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JB Shear
@jbshear.bsky.social
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Hi! I’m a cartoonist from North Carolina. My current projects are Inoscularum, a fantasy story about healing the world with folk magic, and The Sun & Moon Sisters, a 70s murder mystery about two psychic sisters. www.jbshear.art https://boxd.it/dl0t
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · Jul 31
I’ve just added The Sun & Moon Sisters and Polo Shirt Angels From McMansion Heaven to ComicFury! Give them (and my other comics) a read here!
comicfury.com/profile.php?...
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TrickyC (he/him) @trickyc66.bsky.social · Apr 20
me [reading classic literature]: man this is just like what happened to wishbone
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
“How do all of those labubus stay stuck together, floating in the ocean like that?”
“If you look closely you can see, they are all holding each other and crying…”
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
“Just let people enjoy things,” said the future contributor to the visible-from-space Labububerg
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
If this were a list of 20 movies, which it is now, I would also include

Jacob’s Ladder
The Beyond
Re-Animator
Fire Walk With Me
Dark Water
Phenomena
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Candyman if Trevor wasn’t in it
Takena’s claymation shorts
John Carpenter (the entire guy)
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
Trust!!
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
a group of people standing in a dark room with the word believe written above them
ALT: a group of people standing in a dark room with the word believe written above them
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 2d
10 horror movies to get to know me!

House/Hausu
The Devils
Godzilla (1954)
Deep Red
Suspirira (1977)
Black Christmas
Ju-On: The Grudge
Cemetery Man
Attack the Block
Day of the Dead
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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 3d
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🧄The Lost Boys
👦Child’s Play
🧪Gremlins 2
💥The Guest
🧀Mandy
👆Idle Hands
🔪Scream
🤯Evil Dead 2
👯Us
😾Cat’s Eye ( the last story where a stray cat fights a flamboyant tiny troll )
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d
10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 16d
EXTREY EXTREY!!

I MADE A NEWSLETTER!!

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Zine Machine! Inoscularum! Autumn with Puppy & Pig!
Hello, and welcome to my first newsletter! Here’s where I share updates about my current projects, upcoming events, and other fun things! First off, I’ll be...
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 12d
When drawing the other eye just isn’t working out
#sketchbook
A picture where instead of drawing the other eye I have cut out a flower from a piece of washi tape and placed it where the other eye should go
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 16d
EXTREY EXTREY!!

I MADE A NEWSLETTER!!

buttondown.com/JBShear/arch...
Zine Machine! Inoscularum! Autumn with Puppy & Pig!
Hello, and welcome to my first newsletter! Here’s where I share updates about my current projects, upcoming events, and other fun things! First off, I’ll be...
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 17d
I! Am! Still! In! Pencils! Town! I’m! On! Page! 28! Of! 46! I’m! Very! Pumped! About! This! But! I! Unfortunately! Don’t! Have! Any! Exciting! Inked! Pages! To! Show! You! Yet! Here! Are! More! Pencils!

