iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dean Haspiel @deanhaspiel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humbled and honored to have won a Ringo Award for "Best Short Story" for my self-published comic book, CHEST FACE at Baltimore Comic-con. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lezf...

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Dean Haspiel wins Best Short Story at the 2026 Ringo Awards

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bought a nice water bowl for Special Agent Dale Cooper and just look at this dummy getting water everywhere

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Baltimore Comic Con! I am now signing at the A Sound of Thunder booth until 4pm! Come get your heavy metal and comics! Booth 1815!

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baltimore Comic Con kicks off today The Beat is heading to Baltimore Comic Con! Here's a few highlights form a show that keeps the comics in comic con

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Baltimore Comic Con kicks off today

The Beat is heading to Baltimore Comic Con! Here's a few highlights form a show that keeps the comics in comic con

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

little late getting this posted but here is the 7th installment -12 more pages (74-85) for free viewing of THE WRENCHIES, my 2014 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller and EISNER AWARD nominated graphic novel www.patreon.com/fareldal/pos...

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@humblebundle.com Hi, hello, excuse me... What the actual fuck is this garbage you just put in my inbox? What an absolute betrayal of not only all of your business partners across videogames, comics, and more, but your customers. I've praised and recommended you for 16 years. That ends today.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you haven't been reading the delightfully twisted Babylon Cove by my studiomate @plasticfarm.bsky.social and studio friends @supajoe.bsky.social , @marissadraws.bsky.social, and Crank!... well, why not?! It's absolutely insane fun.

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another incredible @smallpressexpo.bsky.social in the books. Thanks to to the organizers and volunteers for all their hard work! And thanks to everyone who came by to see me and/or my small army of former interns. You’re all awesome (especially those of who who bought stuff). Go comics!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026

The alarms are all flashing red.

Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."

Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's @smallpressexpo.bsky.social time! Come find me and my army of former interns at table D12&D13! All of us have new stuff that you want to check out!

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not yet sold on Babylon Cove? Read this review and be converted.

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This might be my favorite cover on any book I’ve written. So happy with how this (and the entire series) has turned out. Please buy this; it’s the only way I’ll know if I should keep making comics.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An interview with Stan Drake from 1969. You can feel his impatience that no one has invented Photoshop yet.

DRAKE: Yes, I really feel at my best when I'm moving my body-swimming in the pool, or playing golf, or going down a bobsled run, or bowling-doing some-thing like that. I've never been able to understand how I'm able to sit at the drawing board for all those hours, considering that I enjoy moving around so much. I would have expected that someone like me would be literally climbing the walls-sitting at the drawing board for thousands of hours.
HURD: Would you say something about that new method of drawing backgrounds that you figured out?
DRAKE: Well, in my never-ending search for easier ways to do things, I hit upon this idea to be the only man in the business using electronic machinery in the production of my comic strip. I found, if I copied a halftone photograph on a Xerox machine, that often the halftones were washed out and very light and that just the basic black lines remained. In other words, the machine would, in effect, turn out what amounted to a line drawing of whatever subject was involved. You see, this particular machine was designed to copy let-ters and not halftone photos.
When I first discovered this, I was doing a sequence where the characters were out at sea in a big ship. I wanted to show a drawing of this ocean liner, but I couldn't conceive of myself sitting down there, pencil-ing and then inking, this huge ship with all the win-dows and the superstructure. It got me thinking. For my first experiment I got hold of a photo of one of the big liners and ran it through a friend's Xerox. As I said before, the halftones were almost entirely washed out,
leaving this incredibly detailed line drawing of a ship. I proceeded to cut it out, and I pasted it right into a panel of Juliet Jones. Then I simply inked in the ship, going right over the lines that appeared on the photo-copy and strengthening them. In about forty-five min-utes I had this complete, absolutely accurate, fantastic rendition.
On another occasion-Juliet and Eve were living in New York a…

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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 21/08/2026

✨ New job: Art Director ✨ 🏢 Dark Horse Comics (@darkhorse.com) 💼 Full-time 📍 Milwaukie, OR, United States

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Comics Jobs - Art Director at Dark Horse Comics

Full-time | Milwaukie, OR, United States

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On the train to AnimeNYC. See you soon New York!

