ok today's tiny silver lining: I flip these faces horizontal & they still look ok

the full bard. you guys deserve this

I've always loved both Lucky Luke and Astérix. With the original authors now gone, I find Lucky Luke's approach of getting a new creator and letting him loose much more interesting than Astérix's, which is to mimic the original look and feel as much as possible. Bonhomme is doing a phenomenal job.

sorry I'm being sad in public again. idk. I keep hoping I'll be out of some sort of limbo 1ce I get the visa endorsement/rejection. I don't feel v excited to move to London. I've been through so many cycles of trying to Begin My Life For Real I don't have much energy left & I feel super old

I am now a proud owner of book 1 of Linnea Sterte’s Garden of Spheres! SO EXCITED TO READ!! Linnea Sterte’s work is one of my big inspirations so finally having this is so amazing 🩶 #gardenofspheres #linneasterte

oooooh the colors here look much brighter than I expected

300+pages of one of my favorite cartoonist working today @decassette.bsky.social Their comics are gorgeous, idiosyncratic works of art that benefits from multiple reads. Or maybe I just like the artwork that much? Highest possible recommendation.

you know the genre of movies that look sort of like the knights of cydonia music video. which I also loved back then. hard to imagine this is what I was into but the important thing is I was having fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sB...

btw does anyone remember a movie (or maybe tv show) where a man has like fed one of his eyes to a bird of prey & can magically see through the eyes of the bird. used to think this was what ladyhawke was but having now seen ladyhawke, it's a different thing. seen in the 90s sometime

another couple of good faces. again, nothing v flashy being produced rn

today's two wolves: I want to put out 1 genuinely good book every 5 years vs. I want to be the mark e smith of comics, putting out 200+ pages of barely comprehensible me-slop every year, for an ever-dwindling audience of mostly other comics ppl willing to put up with my nonsense

god I love this song too. first time I heard it (on a ufo podcast??) I was like, this was me & my friends age 6 or 7 pretending to be the spice girls

listening to music w foreign &/or incomprehensible/mangled lyrics is actually v pleasant? like you can deactivate the language part of the brain & enjoy the music-as-such. also wondering abt the experience of being an first language english kid & growing up knowing what ppl on the radio are singing

Elf and a devil Digital illustration 2026

📚 2. WORLD HEIST by Linnea Sterte. A cat-faced rogue and a "spell of trespass" incarnated in the body of a girl scheme together to steal an androgynous being from a disintegrating pocket universe. Enticing—like the pilot episode of a legendary animated fantasy series from a lost visionary studio

done with this lil chunk of comic – a Garden of Spheres vol 2 intro pages. 15 of them. short break to finish up the penal colony book, then on to the Simon comic, then back to aGoS. went faster than I expected

⚔️WELCOME BACK LINNEA STERTE!⚔️ @decassette.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art, gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives, and sign up to be alerted on launch day 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

*almost forgot. the song. it's sung in such a dumb voice; it's evergreen, love this whole album & it's ironic fake po-mo cocktail party concept www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKJr...

like a lot of old books upset abt television this stuff is dated but also strangely applicable to our times imo. to some extent I think this concept is being almost deliberately weaponized. I like this song, too

sorry to hear abt costa rica. sorry to hear all the world's most splendid birds that you ppl have spent centuries hoarding are now ruled over by some rightwing weirdo

Sasquatch Diaries Feb 2nd sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org

happy world heist non-prequel day to those who celebrate (sfw version)

happy world heist non-prequel update day to those who celebrate

we need some new word or expression for conspiracy theories that are undeniably describing something real

I always assumed this 1 was named after the paintbrush guy in Naruto but I actually have no sane reason to believe this

have ppl come to some sort of agreement re: which of the non-PS PSes are going to be the Software Everyone Uses or will we just send each-other every file saved as a TIFF or a JPEG. has any of them figured out CMYK

Imagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?! Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner. Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night. #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug

Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)

I finished reading A Garden of Spheres, Book 01, by Linnea Sterte! I recommend this book if you enjoy the art style (as seen on the book cover) and would enjoy an exploration of this world along with her wandering characters. /profile/decassette.bsky.social #comicsky #comics #literature

isn't this all tech rn. I feel this is the logic behind them adding AI to everything, so they can justify selling new versions of stuff despite the old ones working OK & having all the features any normal person might want/need to use

missing the sun. Ipanema sketch, last fall 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

(am slow-starting the 2nd volume, will have to take some time off to do another simon roy comic but at least some of the immortal theatre kid ppl will reappear, soon-ish. I've tried to come up w backstories for all of them)

Landscape studies in different techniques, 2020. The b+w one was a personal breakthrough for me in developing my own visual shorthand.

all the things from twin peaks are actually real. eg the little dancing man that later becomes a weird tree

that was me. I was the aching man & I feel better now. thank you

('free verse', for context)

now otoh if the technology existed to teach a real biological snail to write free verse? that'd be exciting to read. I imagine the snail in a lab. on a cabbage. with electrodes on it. & odd little poems appear on a screen; all of them abt the subjective experience of eating cabbage (as a snail)

this hypothetical person could receive a global talent visa & be legally allowed to live in London. also imagine having this much faith in your unprofitable & stupid project that no normal person likes

I finally finished Garden of Spheres last night and I am begging everyone to read this staggeringly beautiful graphic novel 🙏 The world building is so lush and truly original, the art *alone* is worth picking it up for, but I'm also a sucker for a story about unconventional gods (and one un-maker)

a few new aGoS pages are up on patreon. gonna post 1 or 2 every Sunday, in the name of holding myself accountable

observing Americans, at a distance: imho if good things happen & ppl don't use the approved left-anarchist jargon to describe what's going on, said good things happening are still good. like large scale if things are going to change in society it's prob going to be through the actions of normies

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was asked to draw this for a book sketch. went a little above and beyond my usual doodle

Maurice Leroy (1885-1973)

My big win of the week: I got my comic shop to order a whole bunch of @peow.bsky.social books, including some great @decassette.bsky.social graphic novels and Stop!! Hibari-Kun! And apparently the staff loves them. Woo!

coming up w placeholder names. my attempts at having the characters explain wtf they're on about read increasingly like video game flavor text, prob the least cryptic my writing will ever get unfortunately

graphic novels are so cool because i'll have an idea for a visual i really really want to draw and then 18-24 months later when i finally get there i'm like. whose dumb fucking idea was that