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Comic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 24/09/2026

Our friends at @sweetshop.app officially launched today! As a beta tester myself, I've been expectantly looking forward to the platform going public. If you are looking for a new digital comics option, they are now the go to operators in the space. Big fan. 🎉 sweetshop.app

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Sweet Shop

Find your comic. Sweet Shop is the digital comic book marketplace for readers and creators.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 👏 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/things-to-do-32419113

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Mike Hynd @mikehynd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Second printing bb! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of issue 1. We’ve sold out of 200 copies of our first printing (198 as I think I lost 2), and the second printing is here! Issue 1 available at the link in bio 👌

A person holding a single issue comic book titles “Hell’s Beckoning” in front of a shelf.

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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Corto done for an artist I admire who told me to keep it simple and of course still overthought it.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A watercolour painting of Suomenlinna (the sea fortress off the coast of Helsinki). Painted 10 years ago this week.

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Doug Wood @dougawood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Update complete. I am available for Lettering, coloring and flatting. I have professional credits for flatting. Love my first opportunities for my other skills! www.jumpstartcomic.com

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 09/09/2026

I redrew it and did clean pencils. I'm planning to do a lot with tone and color so the lines are much plainer than I'm used to doing.

finished pencils for a cover image for my comic The Shit Kids.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Comic artists (particularly newer and mid-experience folks)! I've put together 12* stories that you can use as portfolio/skill builders! 6 2-pagers, 6 4-pagers! 2 sci-fi, 2 horror, 2 superhero, a romance/slice of life, a comedy, a mystery, a Western, a smutty one, and 1 TBD. More info in 🧵

12 STORIES FOR COMIC ARTISTS TO PRACTICE WITH
By David Mariotte

A few notes from the writer:
Please remember that these are all meant to be fairly simple stories. They are for practicing the art of sequential storytelling and are not a magnum opus for anyone.
Focus on what is important to you--there are notes for specific color choices and the scripts include dialogue, captions, and SFX that could be lettered, but if that's not your skillset or what you want to work on, they should all work without!
If you want, definitely ask someone to collaborate with you! Bring in a colorist or letterer friend to get them some practice too!
These stories are meant to have enough details to help you tell the story, but also be open enough that you have a lot of flexibility to make them your own!
These stories are provided for free for the purposes of building your portfolio. My only request is that you credit me and anyone else you work with correctly and that you don't sell the completed stories (it's fine to post them online for free/to include in your portfolio or website, I'm even okay if you end up putting them in a for-sale zine with a bunch of your other work as long as they're not the only or main thing in the zine)
If you use AI in any capacity to create your version of these pages or you try to train an AI in any way with them (pages, script, etc), you owe me $100 million USD.
Once you finish any scripts you dig, you can reach out to me at dmariottewebhost@gmail.com and we can schedule a 10-15 minute digital portfolio review. We’ll talk about the comic you made off these scripts. We can talk about some of your other work if you provide a full portfolio, your goals in comics, and how to get there. It’ll be fun and easy!

1. SCI-FI (2 PAGES)
A cyberpunk hero in a bike chase across the moon. They actually works for the UPPS (United Planets Postal Service) and are delivering a package.

2. SCI-FI (4 PAGES)
A girl in a car is being chased by an alien spaceship through the countryside. She does a magical girl Transformers-mation to become a mecha magi girl. The spaceship has become a mecha kaiju and they fight. The mecha magi girl wins the day, but has secretly had help from a mysterious stranger.

3. HORROR (2 PAGES)
A big scary looking Michael Myers type guy hides in a closet and watches through the slats as a pair of yuppie young people come and make out in front of him. But actually, they're the killers and he was hiding and they found him and get him!

4. HORROR (4 PAGES)
A person is at a big box store and is trying to get headache medicine out of one of those stupid sealed cases--pressing the button, but no one comes. A worker finally shows up, but they've got like a weird eye monster on them. The protagonist runs, looking for help, but everyone's got the eye monster. The protagonist collapses from the headache and their eye bursts out and latches itself with its new tentacles to their face.

5. SUPERHERO (2 PAGES)
A car is driving way too fast in a city and a speedy hero is trying to chase it down until finally catching it and opening the door to... A pregnant woman who is about to have a baby that the hero has to rush to the hospital!

6. SUPERHERO (4 PAGES)
The hero is fighting Doppelgang, a villain who can create near-identical duplicates of himself. The hero must navigate around an army of duplicates, knowing trying to fight them all would be exhausting, to get to the real one (potential double page spread). The hero gets the real Doppelgang and saves the day.

7. ROMANCE/SLICE OF LIFE (2 PAGES)
A boy and a girl in parallel seem to be waking up late and rushing to get ready for school--making their lunch, barely getting their toast in their mouths--and seem to be on a collision course at the corner. When they arrive, they swap lunches, give a quick kiss, wish each other a good day and look forward to this weekend because they're actually already a couple.

8. COMEDY (2 PAGES)
A parent notices the cookies are missing from the cookie jar and starts interrogating the family, with the obvious suspect being the crumb-faced little one, but then.... "J'accuse!" their spouse tries to deny it with their mouth obviously stuffed with cookies and everyone laughs.

9. MYSTERY (2 PAGES)
A hardboiled detective smashes a window and begins exploring a messy apartment. After searching each room, they find keys in a trenchcoat by the door, only to call the window repairman to fix his apartment window and it ends on a "how'd this happen? it's a mystery" punchline. (Sorry this is also funny)

10. WESTERN (4 PAGES)
A cowpoke is HOT in the desert and their horse is hot too, panting and trying to fan themselves. They finish their canteen and crack open a cactus for water, they walk in circles under the circling vulture trying to catch whatever shade they can. The cowpoke notices the moon just starting to come up over the horizon and lassos it. The cowpoke pulls the moon up, making it nighttime, and they both sigh in relief as its finally cool.

11. EROTICA (4 PAGES)
A couple is at a park with one of them sucking on a creamsicle that melts all over their chest. They get their partner to lick it off, moving their top aside to let them suck on their nipples. Still wanting to suck on something for the creamy goodness within, the ice cream one starts giving the other head. The receiver pops all over the givers face and they both lick it up to clean up, with the giver requesting to cum a *lot* when they get home.

12. TBD (4 PAGES)

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Sebastián Píriz @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the comic industry survives out of the unconditional love everybody making comics has for the medium.

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Eric Palicki @ericpalicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Doug Wood @dougawood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now that Inheritance is out, I am working towards my next Kickstarter. I am going to try something different. Inspired by the old Marvel UK and Quality’s Warrior comic strips magazines, I will launch OMNIVERSAL. Here is a look at a cover design I mocked up (not final) Art by Marcus Jimenez

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

With him and Matt Reeves as evidence, it would appear that looking like Jim Gordon IRL can be helpful on becoming a seminal Batman creator 🤔

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Interest check: Less experienced comic artists, would you find it useful to have some short (2-4 pages) scripts by a comic professional writer to practice honing your craft and be able to add to your portfolios? And then when the comics complete, get a ~15-minute portfolio review to talk about it?

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Charlie Stickney/ White Ash Comics @charliestickney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who's looking for comic cover work? I'm going to be hiring a bunch of people in 2027 and would love to expand my list of human artists. Please include samples and/or a link to your portfolio. NO AI or bots using other people's work please

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I tried reading the Reacher books a couple times-- for whatever reason, nah, not for me. But as the tv series version-- Yeah, I'd watch this shit every week for the next ten years, easy

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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · 27/08/2026

one more for my less helpful, bandage-colored series / SLK #013 (of 1000)

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just this once, screenshootin the hellsite. Go for it

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just this once, screenshootin the hellsite. Go for it

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love how crazily abstract Jack Kirby got in the 80s. Even the normal buildings have been given these wild designs.

Jack Kirby's Captain Victory #6. A group of aliens come out of the ground on a busy street. Inks by Mike Thibodeaux, colours by Steve Oliff.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looks like theres a new Robin Hood comic coming out so I’m just gonna put this right here: tomfowler.threadless.com/designs/oode...

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Jesse Lonergan @jesselonergan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Batgirl. 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen with Platinum Carbon ink and Daniel Smith watercolors on Arches hot press paper.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'd like to join y'all's meme but I don't have any popular in Bluesky piece 😆 🥲

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 01/08/2026

My most popular piece on blusky seems to be this, which, fair. It's pretty good

Darkwing Duck, Gosalyn, Launchpad, and Morgana stand in a circular stone room, with an open, empty coffin. Darkwing holds a mallet and a carrot. Dangermouse and Penfold stand by. There is a staircase rising above them, and Count Duckula is descending it, grinning. His shadow rises up on the wall in the shape of a bat.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

color version

Lee Falk’s The Phantom, digitally colored ink drawing. He stands aiming. A pistol with arm outstretched, in jungle mist beneath a full moon

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Doug Wood @dougawood.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dang, I am apart of a Ringo Nominated work! I am so happy. Best thing I have ever written and its all thanks to @viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social for asking me to work with him and CK, Aubrey and Anas for believing in our story Please vote for Unseen/Unheard @ringoawards.bsky.social!!!

