(Day 310) #comics #indie #books #comicsky #promosky Much to my embarrassment, I copy pasted the prior day's text without removing it's description. Had to delete and repost to fix the discrepancy.

BONUS TRUE FACT: 73 year-old frank sinatra was offered and turned down the role of john mcclane in the movie die hard (1988)

Whenever a first draft just isn't working, I like to remember this photo.

It's unnerving to face the fact you fly with huge quantities of jet fuel. "Welcome aboard the Napalm transport!"

Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts.

Cover to Italian edition of Think Like a Mountain. That's a drift net above him. I gave this drawing to my lawyer.

Paul Bacon's dust jacket for the Jaws hardcover, and Roger Kastel's art for the paperback, later used for the movie one-sheet. A strong design enhanced by great painting. www.rogerkastel.com/biography.htm

FOUNDATION AND EARTH (1987) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28" X 20" After 30 years, Isaac Asimov began to weave his two most famous series together in his novel Foundation and Earth. In this scene the author described the discovery of a huge statue, a remnant of a long-lost civilization. 1/7

DESTROYING ANGEL (1982) Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24” All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess. 1/5

I added Concrete to a painting of the town green of New Milford, Connecticut, which we once lived near. It has a traditional bandstand gazebo and a vintage tank. My mechanic there said he worked on the car of George Wunder, the Terry and the Pirates artist. 1/2 tomkidd.myportfolio.com

For a Bruce Sterling story, “Spider Rose.” Reused on this George RR Martin collection.

Mood

Milky Wad.

Spittles

Well, that sucks... graphicpolicy.com/2025/10/16/h...

It's that time of year again! Time for the Disgruntled Comic Book Creator Costume! I created this three years ago and it still makes me laugh...and cry!

Too bad Steranko never found himself in the right circumstances to do an actual strip about this character. So many great design ideas lavished on the several drawings he did featuring Talon.

Sketched in the ferry line, inked later

Had to compost this year's first Jack-O-Lantern but here's a side-by-side in case you want to use it for a meme.

That red cardinal will look great against the grey. Belo!

Uatu’s purple phase

Great but slight perspective problem here

Boy Frank Bellamy wasn't a slave to his reference photos. He treated this one more as a suggestion.

I wonder if Caniff had already worked out this gorgeous lighting when he first drew and inked this.

First one's a winner

Check out the first 6 pages of Toxic Crusaders! Your local shop still has until Monday to put in orders for this beauty, so don’t miss out on your chance to say you where there when it all got goin’ ;)

Cupid gag is great

Okay how long before we get a comic book about Inflato-frog vs. Pepe?

I was never much of a player of The Matrix Online -- my internet connection on this island was too unstable then. But I did like to hang out on this rooftop some nights.

Had to compost this year's first Jack-O-Lantern but here's a side-by-side in case you want to use it for a meme.

Pool lighting

An alarming article about Iran's water depletion. From @jricole.bsky.social Empires, civilizations disappear when something this significant happens. I wonder how things will look in ten years. www.juancole.com/2025/10/drou...

Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender

Sgt. Barry Sadler is a name some of you may know thanks to his brief musical career with the success of Ballad of the Green Berets in 1966. Some others may know him from his numerous books of fiction, especially the "Casca" series about a Centurion cursed by Christ to live forever as a soldier. 1/

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Casca series author Barry Sadler lived highs (9 million copies sold of his first songwriting effort!) and lows (feces-bungi-stick wound nearly killed him with infection, shot his girlfriend's ex between the eyes) but somehow wrote 22 novels before his murder, age 49. Link next post

Freelance schedule now OPEN! Personal practice for this week's throwback:

Concept work from one of my all time favorite projects done for Kabam for this week's throwback! Freelance Schedule is currently OPEN!

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

em dashes are the perfect way to textually represent dramatically putting on/taking off my glasses

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Actually network covering this www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

A podcast told me Lon Chaney Jr was rude to the makeup artist, who in revenge drew out the process of gluing on yak-hair, which was maddeningly itchy, as long as possible. (Karloff was always gentlemanly, incidentally,)

“their nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively prevent melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice. Not only did up to 88% of the vaccinated mice remain tumor-free (depending on the cancer), but the vaccine reduced—and in some cases completely prevented—the cancer’s spread.”

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified. We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection." Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

Look at the udder on that hottie

🔸As a treat to myself I bought a third book this year. MARK SCHULTZ complete PORTFOLIO series with additional work. 400+ pages of incredible work. I categorize it as research for an extensive interview that will be premiering soon. 😊 #markschultz

🔸Here's a rarity...me drawing a superhero comic! I teamed up with @atomicpulp.bsky.social and @markstegbauerl.bsky.social to bring you a BRONZE-AGE tale that was a helluva lot of fun to work on. Support super indy creators and CLICK THE LINK!! www.indyplanet.com/sleuth-comic... #comics #bronzeage