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Armando M. Zanker
@zanker.bsky.social
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🇲🇽 Multipurpose cartoonist
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poncecomics.bsky.social
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month everyone!

I hope you’ll join me today in sharing the amazing voices of Latinx creators from around the world!

If you’re a Latinx creator please tell us about yourself and show off your work!

I’ll start this off down below:)
October 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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adampknave.com
Introducing SPACE HELL a new 24pg b&w horror comic from me, @djkirkbride.bsky.social @sobreiro.bsky.social & @gofrankgo.bsky.social! Two ppl trying to survive on a space station against a bunch of Space Hellions. Click through for more info & to sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live.
Coming soon: Space Hell
An all-new 24 page one-shot comic book of creeping dread and science fiction horror in the darkness of space.
www.kickstarter.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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chrissamnee.bsky.social
BATOBER 2026 Day 4: Cozy
October 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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erli.bsky.social
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies.

#erliart
October 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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mariapicasso.com
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Idea: @geniespinosa.bsky.social
Illustrated poster of an illustrator at work. Text reads:”humans do it better”
September 25, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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comicbookyeti.com
Our friends at @sweetshop.app officially launched today!
As a beta tester myself, I've been expectantly looking forward to the platform going public. If you are looking for a new digital comics option, they are now the go to operators in the space.
Big fan. 🎉
sweetshop.app
Sweet Shop
Find your comic. Sweet Shop is the digital comic book marketplace for readers and creators.
sweetshop.app
September 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
Secret Panel HERE 👏 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/things-to-do-32419113
September 24, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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mikehynd.bsky.social
Second printing bb! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of issue 1. We’ve sold out of 200 copies of our first printing (198 as I think I lost 2), and the second printing is here! Issue 1 available at the link in bio 👌
A person holding a single issue comic book titles “Hell’s Beckoning” in front of a shelf.
September 22, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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jamescorcoran78.bsky.social
Corto done for an artist I admire who told me to keep it simple and of course still overthought it.
September 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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jontofski.bsky.social
A watercolour painting of Suomenlinna (the sea fortress off the coast of Helsinki). Painted 10 years ago this week.
A watercolour painting of Suomenlinna
September 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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dougawood.bsky.social
Update complete. I am available for Lettering, coloring and flatting. I have professional credits for flatting. Love my first opportunities for my other skills! www.jumpstartcomic.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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darrenvogtart.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar... Pre-launch page for my new comic is live!
Coming soon: Graphic Designer on a Pirate Ship: Issues 1 & 2
A workplace comedy on the high seas.
www.kickstarter.com
September 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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lesmcclaine.com
I redrew it and did clean pencils. I'm planning to do a lot with tone and color so the lines are much plainer than I'm used to doing.
finished pencils for a cover image for my comic The Shit Kids.
September 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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davidmariotte.bsky.social
Comic artists (particularly newer and mid-experience folks)! I've put together 12* stories that you can use as portfolio/skill builders!

6 2-pagers, 6 4-pagers!

2 sci-fi, 2 horror, 2 superhero, a romance/slice of life, a comedy, a mystery, a Western, a smutty one, and 1 TBD.

