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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🎵We Didn't Start The Fire🎵

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me: if only there was someone with a song called Galway Girl AND good politics The humble Steve Earle:

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

B but I make the smiley face a winky face.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can lead a horse to an FBI applicant, but you can't make him drink.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There's a New Zealand in Wiltshire too that was named AFTER the country. And the local land baron there later became the Governor of actual New Zealand.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh sorry I meant I have a free day today... Robin Williams, the clown dad prometheus...

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am sorry for how full your mentions will be of "actually Flubber is a dadaist deconstruction of fatherhood in the scientific age"

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I would have thought Tom Holland would be making more money but I keep seeing him on the bus a lot lately.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I exist and am making comics again.

Places you can buy my comics and/or hunt me for sport: a cartoon of a fat, white, bearded illustrator running for their life, as spears are thrown at them. They are clutching their white cane and dropping comic books everywhere as they flee. The dates and locations of their events are listed as follows:
August 8th: Sequential Scotland, Glasgow.
August 21-23rd: Undiscolved Private Island Untouched By International Law.
September 19th: PrideCAF, Bristol.
October 10th: The Most Dangerous Game Live, Mr Beast Studios.
November 14-15th: Thought Bubble, Harrogate.
November 17th: Where The Eyes Of God Cannot Judge The Sins we Levy Upon Our Fellow Man, Harrogate.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am bad at using Bluesky but I have events coming up including @sequential-scot.bsky.social where I get to be listed alongside incredible talent @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social because the alphabet is sometimes kind

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I've read this story a few times since it was posted. It is some really excellent reporting and evocative writing that shows just how a drug price can get so out of control and the damage it does.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

And boy are their lips tired.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 11/11/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

However, that will probably be it for me for Inktober this year. I am too busy and would rather spend my energy making other comics. But this was a great inspiration and got me making again. Thanks for all your support. See you soon.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#Inktober eleven was "sting" and maybe I should have been drawing bees this whole time! It turns out I can draw bees!

Bees! A cartoon guide to a lot of bees. Spelling bee: a bee is holding scrabble tiles spelling bee. Long Division Bee: a professorial bee teaches math at a chalkboard. Carpenter Bee: a bee carries some wood and tools. Karen Carpenter Bee: a 1970s girl bee plays the drums. 2Bee: a been with a pencil nib head and an eraser butt. To Bee Or Not Too Bee: a bee in a ruff holds a skull aloft. Cardi Bee: a cosy bee in a big cardigan knitting a honeycomb scarf. Mr Blobbee: a round inflatable bee coloured like Mr Blobby with his bow tie for wings. Bumblebee: a bee swiping on a dating app. Fumblebee: a bee trips dropping all their dishes and glasses of honey. Humblebee: a cute shy bee blushes. Wannabee: a wanted poster for Beelly the kid, a cowboy bee. Beeline: a long flat bee. Furbee: a hybrid of furby and bee. Beefcake: a hunky muscle bound bee man. Herbee: the talking car Herbie but he is a bee now. Herbee Fully Loaded: the same as Herbee but covered in cheese and bacon. Beelittle: a little bee. Busy Bee: an exhausted bee drinking two mugs of hot honey. Bussy Bee: a bee with a big ass. Bee Arthur: a bee that looks like Bea Arthur. Arthur Bee: a bee that looks like PBS's Arthur. TBee: a sickly bee with tuberculosis coughing up blood. USBee: a USB shaped like a bee. U.S. Bee: a bee with red and white stripes, blue wings with stars on, and saluting, three arms to his heart. Beeyoncé: a bee in a leotard doing the single ladies pose. Beetwicé: two bees in leotards doing the single ladies pose. Plan Bee: a box of EllaHoney morning after pills shaped liked bees. Gumbee: if Gumbee were a bee. Bee Bee King: two bees sharing a crown. Beelated: a bee panickedly looking at their watch as they rush off. Bee Gee: a disco bee. Bee Gee Gee: a horse bee. He Bee Gee Bee: a bee dressed as a ghost. She Bee Gee Bee: the same as before but with a pink bow. Baybee: a baby bee. Michael Bay Bee: a bee in sunglasses running from an explosion. To Bee Continued: a half-drawn bee.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Day ten of #inktober was "Sweep". So here is a little story that happened to me recently. (Part one of two)

Inktober day ten: Sweep. I can never be happy again. A simple cartoon drawing of my face, looking very happy. I am a round faced white man with big glasses, a scraggly beard and volumous dark hair.

A few weeks ago I got a text from my crush and it gave me a literal skip in my step. I am pictured swinging my arms wildly, legs astride, full skip. You can see my full body, tall and fat, wearing a turtle neck, woolen trousers, sharp boots, and swinging my white long cane with my arms.

Like a cartoon mouse on their way to the fair, or Nicole Kidman divorcing Tom Cruise. A little cheery round mouse dressed up in their fall finery of a flat cap, rich scarf, stiff coat, and welly boots, skips their way through the blowing leaves. Nicole Kidman triumphant dances her way down the street yelling praise to the heavens.

The problem is my white cane uses a sweeping motion which requires me to keep an even and predictable pace. A dance step chart shows the foot placements for how to walk across the page, one foot in front of the other, whilst an arced arrow zig zags back and forth showing the path of a long cane.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#inktober nine "Heavy". I regret not making the last joke "Big Cow".

Inktober day nine: Heavy. Dense Dairy. Heavy Cream: a black and white inkwashed drawing of a dollop of cream. Hefty Cheddar: a small bite of cheese snapping and obliterating the cracker it is placed onto. Immovable yoghurt: a little pot of strawberry yoghurt with the foil lid pulled back, and a spoon stuck in, but as the speed lines indicate the spoon is being moved, it is being twisted and bent out of shape. Neutron milk: a carton of milk cracking the floor it is placed on, bulging at the seems as it expands and collapses in on itself. Localised Babybel Field: a babybel being unpeeled and the peel forming rotating planetary rings of wax around it's cheesey core. Butter black hole: a black hole forms in the centre of a stick of butter that slowly melts.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#Inktober eight was "reckless". And I am being reckless with my time and scheduling and cross-hatching abilities. Also Becky was fine. (Part one)

Inktober day eight prompt: reckless.
One of the most reckless things I've ever seen is my friend Becky cooking pasta.
A little but very proud woman dressed as a chef with long dark hair, generously adds seasoning to a pot of boiling pasta almost as big as she is.

Mainly because she stirred the spaghetti whilst in boiling water with the biggest and sharpest knife she owned.
The chef launches herself at the giant pot wielding a big knife and maniacally creating a whirlpool as she furiously and gleefully stirs it.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#Inktober day seven was "Starfish". But I accidentally already did a starfish joke on day five and didn't read ahead. So now we get this. Also I spent like 2 hours trying to draw a frowning Wallace Shawn over Pisces, and I swear it would work in someone else's hands. I just couldn't capture his eyes

Inktober day seven prompt: starfish. Things Pisces looks more like than two fish tied together with string... image of a starry sky with the Pisces constellation highlighted and a drawing of two fish tied by the tails superimposed over it.

A pelican with a little wing. The point where the strings converge is the tip of the pelican's beak, the stars of the leftmost fish making up the pelican's head and the rightmost fish becoming a little wing.

Someone trying to catch a naughty mouse. The V of the two strings from Pisces form the crook between the thumb and forefinger of a grasping hand, whilst the rightmost fish becomes the naughty mouse running away.

A half-demolished old Pizza Hut hut. It's an old Pizza Hut building cut in half and collapsing. I feel like this one doesn't need explaining if you know the shape of Pisces.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Day six of #Inktober was "Pierce". I'm trying to produce these quicker and just lean into the roughness of them and try not to let that bother me too much, all of which to say is this one was quick and sloppy.

Inktober day six: Pierce. When I was eighteen a close friend returned from a gap year in China and gave me a little knife shaped like a boot a trio of images of this little ornate knife unfolding.

It was inscribed in Mandarin on one side and Uyghur the other. She didn't know what it said but told me she thought it might mean "hero" or maybe "fish". Either way it's nice to be thought of. The possible meanings are shown written on the knife blade underneath the imagine Mandarin and Uyghur for "might mean hero" and "or maybe fish".

Along side a triptych of images showing a close up of a worried man's eyes, his anxious fist clenched, and then that hand reaching into his pocket, text reads "I'd just left home and started going blind. I felt so anxious. I felt so alone. But in my pocket I had this... a reminder someone a world away thought of me. A small weight to help ground me.
Images of the contents of his pockets, house keys, the knife, and loose change, are labelled home, community, and money for snacks.

The same format as the second panel with two large knife blades with translations of Mandarin and Uyghur. Text reads: a few years later I met a chinese student at a picnic. She was fascinated by the knife until she told me it said made in china on both sides. Fish indeed.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Day 5 of #Inktober was "Deer". Here is part one of what I did...

