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Ryan Howe

@ryanhowe.bsky.social
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Comic book artist, graphic designer, illustrator, writer. Creator of Daisy Blackwood: Pilot For Hire and We've Got Spirit. You can find more of my work, my weekly free webcomics, and my contact info here: ryanhowe.carrd.co

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Two book covers I did a while back, don't think I ever posted them here (ps - very open for book cover commissions!)
Cover art for "Canadian Chills Series No. 2 - Ghost Hotel" by Arthur Slade. The cover depicts two preteen kids looking into an elevator at something unseen and possibly scary out of frame.Cover art for "Canadian Chills Series No. 1 - Return of the Grudstone Ghosts." The cover depicts a young girl coming across a glowing ghost boy in an old bell tower, piled with a bunch of old junk - a broom, some old books, comedy and drama masks, a basketball, a hula hoop, and so on.
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's my birthday! 🥳 Once again, this means everyone is legally required to peruse my shop wares and/or share this post - ko-fi.com/elainemwill/...
A photo of a bunch of my shop items, including The Last Band On Earth, art prints, and stickersA photo of my Little Guys stump print
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Jay Axer @jayaxer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Be certain, as is always the case with things such as this, that ANYTHING can be considered sexual and can end in a blanket account shadowban under this. It is easily weaponized it is determined by an AI moderation system. There is no accountability or recourse. you probly can't read this.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It's kind of hilarious to see Bluesky eagerly making a run at self-immolation by learning absolutely nothing from Tumblr's self-own.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If this was the 80s, or there was any justice left in the world, this would be an entire toyline with a cartoon series backing it up.
Photo of a toy dinosaur on a motorcycle titled 'Triceratops dino on motorcycle'
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Who Can Vote
Those who are eligible to vote include comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists); comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors; comics historians and educators; graphic novel librarians; and owners and managers of comic book specialty retail stores.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We are a mere $600 from earning out on BAD KARMA so if you’ve been considering buying it please do so! It’s a lovely chunky 300-page hardback action/black comedy graphic novel ORRR if you don’t want paper books it’s also available everywhere digitally! Quick link: bookshop.org/a/23067/9781...
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Bad Karma
Check out Bad Karma - After finding out Aaron Carter, an innocent man, is on Death Row for a mercenary job they did 10 years ago, down-on-their luck army veterans Sully and Ethan go on a Christmas roa...
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The next three pages are a doozy and I can’t wait to see them. This book starts off at an absolute sprint—just picks you up and throws you into a space adventure. It’s funded on Kickstarter so p much a sure thing—maybe pledge for a copy?
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Did you know I and my collaborators have THREE free/pay as you wish books on Panel Syndicate? The original serialized version of BAD KARMA (later remastered & collected into the Image Comics hardback) and 1970s spy noir MAYDAY and its sequel THE BRANDENBURG SCHOOL FOR BOYS panelsyndicate.com
The cover of BAD KARMA by myself, Ryan Howe, and Dee Cunniffe. Cover by Tony StellaThe cover of my, Tony Parker, and Blond’s spy noir MAYDAY. Cover itself by Tony & BlondThe cover of the Mayday sequel, The Brandenburg School for Boys, by myself, Tony Parker, and Blond. Cover itself by Tony & Blond
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Marcos Martín @panelsyndicate.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Today’s Panel Syndicate’s lucky anniversary: 13 years since BKV, Muntsa and myself launched the first issue of The Private Eye. We’ve been awfully quiet lately but that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything cooking… So Happy Birthday to us and thank you all!
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Kickstarter starts Monday morning. There’s an early bird special for the first 48 hours so sign up to be reminded now—plus we have some amazing cover artist announcements! Do you need to know anything about Dan Dare to enjoy this book? NOPE
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We just got the first page of colours and HOLY SHIT they are good, please sign up for this project, it launches Monday
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.
A page from Stop Project 2025, transcript available at https://stopproject2025comic.org/comic/anti-trans_discrimination/A page from Stop Project 2025, transcript available at https://stopproject2025comic.org/comic/anti-trans_discrimination/
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it
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C. Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
SUPPORT INDIE COMICS!!!!
