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I think a minority of professional artists care about this! Most people leave it all there and the final product will be great! And I will just be making myself cranky.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 9h

Does anyone else hate it when someone passes you a template file for a project and the layers all like Layer 832 Layer Copy 12 Group 5, the background isn't locked, there are leftover guides that don't correspond to anything in the PSD?

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s so counter intuitive! For me anyway. I clear out 100+ tabs all the time

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ikr! Finally someone said it!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When the client is happy I'm like 😊😭🙏 When the client is unhappy I'm like 😩😭🙇‍♂️

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A couple days ago I met someone with a very different cultural background from my own and we had a great conversation. I learned a thing or two.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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In This Issue... @inthisissue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discussing elegant page turns in Paul Pope’s Giant THB 1.v.2 (2003) with @ryancecil.bsky.social New episode up now! #comicbooks #sciencefiction #paulpope #alternativecomics #cartooning

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had fun talking about a comic that influenced me as a young artist (and still today!) and you can watch our conversation on YouTube, with lots of good clear video of the comic!

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Zack Soto @zacksoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New @inthisissue.bsky.social ep on Giant THB 1.v.2 by Paul Pope with guest @ryancecil.bsky.social is up now! Audio version live on your podcatchers and video version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIq...

youtube.com

In This Issue... Giant THB 1.v.2 (2003) by Paul Pope, with Ryan Cecil Smith

YouTube video by In This Issue... Comics Podcast

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Parenting - but make it easy.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did a podcast!! I talked about one of my favorite artists!!! Paul Pope !!!!!

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In This Issue... @inthisissue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New episode up in early access for Patrons NOW, will be up Monday for everyone else 😎 www.patreon.com/zacksoto/pos...

IN THIS ISSUE...
GIANT THB L.V.2
(2003)
With
RYAN CECIL SMITH

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

:-0 wow! Huh! I still want to use lower case but that’s nice to know!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is really fucked up that risograph is considered a misspelled word on my computers and phone and iPad.

The word risograph spelled correctly with red dots under it because the computer doesn’t know it’s a word.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Phew. 5:30 PM. Time to step away from parenting for the weekend. *Slams laptop shut.* God good thing parenting is only a M-F 9-5 thing. Imagine if this were 7 days a week with no holidays or paid overtime. Feels good to take a break. Maybe my wife and I will go to a restaurant, maybe see a movie.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That was insane and you wrote about it well.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm tired! I can't believe it's Friday!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had coffee with a cartoonist today. Feels great.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

HBO had a little too much fun with their title card before Backrooms.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every episode: One guy is smelly and really smart, everyone on his team is... bad OR good at their jobs... and... something crazy is going on.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah LOL it sounded familiar to me

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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Comparing different Kamandi collections via the library for research purposes.

Double page spread from Kamandi #1 as reprinted in Kamandi Archives Volume 1 (top) and Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth by Jack Kirby Volume 1.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Whoa. I thought last week was the Lanterns season finale LOL. so it keeps going, huh..??

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was like “where is he going with this… how long is this clip supposed to be….” And then boom with the death march hell yeah

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally. Thank you. I have been waiting for a service worker to say this. I am HERE for your message!!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I like this season of Reacher because it doesn't do the thing (big in Season 1) where every time Reacher meets someone who annoys him, they are actually Bad, and He Will Beat Them Up Or Kill Them Later. This season he makes some big errors in judgement. I love to see it. THEN he will kill everyone.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I like to tease my mom about how every TV show she watches (which, btw, is always my dad's choice, not that she objects, because she wouldn't) is about people fighting, shooting, and killing to solve their problems (which always involve fighting, shooting, and killing). I love her though.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ahhh yes! I am her fan!! I knew I recognized it!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who drew that Queen Emeraldas??

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would like an easy happy life. And yet I make interesting choices.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nirvana The Band the Show is so good!!!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well if you do it from now I’ll get what you’re doing so thanks for the heads up

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gas is getting closer to $6 at the regular non-hyperbolic stations in LA…. Feels really bad man.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just scraped a pound of dust out from the bottom vents of my 2020 iMac using folded up scraps of paper. Neat. I hope my computer lasts a long time.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Laying out book number 3 of 3.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Finished laying out another book tonight. You will see this book soonish!

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

40 years old and I still too often express myself with "what I think I ought to say" or "what I think I would like to have said" and not enough "what i feel and think, really." It's a tricky thing for me! My twisted heart. But, I try.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't know how or when or if it ever changes.

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Ryan Cecil @ryancecil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kids 2 and under are never bad. They purely want to be good. Any behavior (I'm reluctant to even call it misbehavior) can be corrected and guided. They're interested in the world and in others and they want to see the good in everything. They have struggles and challenge but they ARE good.

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