Inktober day five: Deer. MEN! Tired of all your decor being decided by your wife, grandmother, or female neighbour? The image is of a black and white modern nicely decorated living room with a man standing in the corner looking fed-up, like a tired dad in an infomercial.

Introducing all news MANTLERS! (With screws). They go on things. Exploding on to the page is two big deer antlers with screw holes to attach them to things.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I really like this one. Good job.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I know it. And anyone who has ever spent more than a couple of days in my company has probably heard it as well.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#Inktober day four was "Murky" and I am bringing you the news Science refuses to. (I'm actually pretty pleased with this, I worked really hard on the textures of these stupid little guys, but have probably worked too small for it to actually be noticeable. But I know.)

Inktober day four prompt: murky. Fish we are yet to discover.
Balloon-dog puffer fish: a puffer fish tied into the shape of a balloon-dog, spines all over, two bulging eyes on the top of either ear, and some little lips out the front.
Lighthouse fish: a tall stripey angler-fish in the shape of a lighthouse, with a big long forehead, and tiny little tail and fins.
Fire eel: an angry dynamic eel with billowing fins and wreathed in flame.
Little Mouth Billy Bass: a living version of the wall-mounted singing novelty but with only a wee small gob.
Gaullier Clownfish: a black and white clownfish with an exaggerated frown, wearing a beret, and letting a damp cigarette dangle from it's lip.
Pentagram Fish: a starfish in the shape of the pentagram, it's limbs tied pretzel like to create the illusion of a single line.
Glorm The Unknowable: a writhing wretched mess of texture and shape that is indescernable, except for it's many tiny adorable fins and goofy little cartoon face.
Gun ray: it's a stingray with a gun.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Day Three of #inktober is "Crown" and I am only two days late. I hope the lads are OK.

Inktober 2025 day three prompt: Crown.
I feel like we don't see the Nigerian Prince scam emails anymore. A cartoon of an email inbox where the folders are inbox at infinite, important at zero, spam (actual) and spam (mistake). There is an email marked "ad" for "get even bigger returns with Ponzi plus (now with AI). An email from Subtack "you've not read any of your many many subscriptions", one from Big Chomp Dog Food "we're proud to unveil our new AI powered chunk mix", one from your Dad "here's a broken link to an article I mentioned over a year ago", and finally one from Brian Name that says "hello fellow human, I love your good/service and can help...".

Maybe enough of us pitched in and they all reclaimed the throne. A black and white cartoon of a vintage 1990s desktop monitor decked out in a royal cape and crown and the screen displaying. A simple smiley emoticon.

Or maybe they got fed-up of constantly being called scammers so they just quit the internet. Sillouhettes of three princes skip off into the sunset as they leave their laptops and phones abandoned in the grass.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

And #inktober day 2 "weave" (part two) (final part).

Panel 5 shows me wide eyed sat atop a Mickey Mouse shaped throne and holding the skull of Goofy. Text reads: for a brief moment I knew what it felt like to be Walt Disney: all imagination & greed.

Panel six text reads: but then I won second place, other children started to cry, and I felt something Disney never felt... shame. The image shows a mother angrily dragging away the crying child in the bunny hat, which is also crying. The mother is muttering "maybe next time you should lay the foundations for all of Ducktales, or is life too much of a duckblur?"

Panel seven text reads: and now as we all are forced to grapple with questions of authenticity in art, all I can do for penance is keep drawing the duck, hoping he turns into something "mine". The image is a nightmare of repeated drawings of Donald Duck each one stretching further on the mistakes of the last until he becomes a wretched distortion of himself that looks more like an anime egg only half remembered to hatch.

Panel eight, the final panel, text reads: and until then I should at least get a new cap. The image is of a baseball cap with the dictionary definition of "liar" on it, but redefined as "runner-up west wiltshire funniest hat 2000".

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I got over ambitious on how much I could draw in a day, and then got food poisoning. But here is #inktober day 2: weave (part one)

Inktober 2025 day two prompt "weave". Panel one of a black and white comic. Three small adorable children are lined up in crazy crafted hats, one looks like bunny ears, one is a top hat full of hay, and one is a crown overflowing with ribbons. Text reads: when I was ten years old I went to the county fair. There was a "funniest hat" competition.

Panel two shows an overweight older kid in a baseball cap slide in confidently beside the younger children who are all annoyed. Text reads "every other entrant was five and had hand-made elaborate hats of card & glue. I had a baseball cap with Donald Duck and the dictionary definition of "duck" on it.

