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old card promo mail in thing for "America's hottest new gaming fiction series" which requests your address and bafflingly your sex (m/f)
a very large, frenetically colored posca on cardboard comic for terrible comic day about how making art and trying to do things for my community keeps destroying my pathetic victorian orphan with consumption body. some of the paint is metallic waow!
a series of boxes over groups of characters clearly labeling them, but crunchyroll's just lazily stuck all the translations in a big block at the top
I was gonna make a post gushing about how many talented webcomickers there are and lamenting how hard it is to keep up with it all, but it's not that hard to keep up--I have an rss reader what's hard is *catching up* on big archives and I wonder if it'd be beneficial for more people to give new readers recaps and jumping on points to make adoption easier... though, I'm always banging the "please recap your comic I've been following for 5 years and can't remember who these assholes are" drum
the guy looking away from girlfriend toward other woman meme
screenshot of a sort of dark frutiger aero webpage advertising "sellsignal", an ai tool that supposedly tells you when to sell your cryptocurrency. it's all very green and black and epic.
Denji and Nayuta from Chainsaw Man reenacting, more or less, the closing "I guess we learned not to do it again" exchange from Burn After Reading, rendered in digital pencil sketch in black and white
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pen sketch of Joe Biden mystified by a quantum computer
bunch of pencil studies of a very stupid play in a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game, where two guys collide but the runner still gets out cause a third guy manages to get the ball. multiple views of this nonsense are explored in rough gesture.
pencil sketch of noelle and dess holiday
various goat head and body studies, mostly of Sarah's goatsona, with a number of rotated diagrams of her head taking up the bulk of the page
shot from Paranoia Agent's op of the old man standing on the moon, laughing, while shockwaves are visible on the earth in the background
pencil drawing of an anthro hagfish dressed improbably in 1920s flapper clothes. also Faustus the rubber cat boy is there, getting slimed.
War Devil in Chainsaw Man explaining that the governor of california made a deal to let californians die instead of her in order to preserve peace for the state
a screenshot close up of word processing program Obsidian, where I've opened a context menu to add the word "fucktoy" to the dictionary
Leftists typically think of neoliberalism as a conspiracy to consolidate class power.25 However, in its self-presentation — as a technocratic agenda — neoliberalism is first and foremost concerned with opposing corruption, in the form of “rent-seeking” by “special interests”. What is supposed to replace rent-seeking is market competition, with its promise of fair outcomes. In that sense, neoliberalism is not so much about shifting the balance of power from the state to the market; rather, it is about fashioning a state that is compatible with market society: a capitalist state. The paradox, for neoliberal ideologues, is that their reforms have everywhere led to rising inequality, and concomitantly, to the capture of state power by a class of the extremely wealthy (centred on finance, insurance and real estate, as well as the military and oil extraction). That class has itself come — through dodgy deals and bailouts — to represent the epitome of corruption. Neoliberalism then provides a framework with which to oppose its own results.
hourly comics done mostly in pen in a variety of styles, covering an entire day, mostly floating in the haze of finishing a long term project just a little prior
hourly comics on sketchbook paper with graphite and marker top strip jumps ahead to 11:00. the gang watches Megalopolis for some reason. middle section is a two strip comic about rowdy seahawks fans after the superbowl reacting to losing one of their party by accident and calling for the bus to be turned around for them final section is a small strip expressing my exhaustion, inset into a big splash panel of me, Juniper, and Sarah out observing the party downtown. we're in the foreground and in the background many fans have scaled the architecture in pioneer square
comic hourlies drawn on sketchbook paper with graphite first strip at top: 4:00 series of open ended panels where I use a sort of Rock & Rule human-furry approach to the uncanny valley attractive people they've got in ads for ai assistants. Sarah remarks that the huge number of ai assistant ads in the superbowl aren't *made with ai* themselves next two strips are a regular 2x4 panel grid riffing on the "draw the rest of the fucking owl" image meme, which starts as two circles. in some panels various silhouetted friends try to explain football to me, Lady Gaga shows up uncannily, there's food, a 9/0 score, and finally a drawing of a superb owl, labeled "draw the rest of the fucking owl", with "fucking" overlaid with semitransparent sticky tape reading "superb" final strip 7:00 some musing on the Woke side winning sports in the great national divorce
hourly comic day page drawn in a sketchbook with graphite and colored pencil 1st vertical strip along the whole left side: Noon, panic sets in, I frantically try to balance household tasks and drawing. 2nd block on the right side: 1:00 deliberately childish drawings in multicolored pencil as I continue breaking down. Juniper and Sarah, drawn more correctly, sadly agree that I've lost it. 3rd block: 2:00 schematic diagram of steps to make hummus 4th block: 3:00 the woman-creatures on the bus
hourly comics day comic done in a sketchbook in graphite, in a cartoony furry style 1st vertical strip: 8:00 am, stylized depiction of waking up, figures of my girlfriends moving around a dim room 2nd strip: 9:00 am I have issues with my neck and back and hunching over to do hourly comics isn't helping 3rd strip: 10:00 am, Juniper (butterfly) returns with pastries, Sarah (goat) tries to wake up, and Zoe (porcupine angel) contemplates hentai. room is depicted in jumbled flat perspective. 4th panel group in bottom right: Juniper seduces me in order to get drawn in my hourlies. it works.
a series of rough character design doodles in pencil on paper of a Brian Froud looking monster and a diminutive hand-high fairy with a sort of puffball seed pod head
anime villain in kind of a dopey outfit sitting behind some twink henchman, smiling and saying "Looks like curiosity killed the Cats".
gestural studies of a fox, gull, and aardvark, in pencil and colored pencil
digitally penciled comic depicting a conversation between an anthro porcupine and butterfly (me and my girlfriend) about my youthful ambitions to be a bold comic theorist like Scott McCloud. this is depicted metaphorically with phantasmagoric imagery, giving way to a morbid vision of my death, interrupted when I get distracted by realizing the occult bookstore in my neighborhood has shut down and vanished without warning
Dwyer thinks there has to be room for new technology in the art space. “AI is a lens and it’s viewing humanity. Some people will see it as stealing from artists. The other way to see it is that it’s an extension of humanity,” he said. “AI art might be a tax on the artists. Tax is nonconsensual; some people say tax is theft. That’s something we’re going to have to wrestle with.”
bluesky "ran out of posts" and started showing me the discover feed instead I guess
four panel comic page where a tall character with a tv head explains to a kid that "it's hard to see what is true when you think you know what is true", which he illustrates by taking her white speech bubble and dropping it into the snow, revealing it to not be "white" like she confidently claimed but a bunch of different colors
tweet from a bluesky dev reading: I had claude do cashtags in the background while I was on a zoom call, it took about 15 minutes. I don’t think he could do the same for private accounts
text in an image that's been covered over by the previous image button, a really obvious and solvable problem that the devs just don't give a fuck about
a copy of the Magic the Gathering Homelands comic, cover illustrated by the Hildebrandt bros, sitting on a stack of random other old and obscure mtg books
obama then perish meme
old trailers are great they're all like OLD MAN IN FORMAL CLOTHING Running the academy is a... delicate operation [cut to a woman in a nightgown screaming] [shot of someone being thrown inexplicably through a plate glass window] DEEP MALE VOICEOVER The Vibes Are Fucked. [long take of a dude with a mustache opening a door really slowly] DEEP MALE VOICEOVER You'll Literally Kill Yourself In Your Seat To Escape... The Fucked Vibes (thanks to @hellgnoll for the css <3) #one of these eight people... is a we'rewolf#we need to go back to this honestly https://web.archive.org/web/20250106182840/https://cohost.org/SamKeeper/post/1966879-old-trailers-are-gre
The Milwaukee Election "I don't care if the Socialists can give us the best administration on the face of the earth; we don't want them." This was the remark of a prominent Milwaukee manufacturer about a week before the recent electio in that city. It tersely stated the real nature of the opposition to the Socialist party. The election resulted in choosing the Socialist candidate as mayor. The result pretty conclusively shows that the people of Milwaukee disagree with this manufacturer. In other words, they said: "We don't care even if a man is a Socialist; we want him for Mayor if he will give us the best administration." --From THE OUTLOOK
The deal that moderate Democrats just cut with Republicans doesn’t extend those health care subsidies, but sets up a future vote to extend them – a vote that will almost certainly fail, as Republicans have no interest in doing this. Democratic proponents of the deal argue it’s still a win for them, as Republicans previously weren’t willing to hold any votes on restoring ACA subsidies. “This deal guarantees a vote to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, which Republicans weren’t willing to do,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who said in a statement he’ll be supporting the deal because it includes protections for federal workers. “Lawmakers know their constituents expect them to vote for it, and if they don’t, they could very well be replaced at the ballot box by someone who will.”
pen and marker sketch of Cuomo, distorted and angular, in predominantly beige, orange, teal, and purple, with the text quoting him "I'm not perverted I'm just italian"
screenshot from crunchyroll with some dialogue subtitled but a big prominent number and some text beside it--maybe a date?--untranslated.
the classic twitter exchange between noted right wing failed shit stirrer communismkills and brace belden aka pisspiggranddad back when he was fighting with kurdish anarchists. communism kills says "This is bad. Everything in my apartment is so cold from the heat being out that my blankets are too cold for me to use." and Belden replies "Ashley I'm in a communist compound right now it's warm as hell we got stoves and like fifty blankets you fuckin loser"
chart of bluesky's userbase deteriorating steadily after its big surge last november
a digital painting of a scaled abomination with a gharial-like snout covered with a thick black hood with a heavy iron collar restraining it, wearing a cheetos-colored shirt, short jean shorts, and holding a bag of cheetos. the background is swirling green and cyan, and a bottle of mountain dew body wash sits beside her clawed feet. her breasts look awesome.
Kirsh from Alien Earth
courbet's sleep, a highly naturalistic oil painting at large scale which shows two women entwined erotically, legs tangled together on a bed, eyes closed, surrounded by items of luxury
black and white screenshot from Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb of two atomic warheads seen from the front, with Slim Pickins, who thought he was playing a serious part, crouched below them, dwarfed by their size. on the fronts of the bombs are printed words (NUCLEAR WARHEAD HANDLE WITH CARE) and written ones on each (Hi THERE! and DEAR JOHN)
four page gag strip featuring a little gobliny character that for magic nonsense reasons is upside down for the first two panels. in the third a giant hand from outside the frames grips the panel and rotates it right side up, and in the final the character sits stunned but doesn't seem to know what occurred, only "something jus' happened"
eva unit 00 clutching its head in pain. it has a red bull logo on the side of its arm. presumably Yuki Tsunoda is piloting it.
two tags on patreon which are identical except in one the word "The" is capitalized, rendering them two completely different tags
a photo of a jaunty modernist fountain on the waterfront. it's surrounded on one side by plastic pillars with caution tape and on the other side by standing fences, and there's child-sized poster standing next to it with "Please keep out of the fountain" on it, and city of seattle and waterfront park official logos.