If you're an emerging artist or writer, this contest is for you! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

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I can draw without computer, hear me roar.

Ionic is never ironic, just ask any centurion you happen to see. #PoetsRankedByBeardWeight #bookillustration

Happy Untowel Day.

A Game of Chess, from The Waste Land The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out #modernism #TSEliot #GN www.inprnt.com/gallery/mahe...

For the late, great, much missed Realms of Fantasy magazine, some time on the late '90s when I was working the Washington DC periodicals market for all it was worth. Let no square inch of paper go uninked says the ex-newspaper man! #magazineillustration #fantasy #penandink

Piece about Bruce Wright (the people's judge) at Poetry Foundation. Didn't know he was also a poet, met him when I was a child, an acquaintance of my father who was himself a pioneering scholar in American Black lit. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/179...

TCJ interview of Hans Rickheit, a true acolyte of surrealism in the finest American tradition. www.tcj.com/hans-rickhei...

Thinking about HG Wells as is my procrastinating wont. The Time Machine is the GOAT SF novel, bright and tight, as they used to say.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of snark, only 10% off!!! www.inprnt.com/gallery/mahe...

Chicken Inspector Number 23

I started using this last week - I put my old Fred the Clown web strips from 1999-2004 on there. It’s a godsend (my website-building abilities stalled in 2003!) & I plan to use it for new work in the near future. I’m supporting the Patreon, too - a modest fee for a really useful service.

Slogging through Eliot and saw this, spirits lifted!

The Hooded Utilitarian was fun, they always had a great Hate Week. Hate's a family value like any other which makes it double-plus-good. www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/09/mahe...

This poem by Jeffrey Miller

NEW: Alberta separatist group’s controversial voter ID app has links to US Ambassador, MAGA influencers and wealthy Michigan Republicans US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told @pressprogress.ca he was ‘not aware’ an American-made app he previously promoted was used to help an Alberta separatist group

Renaissance lycanthrope, hubba hubba. www.inprnt.com/gallery/mahe...

Started an Inprnt shop to provide gainful employment for the otherwise shiftless denizens of my flat files. 10% off this fine merkabah, low mileage, previous owner only drove it on apocalypse. www.inprnt.com/gallery/mahe...

what do the people want? ninth-century Tang dynasty tales when do they want it? now asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...

Salad days for Cleopatra and Isis. Berol Turquoise Filmograph pencil on Denril.

Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever

🧿🧿🧿🪬 the things we have uncovered are truly stunning!

Chandigarh is a fever dream of modernism concealing Nek Chand's fever dream of surrealism.

BREAKING: Ted Cruz admits that the "Trump accounts" are a scheme to privatize Social Security. They want STEAL OUR EARNED BENEFITS by handing them over to Wall Street.

Those amazing Supraphon albums; rare gifts from family in the DDR. youtu.be/OOULPpjR9EA?...

Pukka Singh treatment for birthday boys, P.I. Tchaikovsky and J. Brahms.

Artists, quote with femme fatale art.

Sadly, my SKIM collaborator has had to step away due to work/life commitments. So, I’m now looking for an artist interested in collaborating with me on the rest of the series. If you know any artists who might be a good fit (or if that artist is you), feel free to DM portfolios. PAID WORK

The separatists are close to the AfD (neoNAZI German Party) Tamara Lich and Christine Anderson, that had Lich make a speech in the European Parliament, were at the same event at the Stampede last summer. JD Vance didn't agree with the AfD being watched by authorities thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

This explains a lot if you're an ink-stained wretch.

May the blah blah blah be with you.

To Americans of a certain generation, such as James Comey, 86 doesn't mean to get rid of, it means a lifetime ban on entering a specific bar or shop. Comey, you party animal!

Eakins rocks!

Today is the birthday of Bill Blackbeard (April 28, 1926-March 10, 2011). Writer, editor, & founder of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art (SFACA). Over 30 years, SFACA collected over 2.5 million comic strip clippings & pages, spanning 1894 to 1996. They are now at the Billy Ireland museum.

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Twitter is run by a fascist bootlicker who ‘sig heiled’ his way into Trump’s inner sanctum, leading the rest of Big Tech to support the worst person on Earth. “If you’ve ever wondered how an idiot like Trump could be re-elected, it’s Elon Musk and Twitter.”

The Indian photographer Raghu Rai has died at 83. He's best known for his black and white photography from the 1970s-80s, much of it showing street life and transit in modernizing India. Motion and stillness. Some stunning images at the retrospective below: raghuraifoundation.org/retrospectiv...

Starstruck was the best American comic show since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo.

Everybody run, Velda's got a gun.

Adlai Stevenson is laughing his ass off right now.

So much gaming art on Bluesky. Only did one game, Dark Womb, in the 90s, pencil on denril. Used a special type of pencil made just for film. Pencilling on denril is infinitely workable and thus perfectible and yet, I clearly let slip some howling errors on design and drawing. Youth, eh?

Everyone should be grateful that Bhanu puts so many of his fantastic comics up here to read for free (I know I am):

Proof positive that good draftsmanship is god.

I was drawing Baal when Baal wasn't cool. #bookillustration #penandink

Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

They're gonna Sudetenland like it's 1939. Fake YouTube channels pushing Alberta secession narrative: report share.google/Uj0NNNKVs098...