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🇦🇷 Taylor Esposito, multi award winning pro letterer & educator @tayloresposito.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So one way to ensure that logos are not made with AI is to hardline require all logos to be submitted as vector files. As far as I can tell, AI can't make vector files, so it'll stop the spread of slop logos.

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Vinson Loves Comics @vinsonlovescomics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Etrigan the Demon by Daniel Warren Johnson

"Cover B" art for The Demon #1 featuring Etrigan the Demon, written and drawn by James Harren for DC Comics.

Release Date: October 7, 2026

Written and illustrated by James Harren with colors by Dave Stewart. A horror-infused DC "Next Level" series following Jason Blood as he battles unseen hellish beasts feasting on humanity's souls.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Millennium Actress" by Satoshi Kon is available for free on YouTube (in North America only). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqg...

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I find it funny that my nephews are going thru their 'Nolan is the GOAT director' phase like I did when I was their age

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Tango @tiredsai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

THIS CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG ✨Been hard at work slinging ink in the streets of 1940s New York for RIP KIRBY. @xtop.bsky.social scripts had me instantly in love with our main trio. Much more to say about this one soon. For now, hope you'll all come get cozy with us in November for a little mystery 🍂-

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

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Doug Wood @dougawood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi! It’s Disability Pride Month. I am Doug Wood. I am a disabled comic creator. I have published a series at an indie pub and have run 9 successful crowdfunding campaigns. 2023 I was voted by my peers to be the Independent Comic Creator of the Year. Here is my portfolio: www.jumpstartcomic.com

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I find this really interesting. Even if you don't despise genAI as much as I do, if you're making art, it doesn't matter how nuanced you think the conversation is, and these hosts are 100% right -- the medium is the message and if you touch genAI, you're cooked.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You can read about my next Toxic Avenger series at @screenrant.bsky.social. Me and artist @sobreiro.bsky.social are making a gross, funny, and brutal comic about indulging your worst impulses. screenrant.com/toxic-avenge...

screenrant.com

The Toxic Avenger's Next Appearance Marks a Major Franchise Milestone (Exclusive)

He's toxic!

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I really wish the entire Comics community in social media wouldn't overreact so much to a few randos not liking something and making it the Discourse™️ for the full week. Every time. We *can* just shrug off nonsense, y'know

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Russell Mark Olson @russellmarkolson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

El Matador: Short comic I did for The Gateway City Quarterly a few years back.

Panel 1: the entrance to a bullfighting ring. A poster featuring a matador reads: El Matador
Panel 2: Interior of the ring. A matador receives adulation from a sunlit crowd.
Panel 3: The adulation continues. From the left of the panel a charging bull appears.
Panel 4: The matador bows, the bull is about to butt him in the keister.

Panel 1: The bull knocks the matador high into the air with an almighty "PUM"...
Panel 2: The matador lands in the open window of an apartment.
Panel 3: The matador is on his face on the floor of a room in the apartment.
Panel 4: The matador is seeing imaginary bulls running around his sore head. He notices a baby crib.
Panel 5: He peers into the crib. A sleeping baby holds a stuffed bull toy.
Panel 6: An alleyway, the matador turns the corner away from us in the distance. In the foreground is a dust cart, the baby's bull toy discarded amongst the rubbish.
Panel 7: The baby still asleep, now cuddling a toy train.

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The one good thing about being a millenial in this economy is that you can say 'It's not a middle age crisis, it just took me this long to be able to afford it!'

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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

PAID ART GIG: I'm looking for a pixel artist who can replicate this level of detail. It's for a set of character stickers. Please chuck your details / portfolios / samples below. Thanks!

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Hector Rodriguez III @hecrodriguez3.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Black Demon RETURNS! Black Demon: Atlantis. Looking forward to this amazing read! Look out for the continuation of the Black Demon comic book series! #BlackDemonAtlantis #blackdemon #chispacomics

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Armando M. Zanker @zanker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Y'know, unlike Jorge, this one actually wasn't a shock, because of course the guy that came up with that 'youthification' monstrosity would look at AI and think that seems neat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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