Sign in

Tyler B. Ruff

@wearetheunforgiven.com
112 followers 140 following 350 posts

Eisner-nominated comic creator and carpal tunnel-haver. Traditional artist, writer, & dystopia-fighter. Usually overwhelmed. He/Him, Human. 🚫AI www.WeAreTheUnforgiven.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/09/2026
Someone in a reddit thread had the temerity to state with authority as someone "in the [comics] business," "all your favorite artists" are using AI for reference poses now--so let me say, as an artist in said business, emphatically, no we're fucking not. AI is still for hacks and losers, pass it on!
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 15/09/2026
That "genocide is wrong and it should stop" is considered by those in power to be the "radical" or "controversial" position tells you everything you need to know about the value they assign to human life. Salvation from dystopia is never going to come from on high, it's going to have to come from us
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 11/09/2026
It's really hard to justify continuing to live (suffer) in a place where nearly everything has gotten appreciably worse for decades, continues to do so, and shows every indication that trend will continue unabated within my remaining lifetime. An-open air prison/insane asylum, run by a death cult.
001
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
81214256305
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 02/09/2026
[to the tune of Tom Waits' "Chocolate Jesus"] Well it's got to be a:
A black IKEA sign with handwritten white text advertising a $2.19 4 oz CHOKLAD LJUS
000
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 20/08/2026
Seriously. We should all be owed compensatory damages, as a species, for the amount of psychic injury and wasted time we've had to endure (and continue to endure) from pervasive AI slop.
001
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 30/07/2026
They’ll provide the infrastructure for processing all the data for the ramped-up mass surveillance state, in conjunction with all the Flock cameras also being erected against the will of the people. Pair that with those internet ID laws and that US-only router mandate, baby, we’ve got a stew going
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/07/2026
Sixteen years ago, my cats Miles and Chester spent many hours with me as I wrote all fifty issues of The Unforgiven. They spent many more hours beside me and on my lap while I illustrated it over the years. I drew both cats into this issue I put out in February, which seemed only fair.
Crop of a comic book page. All panels are grayscale pencil drawings, with only the figures in full color. Panel 1: a cat walks across a grass lawn toward a dilapidated shed off to the side of a stone path. The figure in the foreground (Shaggy blonde hair, teal collared button-up shirt), facing away from the reader, watching the cat, says "But we make the rules here." Panel 2: the cat wiggles its way beneath the dilapidated shed. Panel 3: The figure from the first panel squints his eyes and says "C'mon. I've got a hunch about something. And it seems to me this is the kind of place to trust those." Panel 4: The same figure and his friend behind ascend the steps of the shed. Panel 5: The figure's hand turns the shed's rusty doorknob.Single comic panel. A cat, spooked, darts from the now-open shed from the previous image, past the two figures. The blonde from the previous image says "Chester! So that's where you've been."
100
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 23/07/2026
St. Louis! This Sunday is the third occurrence of the Comic Book & Collectible Show for the year, and yours truly will be there with original comic art and indie comics for y'all. Last time I did one of these I only had two issues of The Unforgiven under my belt 😵
A green flyer pinned on a bulletin board advertising the St. Louis Comic Book and Collectible Show at the American-Czech Center at 4690 Lansdowne this Sunday, July 26th from 9 am-2 pm
010
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For SLICE's fundraiser auction: the complete collected Tyler B. Ruff series The Unforgiven—autographed single issues and volumes 1-3! Get your hands on this at SLICE's trivia (& more) fundraiser, July 18, 2–5 p.m. at Oni. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1990192892...
Two stacks of single issue black-and-white trade comics of the series The Unforgiven in sleeves, bound in packs with a belly band with the series logo stamped on it. Two collected volumes of the comic The Unforgiven.
021
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 12/07/2026
Evergreen
An image of Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh holding a “don’t speak ill of the dead” card, countered by Yugi playing a “don’t be a piece of shit while you’re alive” card
100
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 05/07/2026
LLMs can have my em dashes and lists of threes when they pry them from my cold, dead, human hands.
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/07/2026
“Do you ever yearn to see the end of an empire, Jerry?”
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 03/07/2026
Why is Peter Thiel always wet-looking, like he’s dissolving back into the base slime he’s composed of?
010
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.
1959651825
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 21/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day! youtu.be/mhSh35ryueA
youtu.be
The Big Bossman interrupts the funeral of Big Show's father
YouTube video by WWE
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 15/06/2026
Boy it sure is great to watch every last media outpost get gobbled up by the defecating spectre of Rupert Murdoch. I hate it here! Haha!
