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Andy Runton

@owly.bsky.social
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Author and artist of the Owly graphic novels & picture books. Vegetarian. Cartoonist. Designer. Shutterbug. Bird, insect, animal, & nature lover. Adopt don’t shop! Rescue dog, cat, and crayfish dad! he/him🦉❤️🐶🐱🐱🦞🌱🪷

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Anywayyyyyy, it is actually the last day of pride month and there's 10 days left to back my very gay, very trans medieval fantasy adventure comedy REAL HERO SHIT: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS! Support a queer here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
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Real Hero Shit Book 2: Harder than It Looks by Kendra Wells
Grab the second volume of the queer fantasy adventures of a disparate band of mismatched adventurers: Real Hero Shit!
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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The 2025 American Manga Awards nominees & Manga Publishing Hall of Fame announcement is now up on @publisherswkly.bsky.social / @pwcomicsworld.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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2025 American Manga Award Nominees Announced
Anime NYC and Japan Society have announced the 35 nominees for the second annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21.
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✨ 𝓐𝓷𝓪 ✨ @anajurina.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Why am I like this?
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This Saturday, April 26th, I’ll be in Mt. Pleasant, NC for their Literary Festival, #mplitfest!!! I’ll be leading an interactive, graphic novel workshop at 12pm! And I’ll be there the rest of the day doing free Owly sketches and signing books! Come on down and say hi! 🦉📚❤️
Owly signs a book for the little cardinal family! Saturday April 26th, 12:00pm, Mt. Pleasant Literary Festival: Interactive Comics Workshop!
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 15,1948
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER 

I FOUND THIS POOR LI'L INJURED BIRD LYING IN THE GRASS

POOR THING

I'M GOING TO BRING HER HOME AND TAKE CARE OF HER

SLUGGO PUTS
UP A SIGN OUTSIDE-
HOSPITAL ZONE 
QUIET

NANCY’S SIGN
INSIDE-
PRIVATE WARD

( NANCY HAS PLACED THE BIRD ON A DOLL BED AND IS GOING TO NURSE THE BIRD BACK TO HEALTH)
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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids. Portfolio - charlenechua.com Agent - Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary #kidlitart #art
Art of two puppies. One is sleeping in a drawer and the other is pulling a bat wing out of a jar on a dresser. Art by Charlene Chua from Hocus and Pocus and the the Dragon next door by AR Capetta, published by Candlewick
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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"Vice President Care Bear Racist" 😍
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
ANATOMY OF A CORGI — Pals! We’re Kickstarting a whole big, beautiful ANATOMY OF DOGS book! Join us! The book was a joy to make: You’ll love it! —> www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
TITLE: The Highly Accurate and 100% Correct in Every Way Anatomy of Dogs
SUB HEADING: Anatomy of a Corgi
DESCRIPTION: A golden corgi stands looking over his shoulder. A white diamond on 
his forehead leads to a white muzzle and white chest. He has a fluffy butt with a long tail
sticking up. He looks very happy with wide eyes, tongue out, standing on a patch of 
green grass.
Pointing to his head: The smile of a kid who somehow got TWO ice creams.
Pointing to neck: Is the definition of “unearned confidence”
Pointing to fluffy part of neck: Imagine having a turtleneck you could never take off.
Pointing to top of head: When your head is THOR, but your body is Ant-Man
Pointing to previous joke: It’s like the full-size head of Dr. Evil got fused to the body of 
Mini-Me.
Pointing to butt: First in line when God was handing out “Most human looking butt 
cheeks.”
Pointing to butt: Lookout dat! Dassa butt.
Pointing to butt: Dassa Butt-butt-butt.
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Get the book now at DogKickstarter.com!
Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the 
*FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics 
copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Pseudandry @pseudandry.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New saddest 6 word story
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general. If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Boum @boum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When I got into comics I didn’t think I’d have to draw so many people opening doors from a great variety of angles
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Temps are improving but it was still an 8 on the Chickadee Enfloofenation Scale™️ today #birds 🌿
Adorable round bird with black cap, white cheeks and an extremely floofy buff coloured belly is perched on the end of a lilac twig with next year's buds visible.
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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Gonna need more non-disabled people to see stuff like this and understand that ableism is also one of the integral -isms the right is devoted to, so it should be jettisoned whenever and in whomever you encounter it
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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
he is sitting and pondering
Illustration of a seal sitting upright like a person
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Every day’s a good day to remind everyone that #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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The Million Year Picnic comic shop @myp-comics.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
REMINDER!!! We will be hosting KEITH KNIGHT, Gentleman Cartoonist, @keefknight.bsky.social for a signing NEXT Sunday, 23 February 2025, from 2-4pm! THAT'S ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!! If you are not familiar with Keith's brilliant work, check out his website here: keithknightart.com
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Keith Knight | Gentleman Cartoonist
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Well, then. You heard the man! I’d say it’s about time somebody saved it… from him.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
it has been said before but one problem is that when some people say 'the economy' they're talking about poor people affording food and housing, & when some other people say 'the economy' they're referring to a chart of how happy rich people are
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If someone ever does change it, please, please, please have an editor keep changing it back because the original request can’t cite official sources! 💪😤 Also, DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA!!!! ❤️🌎📚
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com
"Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it. Everybody hates it."
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Morning Has Broken @morninghasbroken.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hello, hi fellow chronic illness sufferers! It occurs to me I could get around easier if I let this nice horsey drag me rather than use my rollator
This is aimed at those with chronic illnesses. 

Photo with horse standing, rider on his own stomach, holding reins, drinking from opaque water from a cattle drinking pond. The horse is not drinking. Cattle drinking at other side of pool. 

