My truest advice: luck is a much bigger factor than anyone cares to admit. Luck favours the prepared, *to an extent!* But not completely. You absolutely cannot take it personally. Take your lumps, cheer for your friends, and keep going.

I know we’re all fighting for scraps but I gotta put it out there 🫡

In case you haven’t heard, Phoenix Blade Issue 2 will be uploading every first of the month until it’s done! Follow us for news or join our Substack! Phoenixblade.substack.com

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Issue 2 is rolling out! Don't forget to follow the Substack and our webite, phoenixbladecomic.com for updates open.substack.com/pub/phoenixb...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.

More Phoenix Blade Issue 1 copies are available now!! We have 80 physical copies ready for purchase in case you couldn’t get one at CALA. Snag yours here: phoenixbladecomics-shop.bigcartel.com Link is also on our website phoenixbladecomic.com thanks ya’ll!

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I’ve curated a starter pack to make it easier to find artists working in animation on Bluesky! (If you qualify but aren’t on this list let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!) go.bsky.app/KDYTiwF

Hope everyone is having a happy holidays! We sold out of physical copies of Phoenix Blade Issue 1, but more copies will be available on the website in February after we’re able order a fresh batch. Plus, Issue 2 is coming in late 2026. See you all in the new year!

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

I just want to give her a hug ;A; Ngl, Nott is pm the reason I watch The Mighty Nein, she is also basically my character Rabyn and I love this goblin

Inside me there are three wolves: — fuck this shit, I’m quitting and moving to the forest to collect rocks — believe in yourself you can make anything. I fucking love art. — bros we gotta pay our bills

F ToonBoom. Inflation 4 wut? There r no physical products. How bout u stop updating for nothing every year and just make a decent product every five or ten. You wouldn’t need 2 increase f-ing prices this much. Btw, “prior communication” said 5%. Wtf changed greedbags? Use storyboarder it’s free.

Hey Los Angeles locals! I’ll be tabling with @najjaporter.bsky.social at Comic Arts LA this weekend. We’ll have physical copies of our comic, Phoenix Blade. I’ll also have more copies of The Brothers Boom volume 1. Stop by if you can

Indie comics ain't easy. Working very hard to make something as well as you possibly can that you know only a few people outside of yourself care about can be quite lonely, and often feels almost like a folly. Please let indie creators know you enjoy their work, it really helps.

“Comics were the first ones to punch Nazis before movies. They are inherently political. One thing they want to do is erase the past, but that’s one thing that this museum celebrates.” Guillermo del Toro at San Diego Comi-con on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Just want to boost this petition one more time. These things actually help organizers gain support in the gov. Please sign and share! chng.it/c4JZGQgJmw

awesome. so cancelling our show and putting us & hundreds of other animation workers out of work was totally pointless. great! lol

I’m excited to announce that I’m participating in the Artists for Immigrants Charity Fundraiser! This means I will be raising money for @chirla-org.bsky.social by taking art commissions! If you're interested in taking commissions, click the link below, and DM with a reciept!

just another day in the office

Finishing my third playthrough of BG3! Playing at Shadowheart was pretty cool.

Finally done with sketches for chapter one: part one of the comic!

More pages sketched!

More sketch comic pages! Didn't get as many done as I would have liked to last week, but we're still moving!

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Fuck Harry Potter.

more sketch pages 💪

Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.

I will get this first chapter of Phoenix Blade done so help me! More sketches to come.

Idk how they expect me to get any creative work done like this… anyway BG3 has been my only escape. I didn’t even have energy to finish this

There is no better time to work on your passion project because clearly nothing matters anymore

friends, please remember to support your favorite artists in the coming year if you have the means to. sharing their work, commissions, patreon, anything helps; things have been rough for literally every single one of us. i've been seeing artists get burnout in alarming numbers the last six months

I’ll be at Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social next weekend! Please swing by for physical comic books if that’s your thing

Drawing some stuff for Mother’s Day. Here’s some Storks art because I still love this movie

Started rewatching YuYu Hakusho and I couldn’t unsee it.

Show me how you draw/paint women

My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

This is what I really believe about intelligence. If you're not constantly aware that you could be wrong and that there's important stuff that you don't know — that there are ways of knowing things that come from outside your limited experience — then you're not very intelligent, by definition.

Here. I made this for you.

It’s apparently that time of year again! Happy International Asexuality Day to all my fellow Aces!! Treat yourself to some ace-cream today! 🍦💕✨

Been a while since I’ve done comics! This is part of a writing project with my partner @dashawnmahone.bsky.social

I'm copying @geneljumalon.bsky.social 's Twitter post on this subject, but I made one for Bluesky because it's so important; these simple free actions are vital to an artist's success on this and any platform.