If you see this, drop a hero with a sword 🗡️🦉

warmup from today

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Looking through a folder of Alex Raymond clippings I received as a gift from a teacher a long time ago, and damn it must’ve been mind blowing to be 10 years old in 1935 and open up a Sunday newspaper and see a whole page of this.

Brenden explains why we called our studio "Green Parrot Games" which reminds me that I wanted to refill the birb feeder on my balcony.

Guest Announcement! @juliawertz.bsky.social is a professional cartoonist whose first book was The Fart Party and newest book is Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) with a bunch of other books in-between! Come see Julia at Comic Con Oakland, tickets on sale now (link in bio)!

Proud to share the very first moving footage of our new season of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER. What happens when people are trapped inside a broken system with no way out? From @victorlavalle.bsky.social, Karyn Kusama, Ridley Scott, & me. Full trailer soon. Premieres on AMC+ & Shudder May 7.

@danschkade.bsky.social it's finally here! I've been waiting for this moment for 7 years TT orz

Dario Argento's "The Brady Bunch"

Bringin' this enormous pre-ordered puppy to @dresdencodak.com's book release party on April 17th at the Portland Liberation Center (6529 NE Sandy Blvd) 😎

Here’s my Sketch Info for the Lake Como Comic Art Festival, April 24-26 thebombshellter.blogspot.com

At @helioscopepdx.bsky.social, sometimes @stevelieberart.bsky.social has you pose as a robber, and sometimes @erikamoen.bsky.social tells you to arch your back and lift your skinny ass higher.

2012-2013 @stevelieberart.bsky.social @lubellwoo.bsky.social @jonathancase.bsky.social @rondanchan.bsky.social @jeffparker.bsky.social @laurahudson.bsky.social @colleencoover.bsky.social #helioscope24

SEVEN WIVES! Readers are going to love this *Polygamurder Mystery* by rising star-writer Zoe Tunnel w art by V. Gagnon and Antonio Del Hoyo, Letters by Maria Keane. I don't know why there isn't more of this in comics, but after this there will be. Order from your shop now, only a few days left!

Colored up my girl-dad Leon drawing! Sorry I keep reposting different versions of this piece lol. I swear it's DONE #ResidentEvilRequiem #re9

Helioscope is not merely a studio space, and not only for comics: it's a community of friends, a resource hub, a professional network, a goldmine of practical advice & education. We have been cartoonists, writers, zinesters, storyboard artists, designers, illustrators, memoirists, historians...

@helioscopepdx.bsky.social is 24 years old today! This has been my studio for 18? years now- most of my 20s, all of my 30s, and now cracking into my 40s. I cannot imagine life without this hodgepodge family and I'm beyond grateful for the last two decades with them. #helioscope24

Harley in Progress For an upcoming Harley Quinn Variant Cover for DC Comics

Adding some pics to the thread! So may great people and memories and these are only 4 meager ones

As of today you have ONE WEEK LEFT to pre-order SEVEN WIVES #1! The launch title for IDW's new Crime line, a dark murder mystery set inside a cult compound with 7 widows as suspects. "An instant classic" - ScreenRant "Your next favorite murder mystery" - AIPT "An insanely good start" Fanlight Zone

Throwback to DK Fantastic Four: The Ultimate Guide by Tom Defalco Book Cover Art Was going through my files and found this, one of my first times coloring myself in Photoshop... I haven't seen it in ages. I always loved the Fantastic Four as a kid, and I had so much fun creating this art. 1/2

As kids, our challenge is to grow our skills. As adults who can write or draw adequately, the challenge shifts. Ongoing leaps of skill are welcome, but no longer the goal. That goal of endless growth is a trap. The goal now is to frankly share your perspective. This you can do.

At some point, our favorite artists realize the perfect is the enemy of the good, so they give us the good, and we see them in it and thank them for it. To make work that satisfies you, you must accept that same challenge, trading "ever better" or "only the best" for "effective."

Eisner-winning writer David F. Walker has a Kickstarter ending in 6 days for a 40-page monster one-shot that's part blaxploitation tribute, part satirical horror, part 1970s comics love letter. Fully drawn. Already funded. I've seen it, and it's WILD.

My friend Leila made a beautiful 48-page sci-fantasy comic called SERPENTINE, in which a student discovers mid-finals that they're an astral projector. It's already funded, now it's just about how many people get to have it. Go see! go see!

Thread by Jesse Hamm: There's a type of person who is smart and gifted, and learns from early childhood to aim for the stars, because "nothing is impossible." When life's constraints prove otherwise, this person is crushed. Unable to bend and accept flaws, they break. Comics attract this person

Drawing my dumb little comics on another day that might be the last day wyd

Bread, viennoiserie, and baguette outfits! Fanart for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

oh yeah, the #TAZ Don’t Let’s Start animatic, I loved making that—WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S BEEN NEARLY A DECADE?!!!

Character design from Living Hell for Dark Horse, Manannan Mac Lir the sea god from Gaelic mythology #tuathadedanaan

Me looking at all my freelance friends: damn, u live like this?

A collection of HMMMMMMMM panels from Little Charlotte (more to come obvs) #comics #comicoop

Nutella,

May 9-10, go meet legendary MLP artist Andy Price @andypriceart.bsky.social at Comic Con Oakland @comicconoakland.com.

wanna celebrate good news and milestones vs. being afraid to celebrate good news and milestones because they will DISSOLVE

One of the great things about Patreon is it can be a treasure trove of interesting approaches to making things. For example I often use 3D models when drawing and I wrote up that whole process, what I model, when I use reference vs. draw freehand, and how it affects things.

one more, they definitely do Halloween in the book

How? HOW? Kendra is a Riso wizard. @hagofbolding.bsky.social

FYI: CATACOMB OF TORMENT #10 is out April 15th from @oni-press.bsky.social with a story by me and @lukasketner.bsky.social ("Death Groove", our third collab). Also: the first collected volume is out June 16th with out first story "Red Blend". More @eccomics.bsky.social horror for you grisly kids.

When I write Reed Richards dialogue, I don't hear Pedro Pascal or Ioan Gruffud. I hear John Slattery in Mad Men. I can't explain it.

It’s the mighty Tony Parker @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, giving a tutorial at Helioscope as part of our 2026 mentorship program.

I went to figure drawing 2 months ago and I forgot. This is your brain on a year+ of very little sleep 🫣

Happy Birthday snails for the Yee to my Haw!! @direbright.bsky.social 🤠🎂🎉✨💖

Yeehaw! SERPENTINE already reached its funding goal and it’s only been 7 hours! Thanks to YOU. You helped make a sunny day even sunnier. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei...

Your Monday FLASH GORDON! Kicking off our second week with guest artist @sandyjarrell.com ⚡️

UH OH! I recently made the mistake (?) of dropping into my #1 comics shop in Portland, Cosmic Monkey Comics, after a too-long absence, and I *may* have overdone it a trifle in my impulse to catch up on some recent, top-shelf work. Still, I feel no regrets.

Lots of good stuff in this thread.