Light novel is prose plus manga/comic style illustrations? Not a hybrid-or illustrated book-the images weave into narrative? Rad

Maybe figured out fog

My Xmas reading and rereading stack…guess I’m not quite over noir

Fog take 2

Last nights noir challenge-fog in black and white

Back in the day (almost 20 yrs ago) I wanted to make all ages books, but then I got a lot of gigs doing noir (Lucky!) but I think now I want to go back and revisit kids books. Before I get too old-turn 50 next year! So my 2026 resolution is more kids stuff. Unless no one buys it then-more noir! Lol

As an AI discourse palette cleanser here are some muppets my kid made

Comics: That guy uses AI, maybe? That guy has always sucked That guy is dumb we hate him. Also we hate this guy. And that guy. I am not a fan of AI but there are people on the other end of those pages too. Critique the work, don’t buy the work, but that’s someone’s dad/spouse/etc.

Just heard the term BROMANTASY And it’s all I want to do now

Now that I have a teen daughter I’m realizing how MANY books are geared for her (female leads/adventures) as opposed to boys. It’s like when my boys were reading comics and I struggled to find some for her. There are crime fiction/fantasy/romance/etc I want to write romantasy for boys

Can anyone give me info on fan expo New Orleans? I’d love to go one year but need details? Good show?

Comic book folk love a good witch hunt. It’s near to see people who were being hunted last month for some inocuous thing now hunting others for some silly thing. If you don’t like a book/work/ don’t buy it, give it a bad review and move on. Just my 2 cents

Young adult noir that almost happened with Ace Arkins

Someone let me draw this absolute Robin series I love teen titans go

Someone should make one of these for mainstream comics (big 2, etc)

All bangers no skips.

Noir

Trying to be Bill Peet today

Today’s experiment

Comic book writers Remember 1 action per panel Batman cannot open a door and sit down in the same panel

I think for the sake of my sanity I need to start a good journal regime-either written or drawn. Any suggestions on how to start? Prompts? Best journals? Books/podcasts?

Anyone do daily journaling or diary comics? Whats your plan? How do you stay consistent?

Recent inspiration Max conner Stone Martin Jack potter

Texture/mood experiments

Texture/mood experiments

www.marcofinnegan.com/work/moment-... Not for nothing but I have some sequential pages on my site that I’m pretty happy with

Today’s experiment

I’d like to do a rom com one day

Doodle

One more experiment This is a memory sketch-the tree on the outside of my apartment complex growing up. I would climb the fence and swing on the tree.

Doodle break between grading and noir comics

Doodle break between grading and noir comics

Redoing the studio this month-anyone have good recommendations for pen/paper storage solutions? Other than strewn about

Is there another crime fictional series that has as many books as Parker’s SPENSER-Spenser is at over 50 and counting

Golden Age Vigilante in a gritty crime miniseries spanning from Spade Cooley to Jimmy Widener and Stringbean Akeman (or analogs thereof), and then going up against the Dixie Mafia in his twilight years. Drawn by @marcofinnegan.bsky.social

Noiring it up

Kid Renee “THE ?” Montoya written by @kamigarcia.bsky.social or @definitelyvita.bsky.social (or BOTH!!)

Best books on color theory? I have these

A few sketches I did at Latino comic expo today

Remarques for Latino comic con

All done

Work in progress

One of the most important books in my life-not growing up with a dad makes this book very relatable and almost fills gaps about adulthood that I didn’t know I was missing as a kid…and there’s fights and stuff

Rereading a lot of Parker’s Spenser books and realizing that if it wasn’t for Parker I would be making comics. I did these doodles over a decade ago and shared with Ace atkins who was writing Spenser-that led to making Nick travers comics and my career

Hilarious and true But also why I hope to do more graphic novels

Tried it with a bit of color Hmmmm

I think there may be something here Style wise

Trying to find the sweet spot between these 2 styles That is where happiness may live

I don’t get a chance to exercise my inner Gen X bitch very often since I don’t have a day job but sometimes…. P.S. Buy @marcofinnegan.bsky.social ‘s Calavera, P.I. book. It’s good I promise despite the low res Google images.

Real good!