your hysterical tone is well placed on this

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You decide if you think this person is trustworthy on the topic of ai 🤷‍♂️

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you can all decide if you think this person has been hand drawing every background or not

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Idk, their lead BG guy is on IG posting “ai experiments” so I’m not convinced

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t think anything bad happened there, she responded with tact and stands on decades of solid evidence. I don’t see that as “a situation” we have to avoid repeating

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’d rather we respond habitually & without ire to ai allegations, than try to scold people with suspicions. You’re right to be suspicious- some veterans & once-trusted studios are trying to sneak trash in. It’s heartbreaking that it’s happening but I’m *thrilled* we’re not normalizing it

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*and Individual artists I’m not above being accused, no studio I work for is, and fwiw since her name came up Loish isn’t either, we can easily rebut anything people might suspect with hours and in some cases decades of proof

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Show me process, name a human artist, give me a chain of trusted vetting from reliable sources, speak up and say you hate slop- it’s not hard

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