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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 18h

Readers of Otonari Complex may notice this clever reference to the Bionicle character Thok.

A panel of Otonari Complex with a young man talking. There are skins effects that's read THOK.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 18h

Readers of Otonari Complex may notice this clever reference to the Bionicle character Thok.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 20h

Every second he's on screen I'm thinking "that's young neil..."

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 20h

Phantom of the Paradise is a miracle of a movie.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 1d

really incredible lettering work from @cornpunk.bsky.social in Baki, Vol. 1 💖

KA-SHING of two wrestlers kicking each other

DMF DMF DMF, DM DM DM, and “OOOH!l from wrestlers grappling

Dude with a bruised cheeck and bloody nose going “HYOU!!!”

Ripped guy jumping up to kick someone in the face with the SFX “BA-SHOOM”

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Ariana Maher @airy.bsky.social · 1d

How you read a manga, a superhero comic, and a webtoon are different due to the different design approaches in the lettering. And if a letterer understands that, is consistent, and adheres to those different styles, a reader won't even notice that they've hopped from one design language to another.

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE be normal when someone criticizes a video game you like

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 1d

For the longest time I wondered why the comic font Whizbang has such an intense italic slant. Way more than most italic variants. Then I realized that it was a near-exact match for John Costanza's lettering and he just did that. Lol at how strong that shear is!

Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 1d

SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...

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Elena Pizarro @elenapizarro.bsky.social · 1d

Bueno, esto es para que algunas editoriales españolas aprendan y tomen ejemplo de que acreditar a los rotulistas no mata .

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ariana Maher @airy.bsky.social · 1d

I'd call them inward tails. Most western comics use off panel tails or avoid covering the speaker the tail is meant to point to, so I haven't had the opportunity to try them. Inward tails are pretty neat and, if done well, can be easy to understand in manga and indie books who draw from that style.

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 1d

lmao once again Grace's pieces really become a honeypot to feed the blocklist

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 2d

Hades II demeans the mystery and grandeur of myth through its shallow writing and unserious tone, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Hades II's Ill-Defined, Unserious World Undermines the Depth and Power of Mythology

With its cardboard cutout characters, Hades II flattens the fearful, uneasy mystery of its mythic inspirations.

www.endlessmode.com

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 1d

Felt like an utter failure at trivia tonight not knowing whether Poltergeist or Nightmare on Elm Street came out first. Knew for sure that Friday the 13th was the earliest and Child's Play was last of the four.

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 2d

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 2d

This lad.

Nemo, a gray and white striped cat, sitting in the sun on his sunflower seat.

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Grant has that Dogsred in him @grantthethief.bsky.social · 2d

Yessir, that’s a good panel right there mmhm.

Panel of Joe Yabuki punching a goon in the face and it says GONK

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 2d

Awww yeah! I had a ton of fun lettering that book. Very fun sound effects.

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Ashe 🏳️‍⚧️ @ SRW Y!! @virtualparadise.bsky.social · 3d

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 3d

10 horror films to get to know me by

House
Evil Dead II
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Lake Mungo
Tetsuo the Iron Man
The Blair Witch Project
Videodrome
The Thing
It Follows
Green Room
The Lighthouse

terriermon liker @ducknuts.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror films to get to know me by

Re-Animator
Videodrome
Wolf Guy
Evil Dead II
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Frankenhooker
Dead Alive
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Tammy and the T-Rex
Troll 2

tricia @boobly.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror films to get to know me by...

Baba Yaga (aka Kiss Me, Kill Me)
Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Daughters of Darkness
Eyes Without A Face
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Halloween (1978)
Messiah of Evil
Scream
Suspiria (1977)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 3d

Squinty

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 3d

The artists constantly use sharp, spikey SFX, which are really tricky to draw with curvy roman letters. I had to develop a new method for drawing SFX because of this series. It was a fun challenge!!

A page of Kamudo opened up on a wooden desk. The first panel shows a dragon crouched low and whipping its tail with the SFX “VWIIISH.” The next panel shows that dragon’s tail hitting another dragon’s tail with the SFX “VWAP.” Some dragons who were watching the fight flee as the tails strike each other again with a “KRAK.” A human boy looks joyfully at the fight. Finally, one of the fighting dragons has shaped its hand into a claw, and energy is emanating out of it with a “VWOOOO”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 3d

The physical release for Kamudo vol 1 by Akira Himekawa is out now! Letters by me, translation by David Evelyn 💖
The cover is matte with spot gloss, and the book features color pages!!

Kamudo vol 1 laying on a wooden desk. The colorful cover features a demi-dragon boy holding a sword.

Kamudo 1 flipped open to a color page, laying on a wooden desk. The color page shows a young man standing in front of an erupting volcano, with the sound effects “GWOOO” and “DM DM DM DM” around him

Kamudo laying on a wooden desk, opened up to a black and white page. The page shows a group of dragons standing around a large shell that’s cracked open. In the next panel, the baby with a dragon hand who emerged from the shell is wailing “WAAAAAAHH”

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 4d

For sale: baby shoe. Way too big. We live inside the other one.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 4d

Remembering the time I complimented a guy's Yawara shirt at a convention and he seemed completely confused. Don't think he knew who the girl on his shirt was, lol.

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Tedbob84 🔜 Youmacon 2025 @tedbob84.bsky.social · 4d

Do Judo! Be Fashionable!

Yawara illustration from my previous stream will now be a print available at the upcoming Youmacon show!

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