We go live now to cartoonist Steve Lieber offering important advice to the next generation of comic book illustrators

New year, new pinned post: Here's some places to support me and my work: ✨Patreon: patreon.com/hannahvardit ✨Comic PDFs: hannahvardit.itch.io ✨Tip Jar: venmo.com/hannah-vardit

chickenlegs.the-comic.org #chickenlegs #webcomic New chapter is UP!! I'm sure I got a do a fix or two on those holiday pages but I'm just like Riska right now and am going to sleep

Found an old piece of original art- the first big reveal of the cast of @ryansara.bsky.social’s FLYTRAP

Celebrating the achievements of my peers like

Closeups! Acrylic on panel. #redsonja #elric #helioscopepdx

PORTLAND: Year 5 of First Friday Office Hours starts this Friday, Jan 2ⁿᵈ 4-6PM at Books W/ Pictures! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social Bring 6-8 pages of comics storytelling. I'll give you feedback based on my 30 years in comics. Details in the thread linked below: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Happy New Year! It's time for my annual tradition of donating 75% of all Gumroad+Ko-fi income to the Transgender Law Center. It's not much, but it's not nuthin! Thanks to all YOU who dropped a tip on my free Clip Studio brushes in 2025. ko-fi.com/rondanchan

No one here is having a good time.

Aw yeah starting the new year by changing the HVAC filter because this house is not going into 2026 breathing last year’s bullshit.

Going into 2026 like

Last etsy store item of 2025! The most dangerous game: Jimmy Olsen and Superman vs a gorilla. All the energy of a page from the Eisner-winning Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen series, but @stevelieberart.bsky.social is actually willing to let someone else own it. helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4433...

I'm open to working on more comics, illustrations, video games, etc next year if you or someone you know is looking for an artist (and has a budget)! Portfolio: www.behance.net/tomrogerscom...

My proudest 2025 ART accomplishment is that I kept up with Little Charlotte's Grand Adventure on a steady schedule on top of my other work (BG assistant for Steve Lieber on DC's "Metamorpho," Image's "Closer," and a yet-to-be announced proj, + other freelance gigs and commissions) #comics #comicoop

Time to retell my NYE story. 21 years ago, Sara & I were awaiting Y2K at a friend's house in rural South Carolina. The friend’s unspayed dog was in heat. At 11PM the dog got outside. Somehow it was my job to go running thru the kudzu with a flashlight, trying to find her & bring her back inside.

Day 365: What better way to bookend this year than by reprising the very first drawing I did in 2025? We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects! Thank you for being here with me ❤️

when I was starting out, (pre-internet) I asked another artist a question about buying the chemicals to make a blue line (again, very long time ago) & they said they weren't going to tell me because I was competition & that's when I decided I'd never be a dick like that to another artist

PORTLAND: Year 5 of First Friday Office Hours starts this Friday, Jan 2ⁿᵈ 4-6PM at Books W/ Pictures! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social Bring 6-8 pages of comics storytelling. I'll give you feedback based on my 30 years in comics. Details in the thread linked below: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Mark Molchan finished that Elric/Red Sonja painting, and oh my god. If you aren’t following @markmolchan.bsky.social yet, you should!

And it’s done! It’s now available at the Helioscope etsy, where your purchase will support our (redacted) in 2026! helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4433...

Working on another sketch cover for Helioscope’s etsy shop to subsidize our upcoming (redacted.) I’ve drawn George Perez’s Nightwing before, but I’m pretty sure this is my first Starfire in any of her incarnations!

Throwback to a few years ago, sending out Jimmy Olsen postcard sketches as thank-yous for contributing to the NW Immigrant Rights Project. I need to offer another round of these ASAP.

Took apart a piece of furniture for repair and learned where Spinch has been hiding all the kneaded erasers she’s stolen.

Decades of drawing professionally & I still find myself blocking in all the anatomy on figures that I know will eventually be cropped or covered by something else in the panel. I'm like Ash in Evil Dead, but it's George Bridgman possessing my hand.

Glance down at the floor and

I’ll repost this every time I see it— Caniff is one of the best to ever do it, and this is one of my all-time favorite pieces of sequential art 🥰

Original art by Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social. From a short story reprinted in UNDERGROUND. The signed & sketched tpb is available from our etsy shop: helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/5938...

Kinda grateful to the latest wave of bots for not bothering to upload banner images when they make their profiles. It makes it a LOT easier to identify them at a glance as fakes.

PORTLAND! January events at @nwmoca.bsky.social, featuring @jonathancase.bsky.social, @mirkdrop.bsky.social, @mattfraction.bsky.social, me, @kellysue.bsky.social, Lark Pien, @eric-powell-comics.bsky.social, @brianmbendis.bsky.social, @oeming.bsky.social & @takisoma.bsky.social! #pdxcomics

Two useful pieces of commercial art advice, brought to you by Munoz & Sampayo.

Throughout 2025, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs was brought to you by the generosity of Patreon backers from around the world. Sign up before the New Year and gain access to a whole backlog of exclusive episodes!

Harley Quinn 57 page 2 Original Art Rachel Dodson Inks Pencils Me For sale on Monday, 12/29, via my STORE shop.terrydodsonart.com/collections/...

(leans in and whispers) "Austin Briggs"

And before the inevitable racist and sinophobic comments that China only accomplishes this because they use thousands of low wage workers to build railways... Here's real footage of a crew of ~20 Chinese people laying more miles of high speed track in 8 minutes than California has in 18 years. 🤷🏿‍♂️

The one thing Portland has are the people who live here. Creative, eclectic, fiercely independent people who came out west to get away from the pomp and pretense of older, better run places. The people of this city make what they want to make, and help each other where they can.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Director: James Cameron Cinematography: Russell Carpenter

New Carlos Trillo/Alberto Breccia boxed set from Epicenter Comics!

I'm back on the convention circuit! If you're interested in pre-ordering a commission to pick up at Fan Expo Portland @fanexpoportland.bsky.social or ECCC @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social send me a DM and I'll give you the details!

Harley Quinn 57 page 4 Original Art Rachel Dodson Inks Pencils Me For sale on Monday, 12/29, via my STORE shop.terrydodsonart.com/collections/...

From a backup story in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, written by Jeff Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social, drawn by Colleen Coover @colleencoover.bsky.social.

Merry Christmas!! This past year I’ve mainly worked on one project: to design and implement the lobby to a newly renovated Foster Theater, a performance theater here in Portland, Oregon. 10’x20’ (main wall) acrylic paint and gold leaf. Ceiling: custom made chandelier and acrylic paint.

Hey I’ve still got some Bluesky invites. Are they collectible yet?

On the second day of Christmas, my patrons get from meee: one scary snow nymph, two circus midway denizens, Bette Davis waving radioactive papers, and other things that neither rhyme nor scan. Including a whole bunch of free-to-read webcomics! Happy Boxing Day! www.patreon.com/posts/proper...

Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more. Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights. bookriot.com/trends-in-co...

A critic, calling me out as a lefty propagandist, said I’d tried to prejudice readers against a businessman character by drawing him so fat and ugly that people would hate him. I had used myself as the model for the character, accurately copying photos that I’d posed for.

I know that advertising works because it’s 10 PM on Xmas in 2025 and I’m remembering every detail of a specific set of ads that ran in all the inflight magazines I read in the mid 1990s. The is no reason I should be able to pull Dr Chester L Karrass’ name out of the ether, and yet

Please rise for the national anthem youtu.be/uFlNZ2-vTYo?...

happy holidays from me and the spinch who stole christmas