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A.L. Kaplan

@alkcomics.bsky.social

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Shorter than most. Makes comics. Looking for an agent. 💀🖤🏳️‍⚧️✨ DC covers | Circuit Breaker | Stuff of Nightmares | Maw | Full-Spectrum Therapy 🖼️ alkcomics.com 🛒 alkcomics.bigcartel.com 💬 tapas.io/series/fst

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi #PortfolioDay I love making beautiful, psychedelic & queer horror comics and covers.

Looking for agent rep and/or editor interest in a few graphic novels pitches
👽🖤🌈✨

💌 alkcomics@gmail
🎨 alkcomics.com

Circuit Breaker - Jules Jourdain - DC Comics' first transmasc superhero

Maw, written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, published by BOOM!

Poison Ivy and Cyborg cover for Lazarus Planet

Interior artwork introducing Circuit Breaker in Lazarus Planet

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 16h

New zine in progress...huhuhu

Inking process...lots of dark hair and chains

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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social · 22h

hi #portfolioday !! name’s Mark! I’ve written for IDW, Oni Press, and TinyOnion—both for licenses like SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and on originals like IT TOOK LUKE.

I’m taking 3 months off work to study for the bar, so I’d love to lock in some more paying work for 2026!!

mark @ bouchards . net

😈🖤

Nathalie Fourdraine’s cover to the SONIC Halloween Special

Shelby Criswell’s cover to our webcomic, BUSINESS AS USUAL

Oni press edition of IT TOOK LUKE - Bayleigh Underwood’s cover

panel from a pitch with George Williams — he did the colors, lines, and letters

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 21h

Please...big beautiful Land of the Lustrous omnibus...

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 23h

Sunn O)))
Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential

Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's first substantial Sunn O))) record in six years, renewing bonds with their home city’s legendary Sub Pop label

boomkat.com/products/ete...

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Turned out a very nice color

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 4d

Yes plssss

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 5d

Thee pose and that lace on the second one!!!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 6d

SO DOABLE

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah you've gotta. Everything you've said about it sounds so damn cool

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 6d

Oh RAD

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7d

Oooh yeah, great playlist

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7d

This page looks so good!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 11d

Deathbird up next

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 11d

X-Rated season 2 let's goooooo 💅✨

(Featuring all ur favorite D-listers, and whomever these guys are)

Inking process of a shot of Scott and Jean in not quite Quitely fashion

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 11d

fire & brimstone

closeup of ink process on the cover for Bytchcraft issue 4. I am using a kuretake brush pen to fill in the blacks on Em, a punky wytch bursting out of flames

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 12d

❌

Ink drawing in progress featuring two figures clothed in dark ribbed fabric

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 13d

Li'l closeup. I love the ribcage back piece and wish I had it to wear to the Mercury 🫰

close-up of the character to show his hairdo and body jewerly

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 13d

It's Halloween 1st and BYTCHCRAFT #4 is out today! Featuring my favorite of the three wytches, Em 🐐😈🌈✨

🌙written by: Aaron Reese
🪄 interior art by: Lema Carril

Comic book cover featuring a witch dressed in punky club attire, bursting out of a plume of flames. Abstract snakes coil in the background. His hair is braided intricately to form two horns. A Tarot-inspired design frames the image

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 13d

Thank youu

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