#comics #Inoscularum #altcomics #comicoop #wip
A penciled-in panel of my comic Inoscularum. Ariadne and Nox look at each other nervously while a chorus of haints howls nearby.
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willow 🐈‍⬛🔮🖤✨ @hanayanagi.kim · 21d
THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.
chibi figure of gordon cole
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
A few months overdue, here’s my process for the cover art for The Sun & Moon Sisters, from inspiration to final piece! Details in alt text. This one was a bit of a doozy, so this is post 1/3…
#art #altcomics #comics #traditionalart #coverart
I took my inspiration from Giallo paperback covers (Italian thriller novels named for their bright yellow covers). I liked this one in particular for all of the purples, blues, and greens, and liked the idea of putting Iris in a prominent place on the cover. My initial thumbnail sketches. I also had the idea of doing something more similar to an old Nancy Drew cover, but ultimately settled on the Giallo-inspired cover. The rough pencils for the cover. At first, she was holding a teacup, but I decided to scrap that. You might notice that this looks completely different from the final cover, and that’s because… I decided to completely redraw the cover! I felt like the composition just wasn’t as dynamic as I wanted it to be. But this wasn’t the end of my revisions! To be continued…
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
Cover process part 2/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So, I inked my new cover design, and started coloring it, but Iris’ head was just… really bugging me, it looked really off. I felt like I had to take a chance to salvage what I already had, because I liked the rest of the cover. So…… I traced the shape of her old head into my sketchbook, drew her an all-new head inside that shape, cut it out, and glued it onto the cover! I’m honestly amazed that it worked. I finished inking her head once the glue dried— I didn’t want to glue it down already inked in case it smudged or the ink made the paper curl up. (Here’s the page in my sketchbook where I drew and cut out her new head, where I sketched a bunch of Irises after the fact.)
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
Cover process part 3/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So here it is all inked, and with all of the yellow fully filled in. I used a mix of colored pencils and magic markers to color everything, because I wanted to give it some of the texture that was present in the Giallo cover that inspired me. Gotta be honest, though, I wish I had just done a yellow ink wash here. This was a real pain in the hand! Here it is fully colored in, featuring the blues, greens, and purples that I liked so much about the inspo cover! Here’s the final artwork, scanned and cleaned up! I wound up taking out the “featured in two-sided tales” tagline (using the eye dropper, the brush tool, and my laptop’s trackpad, lol) because I just thought it looked sloppy. I didn’t the same thing for the trim marks too! Ta-daaaaa, here it is all printed out and assembled! I wound up going through Mixam for the printing. I wish the greens had showed up more in the final print, but that might have been an issue on my end with the file I sent them. All in all, I’m pleased with it!
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 23d
Momentous. Thank you, everyone. (Holds bouquet and waves)
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
Cover process part 3/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So here it is all inked, and with all of the yellow fully filled in. I used a mix of colored pencils and magic markers to color everything, because I wanted to give it some of the texture that was present in the Giallo cover that inspired me. Gotta be honest, though, I wish I had just done a yellow ink wash here. This was a real pain in the hand! Here it is fully colored in, featuring the blues, greens, and purples that I liked so much about the inspo cover! Here’s the final artwork, scanned and cleaned up! I wound up taking out the “featured in two-sided tales” tagline (using the eye dropper, the brush tool, and my laptop’s trackpad, lol) because I just thought it looked sloppy. I didn’t the same thing for the trim marks too! Ta-daaaaa, here it is all printed out and assembled! I wound up going through Mixam for the printing. I wish the greens had showed up more in the final print, but that might have been an issue on my end with the file I sent them. All in all, I’m pleased with it!
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
Cover process part 2/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So, I inked my new cover design, and started coloring it, but Iris’ head was just… really bugging me, it looked really off. I felt like I had to take a chance to salvage what I already had, because I liked the rest of the cover. So…… I traced the shape of her old head into my sketchbook, drew her an all-new head inside that shape, cut it out, and glued it onto the cover! I’m honestly amazed that it worked. I finished inking her head once the glue dried— I didn’t want to glue it down already inked in case it smudged or the ink made the paper curl up. (Here’s the page in my sketchbook where I drew and cut out her new head, where I sketched a bunch of Irises after the fact.)
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
A few months overdue, here’s my process for the cover art for The Sun & Moon Sisters, from inspiration to final piece! Details in alt text. This one was a bit of a doozy, so this is post 1/3…
#art #altcomics #comics #traditionalart #coverart
I took my inspiration from Giallo paperback covers (Italian thriller novels named for their bright yellow covers). I liked this one in particular for all of the purples, blues, and greens, and liked the idea of putting Iris in a prominent place on the cover. My initial thumbnail sketches. I also had the idea of doing something more similar to an old Nancy Drew cover, but ultimately settled on the Giallo-inspired cover. The rough pencils for the cover. At first, she was holding a teacup, but I decided to scrap that. You might notice that this looks completely different from the final cover, and that’s because… I decided to completely redraw the cover! I felt like the composition just wasn’t as dynamic as I wanted it to be. But this wasn’t the end of my revisions! To be continued…
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 24d
Preparing to assemble Autumn with Puppy & Pig! 🍂
#zines #puppy&pig
The mini-zine Autumn With Puppy & Pig printed out but not yet assembled
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 25d
I thought I was the only O’Brinston head out there…!
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 25d
Just doing some more pencils while listening to my clock radio that may or may not be possessed
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · 28d
chugging along!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#comics #altcomics #Inoscularum #comicoop #wip
Rough draft page of my comic Inoscularum next to the pencils for the final draft of the same page.
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it's MARCY BONES @marcybones64.bsky.social · Sep 9
i know the joke is that she wants to eat peaches without dirtying her nice clothes but it really feels like the punchline is that jucika is a weird little fruit pervert
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Jucika @jucikadaily.bsky.social · Sep 8
Jucika and the Peach. It is so juicy and sticky, she has to get butt naked in order to enjoy the fruit.
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JB Shear @jbshear.bsky.social · Sep 7
If you get a nosebleed I’m pretty sure the correct response is to put your fingers on your temples and say, “Urgh…. My psychic abilities… are at their limit….!”