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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two rooms down, living room/kitchen is next. I never want to live with beige walls again. Gonna be tearing out a 90’s tv sized built in this weekend, wish us luck that the pre paint patching needed is minimal 🤞

A room with ikea bookcases and an art desk on a rug. The walls are painted a deep teal.

A room with three windows in a row looking towards greenery. The walls are painted an earthy red.

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D.J. Kirkbride @djkirkbride.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SPACE HELL is our second comics crowdfunding campaign— but it’s our first one that’s ALL NEW! Click that “Notify me on launch” to help us make it happen, fellow comics fans…! #Comicsky #SpaceHellComic #IndependentComics #CreatorOwnedComics #HorrorComics #Halloween

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/10/2026

As the Evils of the Failed Artist is on everybody’s minds, I just wanna stress that failed artists are fail at it because they want to be adored instead of just being weird little freaks who cannot help making the shit they feel uncontrollably compelled to make

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

moonlit #art (wallpapers below!)

An illustration of three black cats riding a broom in front of a red moon

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Skree Ghoulsen 🎃🦇🌿 @breebird33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

day 3 #zombieskulltober #inktober definitely has been sitting there for a while

ink sketch of a zombie with a skull face, missing lower jaw, just sitting with fungi growing on them

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you walk around town carrying a neat chair, lots of people say “I like your chair”, a thing I’ve learned about today.

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Nicole Goux @nicolegoux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey it’s October so seems like a good time Dave and I made a book about sad gay horror punks

Cover to Punk’n Heads a bunch of kids sit on a roof at night

Comic page of a band wearing jack-o’-lantern masks playing punk music

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh shit miso caramel drizzled on pumpkin ice cream, happy October to meeee 🎃

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just finished painting the second room in the new place, I feel so powerful being able to cut in edges with a brush. And am loving finally being able to have walls that are something other than off white. So far there’s an aggressive teal, a mauvy red, and next is a sage green.

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Malignant Crown

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is not at ALL in argument with op btw, just a yes and: the reason it works is bc we've decided that - mentally ill people are write-off-able as deserving of care or respect - mental illness means EVERYTHING you say is a lie/false we can and should change the narrative across the board!!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 01/10/2026

had this exact experience with a group of successful and reasonably well-known male authors a few years ago. throughout the evening as the group filtered out, the conversation turned sour and soon out of nowhere they were discussing and laughing about another industry titan doing sex pest behavior

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S i g h .

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am, once again, pondering how different the story we tell about ourselves would be if the tools of making were made of materials that lasted as long as the tools of unmaking.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What is everyone who posts "Never Forget" re: 9/11 asking that we "never forget?"

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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Punishment is so ingrained in our cultural way of relating that even progressives want to believe it can accomplish behavioral change but guess what? That is its own poorly-evidenced belief, sorry!

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I took one of Mel’s horror comic classes a couple years ago and highly recommend it!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

nothin' to see here, just a couple of not deer

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just did a 24 hour trip to San Francisco which involved more walking than planned and oof my legs, I forgot how much that city slopes around.

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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @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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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Guy who makes board games um actually’s James Earl Jones to death.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/08/2026

I write and draw most of my own comics work, and I don’t really make a distinction between the writing and the drawing because they’re both the writing. The words are the text, and the images are the text. They both impart meaning in the same brush and breath. That’s pretty settled!

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ouch! Spent last week painting the walls in my studio space and have been slowly continuing to make general move-in progress, but took time today to finish the inks and start flats on a new page.

Drawing of a young white woman with long hair wearing a hooded bolero and using her teeth to help wrap a bandage around her injured hand.

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have found out something I worked on came out because I see it in a store rather than be told it’s out or be tagged in the launch announcement. Please give a little love to your illustrator. We really do need the tag for new work.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One way you can help: Donate to or volunteer with the Young Center For Immigrant Children's Rights www.theyoungcenter.org Their big Waymaker fundraiser is coming up September 1, you can sign up (and join my team!) here: www.theyoungcenter.org/6th-annual-e...

theyoungcenter.org

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights | Child Advocacy

The Young Center advocates for unaccompanied immigrant children in legal proceedings. Volunteer as a Child Advocate or donate to support our mission.

