Wrote a post about writing comic book scripts for artists. Features some illustrative examples shared by @mattfraction.bsky.social, as well as amazing examples from @scott1gray.bsky.social @parttimecomix.bsky.social and a few others. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/makingco...

nobody has the capacity to continually worry about media enshittefication when it is so far out of our control and the damage already beyond repair, but supporting independent and original art at every level is a viable counterbalance

Probably the best thing I hand lettered today...

For those unfamiliar with Deniz Camp's game. Check out this ice-cold heat (From Ultimates #10, art by Jose Frigeri):

When Trump's gone, the Kennedy Center will go back to normal. By going after the arts, Trump's ensured that he'll be ridiculed for years to come. He'll be lampooned, joked about, and eviscerated by the most talented artists in every field for ages. They'll write his legacy. Never go after the arts.

Completed popup card for my boy turning from 6 to 7! My ongoing birthday tradition of overly complicated cards continues! I abandoned trying to make this a functioning popup early on, and just went for the drawings - it’s more a paper diorama - but he was pleased, and so am I! Onward!

Compiled the best of the ‘Making Comics’ substack into one link: - Inspiration for making comics - How to let visuals lead storytelling - How to better appreciate lettering - Tips for writing (better) comics - Comic recommendations! open.substack.com/pub/makingco...

crisped rice 👉 Rice Krispies flaked corn 👉 Corn Flakes looped fruit 👉 Froot Loops puffed cocoa 👉 Cocoa Puffs nutted grapes 👉 Grape-Nuts jacked apples 👉 Apple Jacks I'm so close to cracking the cereal-naming schema I can taste it

My comic with @scott1gray.bsky.social (Big Shoulders #1) is free to read via Global Comix until Monday. Got a link for it right atop the prelaunch page for our #2 Kickstarter if anyone wants a free look at the first chapter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/big...

Thanks to @petedoree.bsky.social for sending me an actual physical copy of the ad Ed and I had for our books in @theguardian.com a couple of weeks ago. Perfect holiday reading for when you’re cycling around on your Brompton bike!

Nice!!! Been eager for this for a few months now. Eager to get back home after the holidays and follow the news. I’m sure everything is going well! Right?

Looking for a fun yet inexpensive Christmas gift for the #DoctorWho fan in your life? I have lots of art prints for sale, check 'em out! (Reposts very appreciated!) 🙂 www.ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

Warm your hands by the fire with these character introductions for Big Shoulders #1 🔥 The full first issue is available to read via the Global Comix link here (only until Dec 1st though!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/big...

Conan, he’s so hot right now! Love how Zub is weaving a tale across time periods, all featuring characters created by Robert E. Howard. The main series, Battle of the Black Stone, and Savage Sword (seriously, grab #11 for Liam Sharp’s story!!), and now Scourge of the Serpent is also so, so choice 🐍🔥

I wrote 12 novels. Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list. Optioned three works for film and TV. Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos. I have 35,000 BSky followers. Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on. www.peculiarityshop.com

Sean Phillips has provided us with signed bookplates for pretty much everything he and #EdBrubaker have done together. But now he's gone even further. One lucky customer will win an original piece of art. To enter, all you have to do is buy the comic okcomics.co.uk/products/pre...

Looking for a list of new comics this week? Here's what's hitting comic book stores on November 26, 2025 from Marvel, DC, Image and more.

Sorry not sorry if the song gets stuck in your head.

How cool is this? Need to make some Canadian pen pals stat!

2024 will be a pivot point for assessing all art available digitally. Any art that was released that year or later will (and should) be met with skepticism until its method of creation is verified. As such, @scott1gray.bsky.social and I made something immensely clear on the opening page of our book

Warrior Con was incredible. There’s nothing that revs the creative engine more than a great small convention scene. I even got to hang with these two lil’ creatives!

it’s a good day of making comics

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I was a guest on @comicbookclub.bsky.social this week, discussing all things Big Shoulders #1, in an episode also featuring Paul freakin’ Pope!

I wish I could find a secret stash of comics in an attic! Discovered in an attic and preserved in excellent condition, a copy of Superman No. 1 sold for $9.12 million, including buyer's premium, at Heritage Auctions on Thursday, setting a new record for the highest price ever paid for a comic.

The 1st issue of my ‘Chicago love letter’ comic is free on Global Comix till Dec 1st. It’s a genre mashup about crossroads. Dragons. Immortals. Rock bands. Give it a gander, and please feel free to share with that friend who you think would dig it! open.substack.com/pub/makingco...

Morning.

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet @denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social

A Hot Wheels page by Alex Toth that I own. Dig those crazy pointers in the last panel.

You should all be training right now. Bench-pressing pies. Military-crawling through mashed potatoes. Punching a frozen turkey. Full Rocky montage. Thanksgiving isn’t something you just wander into and expect to win.

Looking for a fun yet inexpensive Christmas gift for the #DoctorWho fan in your life? I have lots of art prints for sale, check 'em out! (Reposts very appreciated!) 🙂 www.ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

Big show tonight! 7pm ET! Live! With guests: - Shelby Young & Will Friedle (Batgirl and Nightwing in "Batman: High Volume") - Paul Pope (“Total THB”) - John Dudley ("Big Shoulders") Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/fb5ZHnt...

with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately

Wrote a bit about the art of ‘reading’ comics. What have YOU been reading?! open.substack.com/pub/makingco...

scratching and clawing our way to victory!!! 91% funded, only $671 left to go!!!!

SFX in comics can be so freakin’ fun. Shared some examples in this post. What are some of your favorite examples of SFX used to great effect? open.substack.com/pub/makingco...

making comics is the juice

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now. We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

HEY YOU, WITH THE NOSE! You should back this book. It has nothing to do with noses (YET), but it is scary and tense and desperate and supernatural. Them’s good shits. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sid...

Trying to get PUMPED? Blast this bad boy and GET AFTER IT today 🤘🤘🤘🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqj...

A comic from a few years ago, reflecting on how democracy isn’t something we have but something we are always in the act of doing. It’s ongoing, an “Ing” - that’s never finished. The protests embody that - we work together to improve the country for everyone… spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

My buddy Jed helped man the Big Shoulders Booth at Baltimore Comic Con this weekend. The dude even single-handily sold a few books. Everyone ought to have a 'Jed'!

You: Are you serious that I should check out PATERFAMILIAS? That it really has desperation and terror in an urban supernatural horror book? Me:

I’ll have copies of my book with @doncardenasart.bsky.social at Baltimore Comic Con today (#H27 in artist alley). Stop by for some rockin’ indie scuzz that’s all-too fitting for your Halloween season 🤘

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