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Allison O'Toole
@allisonmotoole.bsky.social
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Editor of Ignatz & Eisner award-winning books. Publisher of @balustradepress.bsky.social. Kickstarter Community Advisory Council Member. She/her.
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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · Feb 7
Hi, I'm Allison O'Toole, I edit comics! I've done work in the small press and direct market comics spaces. I love to work with creators to make their comics the best they can be, and I love stories in any setting that focus on character & empathy.
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titsay.bsky.social
all the love you gave away will find its way back to you
September 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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nautiluscarly.bsky.social
Help! My baby is very ill, fighting for his life.💔 He needs medication & continuous inhalation sessions. We urgently need £200.

Pls dont let us down.😞

Molly Shah✅
🌟 tinyurl.com/Support-my-f...

❤️ #MutualAid ❤️
Baby Aser looking very ill in a hospital bed with an iv in his arm Baby Aser looking very ill in a hospital bed with an iv in his arm
September 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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mashazart.bsky.social
my article about artist's alley is up at @fansplaining.bsky.social today!
thank you to everyone who talked to me about their AA experiences for this piece and let me use their photos
fansplaining.com/the-death-of...
The Death of the Artist Alley?
For smaller artists, increased costs and outsized merchandise expectations are putting convention-selling out of reach.
fansplaining.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
allisonmotoole.bsky.social
Abdullah needs funds to pay for Sham's kindergarten. Please share and donate to his campaign to support her!

gofund.me/54529f007
A kindergarten-age girl sits in her school in Gaza sitting with illustrations on the all behind her, and food and stuffed animals around her
September 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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cartoonist.coop
Want to join our monthly lettering challenge but don't know how? Start with this free beginner-friendly font making workshop with Sara Linsley, available on our YouTube library!
cartoonist.coop Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · Jul 29
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our font making workshop! The recording is now up on our YouTube channel for all to watch 🖤

youtu.be/wvdv1bmhYtU
September 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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michiums.bsky.social
COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! I had to shell out $$$ because my current laptop is dying and I have deadlines that I need to get done asap — shares are appreciated!

COMMISSION FORM: forms.gle/gZiWX9V3JZUb...
Illustration of aki and angel from chainsaw man with commissions being open due to a emergency laptop replacement and already high credit card debt is increasing due to needing to get work done Illustration of baba yaga with the house on chicken feet and a moody sky in the background
September 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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mmatelonek.bsky.social
The Library of Memories @mustachebabs.com @lazyfishy.bsky.social is a beautiful, bittersweet & compelling GN. The writer & artist capture a whimsical feel that we can capture/understand with emotions & memories. Good messaging & expressions this book is a great read
-Animation I made for fun from cv
September 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
Graphic design is my passion.
Buy my wares.
September 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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chlowski.bsky.social
"Dans la solitude, j'ai ressenti la liberté dont vous parliez. Mais j'ai senti aussi que vous me manquiez."
study of a shot from french movie Portrait of a lady on fire, close shot of the two character on the shore, ocean behind them, Héloïse looking angrily at Marianne, who's viewed from behind
September 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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egallagher.bsky.social
Psychopomp
An illustration of a huge spectral black wolf looming over a cemetery, collecting tiny ghosts that float up from the bones beneath the gravestones
September 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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readingdanger.bsky.social
Do you wish there were a printable pamphlet that quickly explains the Harry Potter boycott to people who are out of the loop?

Well now there is! Free to print for non-commercial uses.

(TLDR Rowling proudly funds anti rights lawsuits with your purchase.)

www.friendlyexplanation.com/storage/329/...
September 3, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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nautiluscarly.bsky.social
🆘 Mahmoud is slowly dying. My daughters are sick. We have no food, no medicine, and no safe place to stay.

Every day I tell my daughters that tomorrow might be better.

I don’t know how many tomorrows we have left.

Please don’t scroll past us as if we don’t exist. 💔😭

🌟 chuffed.org/project/omsh...
Three sad sisters sitting on a blanket. The youngest in the middle appears to be crying A man sleeping in a hospital bed with both his legs completely bandaged and strapped
September 14, 2026 at 12:19 PM
allisonmotoole.bsky.social
Abdullah and his family are struggling to find a stable place to live. Please share and donate to support him and his two children!
allisonmotoole.bsky.social Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · Aug 5
Sham, Abdullah's daughter, wants to go to kindergarten! Please share and donate to their campaign to support her going to school: gofund.me/82161b249
September 14, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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mariellewrites.bsky.social
Just three days to go to back 'Malicious Intent', @mortiscausa.bsky.social book of murder and misdeeds, in our @bluefoxcomics.com #Kickstarter!

Don't miss out!
With Malicious Intent: A Murder & Misdeeds Comic Anthology
Five stories of murder and misdeeds inspired by the depths of history.
www.kickstarter.com
September 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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danielgwilson.bsky.social
FYI: you can find a great selection of hard to find African films on here in addition numerous other regions. Love this site
September 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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hannahtempler.com
Seems this is going around!! Listen, I'm at SPX this weekend selling Cosmoknights books 1 & 2, if you wanna come say hi and get some great books!! my girlfriend is with me selling gay wizard comics!! we also have a minions zine we made together!!!

table W16a
avaayers.bsky.social Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 7d
My heart hurts:

"There was this TV show based on this comic book “Cosmoknights” that I was going to direct, and it was from me and Emily Andras, who made “Wynonna Earp.” It’s “Star Wars” with lesbians in space. Amy Poehler was producing it, and we pitched it all around town [...] everybody passed."
thefanbaseweekly.bsky.social THE FANBASE WEEKLY Podcast @thefanbaseweekly.bsky.social · 7d
Variety: Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of THE MATRIX and How HARRY POTTER Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’ variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
September 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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boneyhag.bsky.social
what causes this? well..
a large cyan bubble reads: Event organizers that aren’t curating vendor spaces, prioritizing broad appeal over focused markets. and charging vendors way too much, forcing vendors to do what it takes to break even. a medium magenta bubble reads: Event goers that are resistant to engaging with original works, and create a market where big IP is what sells. You are more complicit in this than you think you are. a small yellow bubble reads: Vendors who focus on big IP because it sells better. and shotgun applying to events even if they’re not a good fit an arrow pointing to where the 3 bubbles intersects reads: Capitalism obviously, But the nuance here is how all 3 groups have the power to resist it if we work together
September 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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discordcomics.bsky.social
It's alive!

Discord Comics are seeking applications for a bisexual erotic comics anthology for Kickstarter Summer 2027.

www.discordcomics.com/Shop/wordpre...

Submissions open 1st September to 15th October
lighting bolt over a purple background with text that reads 'It's Alive! Submissions are now open for Bite: a bisexual erotic comic anthology from 1st september to 15th october'
September 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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thelocal.to
“Some of us just happen to love urban life,” writes @alisonmotluk.bsky.social. “And to make this large, disparate, teeming place livable, functional, safe, and fun, we sometimes need to do things that less urban communities do not.” thelocal.to/toronto-city...
Doug Ford vs. Toronto | The Local
Good news: your community elected a councillor and even a mayor who share your vision for the city. Then the province steps in.
thelocal.to
September 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
My blurb: marvelously conjures an unnamed, post-revolution country that flickers between our reality & dream, using it as a canvas to paint a delicate, deeply compelling psychosexual portrait of humans & cultures fracturing in the aftermath of a fallen dictatorship... 1/2
September 11, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit.

We were silent.

As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
September 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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clareblackwood.bsky.social
Some thoughts:

-Toronto crime is down
-Toronto homelessness is down
-Cops don't solve crime
-Union Station is fine
-It's FINE
-Jesus Christ
-Why is everything about cops with this dude
-Stop trying to scare your way into office
-Please don't elect this fucking guy

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Brad Bradford says he will put a Toronto police outpost in Union Station if he’s elected mayor | CBC News
Brad Bradford has promised a Toronto police outpost at Union Station as part of his mayoral campaign platform.
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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wastedwings.bsky.social
Looking for coloring work with an Oct/ Nov start!
wastedwings.bsky.social Kelly Fitzpatrick @wastedwings.bsky.social · Jan 15
Hey #portfolioday! I'm a queer, agender, disabled #colorist who has been working in the industry for over a decade! My portfolio can be found here including pdf of pages: www.kellyfempire.com/p/published-...
Shade the Changing Girl. Giant hands floating playing checkers while Shade and Rac Shade are seen walking and talking on a giant checker board. There is a rainbow madness gradient across the top of the image. Rac shade has slightly darker hands with a black checker piece while Shade has light blue long fingernails playing with the red piece. Shade is wearing a long red bodysuit with black chelsea boots and a rainbow madness coat and Rac Shade is shoeless with black pants, a white shirt (like his classic shirt w/ the 3 yellow circles) and his classic madness coat with white madness. The board has a glitch pattern on it and Shade's face is glitched out HUGE in the background behind the giant hands. X-men from the 2023 Marvel Pride Issue. 4 X-men are training in the jungle on the beach. Bishop is talking to a hologram on a communicator. Starsigns. Northern lights w/ a blonde character in the snow talking to a scientist inputting data. Ride On. Horses and their owners getting ready at a stable before a horse shoe. A black boy, ginger white girl and a white girl with honey blonde natural roots grown long with teal blue ends are talking before they ride.
September 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
I think fandom fixation on characters has a lot in common with the worldview of incels, where the thing they constantly perform desire for (a story featuring Their Fave/A relationship with a woman, respectively) actually threatens their self-image and can't be permitted.
September 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM