Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It was the last time i saw him before he moved back east and he looked so haggard. It’s a massive regret of mine that I didn’t say more then. Everyone could tell he was on a dangerous decline, I am so mad that his employers didn’t intervene while his health was so obviously in jeparody 0190
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Imo his stint in animation while moonlighting in comics is what ultimately ended up the catalyst. He was nearly single-handedly pulling that invader zim movie to completion. It breaks my heart and I think about him everytime I look at a violently tight contract now 1320
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Can’t believe it’s been three years already. I think about him all the time. Closest thing to a mentor a lot of us boom artists had 1330
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026No one can stop you from making a couple of little guys 0364
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’ve been hard at work colouring a fantastic GN by my buddy Lee. You’re definitely gonna want to check it out! 1171
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This has been ruining my life for so long 😭 you have absolved me 110
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Are you re-reading moby dick or have you been reading this book for two years 190
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I’ve filled out so many applications and I’ve not gotten past the auto filter a single time. Three years and not one call-back. It makes me feel crazy cause I was regularly employeed for almost a decade. It’s like the well just dried up. Employment dust bowl ass economy 140
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyone I know is either deeply out of work or bracing for layoffs. Lots of us went and got “””real””” jobs and they’re just as precarious as the careers we left. It just so unsustainable idk how anyone is supposed to live like this. I feel for you and the many folks who were forced out of state 🫂 180
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026An entire generation of talent is being hemmoraged in every industry. It feels like the story is ending right as I got on the page 170
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Layton series was literally perfect??? The animation and hand-drawn sprites were the main charm points!! I’m so disappointed in level 5 100
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Newsletter update on the Patreon page (It's free for you to look at for FREE) A comic about a normal man at the normal grocery store.patreon.comBoy Howdy! | Rian SyghSeptember 7 Gettin' dizzy watching the time fly by me. August is over and September begins. Every year seems to creep by a little faster tha 084
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I want to throw them into dumpsters but I don’t want to inconvenience the Sanitation workers so instead I just frown at them piling up in our neighbourhood like >:/ 010
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026That’s my current struggle. the only vent in the office blows right under my desk so my legs are constantly frozen, but because it’s so humid rn when the AC is goes off I start sweating immediately. Drives me mad! 000
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’s too fucking hot to not run the air con but I get SO cold sitting in the chilled air so it’s just a constant revolution of Go Outside > Get sweaty and overheated> Go inside> get chills so bad my hands shake> repeat ad infinitum 2120
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I despise AI and refuse to engage with it personally or professionally, but I find it of note that big companies with full-on AI divisions are at the same time refusing its contractors to utilise those same tools… almost as if they actually really do recognise AI is poisonous to their product. 1250
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Interesting thing I’ve noticed from the last few months is that my gig contracts all now have clauses in them that say I cannot use AI in any part of the process of making the work I submit under contract. Interesting to me as many of these companies have publicly invested in AI 1351
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Mourning you in my threadbare Ms Officer and Mr Truffles T-shirt 140
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My portfolio is literally going up to $200 for no reason, the only people who look at it are the maybe 12 recruiters I email it to in a year. I hate it here 020
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I was on the edge of my seat the whole time it was like the Super Bowl to me 120
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Newsletter update on my free Patreon Page with a post from my comics journal. Follow me over here for updates of my webcomic and other such things tinyurl.com/367ttwt8patreon.comBoy Howdy! | Rian SyghThe third newsletter? Already? It's July, somehow! The days blur into each other so much lately I usually have to look up what day of the we 083
Reposted by Rian SyghComics Advocacy Group @comicsadvocacy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026We are delighted to announce the awardees for our third CAG Mini Grant!! Please click through to read more about each of them -- you might just find a new favorite cartoonist. c: comicsadvocacygroup.org/2026/07/08/c... 15128
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I do this too, I need to draw with a grip the approximate diameter of a tennis ball or everything from finger to shoulder will inflame. 010
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I would be tearing the controller out of his hands. Sorry J but you aren’t playing right 120
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026We live near that big warehouse fire and the smoke is so thick it’s making such eerie light. The air makes you cough if you open the door. Not looking forward to the smoke developing a stink from all the rotten food that’s on fire rn. 0110
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Yesssss I love puzzmo I play every day! www.puzzmo.com/user/mc/frog...puzzmo.com@frogproblems on PuzzmoPlay the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo 130
Reposted by Rian SyghGateCrashers @gatecrashers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026MONSTERS IN LOVE IS OUT NOW! Our pride special this year features ELEVEN of the anthology's creators stopping by to talk identity, queerness, bears, and more. Thank you to @darkhorse.com and @readtinyonion.bsky.social for making this happen! Listen here: gatecrashers.fan/2026/06/12/m...gatecrashers.fanMonsters in Love Pride SpecialMonsters in Love is all about queerness, identity, and more. We sat down wth 11 of the creators to talk about the book in our Pride special! 15119
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I’ve been dodging the ‘elder’ label for years now but It always catches up to me. This too will be a gift when I get over it lol 170
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Eyyyy blockbuster suggesting both Ninja Scroll and Akira to my 7 year old self was a Canon Event 110
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026OOT is the best fantasy game ever made. While I love that younger audiences will have an easier entry point to a series so close to my heart I am so bored of unreal-engine-ass rehashes of old gems. We should have new things, we should have new cultural touchstones! Time is moving forward!!!! 1192
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Everything’s exciting when you’ve been unemployed long enough! 🥳 010
Reposted by Rian SyghGale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It's the last week of mini grant applications! Fly forth!! 0118
Rian Sygh @riansygh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The amount of bravery it took to get to right now will not be easy to feel for awhile. With distance, I hope you will be able to look back at this time as the miracle it is. You are alive, you are ALIVE. 1140