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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Michael Sowa" • (German Artist, born 1945) "Spider in the Morning" • 2003. Acrylic on Paper • 50 × 75 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently it’s #dayofdredd. Here’s my take. Ink and wash.

A drawing of Judge Dredd standing against a Mega City One cityscape.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At the Ray Harryhausen exhibition at Winchester library. Fascinating historic models and some awesome Gustave Doré and John Martin paintings from Ray's collection .

Me with some of the stars of "Clash of the Titans".

Dweebles the Parrot from "Sinbad Goes To Monte Carlo".

Rough drawings from the SF movie "The Moon Is British Now".

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Barbara Stanwyck on the set of Ball of Fire by Howard Hawks (1941)

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes! And here's the strange story behind the assignment... theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

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The Road to Victory

Covering the Jacksons' blockbuster album

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Tony Canepa @thetonycanepa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seeing this spread made me realize that Jack’s four-panel grids are essentially a group of mini splash pages! Goddamn his compositions are so good.

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

$1 Pick up

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gods. To write something like that. To live it.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

$0.20 Pick up

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Raymond and Robbin’s from the collection

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems to me like we're due for a reconsideration—and perhaps even an exhibition?—of the mostly forgotten illustrator Boris Artzybasheff, whose hallucinatory mid-20th-century automation drawings seem eerily prescient right now. "Executive of the Future," 1952 onlinecollections.syr.edu/objects/1223...

Drawing of a robot-like figure at a keyboard

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bebe Daniels in a still from Miss Brewster’s Millions (1926).

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Felt Mistress @feltmistress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I can finally reveal my sleeve for John Lennon - Out The Blue, for the Secret 7 Auction. Big thanks to all who bid and to whoever bought it. This year in total Secret 7 made £115,000 for War Child.

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Felt Mistress @feltmistress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s number 5 of my felt grisaille stone gods. Got a bit carried away with this guy, time consuming but thoroughly enjoyable. My poor hands need a rest for a bit though. As usual all sewn from felt (I think around 3 metres) About a metre tall. I’ll post some process pics soon.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mike Mignola, “The Sabbath” (2026), watercolour on illustration board, 38.2 x 46.4 cm.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really am rather fond of Corydon Bell’s cover for a 1937 edition of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”.

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Gene Gonzales @genegonzales.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adam Strange and Alanna made their first appearance in Showcase Presents #17 on newsstands September 18, 1958. Cover date Dec. 1958. I’ve always been a big fan of these two and their adventures. #adamstrange #alannastrange #showcasepresents #dccomics #rann #clipstudiopaint #patreon

Adam Strange and Alanna using jet packs to fly and firing their guns at an unseen threat. Background is the cover of their first appearance.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My telephone gave me a 10 year flashback: from my trip to Liège: here at the Cathédrale Saint-Paul, behind the pulpit, I found the white marble 'Lucifer of Liège', aka 'The Genius of Evil'. He's angelic-looking, but the bat-like wings, subtle horns and broken sceptre confirm he's a fallen wrongun...

The sculpture is located in the elaborate pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège, and depicts a classically beautiful man chained, seated, and nearly nude but for drapery gathered over his thighs, his full length ensconced within a mandorla of bat wings.

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christian @speederaserhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP Gerrit Graham - who was, among many things, star of one of the lowkey scariest stunts I’ve ever seen in my life

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Salgood Sam aka Max @salgoodsam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think Criterion maybe hid this exploded diagram of the Lone Wolf And Cub baby cart I did for them a bit too well? And never mentioned me either in the short doc about artists who worked on it ~:( Seems like most people don't know they have it. But every now and then someone finds it again...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!

The blueprint for the weaponised babycart!

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Even the 'everyday' scenes. Composition in all 3 of these panels is excellent. Raymond has a filmmaker's eye. Inexperienced comic artists trip over something like the middle panel, with 3 people on a sidewalk. Where to set vanishing points, plane on which figures stand, etc.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Eight issues of PLANET STORIES with cover art by Allen Anderson (1908-1995).

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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Raiders of a Lost Art" by Jack Davis, from Mad #288 (1982). At the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

David Low in 1940 on how autocrats loathe being belittled. Low’s anti-fascist cartoons had previously inspired the Third Reich to complain to the British government about them & his name was in the Nazi’s Black Book, which listed the people to be executed once the United Kingdom was conquered.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Peggy Shannon by Otto Dyar, 1931. (Thread)

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New painted magnets are in the shop pamwishbow.com

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.

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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 03/09/2026

I finally figured out how to phrase it: Things used to be made to be used. Now they’re made to be sold.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's that time my buddy Edgar Wright joined me to talk about BLOOD & BLACK LACE for a series I created with the Denver Public Library during the pandemic shutdown. youtu.be/v_RkfteRIOI

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Saturday Matinee Film Discussion: BLOOD AND BLACK LACE with Walter Chaw and Edgar Wright

YouTube video by Denver Public Library

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Buster Keaton @busterkeaton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This Day in Buster… September 1, 1920, “One Week,” Buster Keaton’s first short film produced by his own studio, is released. #oldhollywood #silentfilm

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maurice Noble was THE cartoon background designer. I love how much he was able to fuck around around and get so abstractly graphic, yet no one in the audience ever batted an eye because his designs lent so much personality and energy to the cartoons they were used in.

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Tony Canepa @thetonycanepa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I remember Peel saying about his show that out of every 10 songs he played there should be two you love and two that you hate. That was the most amazing thing it, there was always something that surprised you and made you want to explore further.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I had no idea that the phrase “Back to the old drawing board” comes from this Peter Arno cartoon from March 1st 1941’s New Yorker. It’s rather splendid to be able to date the birth of what would become part of everyday speech with such precision.

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tom Hardy/Mad Max A painting for The Boy. Really struggled with this one as I tried using David Grove's guoache/acrylic mixed media method. Discarded the first two attempts over unsatisfactory results, then had a fight with this third one. #madmax #tomhardy #painting

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