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Tyler B. Ruff

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

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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!
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 14/09/2026
Appreciate you!
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Ian McKellen's Charming Hat Tip
ALT: Ian McKellen's Charming Hat Tip
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/07/2026
I had to say goodbye to Miles last May after nursing him through hospice care for fifteen months, and Chester went to join his brother yesterday. These guys were with me for my entire adult life until then, and I can't believe that part of it is over. It goes so fast...and it's never enough time.
A much younger version of me sits at a drafting table, petting a tiny, tiny orange kitten.An orange and white cat perches on the shoulder of a bearded man in a red hoodie.An orange and white cat lays on the chest of a bearded man in a black hoodie
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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."
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 25/07/2026
They have a flatulency coordinator for those occasions, it’s all done very tastefully
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 19/07/2026
It’s also the worst thing about being an author, because we do put so much of ourselves into our work that it can feel like a personal rejection when people don’t like or engage with it. Everybody: tell your creative friends if you love their work, because you’re also telling them you love them!
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 16/07/2026
And with his diet, probably also the literal equivalent, frankly
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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.
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 12/07/2026
You don’t need to say anything nice about or be considerate of anyone whose entire legacy is the harm they caused while living. You don’t need to be Hell’s PR Department, and idk why you’d want to be. It’s good when the ability of evil to cause pain and suffering is diminished!
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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
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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.
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 04/07/2026
“Do you ever yearn to see the end of an empire, Jerry?”
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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?
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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.
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 21/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day! youtu.be/mhSh35ryueA
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The Big Bossman interrupts the funeral of Big Show's father
YouTube video by WWE
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 17/06/2026
What else is in the screeches of Peaches?
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 15/06/2026
“Rupert Murdoch isn’t dead.” Counterpoint: Rupert Murdoch was never alive
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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!
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 10/06/2026
They’re not mad, they’re just disappointed
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 09/06/2026
Human brains have not evolved to handle this volume and speed of unrelenting dreck spewage
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 07/06/2026
Finishing the last dregs of cereal in the bowl like a whale filtering krill
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 28/05/2026
These “curious poses”—are we talking rabbit side-eye, dog head-tilt, or full meerkat?
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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
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 24/05/2026
Call me when Jodie Foster’s impressed
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 23/05/2026
Both Another New World and The Curse by Josh Ritter
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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
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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.
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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”
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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
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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...
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Sign the Petition
No AI At The Eisners
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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!
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 07/05/2026
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Elderly Woman Gesturing in Courtroom
Alt: Judge Judy points at her watch, then slaps the desktop impatiently
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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.
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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
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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
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Tyler B. Ruff @wearetheunforgiven.com · 01/05/2026
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Free Comic Book Day and “Supergirl” Arrive in a Flash
ST. LOUIS – Dave Schmidt, Owner of All American Collectibles/Mo`s Comics brings his super store powers into StudioSTL. His mission today is to tell you about Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May …
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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!
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