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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep intending to upload more often. For the briefest moment, I even thought, "maybe daily," but that ain't happening. So, for now, I'll kinda try for weekly-ish to semi-reliably (whatever that ends up meaning.) #cartooning #monsterart #OSR #DND #sketchbook #ghoul #drawing #penandink

A ghoul in a dark place, apparently having its gruesome meal interrupted. The ghoul is in the foreground, with an amorphous pile of bodies behind it, and what looks like a cave passage in the background. It's a sketch drawn with colorful pens, using heavy crosshatching. Sickly greens, yellows, and reds for the ghoul and its meal, juxtaposed against blues and purples in the background

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's really some methods in these drawings I'd like to get back to. Build structures like hair and clothing as 3d forms, rather than scribbling it out. Be more frugal with hatching, and more open and graphic with my approach. Help myself go faster, and be less static.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't "finish" sketchbooks. I keep them around for years and years, and just keep drawing in them. The #sketchbook I'm currently #drawing in has some stuff from about 9-10 years ago. I like them a lot, still. They represent a big shift in my #cartooning style, that still holds today. #comicart

Ink sketch of a muscular guy with huge arms, in a casual stance, holding a large club over his shoulder. He's wearing jeans and a tank top, and he's got a bandage wrapped around his head, covering one eye.

Ink cartoon drawing of a man holding a large sword, stuck into the ground next to him. The man is drawn in a clean, open-line and graphic style. He's wearing black pants and a sort of poet's shirt. His legs and arms are long and skinny. The sword is longer than he is tall.

Cartoon ink sketch of a woman sitting on some sort of bar structure, holding a gun. She's dressed in a padded coverall, like a racing suit. She has long hair and a side cut.

Open-line ink sketch of a woman holding a sword, slung across her shoulders. The sword is in a scabbard. The woman is wearing jeans, a tank top, suspenders, a kind of bowler hat with a feather in it, and some shoulder armor.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As much as I loathe sharing my work on social media, here we are. I'm scanning the piles of #drawings and #paintings I've been making lately, to compile into #tradingcard and #zine projects. I might as well upload stuff here, too. I'm sure nobody will see this stuff, or give a damn. #cartooning

Highly crosshatched pen and ink cartoon of a laughing grim reaper. Behind him is the onomatopoeia of a guffaw, "HAW HAW HAW" in the style of hatemonger and legendary indie cartoonist Jack T Chick. The grim reaper character is also enthusiastically stating, "We're all having SUCH a GREAT TIME!"

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Oh, hey. I keep forgetting I have this account. "Helluva Planet to Lose a Moon-Cow" Mixed Media, 7.5" x 10.5" #scifi #retrofuturism #cartoon #cartooning #art #drawing #mixedmedia

A woman wearing a retro-futuristic space suit, holding a ray gun, looking warily about an "alien" landscape that looks suspiciously like red, orange, and yellow hoodoo rock formations found in the Southwest United States. There is a shattered moon looming in the dark blue sky, and the space woman's rocket ship is landed nearby, behind her.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

No better feeling, really.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Did I just spend $200 on Garbage Pail Kids cards? Maybe I did. Don't you judge me. #collecting #cardcollecting #GPK #garbagepailkids #tradingcards #topps #cartooning #hobbies

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Sorry for the terrible fan noise. 😅

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Trading card test prints I made into stickers. All-around success! Awesome to hold, and look great as part of the sticker bomb. Glossy color prints next? #comic #webcomic #comicart #fantasyart #cartooning #handdrawn #printing #OSR #darkfantasy #weirdfantasy #MaluComic #tradingcards #stickers

Black and white test print of some of my artwork in trading card format, two and a half inches by three and a half inches, for a new project.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 15/07/2025

Sandahl Bergman & Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Individual shots of the sketches, with the saturation pushed way up, which I think helps heighten the weirdness. #art #drawing #sketching #sketchbook #painting #mixedmedia #inking #characterdrawing #cartooning #OSR #ttrpg #dnd #swordandsorcery #skeleton #undead

A sketch of a skeleton warrior, standing against a field of blue, holding a rotten sword and shield. The saturation has been digitally amplified to almost neon levels.

A skeleton stands against a field of bright yellow, and is swinging a tarnished two-handed battle ax. The saturation of the colors has been digitally amplified to an almost neon level.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Neon skeleton sketchbook spread, presented both in social media photo style, and more straightforward. #art #drawing #sketching #sketchbook #painting #mixedmedia #inking #characterdrawing #cartooning #OSR #ttrpg #dnd #swordandsorcery #skeleton #undead

One of my biggest peeves is that social media has ruined aesthetic presentation. Now, everything has to be staged, surrounded with a bunch of useless visual noise. If I'm looking at a person's art, i want to see the art! Not a bunch of props and shitty angles. Anyway, this is a sketchbook spread, social media style, with a bunch of nonsense props surrounding the colorful sketches of skeleton warriors. (I couldn't bring myself to do a shitty angle.)

A sketchbook spread featuring two colorful cartoon drawings of skeleton warriors brandishing old and damaged weapons. The skeleton on the left is set against a field of blue, holding a rotten sword and shield. The skeleton on the right is set against a yellow background, about to swing a tarnished two-handed battle ax.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Absolutely no beating the Art vs. Artist meme for our guys from the 50s.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"Larry Daring" Tons of unused colored pens and markers, sketchbooks full of half-finished pencil scribbles of odd little dudes, and a little downtime -- a winning combo. #art #drawing #sketching #cartooning #inking #characters #oddballs #weirdoids

A colored ink sketch of a man wearing a jet-helmet. Yes, a jet-helmet.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

In my pocket today. A 1:72 scale (about 25mm) Dark Alliance miniature figure of an undead warrior. #pockettoy #toy #minis #toys #ttrpg #osr #dnd

Back view of a molded plastic miniature undead warrior figure, 1:72 scale. It was the toy I had in my pocket today.

Front view of a molded plastic miniature undead warrior figure, 1:72 scale. It was the toy I had in my pocket today.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

WaPo is a plutocratic conservative mouthpiece for Jeff Bezos these days, isn't it? That said, Bluesky is still for-profit corpo social media. I don't think the intention was ever to be a liberal bastion. That's just who it first attracted. Gentrification is already happening here.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Sandahl Bergman's Valeria is one of the best characters in all of fantasy fiction, across all media. I will love her forever. Why is Conan the Barbarian not available to watch on any streaming? Travesty. #bestmovie #fantasy #swordandsorcery #ConantheBarbarian

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Pen, paper, pub, pizza, precipitation, and possibly pilsner. Perfect.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Sometimes I really miss 90s castlecore. And by "sometimes" I mean all the time.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The last Prince Valiant panel fully illustrated by creator Hal Foster. From strip #1788, published on May 16, 1971.

A beautifully illustrated panel showing Valiant and two other knights on horseback looking on at a mountain range before them. They are standing amid several very detailed bushes, large rocks and trees.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Working on Malu, my "forever" comic project, which I've been chipping away at, but I haven't talked about much here. These are the pencils redoing (again) the cover painting and the first page/panel. #comic #comicart #artprocess #pencil #painting #drawing #cartooning #fantasyart #sketch

A drawing board with two loose pencil sketches, underdrawings for the cover painting and the first page of my comic project.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Tip Top Comics, 1940, a letter describing the making and distributing "cheer up books" -- zines from before zines were called zines! #zines #DIY #comics #comicshistory

A page from a 1940 issue of Tip Top Comics, with a letter describing making and distributing zines, which they call "cheer-up books".

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Getting back into webcomics after so long away, I find the harsh/thoughtful critique of peers has softened from what it was before the scene was centralized and commodified. Gentrification of art is a real bitch for a lot of reasons, but all the dishonest politeness is especially insidious.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The final Flash Gordon Sunday strip by creator Alex Raymond was published on April 30, 1944. Raymond had left the strip to join the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII.

This is not a particularly remarkable strip, and it makes very little sense out of context. It's really only notable as Alex Raymond's last Sunday strip.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The conspicuous absence of the CCA seal on volume 2 is quite interesting.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I feel like my interests are too niche. I go looking for info on stuff, and the best I come across are replies *I* wrote on Reddit ten fucking years ago. #geekproblems #uselessexpertise #obscureknowledge

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Val Kilmer has been many things in his iconic career, but to me, he'll always be the greatest swordsman that ever lived!

Madmartigan, holding a sword while making his escape from the mountaintop camp of the Nockmaar army, after his failed attempt to seduce Sorsha while high on the Dust of Broken Heart.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Guys. For the first time in ten years, I have a dedicated workspace. Not just a TV table and the edge of my bed, but an actual desk, where I can set up my boards, and get down to business! #art #artist #workspace #artspace #battlestation #drawing #painting #cartooning #illustration

My new workspace! A desk in the corner, and a bunch of my bins with all my pens, inks, paints, and pencils. And three lamps, because lighting is important.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Is fansly even feasible for someone who isn't a model? My experience looking for monetization methods is that fansly is almost exclusively utilized as an onlyfans alternative.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If you see this, share a skellington.

It's a full-body drawing of a skeleton, in a 3/4 turn. The skeleton is fully intact, except it's missing its jaw. There are glowing points in the eye sockets. OMG, is it (un)alive?!

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

CYOA books are WILD. I bought a bunch last year (including the unicorn set) and they are cooler than I remember. And they're so inexpensive! I'm tempted to just buy piles of them, and start leaving them around bus stops and food courts for people to find, like Chick tracts.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm not very good at navigating sites like this, so I appreciate folks like you, who share a lot of other folks' work.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Upper level redesign of Quasqueton, from #DnD module B1: In Search of the Unknown. Explanation in the alt text. #OSR #ODnD #ttrpg #rpg #sologaming #solottrpg #dndart #osrart #mapmaking #mapdesign #gamedesign #GMing #prepisplay #BECMI #ADnD #BX

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Quasqueton from the #DnD module B1, In Search of the Unknown is so frustratingly nonsensical. Redrawing that floor plan is some fun problem-solving. #OSR #ODnD #ttrpg #rpg #sologaming #solottrpg #dndart #osrart #mapmaking #prepisplay #BECMI #ADnD #BX

Photo of the D&D Basic module B1, In Search of the Unknown, and its absolutely stupid dungeon map, which is being redrawn by me, in order to actually make some sense as a place where people lived, rather than a maze of wasted space and needlessly-twisting corridors meant to frustrate people playing the module.

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Zip @ziplequick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Vermin get everywhere; it's what they do. Some platforms have grown infestations beyond salvage, but a great way to see other spaces become just as infested is by abandoning them over a few rats. I think making and maintaining a space in the face of moral bankruptcy is more productive than quitting.

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