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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 18h

3:30–4:40 p.m.
Science and Comics with Karenza Sparks @toumeya.bsky.social, J. Marshall Smith @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social, and Blue Delliquanti, moderated by Steenz @oheysteenz.bsky.social

Text graphic with headshots/avatars of Karenza, J. Marshall Smith, and Blue. Text reads:
Panel: Science and Comics with Karenza Sparks
3:30–4:30 p.m. • The Ballroom, 5th floor
with panelists J. Marshall Smith and
Blue Delliquanti, moderated by Steenz
Science and curiosity: two defining instincts for our species and humanity’s collective intergenerational endeavors. Join featured guest Karenza Sparks, co-panelists J. Marshall Smith and Blue Delliquanti, and moderator Steenz as they discuss what intrigues about science and natural phenomena, what sparks their curiosity, and how it presents in their own work.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 1d

So hard to say it without the falsetto

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 1d

#taskmater #alexhorne #portraitcommissions

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It's little Alex Horne!

Reminder: I'm running a special on pencil portrait commissions to help pay for booktour travel, healthcare, and wedding costs. I've also opened up my weekly drawing giveaways to the general public at just $5! Wow! You can't afford NOT to keep food on my table.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 2d

It was such a fun job. I still want to do the other ideas I proposed to them.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 3d

A tour poster I did for Not Another D&D Podcast a couple years ago, which has come up in conversation with cool baltimore art and comics folks a few times in the past couple weeks. Such a fun show and such a fun illustration job. I'd love to do more podcast posters.

#naddpod #illustration

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Feeling glum and scared and tired but I get to dinner and watch Plan 9 from Outer Space tonight.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 4d

+(medical expenses)
+(book tour costs)
+(dwindling savings)
+(low wages)
+(societal collapse)
+(but what a wonderful world full of wonderful people and bright shining hopes)

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I've got some big expenses (wedding) on the horizon so I've opened up the weekly drawing giveaways to the general public. An original ink drawing goes out every week and the more you donate the longer you're on the list!

Help me out and let me mail you some art!

www.jmarshallsmith.com/shop

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously if you are making 50 solid pieces of art a year, that’s really good output. I call that full time. If these are freelance illustration pieces you should be getting around $1152/piece to reach 3x the average US rent for a one bedroom apartment. That is a modest, unselfish, living.

Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 5d

"it takes me a week to make a piece :(" i want u to know that is a normal amount of time. fuck it, take even longer if u need to

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Unironically a big fan of come thou fount of every blessing

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 5d

There should be way more comics about adults doing adult things. Most people are adults.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 7d

sketchbook drawing from a faculty meeting

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 8d

More sketchbook stuff from patreon.

www.patreon.com/jmarshallsmith

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 9d

I love work printing. They did the latest edition of one of my zines

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 10d

Dropped a sketchbook post over on patreon.

www.patreon.com/jmarshallsmith

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 11d

Question for the educators out there: they say a full time professor’s load is usually around 3 classes/semester + faculty meetings and such. How much time/labor are folks putting in on those meetings? Another class worth?

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 12d

I’m behind the times but I’m playing the first Hades and I like it

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 12d

So excited for you! I wish I could go back and listen all over again

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 12d

I’m listening to their current campaign where they play through Curse of Strahd and it is unhinged. Very silly, very fun.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 13d

Heyyy! That was one of my favorite jobs. I'm a big fan of the show.

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Zach!

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 15d

My fiancee just got laid off so now we are both looking for work. She's really cool and smart and would be an asset to any organization and I'm not just saying that because I'm in love with her.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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J. Marshall Smith - SLICE Table 14B @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 16d

More Maison Ikkoku time

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