100
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 09/06/2026
There's gotta be incalculable psychic damage happening to everyone from the amount of slop we're subjected to on a daily basis. Generated from the slop machines, smeared everywhere; generated from the syphilitic brain of a dying narcissist, and the cavalcade of write-ups re: that, ad infinitum
100
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 07/06/2026
Finishing the last dregs of cereal in the bowl like a whale filtering krill
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 29/05/2026
Tony doesn’t care if I finish my pencils today
A Siamese cat squeezing himself on an artist’s lap at a drafting table where there really is no room for him, making it very difficult to work
031
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/05/2026
These “curious poses”—are we talking rabbit side-eye, dog head-tilt, or full meerkat?
000
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU
Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement. 

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios
103108853671
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 27/05/2026
Almost finished with the pencils for the 15th full-length issue of The Unforgiven! Y’all might get THREE 34-page issues out of me this year. But it’s been a hard year, you deserve it
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 24/05/2026
Call me when Jodie Foster’s impressed
011
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 23/05/2026
Neurodivergence is only considered a disability because normies created the hegemony and accompanying societal structures that facilitate a tormented and oppressed out group
021
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
there’s no liberation without trans liberation. screw every single person who is willing to throw you under the bus to score cheap points with fascists.
220739
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 21/05/2026
CREEPY synchronicity watching through Fringe with @chelsmurphy.bsky.social and just happened to watch this episode from 2011 TODAY
A screenshot from the TV show Fringe with flash-forward text that reads “FRINGE MEDICAL NEW YORK MAY 20-2026”
011
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 20/05/2026
Getting to draw scenes literal decades in the making this week—stuff I first conceptualized when I wasn’t even old enough to drive, finally being actualized. #comics #comicbooks #comicart
A pencil drawing of a crazed-looking guy with a mad scientist-like jacket and goggles on his forehead, hair sticking straight up, points an ice pick behind him at a grinning demon-looking guy with curled horns and black smoke for hair
010
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Comic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 17/05/2026
For anyone interested, I just started a petition to get anything created using generative AI disqualified from Eisner Award consideration moving forward. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/no-ai-at-the...
change.org
Sign the Petition
No AI At The Eisners
141236725
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 13/05/2026
An ai slop spammer sent me an email quoting one of my book’s summaries to me in decreasingly sensical piecemeal bits over and over again, and that’s how I discovered I made a typo I needed to fix on the Goodreads listing. Hey, whaddaya know, first useful instance of this bullshit!
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 12/05/2026
Strongly considering no longer erasing my underlying pencils after I’ve inked pages just so it’s plain to see at a glance that a human hand made this art
000
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/05/2026
Guy posted a now-deleted reddit thread in r/comicbooks asking how to convince people it’s okay that he’s using ai for his comic’s art, and it was wonderful to see him getting absolutely rightfully bodied in the comments by the community. People do not want this shit.
010
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 03/05/2026
I don’t think my parents know what The Onion is, and I’m extremely tempted to subscribe them to the print edition just to see if they think it’s real news
020
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it
3556051652
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 01/05/2026
People of St. Louis: I will be at All-American Collectibles tomorrow starting at 10:30 am for Free Comic Book Day! I’ll have original comic art and all the back issues (and newest!) available, and Dave will have all kinds of free comics and snacks for y’all. Support your local comic shops!
100
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 01/05/2026
Generative ai is wage theft, labor theft, resource theft--it's the thief of all things that give life possibility and meaning and value. Fuck ai, and ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS. Happy May Day!
010
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 30/04/2026
Last day of #repostyourart : "whimsical" “I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why. I'm not an impulsive person.” Blue Ruin. Agent Orange. Name that movie! #Linocut
Two art prints made from linoleum block, one in blue ink and one in orange ink. The images are of a man and a woman touching foreheads together, their brains seen through their heads stretching mingling thought lines across the page. Two figures in winter clothing run down a deserted beach away from the viewer in the bottom-center. presented on a frozen lake.
022
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 30/04/2026
Last day of #repostyourart : "whimsical" “I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why. I'm not an impulsive person.” Blue Ruin. Agent Orange. Name that movie! #Linocut
Two art prints made from linoleum block, one in blue ink and one in orange ink. The images are of a man and a woman touching foreheads together, their brains seen through their heads stretching mingling thought lines across the page. Two figures in winter clothing run down a deserted beach away from the viewer in the bottom-center. presented on a frozen lake.