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Baltimore Folks! Come out and see me at the Art and Collectibles Expo 8/29-8/30at Peabody Heights! www.facebook.com/share/1EqRfS...

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"My boss told me to start wearing diapers a year ago and now if the diapers disappeared tomorrow, could I still get through an entire workday without shitting my pants?"

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Babylon Cove #3 is another good issue that keeps the series’ mix of humor, horror, and messy character drama working well... It deepens Heather’s flaws, raises the stakes for Babylon Cove, and leaves enough tension to make the next issue feel important." www.fanlightzone.com/comics/babyl...

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BABYLON COVE #3 (Mad Cave Studios) — Fanlight Zone

As Heather continues to try and get to the bottom of whatever has its grip on her hometown. She runs into her biggest challenge and rival…Other Heather! The girl who all those years ago stole her boyf...

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Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · 05/08/2026

ICYMI: Get caught up on comics after the crush of news around SDCC! Babylon Cove continues:

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I hope you all are enjoying Babylon Cove!

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Joe Eisma NYCC Table J07 @supajoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Be sure to pick up BABYLON COVE #3 this Wednesday!

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Come work with me! (Like, literally. I expect that I’ll be talking with this person A LOT.)

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Oh lord. (1976) out-there smart-mouthed narratological horndog jabroni

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

my older sister and her sweet dog Starry were viciously attacked by a neighbor’s dog that got under the fence in their yard. my sister is a single mom who also takes care of our elderly mother with dementia. they need some financial help. gofund.me/e5dffb87f

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Donate to Help Us Heal After Starry’s Attack, organized by Krista Dalrymple

Help Us Close This Chapter After Starry’s Attack Some of you may have followed… Krista Dalrymple needs your support for Help Us Heal After Starry’s Attack

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Cody Ziglar @yayforzig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ll join Hydra before I pay for a professional badge for NYCC. SDCC gives them to you for free!!!

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In case anyone was wondering if I was going to NYCC this year…this bullshit is why I won’t be.

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Kyle Starks @thekylestarks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Only three days left to support Schweizers Kickstarter. It’s a “Appalachian Fantasy” which I assume is just hillbilly sword fights but he’s smarter than me. DON’T MISS OUT! #kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...

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Outlaw's Apprentice: Broken Blade

Book one of the Appalachian-inspired swashbuckling fantasy graphic novel series

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snail / Jules V. @snail-tamer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

had to (hopefully temporarily) go private for medical treatment, so I'm tentatively opening ko-fi sketch commissions to help pay it off. minimum payment £15 for a little colour sketch, but the higher the donation the more detail you get. tank u everyone 👼 ko-fi.com/sna1l/

Colour sketch of Eva and the Boss from MGS3.

Colour sketch I thiiiiink this one was Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou???

Colour sketch of Misato from Evangelion drinkin' a beer.

Monochromatic sketch of 2B from Nier Automata wearing a suit jacket and thigh high boots and not much else. Woooooo

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'll be going to Anime NYC this year for work. It'll be my first time at an Anime/Manga convention, so I'm excited to see how it differs from the more familiar (to me) Comic Con vibe. Any of my NYC friends going or want to grab drinks in the evening?

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The SCIENTIST pages 19-20 free to read for all www.patreon.com/fareldal/pos...

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Andrea @andreademonakos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Folks, I need help! We’ve got an influx of rad AF kickstarters to fulfill this summer and my team’s already at capacity with our current work! If you know anyone in the Seattle area looking for work, please share this quoted post with them, thank you!!

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Mulholland Drive Bowfinger Kinda thematically similar films if you think about it.

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

First Marvel news in a decade that's piqued my interest

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Joe Eisma NYCC Table J07 @supajoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s FOC time for BABYLON COVE #3 by me, @plasticfarm.bsky.social @marissadraws.bsky.social Crank! and @madcavestudios.com! Head to your local comic shop and preorder today:

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Big “I’ll be right back” in a horror movie energy.

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Rafer Roberts - D13@SPX @plasticfarm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I would watch the shit out of a Law&Order style show where the first half is just a Columbo episode and the second half is the trial where the poor prosecutors have to explain Columbo’s investigation to a jury.

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