Text, over the horse: My Doctor

Text over rider with his face in the water, Me: *desperately trying to lead my Doctor to the answer I already figured out so I can finally get treatment*
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You can donate to the recently fired Texas librarian’s GoFundMe to help her survive sudden unemployment- and let her know people in other states are paying attention and have her back. www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
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Donate to Rally for Rhea Young's Library Legacy, organized by Jacque Gonzalez
Hello, my name is Jacque Gonzalez, and I am a library patron fundraising on beha… Jacque Gonzalez needs your support for Rally for Rhea Young's Library Legacy
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Mali 💤 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Walkies 🌿
Black and white digital drawing of a person wearing an excited expression going for a walk on a forest path. Text says "Take the creature on walkies, it needs enrichment"
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Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
☀️ Did you see your shadow today? Did you want to? 🔦This here groundhog is being tricked into seeing it, no matter what, by that pesky squirrel. I would appreciate not seeing mine as that would mean spring is around the corner. #groundhogday #kidlitart #illustration @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Collage and paint illustration of a sleepy groundhog with his head up out of the ground. There’s a squirrel with a devilish grin pointing a flashlight down over the groundhog’s shoulder
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
🎶Summertime brings the SUN. Groundhog Day, brings the FUN! 🎶🤣❤️
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Collage style magical little pond :) #art #illustration
A digital drawing in a style that's angular and has a collage-style quality. It features a little pond surrounded by rocks and plants. In the pond is a duck and some ducklings.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2025
Visitors Flock To Sniff Flower That Smells Like Rotting Corpse theonion.com/visitor...
“What else does a plant have to do to tell people it wants to be left alone?”

Robbie McRae, Systems Analyst
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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In drawing, you will inevitably hit a wall. Things were working out, you were feeling excited and then... dread. Why can't you draw anymore? Why is everything frustrating? This is the moment RIGHT before you see improvement. Don't stop.
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
it's hard for me to know what to say, when things are so dire. i don't want to contribute to this feeling of doom. many of the best, coolest people i know on this planet are trans, and this is a despicable attack. please stick around, please keep creating, making weird art, putting it out there.
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Tyler Walpole ➡️ NYCC @tylerwalpole.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
That’s enough internet for today. Gonna just leave you with this @alfredtwu.com cartoon.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Demagogue Watch @demagoguewatch.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Black man painting a poster of a black man in suit and tie holding a sign that says Do Not Buy Where You Will Not Be Hired.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Whenever I get down, I know it’s time to repost my favorite Scooby Doo fan art I’ve ever made
Panel 1: Daphne wears Velma’s glasses and asks, “so? How do I look, Velma?”

Panel 2: Velma, sitting on her bed with her laptop and no glasses, responds frankly, “I have no idea.”

Daphne mumbles weakly, “babe-“
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Federico Viticci @viticci.macstories.net · 29/01/2025
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a person is holding a small pink violin in their hand
ALT: a person is holding a small pink violin in their hand
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 09/07/2024
Posting a #CoverReveal or #BookBirthday? Credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are you helping boost the artist but it shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. Esp for cover reveals, also credit book designer. #PicturesMeanBusiness art by @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit 🧵👇🏼
Illustration of blue winged horse logo with #PicturesMeanBusiness hashtag. Handwritten text: Why do so many book people keep forgetting to credit illustrators?
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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
this is a long shot but does anyone in the UK have a working first generation apple pencil lying around they'd be able to sell to me on the cheap and post ASAP? Mine has completely died and I need a replacement Now but I also can't afford to drop £100 on a brand new one
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Stephanie Cooke @hellocookie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Are you a bookstore or comic shop that is stocking Racc Pack: Prince and the Pawper and The Great Puptective: Purranormal Activity? Well, @whatsupbeanie.bsky.social and I are sending out signed bookplates this week as purchase gifts. Get in touch if you want some!
A drawing by Alina Tysoe of Alina and Stephanie holding up their respective books, The Great Puptective and Racc Pack, with their characters on text that reads "get signed bookplates!"
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Yeah… it’s hard to realize now just how many of our neighbors watched the same movie we saw, and said, “Oh, boy! I can’t wait to grow up to be weak-minded telegram delivery boy, Rolf! Maybe someday I too will be able to rat out the Von Trapps!” 🙄💔 Don’t be a Rolf!
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The little tear! 😭❤️🐻
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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year to everyone who celebrates! Wishing you good health, happiness, and prosperity in the year of the Snake 🐍🧧 [ #Art ]
Illustration depicting a group of bunnies in a line, holding up a Chinese dragon puppet. The bunny at the front is carrying a flaming ball. The text above them says: gong xi fa cai!! (Wishing you great wealth)
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I don't normally repost my text posts but idk maybe this might help somebody this week. I love you all
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Andy Runton @owly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“The Racc Pack: Prince and the Pawper” by @hellocookie.bsky.social and @heywhitney.bsky.social is out today and it’s amazing! This charming graphic novel series is full of comedy, adventure, and tons of heart! I love it so much that I drew Owly with the Bins family to celebrate the new release! ❤️
Owly and Wormy join the Bins family of raccoons on an scavenging adventure!!! Owly and Wormy are held aloft by Re-Re as she holds an overflowing bag of food. Dusty snacks on chips while he dashes, and Scraps holds a Speak & Spell that says, “Racc Pack.”
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 28/01/2025
Revel in the relentless rebellion of reading!
An illustration of characters from Banned Book Club and No Rules Tonight burying themselves in a mountain of books.
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