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Was standing looking out the window drinking tea when a Stellar’s Jay landed right on the other side and I got so excited and then a Red Tailed Hawk screamed and I’m thinking about getting binoculars for bird watching.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 12/08/2026

Time for aaaaaaah

Two cartoon crows are standing near each other. The first states that he is feeling boxed in by anxiety lately. The second asks "how so?"

The first crow says "behold!" And than screams. The talkbubble filled with "aaaah" loops around him in a square shape, boxing him in the scream.

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? Thumbtacks, for a hint of danger. You don’t know where they came from.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

obviously i think AI is an abomination. i have talked about this for a long time and will continue to do so, but today i was struck with something REALLY COOL that i do not think is discussed enough on the opposite end: the JOY and FULFILLMENT of being able to hire and work with human artists.

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Had just moved and needed to see a gyno asap to avoid a gap in birth control so took the only available. At the appointment he asked me if I planned on having kids. When I said no he smiled, looked straight at me, and said “wrong answer”.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are you a person with a body? Take a second to stretch. Then stretch some more. Have some water.

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New!! I now have two options if you want my art in print form at any time, textile or otherwise! I'll make announcements whenever new designs are added. www.teepublic.com/user/tanya-b... tanyabjork.threadless.com As always my art is 100% made by a human for humans.

Grid view of designs featuring skulls, skeletons, flowers, raccoons, possums, and a gorgon. Designs include text such as "Ars Longa Vita Brevis" (latin for art is long life is short), "Blessed are the Trash Eaters", and "Haunted by Hope".

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026

Half the point of a government is that you and me do not have the wherewithal to pay attention to this shit on a constant basis and so the government needs to regulate the fucking egg people and the fucking beef people and the fucking whatever people so that food is as safe as it can be.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

THIS. As an artist I do this all the time. Look at older pieces, revisit ideas, see what I can improve and what I'm actually proud of both for when it was created and what I can do now. The sense of accomplishment only comes from that growth both tangible and intangible.

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Made a quick placeholder banner for the teepublic store front so it at least looks a little like I know what I’m doing!

outlined rendering of a morning glory plant in browns, greens, and white around a stylized font of my name (Tanya Bjork) with below text: visual storytelling & illustration

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Nicole Goux @nicolegoux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As you may know, ya girl is an SDCC guest this year! So we’ve got a whole lot on them book. Subject to additions!

NICOLE GOUX
San Diego Comic Con international
Booth 2203

KIDS GRAPHIC NOVELS
THURSDAY: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
ROOM 23ABC

HORROR INSPIRATION
THURSDAY: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
ROOM 29CD

GODZILLA V SAN DIEGO SIGNING
THURSDAY: 3:15PM - 4:00PM
IDW BOOTH (#2729)

ABRAMS PUBLISHING PANEL
SATURDAY: 10:30-11:30 A.M. ROOM 29CD
SIGNING IN ABRAMS BOOTH 1216

SPOTLIGHT ON NICOLE GOUX
SATURDAY: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
ROOM 4

COVER STORY
SUNDAY: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
ROOM 7AB

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

okay I drew a jimothy too. on my phone with my finger while walking and trying not to run into trees with Android native photo editor but I think despite (or perhaps because of) my limited tools I have in fact I captured his spirit

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just realized I never posted this here, the trash makers have no grounds for complaint. One of my designs now available here: www.teepublic.com/user/tanya-b...

White on black drawing of a raccoon and opossum around text that reads Blessed Are the Trash Eaters in an embellished frame. The raccoon is right side up and the opossum is upside down (though that could change if you ask the opossum which way up).

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Tanya Bjork @tanyabjork.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I couldn’t help myself this needed to be in my house.

A pillow in the shape of a black cat’s head with one eye yellow and the other blue. There are long very disproportionately long floppy arms and legs hanging from the head.

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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

new cryptid just dropped

A doodle of the famous short spined raccoon Jimothy

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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

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