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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 23h

I volunteer at a VERY small local library and they picked @breebird33.bsky.social Garlic series for their next kids book club.

A library book display for a juvenile book club featuring Bree Paulsen's Garlic & the Vampire and Garlic & the Witch.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Aww my little mini comic is in good company.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

worm-in-a-rock god

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit?

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm glad people are talking lots about indie conventions! Not surprised to see many people not understand the point of my original post (this isnt a dig on fanart or your set up) but talking about SHOWS not understanding proper curation. Why are we seeing fanart print walls at an indie comics show?

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Tony Breed ✶ boop @tonybreed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have some tips and tricks for my younger colleagues attending SPX. These rules of thumb have served me well over the years.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Respectfully: Watching a theoretical Gravity Falls 2 will not make you feel the same way watching Gravity Falls did. If you want that feeling back, you need to go find new things.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end.

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 23/10/2024

I’m looking for work! 👁️👁️ I’m looking for storyboarding or revisionist positions, but I’m also open to work in games! I’m available immediately - I’m fast, funny, and friendly, & I’d love to work with you! Help me feed my cats, they won’t stop screaming!

A little cartoon drawing of me saying “Caitlin Rose Boyle is looking for work! Storyboards and revisions! Six+ years of experience at Nickelodeon, Netflix, and DTVA, with freelance for Titmouse, Cartoon Network, and Pixar.” My cats are drawn off to the side screaming “We’re so HUNGRY!”

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here is the comic I made for SPX this weekend. I'll just be wandering around.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The kayfabe of it all is just so stupid. I'll willingly believe that ALF is a real actor starring in a sitcom, but not this. Never this.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well I drew one, nothing like printing, cutting, staring and folding the night before I fly. I miss it

A zine in progress. The pages have been printed, cut and collated. Waiting to be stapled and folded

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am trying to pull together a mini comic for SPX this weekend. I haven't done a last minute mini in so long. It feels good to be back at it and scary at how my drawing muscles are not used to this pace. lol

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shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Death of a Dragon

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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silky anteater monk meditating in a peach tree

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Desperately trying to finish listening to this audiobook before Libby repos my shit

A drawing of Lucy in a pair of heaphones legging it in her bathrobe and slippers while the be-limbed embodiment of the Libby app follows in hot pursuit.

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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

have only a few days to fill these slots and haven't had much luck. please share!

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Revised the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture. 1/2

Text: TANGENTS
In geometry, a tangent is when a line touches a curve at a single point.
(images illustrating this, with a curve and a circle touching the lines)
The point where they touch is called the tangent. in a drawing, this is what I call a “bump-up” tangent (more on that
later), but the term “tangent” is a bit more flexible when applied to visual art.
When an artist (or art critic, or art teacher, etc) mentions a tangent, they’re generally referring to any relationship between lines (or elements) in a drawing that interact in a way that the artist didn’t intend.
When I was a teacher, I found it helpful to differentiate the various offenses that fell under the catch-all term “tangents” and give them each a name, to make identification of problem areas in a drawing easier.

An earlier version of these examples was published online in 2011 under the title “The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.”

Text:
Long-Line Tangent
The “long-line” tangent is when the line from one subject in the drawing leads into the line of another.
(image where the line from a figure's wide-brimmed hat"becomes" the line of the roof)
See how the hat of this fella runs into the line of the roof? that’s bad!
(image where they do NOT intersect)
Not so bad!
Try to avoid near-tangents, too! Even if a line doesn’t actually connect with another, “close” isn’t great, either.
(image illustrating this point using the same iconography as above)

Text:
Bump-Up Tangent
A bump-up tangent is when one element of a drawing bumps up against another.
(image where the outside a figure's elbow touches a wall)
When the bump-up is the result of different subjects touching, correct it by making one clearly overlap the other.
(Same image repeated twice, but in one the elbow is in front of the wall, and in the other behind it)
Either of these works just fine!
Sometimes using the principle of “what’s closer?” overlap won’t always be the best solution. you can do that (like the nose in the example) or you can just redraw the offending lines (like the lapel).
Images: a drawing with tangents, and that same drawing with the tangents eliminated

Text:
Beyond just the drawing itself, make sure to avoid bumping your image against the formal components of the comic: word balloons, sound effects, panel borders, etc. They’re in the image, therefore, regardless of what stage they’re introduced into the art, they’re PART OF THE COMPOSITION, and need to be treated as such.

(Image: example drawing where the balloon and panel borders are creating bump-up tangents with the drawing)

There are many publishers who insist on live (editable) balloons and dialogue text to make easier foreign sales and online publishing; I vehemently disagree with this approach, because it makes flexible what should be the sole purview of a cartoonist: the intersection of lines in the art, and lines in the art, like it or not, iNCLUDE the lines that surround a word balloon.

For this reason, LETTERiNG SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE iNKS. Then your inks can accommodate the balloons. This was standard practice until the advent of digital lettering, and while there’s nothing wrong with digital lettering, its placement in the pipeline order generally results in a poorer overall comic than would be the case were it done between the roughs/pencils stage and the inks.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was deviated when I hear that Dolly had passed. She has done some much good in her life for everyone. From her Imagination Foundation to her funds that helped develop the Covid vaccine. She made the world a better place for having been in it. Rest in peace. #dollyparton #illustration

An illustration of Dolly Parton where her larger than life hair fills the frame. Dolly has icons in her hair such as a picture book, a butterfly, guitar, and a clock showing 9 and 5.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Didn't need to watch the video to tknow Tia my favorite scene, Skinner in a bathtub.

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Naomi @ NYCC AA B-22 @naomiromeroart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sorry, I can’t come.. I’m an indoor cat!