022
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 30/04/2026
I am so fucking tired of fighting algorithms
120
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 29/04/2026
For the penultimate day of #repostyourart , we have "plant." Here's a whole bunch of 'em. #comicart #comicbooks #comics
A man in an orange jumpsuit with brown hair in a ponytail, mustache, and soul patch, smirks at the reader. He is surrounded by lush green wilderness, a few feet from what looks like a prison wall.
032
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 29/04/2026
For the penultimate day of #repostyourart , we have "plant." Here's a whole bunch of 'em. #comicart #comicbooks #comics
A man in an orange jumpsuit with brown hair in a ponytail, mustache, and soul patch, smirks at the reader. He is surrounded by lush green wilderness, a few feet from what looks like a prison wall.
032
Reposted by Tyler B. Ruff
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/04/2026
Day 28 of #repostyourart: cottage There are a few of them here, and they're burning. Cover inks for The Atonement Bell #2, 2022. #comics #comicbooks #comicart
Three masked, robed riders on horses carrying torches and muskets gallop through the snow away from a village they've just set alight. Three cottages burn within view, smoke rising to the top of the page. A skull with glowing eyes and curled horns looms large in the background. All traditional inks, black and white.
023
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/04/2026
Day 28 of #repostyourart: cottage There are a few of them here, and they're burning. Cover inks for The Atonement Bell #2, 2022. #comics #comicbooks #comicart
Three masked, robed riders on horses carrying torches and muskets gallop through the snow away from a village they've just set alight. Three cottages burn within view, smoke rising to the top of the page. A skull with glowing eyes and curled horns looms large in the background. All traditional inks, black and white.
023
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 27/04/2026
Day 27 of #repostyourart: Garden If you squint, you can maybe see the edge of Citygarden in this page from a 2016 issue of The Unforgiven #comics #comicart #comicbooks
A grayscale comic book page, full-page art. The city of St. Louis, downtown, post-apocalyptic, in ruins. Overgrown, crumbling. The shadow of The Gateway Arch thrown across the ground.
040
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 26/04/2026
Day 26 of #repostyourart : Mushroom (cloud) Hand-cut #collage from 2019 #collageart
A series of overlapping collages squares. Near the center, a blue nuclear mushroom cloud, with Marilyn Monroe looking on with a grin, the words "The End." above her. A rocky, barren desert below her. Suburbs and cities torn away toward the bottom-right.
010
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 25/04/2026
#repostyourart Day 25: abstract As an illustrative artist, this Doctor Who gouache painting from 2016 is about as abstract as I get (and it's still not that abstract). #artsky #traditionalart #painting #doctorwho
A gouache painting of elements of elements from the David Tennant + Billie Piper run of Doctor Who in a loose grid pattern. From top-left to bottom-right: Dalek shell casing; K-9, front-facing; Cyberman eye; The 10th Doctor, from Doomsday; two shades of Chucks, the tan and the red; blue TARDIS outer panels; brown trenchcoat; blue suite with red pinstripes; brown suit with blue pinstripes; 3-D glasses; Rose Tyler's purple leather jacket, pink shirt; orange space suit; TARDIS interior panel; Rose Tyler, from Doomsday; Union Jack; The Moment; Davros shell casing
065
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 25/04/2026
*twerking in the living room* Chelsea: “Whatcha doing that for?” Me: “Sometimes you’ve gotta feel your booty shake just to make sure they haven’t got your ass yet.”
010
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 24/04/2026
#repostyourart Day 24: Fast/Slow Here's a slow burn from 2012--in that it took me two weeks back then to put all this graphite on the page. I've gotten much faster since then, mercifully. #comics #comicbooks #drawing #comicart
A full page of comic art, rendered in graphite, of London burning. The Great Clock of Westminster stands at the forefront, one of its clock faces burst out in flames.
061
Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 23/04/2026
#repostyourart Day 23: Magic How about a whole coven of witches? Inks from The Atonement Bell #1 (2021) #comics #comicart #traditionalart
An inked double-page comic spread from The Atonement Bell of a witch in a long, fur-lined robe and skull mask with curling horns protruding from the forehead points her finger menacingly at a figure kneeling in the bottom-right. The figures are in a winter forest, snow swirling around, while several robed and hooded witches float and fly around the scene, some carrying wood and stone spears.
032