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Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · 07/10/2026

It is true! Congrats again, and well deserved for Orla!

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ORLA! is one of my household’s favorite comics, well deserved

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Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · 01/10/2026

Orla is a Best New Comic of 2026 for Adults, selected by the @nypl! Congratulations John Lees, Sally Cantirino, Dearbhla Kelly, and Lucas Gattoni Voted out of 400 possible titles, only 50 were selected for 2026. Did your favorite read make the list? on.nypl.org/4ebK2i7

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How cool is this? ORLA!, the horror romcom from me, @sallycantirino.bsky.social, @dearbhlala.bsky.social, @letteringbear.bsky.social & @madcavestudios.com, has made the New York Public Library's list of the Best New Comics for Adults of 2026!   www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

Screengrab from the linked article, with a picture of the Orla! graphic novel cover, and this text underneath:

Illustrated by Sally Cantirino | Orla Bard is out for love and out for blood! It seems every man she meets gives her the ick, which turns her into a massive, man-eating monster. Despite her carnivorous appetite, she still seeks true love in this campy rom-com.

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Megan Matelonek @mmatelonek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HUGE CONGRATS @johnlees.bsky.social @sallycantirino.bsky.social @dearbhlala.bsky.social @letteringbear.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com for making the list of Best New Comics of 2026 by the New York Public Library for OLRA! Still a favorite to read of mine but also MORE reason to read & reread again

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will not be at NYCC this year. I will be touching grass at the burying grounds at the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow instead.

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was either Jurassic Park (I don't think I made it past the first scene with the dinosaur in the crate) or the hazmat scene in E.T.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026

I hate to have to do this again, but starting another (hopefully smaller) GFM. We are trying to start new endeavors, but we need to stay housed until then. gofund.me/f1aa8129f

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

working on setting up a shop online for my prints, pins, etc. stay tuned

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Danny is a wonderful person in a tough spot. Help them out?

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm making my Hello Darkness debut with an autumnal horror story in Hello Darkness 26 alongside a bunch of talented creators! It's also co-created with @sallycantirino.bsky.social in our third collaboration, so be sure to order and pick it up!

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aggressively cleaning and resetting my office/studio happy equinox everybody

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

first time trying linocut since college, just some lil skellys.

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 08/09/2026

The 2026 MÖRKTOBER prompt preview is here! Prepare for October and 31 Days of MÖRK BORG creations! Make it dark. Make it weird. 🎃 MÖRKTOBER FAQ: www.morktober.com 🎨 Art by @soengery.bsky.social! #MÖRKTOBER #MÖRKBORG #morkborg #ttrpg #rpg #october #pumpkins #dark #weird

1 Goat
2 Curse
3 Glyph
4 Marrow
5 Cape
6 Fog
7 Effigy
8 Wail
9 Flag
10 Arrow
11 Ear
12 Pyre
13 Relic
14 Frail
15 Fiber
16 Ship
17 Bird
18 Hollow
19 Demon
20 Crab
21 Walls
22 Poison
23 Map
24 Miasma
25 Moth
26 Dice
27 Tunnel
28 Carcass
29 Goblin
30 Dance
31 Pumpkins

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't want a phone with a giant folding screen, I don't want an AI assistant, I want a bedazzled Sidekick II from 20 years ago and the ability to text 8000 wpm on a physical keyboard again.

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

he wants to trade zines

a drawing of godzilla at a copy machine, like the classic ad. it says “he’s making a zine, would you like to see it?’

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's September 1st and this summer sucked for me so I am ready to get into bed, work on my little stitching and knitting projects, and read non-fiction history books and horror novels while drinking seasonal beverages until morale improves.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 01/09/2026

The cool kids club.

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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com · 31/08/2026

work in comics in the U.S., or know someone who does? (self-pub and webcomics count) tell 'em to fill this @cartoonist.coop survey! sharing knowledge is power 💪🏽🔏 airtable.com/appLRxNDI7Yj...

the top of the website form for the 2026 Comics Worker Survey by Cartoonists United, showing an image of Inkling (a cartoon inkwell) holding Nibford (a cartoon nib pen) encircled by text reading "Cartoonists United". underneath the picture, body text reads "The 2026 Comics Worker Survey / -This is for comics workers who live and work in the US / -Please answer relevant fields with your earnings from 2025 ONLY"

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week's free Patreon update is a look back at ORLA!, my horror romcom with @sallycantirino.bsky.social, @dearbhlala.bsky.social & @letteringbear.bsky.social, collected earlier this year, talking about why it's one of my favourite comics I've ever done. www.patreon.com/johnlees/pos...

