Armando M. Zanker
@zanker.bsky.social
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🇲🇽 Multipurpose cartoonist ✉️
[email protected]
💼 behance.net/zanker
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Doug Wood
4 days ago
We have one of my most personal stories yet all wrapped up into the fantasy of super people. I hope you’ll give it a try. Art by Brendan Albetski Ink/Color by Travis James Click to be notified on launch. It helps our team so much.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
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Coming soon: Inheritance
His father amassed wealth and a criminal empire second to none and now he stands ready to inherit everything he never wanted.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1741339986/inheritance-5
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Deadhorace
6 days ago
Resharing this again because I'm still looking for some coloring work
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10 days ago
I'm looking to connect with book cover and interior layout designers for books. I work with authors to design their books and upload them to online platforms. If you have a portfolio of covers and/or interiors, solid InDesign experience, and familiarity with PDF export for print, send me a DM.
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Doug Wood
11 days ago
Could really use help spreading the word. Our new Kickstarter is in pre-launch and we are flying under the radar. Inheritance is a mix of Watchmen, Succession, Starter Villain, Knives Out and Noble Causes. A family drama wrapped in a supervillain thriller.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
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Joel Morris
20 days ago
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Public Domain Review
21 days ago
Born
#onthisday
in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe. Many illustrators have tackled Poe's dark and macabre tales but perhaps none so hauntingly and brilliantly as Irish artist Harry Clarke. See his exquisite imagery for Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...
#otd
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Oh, I have those too! Viva the Alternative Marios
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I already have three different editions of the Canon, but if there were a Illustrated by Cho Edition, I'd buy the whole damn thing again 🥲
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John Freeman
about 1 month ago
Bill Watterson, the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes”, rarely talks about his craft, but he isn’t a complete enigma. Here are some of his interviews…
https://downthetubes.net/bill-watterson-the-interviews/
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Just six days in and I'm already exhausted of this year. And I don't even mean international affairs or slop machines, just normal life. Can I please have my boring, uneventful days again
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Mav
about 1 month ago
For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
go.bsky.app/8daQmpX
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Hector Rodriguez III
about 1 month ago
Call your local comic shop and order! FOC ALERT: GIGANTE #1 published by @ampcomics / @chispacomics 💪 (W) Shane McKenzie (A/CA) JM Cuellar Chema
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Joe Eisma ECCC L09
about 1 month ago
Covers for THE OTHER/HALF #1, coming this March from
@jimmccann2.bsky.social
, myself and
@ignitionpress.bsky.social
. Cover 1 by yours truly:
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Your ol' pal Les McClaine - commissions open!
about 1 month ago
Anyway, I redid my website again. I'm making the URL I registered in 1999 into a sort of portal to whatever I'm working on. I'll probably be crossposting everything new from there over here, but you could snag that RSS feed if you felt like it
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Dave Cook
about 2 months ago
Comic pals 👋 I’m on the look out to chat with artists who do sequential work in an anime style for a potential project in 2026. Please hit me up or share if you have any recommendations.
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Charlie Stickney/ White Ash Comics
2 months ago
White Ash Comics is looking for a few human comic book COVER ARTISTS for 2026. If you want to be considered, reply with samples and/or a link to your portfolio. I will repost all legit responses.
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Gail Simone
2 months ago
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A COMIC... Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought. Share a bit of art, if you can! Sing your own praises, if you like!
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Mike Hynd
3 months ago
Hey, Thought Bubble 2025 is on! Sad to be missing it this year as it really is the best comic con in the UK (don’t tell the others) but hopefully I’ll be able to attend as a vendor next year and show everyone what myself,
@nerdigrey.bsky.social
and
@zanker.bsky.social
have been working on 👀👀👀
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
7 months ago
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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javier grillo-marxuach
3 months ago
hey
#screenwriting
#screenwriter
who writes
#tv
and
#film
- have you ever wondered how a great writer creates unforgettable characters? ME TOO! sadly, all you get is my latest essay in which i break down how i cope with what i see as my weakest suit!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...
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I Am Insecure About My Character(s) - Uncanny Magazine
Great characters are the cornerstone of storytelling. For a story to work, the audience must bond in a meaningful way with a cast of fully realized individuals whose actions and conflicts create drama...
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am-insecure-about-my-characters/
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Brian LaRossa
3 months ago
Hey illustrators/agents! I’m a
#kidlit
art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS! Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️
#artcommissions
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Gabriel Hardman
3 months ago
The final order cutoff for my Black Label comic BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA #1 is this Monday 11/3. If you want a copy tell your comics shop to preorder. Colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettering by
@simonbowland.bsky.social
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Jarred Luján
3 months ago
Presenting: NO MORE BLADES IN YUCATÁN. Available now:
ko-fi.com/jarredlujan
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Andrew Leamon 🔜 C2E2
4 months ago
Comic book writers, comment below with your portfolio! Let's give hiring editors an easy place to find us.
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Wocco
4 months ago
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Mahmud Asrar 🪲
4 months ago
Way to go,
@jimlee.bsky.social
and DC Comics! Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward.
bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...
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"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Art"- Jim Lee
"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Artwork" - transcript and video of Jim Lee's speech at New York Comic Con
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-will-not-support-ai-generated-storytelling-or-art-jim-lee/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawNUNnBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHorDFxqW5eMwPRuIVu2FySpPL2wSyIqA9zW-nWdatLH0rSOoD4fTzn9-l_G6_aem_e90qyk0Dn6QQ8BhBycSNuw
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Dan Whitehead
4 months ago
The more I curate my social media experience - reducing platforms, trimming followers, switching off notifications, posting less - the more I realise that what I'm inevitably working towards is just not having any social media at all.
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Hector Rodriguez III
4 months ago
Explore culturally rich stories by Latino creators on GlobalComix’s iOS/Android apps or website. Let’s celebrate Hispanic heritage together! 💪
#ChispaComics
#GlobalComix
#HispanicHeritageMonth
#LatinoStories
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Dan Whitehead
9 months ago
AI evangelists are archetypal "Ideas Guys". The ones who are convinced they've come up with the best movie/comic/game concept ever, but just need actual talented people to make it for them. The inevitable lack of interest from creatives is, in their mind, the reason they've never succeeded.
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Jamie Smart
4 months ago
I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡
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Chris Schweizer
5 months ago
Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.
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Doug Wood
5 months ago
So grateful the Yeti team took the time to help me out with an interview. The incomparable Jimmy was kind to lead me through it, even as I had some struggles with my memory. Give it a listen and consider backing
@viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social
and my Kickstarter!
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Steve Horton is writing a SPACE graphic novel & runs MST3K.fan
5 months ago
The hits keep coming! My wife’s in the ER for low heart rate and unexplained abdominal pain. And our new insurance doesn’t kick in until Oct 1. Here comes a wave of huge hospital bills. Anything helps. Thanks skeeters.
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Micah
5 months ago
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Mo Ali | مح علي
5 months ago
If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.
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Steve Horton is writing a SPACE graphic novel & runs MST3K.fan
5 months ago
Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a
signed Bowie book
or wants to
subscribe to my movie Patreon
at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!
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Brian LaRossa
5 months ago
Hey
#kidlit
illustrators! We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️
#artcommissions
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Doug Wood
5 months ago
I like to write crime stories and about superheroes. UltraMax is a fun mash up of those two spaces. A prison drama set in a world with super powered criminals that is focusing on the struggles with dealing with wilder personalities. Live on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
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Luis Sopelana
5 months ago
Dibujé una historia escrita por Abraham Martínez para esta antología, que hoy arranca su fondeo. ¡Cómics!
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Doug Wood
5 months ago
Do you like crime stories like Criminal, That Texas Blood or Newburn? Do you like supervillain drama stories like the original Suicide Squad run? Well do I have a comic for you! Please consider backing today!!!
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javier grillo-marxuach
5 months ago
there’s been this delightful stream of appreciation for the middleman since the archive put it up, and it is incredibly gratifying and satisfying at a time when it is much needed. i’m deeply grateful. truly, my heart is filled with love and art crawl.
@lesmcclaine.com
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TrevorAMueller 🔜 C2E2
5 months ago
Looking for an artist who wants to draw some wild and crazy comics with me. Paying gig. Opportunity to pitch it to publishers - but we can also self publish. Show me portfolio links, please!
#comics
#indiecomics
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Jarred Luján
5 months ago
NO MORE BLADES IN YUCATÁN PREVIEW.
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Doug Wood
5 months ago
UltraMax 2 coming 9/16! A former star superhero has found himself locked up with the same criminals he and mentor fought so hard against. How long until they realize who he is and how long until his addiction leads him down a path he cannot forgive?
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Heidi MacDonald
5 months ago
In case you missed it over the holiday, the US comics market is in deep deep shit.
www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-th...
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The story that should terrify the American comics industry
A profile of Shonen Jump reveals that US publishers have no systems in place to generate the same kind of success
https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-that-should-terrify-the-american-comics-industry/
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Courtney Milan
6 months ago
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Sandy Jarrell
6 months ago
Happy
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David Mariotte
6 months ago
Sharing my response to the guy I just yelled at on LinkedIn over his question of "why can't indie comics talk about ethical uses of AI?" TLDR, doesn't exist. But if you're looking for talking points...
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