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I wrote this and I put my all into it—an 80 page SF novella with complicated characters, big action, and some really exciting worldbuilding. Please sign up / consider pledging when it’s live on March 1!
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 14/02/2026
A reminder than in these times of genAI: in order to support actual human creativity my DMs are permanently open to ANY new or aspiring comics creator (yes, including you) who has questions or needs feedback regarding writing, art, or the industry at large. Ask ‘em if you got ‘em!
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Really tired of Instagram constantly suggesting pro-AI posts to me no matter how many times I block them. They always start with 'this changes everything' & end with 'comment __ to find out more,' and, like, buddy, I already know it's a scam, you don't need to tell me with your whole chest.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/02/2026
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks! Get 2 books for at least $3 Get 4 books for at least $10 Get all our stuff for at least $18 This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
The covers of five books by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, with the Humble Bundle logo. Supporting the MIss Major/Alexander J. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center.
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If you would like to read it but you live outside Canada, you can get the ebook here: ko-fi.com/s/a00aca22ef
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The Last Band On Earth (complete digital edition) - ElaineMWill's Ko-fi Shop
At long last, the COMPLETE graphic novel, in DRM-free PDF form! Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entiti...
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And yet they're baffled at their poor reputation and stock performance...
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John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If you are still using Pinterest for reference material, it's only going to get worse than it already is.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I put my new comic up on itch! $8 for a 34-page horror story! On Halloween night in 1994, two teenagers and their bully walk into a stranger's basement, and discover an uncomfortable secret about a girl they know. You can read it here: keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
the cover of it's bitter, baby, and it's very sweetpage 1 of the comic; it says halloween, 1994, and there's halloween candy and toys, featuring a witch pez dispenser, a skull keychain, and a yellow finger monsterpage 3 of it's bitter; corey and chelsea are dressed up for halloween and excited
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Too cold to use the resin printer this week, so I thought I'd start running off the pieces for my Munsters scene I'm working on. Still need to model the door knocker and handles.
3d printed panels of the Munsters' front doorway.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I can't wait to start sharing the pages that have been going up on Patreon, but it's just the first six as a teaser before I pause for a bit while i get started on it properly. It'll probably be the back half of February/early March when I start posting them regularly here.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Data is correct, causal agency is (IMO) incorrect. The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Maybe if they focused on keeping the apps from being absolute memory pigs, stopped all the fun new bugs from crashing them all the time, and stopped shoving AI promos in your face all the time, we might be able to use them again instead of looking for functional alternatives.
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Drawing stuff that would make good album covers, 3/? #art #artpost #illustration
A digital drawing of a small building in the middle of the desert all by itself, complete with a slab of sidewalk. The front of the building is yellow brick with a red awning. It could be some sort of store. It also doesn't appear to be abandoned.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Inspired by our provincial government's seeming drive towards privatization through mismanagement, this was the original text on the poster before I swerved towards corporations.
Poster of a bloody hand with the text "Privatized healthcare's focus is profit not people"
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 13/01/2026
Hey, it’s #PortfolioDay! I’m Ted, of Ted & Ro, and together we make comics! Currently working on the #WorstManOGN, a smart, fast, gay crime romcom set at a wedding, lettered by @gofrankgo.bsky.social, edited by @phoebehedges.bsky.social and published by @comicstitan.bsky.social!
A comic cover. A cheeky, skinny man with red hair and a red suit is toasting the camera as he's sat flamboyantly in the lap of a burly guy with curly black hair, who's glaring at the first guy. They're sat in a giant wedding cake, collapsing it. The redhead is using his foot to hold up the cake topper, a stylised image of the bride and groom. Sticking into the cake is a giant wedding invite with the title, "Worst Man". In the foreground, falling like confetti, are dove feathers.
A five panel comics page, with four of the panels arranged vertically along the left hand side, over a splash panel. No lettering, as it's just a preview.

