Jim Demonakos

@jimdemonakos.bsky.social

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Convention Director of @lightboxexpo.com and Film Director of Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (streaming free now on Amazon/Tubi/YouTube)

Poster for the new The Ghost In The Shell anime series
A screenshot from the digital comics app Hoopla saying "X-Men: Don't Know Where to Start? Neither Do We"
Movie poster for I Love Boosters
Comic Con Oakland artwork by Steve Lieber
David & Julia Petersen!
Evening at the Sheraton with Terry Dodson, Adam Warren, Zack Davisson and more!
Jim Demonakos and Bobby Chiu holding their awards at the 53rd Annual Annie Awards after party.
Jim Demonakos and Bobby Chiu wearing tuxedos that they ended up looking pretty good in holding their Annie Awards!
Our traditional Greek βασιλόπιτα (Vasilopita), which we make to celebrate the new year.
Your 2026 word is “intrepid”
A picture of Homer Simpson with the text saying: Not to brag... but I have enough money to not work for the rest of 2025.
With the cabbage vendor from Avatar The Last Airbender (happy)
A photo of me in front of a sign featuring me
FAMILY WE ARE FRIENDLY STRONGER AND A LITTLE... TOGETHER COMPETITIVE
Poster for Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein
Drink Coffee, Talk Fast - A Documentary About Gilmore Girls - showing it was successfully funded on Kickstarter!
A screenshot of YouTube views showing that the Ink On Paper Studios YouTube channel has gotten 1,007,726 views!
Jim and Andrea at game 3 of the ALCS
Illustration by Drew Struzan from the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Pepsi campaign in 1989.
At 4:58 minutes, the Detroit vs Seattle is officially the longest winner-take-all game in MLB history!
An owl sitting on a wire at dusk
A photo of a super cutie pie (Andrea)
An illustration by Ben Sears of Ben Grimm (The Thing) sitting on the sidelines waiting for his turn to clobber the opponents’ team. H.E.R.B.I.E. is likely writing up offensive plays that involve Ben trampling over the other team to score a touchdown.
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul-all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul-it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
Two baskets full of figs
An illustration of Guillermo del Toro by Patrick Ballesteros, with a shirt that reads “Personality. Knowledge. Emotion.” And underneath it says “doesn’t come on a fucking app”
Jim and Andrea in front of a photo of the Fantastic Four movie poster
A still from Superman 2025
The documentary Mike Mingola: Drawing Monsters is now streaming on Tubi for free.
Comedic parody of airline safety guides but for comic book conventions showing various unlikely but funny scenarios
A screen capture of comic book creator Mike Mignola. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters is now FREE to watch on YouTube
A pencil illustration by Mike Mignola of Hellboy. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters is now FREE on YouTube (with Ads)
Wishing all the homophobes a super uncomfortable month
JACK KIRBY HEROES AND HUMANITY Captain America. The Fantastic Four. The Avengers. The X-Men. The Black Panther. Mister Miracle. The Incredible Hulk. The New Gods. These iconic superheroes are among the best-known of the many characters first brought to life by comic book artist Jack Kirby (1917-1994). Over the course of an extraordinary six-decade career, Kirby created some of the most enduring characters and storylines in the history of American comics. Along the way, he expanded the emotional and intellectual horizons of the comic book medium, championed diversity, and helped establish the visual vocabulary of modern popular culture. to a generation of younger comic creators, a resident of New York and Los Angeles, and a proud family man whose Jewish faith remained important throughout his = life. This exhibition features original comic illustrations alongside Kirby's other works, many on view for the first time, considering his fine art and commercial art as equally significant and worthy of recognition. Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity traces his experiences as a first-generation Jewish American born to immigrant parents in Manhattan's storied Lower East Side, a soldier who fought in World War II, a successful commercial artist who worked in marginalized creative industries, a mentor Today, Kirby remains a pivotal figure in American popular culture, and his influence in the worlds of comics, film, animation, graphic design, and pop art is evident more than thirty years after his passing. This exhibition was co-curated by independent curators Patrick A. Reed and Professor Ben Saunders.
This Ink Runs Cold Kickstarter launch image - 96-page graphic novel - full color - limited editions - original art - virtual experiences and more!
A teaser poster for The Odyssey, but with Greek letters used instead of English, which makes the translation "tis thdpsissssps"
Feedback after submitting that the name of the body of water is incorrect
Illustration by Mike Mignola for the documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters. Showing it is now Free to watch on Amazon Prime and has a 100% Audience Score.
“The Bakery” A Short Film
A screenshot from Facebook showing that the graphic novel “The Silence of our Friends” was released this day 13 years ago
A billboard for the TV show Jackal
The mascots for the event LightBox Expo hatching and moving their way towards the edge of a cliff where they find the logo to the event in the stars!
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters - 100% Positive Rating on Rotten Tomatoes - Now Streaming!
“Inspiring. Beautiful. A film for anyone interested in creativity and imagination.” - Dread Central
Your art matters even if it isn't making money
Mr Rogers drawing a house, saying “I’m not very good at it, but it doesn’t matter. It’s the fun of doing it that’s important. No matter how anybody says it is, it feels good to have made something.”