More info in 🧵
12 STORIES FOR COMIC ARTISTS TO PRACTICE WITH By David Mariotte A few notes from the writer: Please remember that these are all meant to be fairly simple stories. They are for practicing the art of sequential storytelling and are not a magnum opus for anyone. Focus on what is important to you--there are notes for specific color choices and the scripts include dialogue, captions, and SFX that could be lettered, but if that's not your skillset or what you want to work on, they should all work without! If you want, definitely ask someone to collaborate with you! Bring in a colorist or letterer friend to get them some practice too! These stories are meant to have enough details to help you tell the story, but also be open enough that you have a lot of flexibility to make them your own! These stories are provided for free for the purposes of building your portfolio. My only request is that you credit me and anyone else you work with correctly and that you don't sell the completed stories (it's fine to post them online for free/to include in your portfolio or website, I'm even okay if you end up putting them in a for-sale zine with a bunch of your other work as long as they're not the only or main thing in the zine) If you use AI in any capacity to create your version of these pages or you try to train an AI in any way with them (pages, script, etc), you owe me $100 million USD. Once you finish any scripts you dig, you can reach out to me at dmariottewebhost@gmail.com and we can schedule a 10-15 minute digital portfolio review. We’ll talk about the comic you made off these scripts. We can talk about some of your other work if you provide a full portfolio, your goals in comics, and how to get there. It’ll be fun and easy! 1. SCI-FI (2 PAGES) A cyberpunk hero in a bike chase across the moon. They actually works for the UPPS (United Planets Postal Service) and are delivering a package. 2. SCI-FI (4 PAGES) A girl in a car is being chased by an alien spaceship through the countryside. She does a magical girl Transformers-mation to become a mecha magi girl. The spaceship has become a mecha kaiju and they fight. The mecha magi girl wins the day, but has secretly had help from a mysterious stranger. 3. HORROR (2 PAGES) A big scary looking Michael Myers type guy hides in a closet and watches through the slats as a pair of yuppie young people come and make out in front of him. But actually, they're the killers and he was hiding and they found him and get him! 4. HORROR (4 PAGES) A person is at a big box store and is trying to get headache medicine out of one of those stupid sealed cases--pressing the button, but no one comes. A worker finally shows up, but they've got like a weird eye monster on them. The protagonist runs, looking for help, but everyone's got the eye monster. The protagonist collapses from the headache and their eye bursts out and latches itself with its new tentacles to their face. 5. SUPERHERO (2 PAGES) A car is driving way too fast in a city and a speedy hero is trying to chase it down until finally catching it and opening the door to... A pregnant woman who is about to have a baby that the hero has to rush to the hospital! 6. SUPERHERO (4 PAGES) The hero is fighting Doppelgang, a villain who can create near-identical duplicates of himself. The hero must navigate around an army of duplicates, knowing trying to fight them all would be exhausting, to get to the real one (potential double page spread). The hero gets the real Doppelgang and saves the day. 7. ROMANCE/SLICE OF LIFE (2 PAGES) A boy and a girl in parallel seem to be waking up late and rushing to get ready for school--making their lunch, barely getting their toast in their mouths--and seem to be on a collision course at the corner. When they arrive, they swap lunches, give a quick kiss, wish each other a good day and look forward to this weekend because they're actually already a couple. 8. COMEDY (2 PAGES) A parent notices the cookies are missing from the cookie jar and starts interrogating the family, with the obvious suspect being the crumb-faced little one, but then.... "J'accuse!" their spouse tries to deny it with their mouth obviously stuffed with cookies and everyone laughs. 9. MYSTERY (2 PAGES) A hardboiled detective smashes a window and begins exploring a messy apartment. After searching each room, they find keys in a trenchcoat by the door, only to call the window repairman to fix his apartment window and it ends on a "how'd this happen? it's a mystery" punchline. (Sorry this is also funny) 10. WESTERN (4 PAGES) A cowpoke is HOT in the desert and their horse is hot too, panting and trying to fan themselves. They finish their canteen and crack open a cactus for water, they walk in circles under the circling vulture trying to catch whatever shade they can. The cowpoke notices the moon just starting to come up over the horizon and lassos it. The cowpoke pulls the moon up, making it nighttime, and they both sigh in relief as its finally cool. 11. EROTICA (4 PAGES) A couple is at a park with one of them sucking on a creamsicle that melts all over their chest. They get their partner to lick it off, moving their top aside to let them suck on their nipples. Still wanting to suck on something for the creamy goodness within, the ice cream one starts giving the other head. The receiver pops all over the givers face and they both lick it up to clean up, with the giver requesting to cum a *lot* when they get home. 12. TBD (4 PAGES)
September 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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sebastianpiriz.bsky.social
the comic industry survives out of the unconditional love everybody making comics has for the medium.
September 7, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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ericpalicki.bsky.social
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
craigrousseau.bsky.social craig rousseau @craigrousseau.bsky.social · Sep 8
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
13photo.bsky.social Drea @13photo.bsky.social · Sep 8
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
September 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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dougawood.bsky.social
Now that Inheritance is out, I am working towards my next Kickstarter. I am going to try something different. Inspired by the old Marvel UK and Quality’s Warrior comic strips magazines, I will launch OMNIVERSAL.

Here is a look at a cover design I mocked up (not final) Art by Marcus Jimenez
September 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
zanker.bsky.social
With him and Matt Reeves as evidence, it would appear that looking like Jim Gordon IRL can be helpful on becoming a seminal Batman creator 🤔
comicsinthega.bsky.social Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · Sep 8
Today is the birthday of writer, editor, & artist, Archie Goodwin (Sept. 8, 1937-March 1, 1998).
A color photo of Goodwin. Creepy #1 (1964), Manhunter #1 (1984), Luke Cage: Hero for Hire #1 (1972), and Star Wars #50 (1981).
September 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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davidmariotte.bsky.social
Interest check:

Less experienced comic artists, would you find it useful to have some short (2-4 pages) scripts by a comic professional writer to practice honing your craft and be able to add to your portfolios? And then when the comics complete, get a ~15-minute portfolio review to talk about it?
September 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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charliestickney.bsky.social
Who's looking for comic cover work? I'm going to be hiring a bunch of people in 2027 and would love to expand my list of human artists.

Please include samples and/or a link to your portfolio.

NO AI or bots using other people's work please
August 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
zanker.bsky.social
I tried reading the Reacher books a couple times-- for whatever reason, nah, not for me. But as the tv series version-- Yeah, I'd watch this shit every week for the next ten years, easy
August 28, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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tozo.today
one more for my less helpful, bandage-colored series / SLK #013 (of 1000)
August 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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zanker.bsky.social
Just this once, screenshootin the hellsite. Go for it
August 24, 2026 at 4:05 AM
zanker.bsky.social
Just this once, screenshootin the hellsite. Go for it
August 24, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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scott1gray.bsky.social
I love how crazily abstract Jack Kirby got in the 80s. Even the normal buildings have been given these wild designs.
Jack Kirby's Captain Victory #6. A group of aliens come out of the ground on a busy street. Inks by Mike Thibodeaux, colours by Steve Oliff.
August 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM