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JB Shear
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Hi! I’m a cartoonist from North Carolina. I’m making a folk-fantasy comic called Inoscularum. I’ve also done some other comics, which you can read at the link below.

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Doodled some Ariadnes while sitting out under the moon
#inoscularum
Some doodles of Ariadne being a silly goose
July 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Hear ye, hear ye!! September news!! September news!!

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A Spiffy New September Newsletter!
Happy Autumn, everybody! I hope you’re all enjoying some cooler temperatures and some pumpkin-flavored things including but not limited to actual pumpkins!...
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September 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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From a comic I started and didn’t finish because I realized it’s actually way too easy for the political cartoon you’re making to suddenly become terrible
Me kicking elon musk in the crotch while he exclaims, “muh birthrates!”
September 28, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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I’m sorry but uh, no shit, Sherlock??
Nyt article headline and tagline: The Working Class Face a 'Class Ceiling' in Elite Occupations Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
September 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Kind of hard to pick 9! Honorable mentions are Mob Psycho, Honey & Clover, Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Princess Jellyfish, & Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
9koma grid- Land of the Lustrous, March Comes in Like A Lion, Beastars, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki Kun, Nausicäa, Drifting Classroom, Fruits Basket, and Shiver (put here as a catch-all for basically all of Junji Ito’s works but especially his short stories)
September 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Biggest little free library find of all time???????
It’s NIMONA!!!!!!! When I was a teenager, reading ND stevenson’s comics and reading kate beaton’s comics were some of the most inspiring things to me
September 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Ellie and Tina
Drawing of Ellie and Tina from Meeting Comics in marker and colored pencil. They're wearing matching jumpsuits
September 25, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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wahOOOOOOOOO it’s here!!!!!
2 copies of Inoscularum #1, the comic book I’ve been making for the last 2 years
September 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Well here’s a new one: today a customer said “I’m as upset as if someone just killed my child” because her order wasn’t ready yet
September 23, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Walking home from the drugstore comix
“So I heard this crazy podcast today… it was called something like, ‘the wacky religion behind the ai boom?’” “Oh god, rationalism? Euch.” Wha-yeah! That’s it! So like, what’s the deal with it?” “It’s basically a belief system that turns you into a human ulcer.” “It’s hard to explain, I don’t even totally get it myself. All these tech guys are into it, and it’s about, like… So you know that guy I dated for four years who was horrible? I think he was a rationalist. He would send me all these reddit posts… self-serious but ultimately pointless variations on the trolley dilemma… ‘look at this snuff image or youre not enlightened…’ ‘difficult truths’ that are really just conservative talking points… And when I heard rationalism described to me once, it instantly made me think of those posts. It’s like life is a video game to them, but not one they even have fun playing.” Like, they wanna have tons of sex but they don’t even like it. It’s like they’re just trying to boost their stats, grind for exp! They think everyone around them is a mob of npcs. Weird… And they’re OBSESSED with the white birth rate. Of course these rationalists, these self-important open sores of human beings, think that 1)they can make a “superintelligence,” 2) if they make it, it will want to wipe out humanity. They have no imagination! A superintelligent being that had no physical body, that wouldn’t age or die… obviously it would figure out how to make itself portable and see the universe and learn as much as it could! But these ketamine-addicted manbabies are completely uncurious. What scares me isn’t that they’ll make a killer machine god. It’s that they’re “aligning” this technology they do have with these ideals. Their technology isn’t unbiased at all. A tiny handful of misanthropic nerd boys,deciding what kind of slop propaganda gets put out there. Who keeps their job and who gets fucked. Holding this threat of “superintelligence” and infrastructure hacks over our heads until they get what they want. So uh, yeah. Long story short, rationalism is a philosophy that makes you okay with doing that kind of horse shit. Buncha Freakin’ NERDS. Wanna play scattergories? Yeah. :)
September 19, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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omggggg I love weezer <3
an embroidery mockup with a bunch of guys lined up on a solid background
September 22, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Blind Alley No. 445
September 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Watching a movie with my mom
September 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The Devils… director’s cut…. rereleased in the united states…. I can’t imagine a more important “cinematic event,” this is seriously incredible!!! Never has a movie from England in the 1970s about some stuff that happened in France in the 1630s been more relevant to stuff happening in the US today
September 20, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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What in the Urbain Grandier am I looking at here
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11d
“you get those photos for the weed communion wafers ad?”

“sure did, boss. real sexy, just like you asked.”
September 20, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Reposting at not 2 AM lol
jbshear.bsky.social JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12d
Walking home from the drugstore comix
“So I heard this crazy podcast today… it was called something like, ‘the wacky religion behind the ai boom?’” “Oh god, rationalism? Euch.” Wha-yeah! That’s it! So like, what’s the deal with it?” “It’s basically a belief system that turns you into a human ulcer.” “It’s hard to explain, I don’t even totally get it myself. All these tech guys are into it, and it’s about, like… So you know that guy I dated for four years who was horrible? I think he was a rationalist. He would send me all these reddit posts… self-serious but ultimately pointless variations on the trolley dilemma… ‘look at this snuff image or youre not enlightened…’ ‘difficult truths’ that are really just conservative talking points… And when I heard rationalism described to me once, it instantly made me think of those posts. It’s like life is a video game to them, but not one they even have fun playing.” Like, they wanna have tons of sex but they don’t even like it. It’s like they’re just trying to boost their stats, grind for exp! They think everyone around them is a mob of npcs. Weird… And they’re OBSESSED with the white birth rate. Of course these rationalists, these self-important open sores of human beings, think that 1)they can make a “superintelligence,” 2) if they make it, it will want to wipe out humanity. They have no imagination! A superintelligent being that had no physical body, that wouldn’t age or die… obviously it would figure out how to make itself portable and see the universe and learn as much as it could! But these ketamine-addicted manbabies are completely uncurious. What scares me isn’t that they’ll make a killer machine god. It’s that they’re “aligning” this technology they do have with these ideals. Their technology isn’t unbiased at all. A tiny handful of misanthropic nerd boys,deciding what kind of slop propaganda gets put out there. Who keeps their job and who gets fucked. Holding this threat of “superintelligence” and infrastructure hacks over our heads until they get what they want. So uh, yeah. Long story short, rationalism is a philosophy that makes you okay with doing that kind of horse shit. Buncha Freakin’ NERDS. Wanna play scattergories? Yeah. :)
September 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
jbshear.bsky.social
Walking home from the drugstore comix
“So I heard this crazy podcast today… it was called something like, ‘the wacky religion behind the ai boom?’” “Oh god, rationalism? Euch.” Wha-yeah! That’s it! So like, what’s the deal with it?” “It’s basically a belief system that turns you into a human ulcer.” “It’s hard to explain, I don’t even totally get it myself. All these tech guys are into it, and it’s about, like… So you know that guy I dated for four years who was horrible? I think he was a rationalist. He would send me all these reddit posts… self-serious but ultimately pointless variations on the trolley dilemma… ‘look at this snuff image or youre not enlightened…’ ‘difficult truths’ that are really just conservative talking points… And when I heard rationalism described to me once, it instantly made me think of those posts. It’s like life is a video game to them, but not one they even have fun playing.” Like, they wanna have tons of sex but they don’t even like it. It’s like they’re just trying to boost their stats, grind for exp! They think everyone around them is a mob of npcs. Weird… And they’re OBSESSED with the white birth rate. Of course these rationalists, these self-important open sores of human beings, think that 1)they can make a “superintelligence,” 2) if they make it, it will want to wipe out humanity. They have no imagination! A superintelligent being that had no physical body, that wouldn’t age or die… obviously it would figure out how to make itself portable and see the universe and learn as much as it could! But these ketamine-addicted manbabies are completely uncurious. What scares me isn’t that they’ll make a killer machine god. It’s that they’re “aligning” this technology they do have with these ideals. Their technology isn’t unbiased at all. A tiny handful of misanthropic nerd boys,deciding what kind of slop propaganda gets put out there. Who keeps their job and who gets fucked. Holding this threat of “superintelligence” and infrastructure hacks over our heads until they get what they want. So uh, yeah. Long story short, rationalism is a philosophy that makes you okay with doing that kind of horse shit. Buncha Freakin’ NERDS. Wanna play scattergories? Yeah. :)
September 19, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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Book 2 is shaping up to be probably 10 pages longer than book 1, but hopefully since I’m faster at like every part of making comics it won’t take that much longer than book 1 to make…. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
September 18, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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book soon book soon book soon………
jbshear.bsky.social JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 21d
(weakly and pathetically but also triumphantly) w-wyaaahhhhhuuuuuuooooooooooooooooooo…
The cover for Inoscularum #1 in a preview window on my computer , I uh, I guess it’s done?
September 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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갈대밭의 두마리
September 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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🕺🐶✨
September 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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I see people talk about this a lot and I guess I’ve just been lucky to have never come across this? The largest indie comic/zine show I’ve done is FLUKE, and they’re awesome about having height restrictions on displays, making sure your table is at least 50% comics and/or zines, etc.
feathernotes.bsky.social Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 18d
So... can we talk about this
a digital drawing of two booths at an 'indie comics show'. one on the left featuring fanart print walls and the one on the right selling comics
September 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Wow… first weekend in like 2 years where I haven’t had “I should be working on my book” lurking in the back of my mind… what a wild feeling!
September 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Things I was frightened of as a child:

1. That ET would appear at the foot of my bed and just stand there
2. Feathers McGraw (with a drill)
3. The idea of heaven/eternity
4. Falling in the toilet (happened)
5. That The Grinch was going to cut off my butt with an axe while I was sleeping (???)
wanderlane.bsky.social Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 19d
Things I was frightened of as a child:

1. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
2. A drawing of a jack in the box (or a devil puppet? or Punch?) in a German activity / coloring book my mom had
3. Dogs that chased me
4. The lizard baby from V: the Final Battle
5. Hell
elainemwill.bsky.social E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 19d
Things I was frightened of as a child:

1. Vampires
2. Aliens/UFOs
3. Mickey's Christmas Carol
4. Unsolved Mysteries
5. "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog."
September 12, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Yeeaaaaaaaaah just sent all of my files… to the printer! Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah wahooooooooooooooooooo (instantly falls asleep)
September 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM