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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 3h

Reached a new level of “thinking too hard about something* while doing something else” and just placed my headphone jack into my ear instead of my phone

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you backed the SEASONS OF FEAR comics anthology Kickstarter yet? You should! @ryehickman.bsky.social and I did a fun little story about Rosh Hashanah, the nightmare of being closeted, and the lies that build up until they consume you. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror

Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

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Ben Crane @bencranewrites.com · 29/09/2026

Things are bad. Support queer art! If you like spooky comics from cool people, check out the Four Seasons of Fear Kickstarter from @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social and an absolutely killer lineup of LGBTQ+ comics creators. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror

Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is the day! SEASONS OF FEAR comics anthology Kickstarter has launched! @ryehickman.bsky.social and I did a fun little story about Rosh Hashanah, the nightmare of being closeted, and the lies that build up until they consume you. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror

Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t understand ppl who use AI bc when you don’t, you can go over to yr friend’s house for advice about chosen-one tropes, help move stuff from a shed to a barn, then eat cheese and drink wine while watching funny horse vids, then you go home w a head whole of brilliant story gems!

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Stacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The High Holidays can lay a liar low, even if intentions are good. @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social expose the price of secrets in "Who by Hunger"! Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror coming soon to @kickstarter.com September 29th! Sign up for updates! (Link in comments.)

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Andrew Wheeler @andrewwheeler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've decided to crowdfund my queer YA novel The Thief of Secrets and Shadow on BackerKit. If you'd like to know when the campaign goes live, please sign up below! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

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The Thief of Secrets and Shadow

Get notified when The Thief of Secrets and Shadow launches on BackerKit!

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you’re in the Denver area without plans for tomorrow night, come by Creeperado! 6-10 pm at the History Colorado Center. I’ll have horror comics and themed commissions!

Poster for Creeperado, featuring a creepy doll, at the History Colorado Center

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Swipe right for lineart only. Color is a very important part of my art in comics and I worked closely with @kjdiaz.bsky.social to make it as best as it could be for each and every page of AMOM. Get your copy now of issue #2, now in stores! @dstlry.bsky.social

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kinda comic how laser-focused this mostly is

My nine games: Dishonored, Thief, Deus Ex HR, SOMA, Pathologic, Prey, Majora’s Mask, What Remains of Edith Finch, Phasmophobia

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now accepting applications for the Helioscope mentorship program, January- April 2027. Details at: helioscopepdx.com/mentorship

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Mentorship — Helioscope

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While biking home a tiny child waved at me from their own tiny bicycle. I waved back. Heartwarming, precious, etc. Then I remembered I was wearing my ‘GOD IS A GAY PORN STAR’ shirt and had a good cackle. Hope the parents caught it

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I loooove doing the ‘character appears multiple times in a panel’ thing so much

A photo of a screen- on it is a panel where a character dances around another character, in three different poses

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR & GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN are sci-fi graphic novels about how being trans is beautiful, queer love is life-saving, & how to live when an empire wants you dead. I made them with @deuxdel.bsky.social, @airy.bsky.social, @ryehickman.bsky.social & @longtalljodie.com

GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher

GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by Jadzia Axelrod, Rye Hickman and Jodie Troutman.

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watched Repo the Genetic Opera for the first time last night ama

A series of texts in which Rye gushes about the film

A text in which Rye thinks an actor in Repo really reminded them of Sarah Brightman

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

i am open for a couple of edits! don't hesitate to contact me!

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Feeling personally attacked by this sequence I’m drawing- it features camping and rolling a joint and I’ve needed absolutely zero reference

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sign up and get notified! It’s a very good little story, featuring many little guys with their many little teeth. You don’t want to miss it!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You are going to love PRINCESS NIGHTMARE, the book I'm working on with @ryehickman.bsky.social.

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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Talking censorship and book bans Today Sep 4 as part of the Boise Comic Art Festival with @jeremywhitley.bsky.social @ryehickman.bsky.social #bcaf

Behind the Ban Fri sep 4 5-6 pm boise Future Public School

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This weekend is BCAF! I’ll be on panels about book bans and horror comics, and giving a workshop on tools and techniques. If you’re around Boise come say hi!

The Boise Comic Arts Fest 2026 poster, created by Julius Bridgeforth

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Discord Comics makes damn fine books and are pretty amazing to work with. Bring them your best!

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Simon Bowland @simonbowland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm still looking for add multiple new projects to my schedule so that I can get back to paying the bills for my family. Please keep me in mind for any WFH or creator-owned projects. I can be requested via any editor at all of the main US publishers!

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Drawing 2 books concurrently is apparently not enough for my brain, I’m also brushing the cobwebs off this older concept. Goals are to make it hornier AND fuckier :3

A sheet of illustrations of a black-clad bald person

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Crawling out of our crypts to let you know our next sexy anthology project is opening for Submissions Sept 1st… Follow us or join our mailing list for when we launch the info + application form for Bite: A Bisexual Erotic Comic Anthology 🦇 mailchi.mp/8e04247df0ac...

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I played The Quiet Year with a bunch of comics folk and it was a ridiculous amount of fun/truly lucky none of us murdered each other tbh- if you have any interest in story, give it a run!

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s been more than two weeks but I still miss the backpacker’s end-of-day routine: dinner as the sun sets, immediately brush teeth to pop it all into the bearcan, then into the tent to read one short story and attempt another before passing out mid-sentence at the incredibly late hour of 8pm

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G.C. Houle @gchoule.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Too Shy to Say Hi", an 8-page zine intended for riso printing. Office Girl Fail and Big Booby Butch meet 🙂💕 😥

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Filthy Figments 🔞🏳️‍🌈 @filthyfigments.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A witch uses sex magick to get an answer to a very important question, and an ancient goddess answers as best she can. Divination by @ryehickman.bsky.social will cast its spell on you at FilthyFigments.com #NSFW #Erotic #Comics #WLW #FxF #Sapphic #LGBTQ+ #QueerComics

An ancient goddess and a witch speak to each other and end with a kiss.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This weekend is Flame Con, y'all! Come see me and Zoe at Table E-09! Its where the Cool Girls (us) will be!

A photo of Zoe Tunnell and Jadzia Axelrod, Cool Girls

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Back! 260-something miles in 19 days on the JMT nobo. Amazing adventure, and now I’m SO ready to sit down and draw some comics!

A photo of Rye posing enthusiastically near the NPS sign for Mount Whitney. The sky is an ominous grey!

A photo of Foxtail pines! The John Muir Trail winds between them, and mountains lie in the distance

A photo in which Rye poses triumphantly on top of Muir Hut. The sky is the eerie blue high-altitude brings, and there is a little snow, still, off in the distance

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Mikael ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) @lindebergart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yay!!! Finally! The people who didn't make it to the panel can now watch me, @joncairns.bsky.social, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @ginabiggs.bsky.social gush about erotic comics ❤️

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s #InternationalNonBinaryPeoplesDay, apparently. Here are most/all the nonbinary characters I have drawn, so far!

A nine-grid of comic illustrations, each one featuring 1-2 nonbinary characters

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Christopher Sebela @xtop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

hey #portfolioday, i am bad at promotion and working on being better. i write a lot of high concept (and queer) comics full of dirtbags, disasters and other regular type people in irregular situations. here's some of my past works. more coming soon.

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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com · 14/07/2026

for #InternationalNonbinaryPeoplesDay, here's sketches and ink tests for BESPOKE, the comic i came out through in 2018. we make sense of ourselves, we tailor / trim / scrap gender to fit. 🖤🤍

sketchy ink drawings of a figure with long black hair in a dress and a figure with short black hair in a boxy jacket and trousers, with sewing imagery, notes and triangular black and white shapes scattered throughout

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s #InternationalNonBinaryPeoplesDay, apparently. Here are most/all the nonbinary characters I have drawn, so far!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Extreme honored to have GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN--by me, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com --on @eileen2thestars.bsky.social's list of The Best Graphic Novels of 2026 (so far) bookriot.com/best-graphic...

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The Best Graphic Novels of 2026 (So Far)

The director of Frozen teams up for a YA graphic novel—plus cool fight scenes, nuanced horror mystery, nonbinary puberty, and more.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The first book in the GALAXY series, by me, @deuxdel.bsky.social and @airy.bsky.social, is also in stores, but that's been true for a couple of years now.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just a reminder that this book by me, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com, second in the GALAXY series, is currently in stores, just waiting to be purchased.

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Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just started Deus Irae, by Philip K Dick and Roger Zelazny, two thoughts so far -I thought I’d be able to tell who did what but I cannot -it is UNFAIR how fucking funny they are in combination this should be illegal

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Comics Advocacy Group @comicsadvocacy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We 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...

Illustration of the Comics Advocacy Group mascot, Bubsy: a little dog that looks suspiciously like a word balloon. Bubsy is sparkly, gold, and jumping on a green pedestal, as though they're a trophy.

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