Panel 1: a profile shot of a handsome guy's face. His head is angled down but he's looking up, grinning a little. His red hair is flopping over, he has a black eye, and a trickle of blood is running down from his nose.

Panel 2: a shot from behind, showing off the guy's hands in handcuffs as he's sat in a steel folding chair.

Panel three: the guy's got a teasing expression on as his interrogator, a large burly guy, walks behind him. We can't see the interrogator's face.

Panel four: the guy's rolling his eyes.
Splash panel: over the shoulder of the burly interrogator, looking down at the handsome guy. He's looking up at the interrogator, confidently smiling as he talks.A comics panel. A skinny red-headed guy with a nose bleed, wearing a hotel uniform, is looking at the camera and shrugging a bitTwo panels of a comic. Both are set in a large, spacious hotel lobby, behind the reception desk and looking out towards the grand front door.

Panel 1: a burly guy wearing a vest, pyjama bottoms and a belt with a gun and phone on it is gesturing a little awkwardly, looking embarrassed. A skinny guy wearing hotel uniform is looking a little embarrassed and shy.

Panel 2: the skinny guy is now looking overwhelmed and supremely embarrassed. The burly guy is stiffly walking in a huge panic off the side of the panel.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A poor man's riff on Saul Bass, but it was fun and got it out of my system.
A stylized bloody hand lies on the ground, bleeding downwards above the text 'The Only Corporate Loyalty is Profit'
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craig rousseau @craigrousseau.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
well, there goes my ‘26 resolution to focus on drawing solely on paying work and pages and not just stuff i like that won’t sell… bigfoot and wildboy.
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Artyom Topilin @artyomtopilin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ('s Monster)
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I was stumped on what to do for a display for my Darkwing figures when I stumbled onto the idea of an art heist featuring con sketches I'd bought from @tadstones.bsky.social and @silvaniart.bsky.social years ago. It's simple, but I think it turned out well.
Darkwing Duck interrupting Negaduck who happens to be in the middle of an art heist. Darkwing Duck interrupting Negaduck who happens to be in the middle of an art heist. Darkwing Duck interrupting Negaduck who happens to be in the middle of an art heist. Darkwing Duck interrupting Negaduck who happens to be in the middle of an art heist.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Well, that's totally mortifying. Something about that pencil was bugging me, and I just realized I bumped it while adjusting layers and it was wildly uncentred.
Graphic saying 'The democratization of art does not come from a billionaire's machine' with a pencil centred in the middle over the text (now with properly centred pencil!)
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
Graphic saying 'The democratization of art does not come from a billionaire's machine' with a pencil centred in the middle over the text
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If you loved children’s TV programming in Canada in the late 60s through to the mid 90s, then this documentary will bring back amazing memories. It is only on CBC Gem for another 7 days unfortunately. It shouldn’t be missed. #Canada #CBC #PublicBroadcasting gem.cbc.ca/mr-dressup-t...
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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Films | CBC Gem
Based on the life and career of children’s entertainer Ernie Coombs, this film celebrates one of Canada’s most beloved children shows, Mr. Dressup, which enriched the lives of five generations.
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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I get asked a lot how to improve drawing skills and my advice has always been: - learn 1p, 2p, 3p grids & how to use them. 98% of the time why artists get stuck is bc they're guessing at perspective - get in the habit of completing full body poses. get used to thinking what the whole body is doing
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Matthew S. Armstrong @matthewart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Here comes Santa Clause! Here comes Santa Clause! #matthewart
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Working on something new in the New Year... #comics
A woman lies on the ground, clutching the earth while the craft she crash landed in sits behind her in a pile of churned up dirt. A distant sunrise lights up the sky behind her.
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is from 2020, but I still like it -
A black and white ink drawing of an octopus wearing a Santa hat and puzzling over a long string of Christmas lights, which is draped all over its many arms.
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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Today on the patreon - the first issue of of NIGHTSOIL, collected in a handy pdf. On a distant, barren world, a hermit is forced to rejoin the society he tried to reject, decades ago... (with colors, of course, by Sergey Nazarov). www.patreon.com/posts/nights...
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Tori Kate @torikateillo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hi #kidlitartpostcard day! ❄️ I’m Tori & I love creating fun, silly & heartwarming characters - animals and human! Interested & open for work in PB & BoardBooks Represented by Analía Cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social More artwork @ torikateillustration.com
A boy is holding a bright star and being held up by a bear to put the star on a sad little tiny tree. A girl is giggling in the bottom corner at a fox who is tangled up in the christmas lights. 
The text reads “Tori Kate - represented by Analía Cabello at ABLA - torikateillustration.com”
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/11/2025
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#traditionalart
a dragon in silhouette perched on top of an abandoned shed. several other abandoned structures can be seen in silhouette in the background. there's a power pole in the foreground. the sky is firey orange and yellow.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 18/11/2025
I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
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Ryan Howe @ryanhowe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This was a blast to work on, big thanks to Robert for letting me play with his characters. The book's also an absolute steal of a deal on Itch!
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Really feeling that post Halloween despair today 🎃💀👹🎄
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