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Allison O'Toole

@allisonmotoole.bsky.social

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Editor of Ignatz & Eisner award-winning books. Publisher of @balustradepress.bsky.social. Kickstarter Community Advisory Council Member. She/her. icon by @sophiepaaslang.bsky.social, banner art by @mkchibs.bsky.social | learn more: www.allisonotoole.com

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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hi, I'm Allison O'Toole, I edit comics! I've done work in the small press and direct market comics spaces. I love to work with creators to make their comics the best they can be, and I love stories in any setting that focus on character & empathy.

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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · 14h

This project is SO CLOSE to funding; please share and chip in if you can, the book looks gorgeous!!

Kamila (also known as Pigeon) @pigeonface.bsky.social · 1d

LAST 45 HOURS of "Jenny D" Kickstarter!
Last final push, anyone?
Link below:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...

The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!

Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.

www.kickstarter.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 23h

Whew this piece is so scathing.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 16h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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theo stultz @theoplum.bsky.social · 1d

♥️ if you liked these pages when i posted them in june, consider buying the other ~170 at shortbox comics fair

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2d

The African Translation Project is at 2% of its $3575 goal!

Help fund the translation of these books by October 31!

Share if you can't donate
Share if you can donate
Share if you already donated

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3345, 67%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

ko-fi.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Palestinians in Gaza take "a collective sigh of relief," says Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, as US President Trump announces the first phase of the ceasefire agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/xqppys

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, friends--happy to chat, if you're interested, Jenn!

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 4d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d

protest for Palestine in Shibuya Tokyo !

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 4d

I saw the full live-stream of Greta Thunberg and the other flotilla detainees speaking after they arrived in Greece but I couldn't find it again to share here. Here's what I did find, for those of you who have not seen it.

youtube.com/shorts/0diMS...

Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 8d

Just in time for horror season, my story 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub in Nightfire's audio anthology COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2) is reprinted in the latest issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. A woman navigates a winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & finds it deeply cursed:

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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · 6d

See you TODAY, Toronto pals!!

Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · 15d

Gonna be at LITTLE GHOSTS FEST next weekend!! So I'm working on a new lil zine....

A skeleton half-covered in a ghost sheet rocking out on a pentagram table while other creatures check out books and other wares. Text reads:
Saturday & Sunday October 4 & 5, 12 pm to 5 pm: Little Ghosts Festival! Vendors, readings, panels, short horror films. Tranzac Club, 232 Brunswick Ave. Visit www.littleghostsbooks.com for more info

So you've seen The Shape of Water... A beginner's guide to monster kissing movies, by Allison O'Toole. There's a screenshot from the movie of a lady looking lovingly at a fish man in a tube

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 7d

Please read my comic about a wizard college dropout who keeps romantically pursuing anyone taller than her 😘

ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 8d

BARBAROUS Ch. 9 ✨ Pg 6

This is just how guys make friends, right? 🤔 ☢️

Read at: johnnywander.com

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Allison O'Toole @allisonmotoole.bsky.social · 7d

Support Kickstarter workers! Continue using the platform and let everyone know how much it (and the folks developing new features, fixing bugs, and answering questions) have helped you!

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 8d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Conundrum Press @conundrumpress.bsky.social · 7d

Herizons Magazine has been publishing in Canada since 1992, quarterly in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 territory and is distributed across the country. Herizons publishes on art, culture, and legal/political/community affairs.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone who is behind this survey wants your voice to be counted. Everyone who is *boosting* this survey wants your voice to be counted.

Get this puppy filled in before midnight on Monday and be counted!!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A graphic for the Uk comics creator survey, saying: we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in? With the URL ukcomicscreators.org.uk over a series of illustrated raised hands

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Chloë Green @okaychloegreen.bsky.social · 7d

This is a very cool opportunity!!

A month long residency in Riga, with @kushkomikss.bsky.social!

Open to comic artists and professionals working in the field of comics. Priority to artists from the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.

More info: komikss.lv/residency/

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 9d

A principle-free caricature of a councilor, bonne chance

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 9d

‘I’m really excited about it’: Brad Bradford confirms he intends to run for mayor of Toronto

Beaches-East York councillor has been a high-profile critic of Mayor Olivia Chow of late.

www.thestar.com

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theo stultz @theoplum.bsky.social · 9d

Ladies of the Living Princess is now at ShortBox Comics Fair... my slightly scary medieval romantic fantasy... here's a preview...!

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 9d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hello pals! My name is Tiffany Babb, and I'm a writer and editor for hire. My current big projects are The Comics Courier (comicscourier.com), a print 📰 journal of comics criticism and The Fan Files (thefanfiles.com), a website publishing weekly articles about interesting stories around baseball ⚾

Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3]

A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

comicscourier.com

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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 9d

New comic, "Albo!" out today @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social ! Get in online: www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

Albo is a steed full of stories, but when he mysteriously vanishes, three kids with big imaginations and little patience for unruly uncles team up, determined to find him.

Illustration of three children running across a hill, shouting "Albo!" which is also the title of the comic.

Image of a goat on a hill. This is a story that three children are telling each other.

An uncle is yelling at children trying to find their horse.

The yelling uncle from the previous page is weaving a story about his childhood.

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