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Rob Silver and Rowyn Golde, a married duo creating plushies, movies, games, décor, comics, and more!
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TeamManticore.com @teammanticore.bsky.social · Sep 22
Who is Team Manticore?
teammanticore.com

We are a couple creating
• comics
• novels
• tabletop games (card/tile/board)
• movies
• plush animals (that benefit charity)
• jewelry
• artwork, stickers, pins

We also post videos to YouTube documenting our processes: www.youtube.com/@artofteamma...
teammanticore.bsky.social
If you can see this, post your green art 🪴💚

...I'm sure there's better examples, but this is what I've got on my phone 🍏
October 6, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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kriswolfhe.art
society if puritans hadn't effectively convinced multiple generations that Women Don't Get Horny
future utopia
October 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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artmuffinstudio.bsky.social
Some of my Pages from the Book of gosh are now hanging at Mill Gallery in North Amherst, MA. Slide in and check it out if you get a chance. There's a lot of really great art hanging in the gallery. I'm honored to be among such talent.

#pioneervalleyart
October 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
teammanticore.bsky.social
We misjudged and wouldn't get the large blank eyes to paint for the bats in time, so I had to sew on something, and what I came up with is... something?

See them in person this weekend at The 6th Annual Halloween Twilight Market!

(It'll be at the Washington Park Lake House in Albany, NY)
October 6, 2026 at 1:19 AM
teammanticore.bsky.social
Teeny tiny Halloween Trick or Treat buckets make some cute earrings 🎃

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj6I...
Let's Make Jack O' Lantern Earrings!
YouTube video by Art of Team Manticore
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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timgaedke.com
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
September 24, 2026 at 7:11 AM
teammanticore.bsky.social
This was part of a collection of "Eureka" themed comics done for the @cartoonist.coop!

More House Frightdorable comics about cute animals in very human situations: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ho...

Help me make more comics via Patreon: www.patreon.com/teammanticore
A four panel black and white comic. Panel one: A black cat named Skye walking by pillars and stone. The caption reads, “The Brave Cat Explorer searches within the ancient ruins for priceless treasures...” Panel two: Skye points at a cat shaped sarcophagus and says, “A mummy!” Panel three: Skye and a cat/humanoid mummy point at each other while declaring, “Eureka!“ Panel four: The mummy has his hand on Skye's shoulder, and her tail is wrapped around his shoulder. Skye says while smiling, “He's an old friend.” The mummy smiles and says, “And she's a treasure!” Black cat peeking out of the top of a Jack O'Lantern, "Hey! Wanna see comics a couple days early, get desktop wallpapers every month, AND see behind-the-scenes peeks, all while supporting an artist you love?" "Support me on Patreon! Patreon.com/TeamManticore (It's linked here!)"
October 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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jessfink.bsky.social
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
October 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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findchaos.bsky.social
I miss the days when you could just plug in a device or download a program and it didn't take YOUR ENTIRE NIGHT to download updates, manually find drivers, two-factor authenticate from the fucking moon, and still have to fight the "smart" devices into submission. Wtf happened, technology?
September 27, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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lubellwoo.bsky.social
Oh ho ho, I'm joining the fine folks at @crucialcomix.bsky.social on October 11th for an artist talk about STAYING SANE WHILE DRAWING GREAT BIG GRAPHIC NOVELS. Sliding scale, nerdy spreadsheets and coping strategies guaranteed. See you there? www.crucialcomix.com/product/arti...
Artist Talk: Lucy Bellwood
The adventure cartoonist shares strategies for staying focused while working on long-term, land-locked graphic novels.
www.crucialcomix.com
September 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
yes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters"
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7d
"Making day care free, while offering nothing to stay-at-home parents, appeals to the educated, urban, affluent voters who have come to make up the Democratic base, but not to the electorate at large," Marc Novicoff argues:
The Problem With Democrats' Favorite Policy Proposal
Universal child care appeals to the party's cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country.
bit.ly
September 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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cartoonist.coop
Are you and your webcomic affected by the impending Tapas shutdowns? In light of recent events, the CartUn journal has published a new guide on webcomic hosting and moving platforms.

journal.cartoonist.coop/webcomic-hos...
September 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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edidin.bsky.social
I've had this shirt for sale for longer than LLMs have been a Big Thing; but it's still a "fuck you" to them. www.teepublic.com/hoodie/23562...
make bad art by chekhovsraygun
you have permission
www.teepublic.com
September 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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troyponce.bsky.social
Instead of identifying a problem and creating a product to solve it, the tech industry has been desperately grasping for anything the failed products they invested in can possibly do. They call themselves "makers" and "builders" but they're just gambling addicts chasing losses on a massive scale.
wolven.blacksky.app Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 8d
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up. Absolutely wild. 1/2 [Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):] Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.] $10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door. 10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse. I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there? [reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me [Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and… Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy: Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door Dangerous and creepy This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman 4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
September 28, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
September 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
teammanticore.bsky.social
Whether you're a believer or a skeptic, I drew a ghost story!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33z5...
#ghoststory #ghosts
A Massachusetts Ghost Story
YouTube video by Art of Team Manticore
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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canopyrobin.com
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)!

Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
September 25, 2026 at 10:05 AM
teammanticore.bsky.social
Soon, spoopy season starts!

More House Frightdorable comics about cute animals in very human situations: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ho...

Help me make more comics via Patreon: www.patreon.com/teammanticore

#webcomics #hottubs
Hot Tub Time! Skye the cat is in the hot tub, which is outside. She says, "I am the happiest soup." Black cat peeking out of the top of a Jack O'Lantern, "Hey! Wanna see comics a couple days early, get desktop wallpapers every month, AND see behind-the-scenes peeks, all while supporting an artist you love?" "Support me on Patreon! Patreon.com/TeamManticore (It's linked here!)"
September 25, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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leaflet.pub
Make a Leaflet blog for your comic today!

Learn more about us here:
lab.leaflet.pub/3mtz2mbkozs2c

And check out the get started tutorial here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQlh...
Leaflet FAQ
What even is a leaflet???
lab.leaflet.pub
September 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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biginsanehappy.bsky.social
We used to have antitrust laws and so forth.
September 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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jametc.bsky.social
jesus christ.
the new president of the university is closing down the biggest, oldest repository of fossils, specimens and artifacts with a single month's notice because I guess, archaeology is too woke or something? where the fuck is it all going to go? into the bin?

get mad about it:
satanicwren.bsky.social Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 12d
Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
youtu.be
September 24, 2026 at 2:23 AM
teammanticore.bsky.social
Happy Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day!
I (Rowyn) and Skye the cat from House Frightdorable are both bi!

The comic updates every Friday on Webtoon, or you can get the books here: teammanticore.com/collections/...

#BisexualVisibilityMonth #BiVisibility #BisexualPride #BiVisibilityDay
A black cat holding a large rainbow flag, with a bow on one ear that has the bisexual flag colors.
September 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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antlervel.vet
This is a great initiative—a donated dollar can erase a hundred dollars of medical debt. Not sure I’ve mentioned it before but my old medical debt was erased by a similar group! Please consider sharing and donating a few scrams if you’re able.
September 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM