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Paul Hostetler

@phostetlerart.bsky.social
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Illustrator, cartoonist, ink slinger, pancake maker, mixologist, knows too much about psychedelic drugs, ukulelismo, he/him Phostetler.com YouTube, Patreon, Ko-fi, Teepublic: @phostetlerart

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 13h
October means it’s Tom Servo: Transsexual Vampire Dandy Month. #mst3k
A small red plastic robot with a gum ball machine for a head wearing a pair of bat wings and a top hat. There is a pink, blue, and white flag in his dome head.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 17h
Made a t-shirt, because spooky month. 35% off for another 2 days!
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Cat O'Lantern by phostetlerart
We put a cat in a pumpkin! Are you not entertained?
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Smart, well-intentioned people are still aware of what the NYT, WSJ, and basic news like Yahoo News are saying about AI, along with having jobs where they interact with other humans. There’s no liberal equivalent of the conservative mediareality distortion field. We know what’s happening.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was told people here like dinosaurs. Process video here: youtu.be/R_qgNYlZbj4
Sketchbook page with an ink and charcoal drawing of an allosaurus walking towards the viewer, head turned askance in a coquettish way and looking off to the left.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This flipbook character realizes he's trapped on the page and decides to walk right off it
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why does the Pope's account allow comments at all? The point of the Pope is that he's infallible. He talks at YOU, you don't get to talk to him. Just wondering.
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These are some great non-fiction comics about one of my favorite subjects: BOOZE! It is SO CLOSE to being funded - will the person who tips it over the top be… YOU?! Check out The Liquor Cabinet: A Graphic Novel by Allison Bannister on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/154...
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The Liquor Cabinet: A Graphic Novel
A comic book history of the world's 5 most popular liquors
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now might be a good time to mention our Patrons get the next week's comics every Saturday (or Sunday) www.patreon.com/c/tesladyne
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Tesladyne — creating comics!
Get more from Tesladyne on Patreon. creating comics!. Support Tesladyne and get exclusive access to their work.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why you don’t downsize staff to save money. Some nerd in the organization has to have enough spare time to digitize all the photographs the bosses ever took and burn them on CD.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a man who has a Samurai Cat calendar (google it) on sale right now, I can only encourage more people to become interested in Japanese cat shenanigans.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yo, on the last day of September, I posted a video about drawing allosaurus, and also me saying some allosaurus facts. If you love allosaurus and think it could totally whup a tyrannosaurus's ass, watch this video. I smack-talk the T-rex so much. #artsky #sketchbook #paleoart
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Sketchbook Legends 45: Allosaurus
YouTube video by Paul Hostetler
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Shannon Wheeler @shannonwheeler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Posting some original in my etsy. Check it out. Lots of new stuff. Cheap. Inexpensive too. www.etsy.com/listing/1783...
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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 01/10/2026
✨ New job: Senior Designer (Graphic Novels) ✨ 🏢 ABRAMS 💼 Full-time 📍 New York City, NY, United States
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Comics Jobs - Senior Designer (Graphic Novels) at ABRAMS
Full-time | New York City, NY, United States
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caravaggio's birthday was yesterday so happy belated birthday to a certified badass.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think it would be equal parts horrible and fun to make stuff like this working in the Congressional printing office.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got my Covid vaccine yesterday and I felt like shit, but then I had some coffee and soup and now I feel a little bit better? Coincidence? I think not! What else aren't they telling us?
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It's a Conspiracy Man! Meme
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’d kill the world economy and blow up the planet before stopping this on their own.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scud: the Disposable Assassin always gets short shrift, but it’s crazy creative and weirdly personal in equal doses.
Comic page involving two characters moving through cut-out views of sewage tunnels like a dollhouse, fighting monsters on the way. One character attempts to explain Star-crossed love to the other.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks cool
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m reading The Odyssey and The Autobiography of Mark Twain at the same time, and I have to imagine this is how the Coens came up with O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach?
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Rising Students Dodgeball: Knife Dodge
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is this something actual children give a shit about at all? The rejected designs of toys their parents played with?
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey @governor.pa.gov , want the easiest win of the year? Wildly popular, good policy, real impact, low cost? Help save the academy of Natural Sciences in Philly. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
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America's oldest natural history museum is closing this week — but not without a fight
The oldest natural history museum in America shuts its doors this month. Here's what we're losing inside (it's big), and why City Hall is fighting back.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
only 8 days left, and we're very close to the second stretch goal! zoop.gg/c/posterboy
cover mockup of my new art book, POSTER BOY
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey, who likes woodland critters?
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Sketchbook Legends 44: Black Books
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2027's Samurai Cats calendar is for sale. Buy one, out of a sense of obligation or something. www.calendars.com/shop/samurai...
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Samurai Cats 2027 Wall Calendar
Cats stretching, sleeping, batting at toys, and posed across breeds and settings. 12" x 12" wall calendar for 2027.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Patrick McHale teams up with Elsa from Frozen to find out who killed the 40th President with lasers in “Reagan”
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi-- My wife is selling off her dad's collection of cameras and camera accessories. Her dad kept them in excellent to excellent-to-mint condition. These are all for a vintage Nikon S2. If you're interested in buying anything, e-mail me at jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Thanks!
Nikon S2 camera body, serial number: 6158222, plus instruction booklet
Lens Nikkor-S.C 1:1.4 f=5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 367079 with hood and original lens cap
Lens Nikkor-Q.C 1:3.5 f=13.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 261655 with hood and original leather case
Lens W-Nikkor-C 1:3.5 f=3.5cm Nippon Kogaku Tokyo No. 426869 with original cap and leather case
Lens Nikkor-P.C 1:2 f=8.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 404330 with hood, original cap, and original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 13.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 8.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 3.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nikon Flash Unit Model BC-5, with instructions in original box
Bel-View filter set for Nikon: four filters in original leather case
Vivitar red filter 43mm
Three reusable 35mm metal film cassettes/magazines for Nikon rangefinder, two likely brass
Vintage Japanese shoe-mount selenium exposure light meter with hinged photocell cover, exposure calculator, maker/model unknown, with original leather case
Minori mechanical camera self-timer / delayed shutter release, made in Japan, PAT. 23650/DSG.9550 in original leather case
Voightlander VC Meter II, new light meter, probably used with Nikon S2, in original box
Pleasant Auto-Up I Super Nooky for Nikon S2, Nikkor F1.4
Tiffen All Purpose Series #5 Adapter Ring in original box
Beseler Camera bag
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WEDNESDAY! ...at the Wex Center Auditorium at Ohio State University! A slideshow presentation about THE DISSIDENTS, followed by a signing. Starts at 7pm. The Wex Bookstore (shown here) is offering a deal for a book & the talk. I'll be sketching on title pages! #OhioState #Buckeyes #BillyIreland
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the sort of cleverness I could never do on a deadline.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
By Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands). @tjeerdroyaards.com
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/09/2026
gearing up to get another book ready to send into the world right now and i just wanted to take a second to say that you should get your hands on a copy of SIMPLICITY if you like anything i've ever made. i'm still so immensely proud of it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Autumn 🍂
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy September equinox! That's the autumnal one for those of us in the northern hemisphere, spring in the south. I explain it in two different ways in today's newsletter, plus what it means for the length of daytime. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/happy-sept... 🧪 🔭
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Happy September equinox 2026!
Also: Amazing image of Saturn ring spokes seen from Earth
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Guys named Al greatly relieved. Everyone else clocks move as "stupid."
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Alas, I'm toning down my profanity in every-day conversation (and the classroom). That said, I cannot resist reminding you all of this seasonal tradition. "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bedridden from my back and hip acting the hell up. Pills without thrills, bored and depressed. AMA.
Panel from the Eltingville Club story, This Fan, This Monster. Shows Bill Dickey being struck by a thrown Captain America prop shield.
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm helping my friend J in Uganda raise funds for a community arts center! I know J personally, they've worked at building art spaces like this in the past, and their goal is to build a free space local artists and marginalized folks can access and share resources www.gofundme.com/f/art-studio...
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Donate to ART STUDIO FOR THE MARGINALISED SEEKS YOUR KIND CONTRIBUTION, organized by Jessica Fink
(Hello I'm Jess, I'm running this campaign for my friend J in… Jessica Fink needs your support for ART STUDIO FOR THE MARGINALISED SEEKS YOUR KIND CONTRIBUTION
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know what's fucked up is that the company is allowed to alter the contract however and whenever they want, but the consumer cannot. Or can we? Lawyers of social media, feel free to chime in.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In this modern world, it can almost feel like a relief to enter a scenario where all the little problems you have to solve every day can be shoved aside forever to deal with One Big Problem that you are definitely capable of overcoming. But, like, this is also the rationale behind doing heroin.
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last Christmas, I forgot my Master and Commander: Far Side of the World DVD to my parents house. This Memorial Day, I went back and couldn't find it. Last Wednesday, my aunt hailed me from across the street, saying she had a bag in her trunk with my name on it. Tonight, Oceans are Battlefields.
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Master And Commander Far Side Of The World
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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Always exciting to see your new book in the wild for the first time. Fly, my pretty!
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There needs to be a “Reacher happens to be in the Capital on January 6, 2021” book/TV show/movie/broadway musical/comic book/puppet show.
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