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I know exactly one thing about Herbert’s science fiction world

andrew_of_mistwovia 5h
Frank Herbert literally wrote a sci fi world, he would have supported ai
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

a very important part of the process

Diary comic dated August 9th.

PANEL 1
Gale stares at a pile of paper, panicking.

Caption: I AM SO CLOSE TO FINISHING THESE THUMBS
Gale: is this anything?!

PANEL 2
Gale meditating, at peace.

Caption: You can fix it after you make it but you have to make it

PANEL 3
Close on Gale’s grim face.

Caption: what if it’s unsalvageable

PANEL 4
Gale meditating again.

Caption: this happens every book trust yourself

PANEL 5
Close on Gale.
Caption: everyone will hate this

PANEL 6
Gale slamming their hands on a table.
Caption: I am going to kick my brain’s ass

Gale: draw!!!! motherfucker!!!!!

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

let the dead stay dead. if you like a guy, you draw a comic about a character who looks suspiciously like that guy, AS GOD INTENDED. shoutout to all the david bowie OCs out there

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I love how Toni Morrison was one of largest financial backers of Ishmael Reed’s play that portrays Lin-Manuel Miranda being haunted by historical figures who were omitted or whitewashed by the musical and for glossing over Hamilton's slave ownership and treatment of Native and Black populations.

newsweek.com

Toni Morrison Funded Anti-Hamilton Play Because She Hated Musical So Much

Writer Ishmael Reed has been one of Hamilton's most ardent critics and wrote a play called "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda" in 2019.

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You will be ahead of so many comic artists if you learn lettering. Even if you don't plan to be a pro letterer, it goes a long way in improving your composition when you're considering how the reader's eyes will travel through the page. It's part of comics grammar. Just doing this goes a long way 👇

"Arrange speech into a diamond shape. Small words and phrases on the top and bottom, big phrases and words in the middle." This is visually represented by soft purple horizontal lines in a diamond/kite shape.

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 12/08/2026

And if you're writing your own stories right now: Make them hurt. Make them shocked. Make them scared. Make them pee themselves with laughter. Make people feel something.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Unerring sense of who the living New York icons are

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is the only cup I am willing to drink Pepsi out of.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

People like kavish here are in fact willingly, gleefully speedrunning Being A Pathetic Burden To Society while proudly announcing that they’ve voluntarily become completely non functional tech dependents. it HAS to be a humiliation kink!?

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

obviously i think AI is an abomination. i have talked about this for a long time and will continue to do so, but today i was struck with something REALLY COOL that i do not think is discussed enough on the opposite end: the JOY and FULFILLMENT of being able to hire and work with human artists.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

THE DISSIDENTS a suspenseful political thriller, a true story about a group of political cartoonists who were put on trial for daring to dissent. It's a story that connects the troubling events of today to seeds that were sown over 100 years ago. Out September 15. From Abrams Comicarts.

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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

opening up some commissions slots to raise funds cover my rent! really struggling to find work. DM me if you are interested! 50$ USD: chibi model / single colour background 100$ USD: model / custom background 150$ USD: model / custom background + 3D printable file #blender3d #b3d #gamedev

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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 25/07/2026

We have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

The car veering off the highway meme. The left road is AI GENERATED TEXT, the right road is 1200 COOL-ASS FONTS, the car is veering right and has the caption: YOU, I HOPE.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Collecting all the Trial Separation of Monkey Island™ pieces in one place. You can purchase them as prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... I'm all fan arted out after this.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

enshittification ouroboros

the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Who is going to Flame Con in NYC 08/15-08/16? I'll be wandering around. I haven't been in a couple of years.

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Filthy Figments 🔞🏳️‍🌈 @filthyfigments.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Are you frustrated with social media dictating what you see on your timeline? Algorithms and shadow-bans can get between you and a good comic. 📖 Find out how to go Old School with Filthy Figments as @jpawlik.com explains the wonders of RSS! ➡️ Read comic here: filthyfigments.com/rss-feeds/

Comic panel. Jey Pawlik explains the wonders of RSS to Ember and Pomona, mascots of Filthy Figments.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 15/07/2026

some pages from my adaptations of The 39 Clues! Colors by @neatodon.bsky.social

a page from the graphic novel adaptation of The 39 Clues: One False Note. Amy and Dan, two red-headed children, run through city streets at night to catch a cab. They look worriedly out of the back of the cab as they disappear into traffic.

a page from the graphic novel adaptation of The 39 Clues: One False Note. A red fiat crests a hill overlooking Venice.

a page from the graphic novel adaptation of The 39 Clues: One False Note. Amy and Dan, two red-headed children, ride a small speedboat on the Grand Canal in Venice. They are surprised by the looming shadow of an approaching ship!

a page from the graphic novel adaptation of The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief. Amy and Dan, two red-headed children, exit a hotel on a Tokyo street with their Korean Uncle Alistair. The Tokyo tower is visibile in the background.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Mega-admiral Threepwood

Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series, decked out in an ostentatious uniform with perversely large epaulettes and a ludicrous cape. He's standing on top of a skull-shaped rock.

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garin | comms open @garin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hello!! 👋 I'm Garin, a freelance artist and currently I'm looking for work and open for commissions! I can do concepts, sequential art, illustrations and any 2D assets that can be used for your project! Feel free to hit me up anytime! 📩Contact: garincomms@gmail_com 👩‍🎨Portfolio: garin-art.carrd.co

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/02/2026

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

A comic showings cartoon man degrade into a bubble with eyes and a mouth saying that comic work no matter how well drawn they are.

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Laura K @ SPX W44 @creekdontrise.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Debuting a new comic for SPX! Please enjoy here for free; physical copies will be for sale at the expo ✨

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