Panel three text reads: obviously all the funniest things are rigid well-boundaried definitions, it's why if you look up "joke" in a dictionary you just find another smaller dictionary inside. The image is of a series of nesting dolls of dictionaries with the smallest one open at the definition of "Knock": verb. To strike in collission. Oft repeated to begin a joke.

Panel 4 text reads: The judges asked me who was on my hat as if they didn't know him, so I was left with no choice but to tell everyone I invented Donald Duck. Image of me as a young boy grabbing an amazed competition judge round the shoulder and wildly gesturing to the horizon as I tell him "so I thought, he's not just a bird, he's a duck! What if that meant he was in the navy?!"

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Going to try and do #Inktober. Also going to try posting comics to BlueSky finally.

A cartoon based on the Inktober day one prompt "Moustache". Advanced Moustache Techniques. Each style of facial hair is accompanied by a drawing of a blank man's face with the stated style in bolder in.
Pencil: a thin wirey moustache like a pencil line. Quill: half of the pencil 'tache but the other end is styled as a feather. Soup Strainer: a bushy moustache covering the top lip. Spaghetti Strainer: an even bushier moustache with sieve holes in. Goatee: a moustache that wraps around the mouth area ending in a point on the chin. Mountain Goatee: a reverse of the Goatee that travels from filtrum to the top of the skull ending in a majestic peak. Handlebar: a long thick moustache that frames down either side of the mouth. Full Bicycle: it looks like a bike.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Checking out the local haunts

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ouch, seems the sword isn't the only thing that's sharp.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

No, the point is the sharp bit at the end.

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Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · 04/09/2025

Job alert! We're looking for a disabled person to become our Senior Engagement Officer London, working with members to organise events and meet ups focused on accessible transport, support campaigns, and lead on local consultations. Find out more: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...

A casually dressed smiling black man with a limb difference. Behind him is a colourful mural. Under the picture the words 'recruiting now' are written in bold black text on yellow tape. Matching yellow arrows point to the man and words. The image has a lurid pink background.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · 22/07/2025

We’re hiring! Transport for All is looking for: - Senior Communications and Engagement Officer - Admin Assistant (Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns team) Passionate about accessible transport? Apply now: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...

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Work with Transport for All

Find the latest jobs and vacancies at Transport for All, a proudly disabled-led group breaking down barriers and transforming the transport system

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sounds like the kind of complaint a big poo head would have.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Oh wow that would be amazing, I'll buy one though, I had just assumed it must be out of print as it had been so long.

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Pigeon @pigeonface.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I’ll be wrapping up a freelance gig in May and so I’m open for work from June onwards! Hit me up for: 🌱Character and ornament focused illustration 🌱Cover art 🌱Comics Portfolio: pigeonmakesart.co.uk Contact: pigeonmakesart@gmail.com

Cover design for my upcoming comic „The Ecstasy of Jenny D”. Merging medieval ornaments with the vibes of a teenager’s diary decorated with stickers. The nun in ecstasy on the cover is inspired by the sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Theresa.

A pagan folky lady adorned with flowers for the band Ophelia’s Beard

A book cover of a folk tale story „Selkie Song - The Mermaid of Scottish Sea”

Moody, dark comic page set in the woods. A young girl sits on the ground among red mushrooms. She’s looking up onto a tall house on a chicken foot which is towering over her and staring at her intensely with a single bright yellow eye.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Last but not least @julesscheele.bsky.social's work cuts right through me. Striking in every way, demanding to be paid attention to, demanding to be felt. "I have no words for this feeling" is a recent gem of page after page of knockouts.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@lubellwoo.bsky.social's work makes me jealous and excited all at once, not just from the adventure she is having but the beauty of the colouring and linework, real exciting cartooning. Grand Adventure is my fave, I leant it to someone nearly a decade ago, never got it back and miss it dearly

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@neilslorance.bsky.social prolific autobio work that is adorable and optimistic, Plant Daddy feels like it's bringing all his work together.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@marielashlinn.bsky.social's Thirty Island is a lovely rumination on ageing and making things. Whenever I am struggling with a project or feeling lost in the creative world I pick it up and remind myself others do too.

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@kbaczynski.bsky.social does such great layout work where everything looks so cool and pop and intentional, and having that graphic mix with the mundane of hourly comics or monthly diaries makes it feel exciting being alive and just watching your favourite shows, seeing pals and trying tasty foods

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@michaelsabine.bsky.social has done so much incredible work since but Reverse Flâneur from 2017 will always hold a special place in my heart for being an introduction to blind people in comics, and showing blind people being very stylish.

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