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An ORLA! Retrospective | John Lees

Those who have been following me for a while will know that, whenever I finish a comics project, by which I mean the whole series or volume

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Megan Matelonek @mmatelonek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A awesome graphic novel from the talented @johnlees.bsky.social @sallycantirino.bsky.social @dearbhlala.bsky.social @letteringbear.bsky.social this article was a cool insight to appreciate this gn but also the artist making it. Check out ORLA! Thank you again for making another great read John Lees

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Homo-theory? yum @fruitlewds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I started reading Amusement Park Arcana this week and I am really enjoying it, but also as someone who grew up right on the edge of Monmouth County, I am hooting and hollering every time I get a reference. Allaire Village! B. Dalton books!!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🔥eBOOK SALE🔥 I (Matt) am currently locked indoors w/150+ AQI & forest fires ablazin' across the PNW. We know that's been a lot of you all over the world too. We need some instant gratification sooooo: 50% ALL EBOOKS! Emailed instantly. Read Weird🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

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Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This needs quite a bit of signatures and you can just be a comic reader to sign it. You ever read Hellboy and want to help the next generation of creators make their Hellboy, this is the kinda stuff we got to do to ensure that. Sick of seeing corp mindsets destroy creative life’s into nothingness

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m gonna be signing books today at booth 2549 (CRWN) from 4:20-6 and if you drew Hate Pit OR Pit Pit in your style I’ve got a little freebie for ya! Make sure u get your SWAG! Btw you can STILL draw them in your style, all day, every day, it’s never too late!

Hate pit saying death to the wizard kings

Pit pit saying severed is the head that wears the crown

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I just pre-ordered TWO copies of this hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

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Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We're excited to reveal our newest illustrated novella: This Mortal Coil Written by @mythjae.bsky.social Illustrated by @soengery.bsky.social With gorgeous cover art by @artwins.bsky.social We’ve also got some very cool announcements to go with this cover reveal, but first, what's the story? 🧵✨

The cover for This Mortal Coil, with art by Jan and Vlad Schwarts. The book is written by Jasmine walls and illustrated by Marie Enger.

The cover shows a skeleton wearing a cloak and holding a golden, broken sword, their pose furtive as they tug at their hood. Behind them is a path leading up to a looming and shadowed castle framed by a bright moon and a blood red sky.

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The last week has felt three weeks long and the last two weeks have felt 30 years long.

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Melissa F. Olson, Acquired Taste @mfolson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Help me with my homework? Next Friday I’m running a panel at Comic-Con called “A Day in the Life of a Comics Writer.” (Panelists and descriptions below.) I’ve got some starter questions, but I thought I’d outsource this to Bluesky, too: what do you want to know about how comics writers work? #SDCC

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Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Undying Devotion Drawn for My Liege: Queer Knights in Love, an artbook by by @novamali.bsky.social and @damesprod.bsky.social prod.bsky.social!

An illustration where a dark knight mournfully carrying a shrouded skeleton wearing a crown who clings to the knight.

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am immune to any "big words" discourse on the internet, I was listening to AFI lyrics like "somber resplendence" and "omnipotence nurturing malevolence" and "discarnate, preternatural" at 13.

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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This coming weekend, @adrianamelo.bsky.social and I will be at @thegeekerynj.bsky.social signing Vampirella! Come on by!

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Did you know that the Met has a whole boatload of Open Access/Creative Commons Zero images available and you can just. Put an Austrian spice container on an Iberian sword and make a cool mermaid sword for your RPG.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

this was a pitch for josie and the pussycats and then we filed them serial numbers off real nice like

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Benjamin Bailey @benjaminbailey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Old pitch that @joeyesposito.bsky.social and I put together. Art by the amazing @sallycantirino.bsky.social. Cover by the incredible @sinagrace.bsky.social

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's Wednesday! My INPRNT shop is 25% off! Getting a gallbladder out is expensive! www.inprnt.com/gallery/inka...

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Friends, followers, mortal enemies-- I have finally set up a place to get prints of my art, and they've got a sale going the next two days: www.inprnt.com/gallery/inka...

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026

Support our resistance!!!

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hiiiiiii so apparently all the exhaustion and acheyness and barfing I have been chalking up to "burnout"/anxiety/depression/laziness since last year was actually my gallbladder calling it quits for months, until it finally tried to take down out last week.

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We set up a Bluesky for Cooking with Monsters that you should follow as we start promoting the release of book 3 this fall!

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Friends, followers, mortal enemies-- I have finally set up a place to get prints of my art, and they've got a sale going the next two days: www.inprnt.com/gallery/inka...

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Sally Cantirino @sallycantirino.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Consider nominating Orla! and/or the Orla! creative team for "best butts in comics" or whatever categories they have these days.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A nifty-looking table display set up for tonight’s Forbidden Planet Glasgow signing, starting NOW!

A table with a poster upfront and a few piles of Orla! up on top, along with copies of Hotell and Mountainhead.

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Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · 23/05/2026

Orla! is now available in a collected edition! Details here: bit.ly/4trgTo1 By @johnlees.bsky.social, @sallycantirino.bsky.social, @dearbhlala.bsky.social, @letteringbear.bsky.social -- don't miss this romcom/creature feature mash-up.

Two people sip a milkshake inside a heart shaped panel, while a purple monster looms in the background. Two people appear below the center panel, with the male figure asking if the milkshake can be made with raw milk and no dyes, while the female figure looks annoyed.

A retro cartoon style image shows a purple monster, a blonde woman, and an angry red faced man. The man's face hovers above the words ICK MAKES THE WORLD GO FLAT

Cover of the volume 1 paperback of Orla! published by Mad Cave. A blonde woman faces the viewer, but the page appears torn away as by claws, revealing a monstrous face underneath. Creator names Lees, Cantirino, Kelly, and Gattoni are mentioned in the bottom right part of the cover.

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