iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fantastic writeup from Nilah! Great breakdown of how to track your work/ figure out how long things take you so that you can build schedules that actually work for you

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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · 02/10/2026

All dogs are angels.

a drawing of a dog sleeping on the stone tiles of what seems to be a mossy ruin. The broken wing of a nearby statue lays in line so that it looks like it's a wing of the dog. Sunlit kisses the dog. It sleeps contently in its warmth.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course! It was really cool to see Garlic front and center.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 26/09/2026

The way threads is part of my Instagram feed and then demands me to download an entire other app was enough to keep me from getting into threads.

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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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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm very glad that I left room in my suite case for books, zines and prints. I won't think about the weight of my bag and just hope it doesn't make the tiny plane tilt.

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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you all for a lovely SPX. I'm really glad I got to see people I haven't interacted with for ages.

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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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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I keep forgetting how grey I've gotten. 😅

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

I went digging trying to their work either here or on Instagram because I need everyone to see this.

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

This is my first SPX in maybe 10 years, please be nice to me.

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

I am fucking LOSING it at Odo coming out of his bucket to shame mankind.

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

I am in the lobby folding my minis the way god intended.

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

Or an exhaustive history of a niche internet drama

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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 BOO!yle @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

You can also put on makeup, and maybe dress up right.

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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

Aww thank you. I'll just be walking around and handing them out for free

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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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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It has Sylvester, Bugs, Daffy, Tweety and ends with Porky so I absolutely agree that WFRR counts as a Loony Toons

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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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Reed - SPX wandering @reedblackcomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been getting a lot of reels for diy air dry paper clay recently and it has me wanting to make something

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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 @ NYCC (H27) @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 · 29/08/2026

It's like if Yassified was worse, nawrified

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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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