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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 8d

MADAM, 164 pages of horror by me, @pandamusk.bsky.social @brainpulp.bsky.social & @paulallor.bsky.social is coming to @kickstarter.com!

Madam McQuillen is a black magic Mary Poppins, and she's found a new family to torture.

Campaign starts Oct. 14, sign up now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Coming soon: MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel

What if Mary Poppins practiced Black Magic and traveled from family to family searching for human sacrifices to extend her immortality?

www.kickstarter.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 48m

recovery going strong

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 9h

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 3h

red lentil curry courtesy of the downward spiral and @fearlessfred.bsky.social’s pepper blend

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 5h

self care is spending time in the kitchen cooking something delicious and blasting nine inch nails

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 11h

Russell is Over It ™

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 10h

IT’S FALL, FUCKFACE

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h

LET THE GOURDS HEAL YOUR PAIN.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 11h

Russell is Over It ™

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

October Soup Dad Comics newsletter is out!

Dishing on MADAM and the hell that awaits within ☂️

soupdadcomics.beehiiv.com/p/8-introduc...

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

i am VERY excited for readers to meet Madam McQuillen. She scares the shit out of me and I wrote her

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12h

also it famously made like 50x its budget! WORDS MEAN THINGS

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pandamusk @pandamusk.bsky.social · 12h

Day 9 #MADAMcomic x #inktober2025

HEAVY

Is Detective Gil Harris willing to sacrifice all to find the killer?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Male Detective is hunched over his desk in a dark office. He pores over clues, oblivious of an officer next to him.

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pandamusk @pandamusk.bsky.social · 1d

Day 8 #MADAMcomic x #inktober2025

RECKLESS

Ahh youth. So confident. So foolhardy.

Don't go into the woods at night, Jack.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Young male walks in the rain, unlit cigarette in his mouth. A silhouette of a woman with an umbrella is in the background.

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 9d

My schedule is open for comics!! Hire me!

I especially love telling stories in horror, fantasy, or anything with critters. Previously worked with Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, and Oni Press

Available for interiors and covers ✨

Digitally inked and colored comic page showing a woman nervously leaving her apartment and heading to the subway at night

Ink and watercolor comic page featuring a barn filled with many supernatural creatures and two female humans telling them to behave before walking off

Digitally inked and colored comic page composed of 5 horizontal stacked panels. A man examining a rock face, hands playing tic tac toe, a family kitchen scene, a man at a computer terminal, and a hand reaching for a lizard scurrying across the same rock face from panel 1

“The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Sixth #2” Cover: vultures flying over an armored man with a long shadow made of flames

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 15h

god this was so much better

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile, from people who aren’t hacks

comicbookclublive.com/2025/10/08/j...

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon: MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel

What if Mary Poppins practiced Black Magic and traveled from family to family searching for human sacrifices to extend her immortality?

www.kickstarter.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

i am VERY excited for readers to meet Madam McQuillen. She scares the shit out of me and I wrote her

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 2d

me after we reveal some rippin’ MADAM guest art when we launch the kickstarter next week

madam mcquillen asking “it’s quite good, isn’t it?”

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed Etheres: Ringo Award Nominated One-Shot Comic Returns by Dennis Menheere on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

Etheres: Ringo Award Nominated One-Shot Comic Returns

Anas Abdulhak and Dennis Menheere invite you to journey into Etheres, a realm where souls go when they don't belong anywhere else.

www.kickstarter.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah #newcomicbookday

fat stack of comic books including MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN omnibi, SUPERMAN THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM, BATMAN DARK PATTERNS, EVENT HORIZON DARK DESCENT, DEATH TO PACHUCO, TMNT JOURNEYS, HIGH STRANGENESS, THE TERMINATOR METAL ashcan

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

excellent show. they played “color me once,” tis the season 🐦‍⬛

state theater portland maine

oct 8

violent femmes

sold out

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

October Soup Dad Comics newsletter is out!

Dishing on MADAM and the hell that awaits within ☂️

soupdadcomics.beehiiv.com/p/8-introduc...

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

an inspiration, about to do the same!

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

you been crushing it

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