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comics, mostly || they/them https://amanda-castillo.com // https://mandallin.itch.io/ books || • MAPMAKERS • RIVALS (2027)

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · Oct 18

cowboys

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Comic Arts Maine Portland @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social · 2d

📣Calling all Comics Creators📣

Today is the last day to apply to CAMP 2026!

Apps close at 11:59pm tonight!

www.comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting

Exhibiting — Comic Arts Maine Portland

www.comicartsmaineportland.com

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 3d

i have sooooo much art from this campaign but ive rarely posted any of it bc it feels so good to have it between me n my friends. but also i love my pc sm i dont mind sharing him w the world u_u

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 3d

ive got a couple shows coming up and i want to have smth new for them, but my brain for half the yr has been overtaken by dnd so uhm. maybe ill make a small zine abt my pc

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 10d

hornet i love u but i need u to stop suspending ur spikes in the air......

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 10d

game moments where i've crashed out:

-mgs1 liquid snake battle
-deltarune ch4 secret boss
-hollow knight hornet fight 2 (currently happening)

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carson thorn @carsonthornart.com · 11d

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Comic Arts Maine Portland @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social · 10d

Hello comic creators!

It’s been a busy September for many of us so we are extending our application through October 7th to give everyone some extra time to apply to exhibit at CAMP :)

Apply here:

www.comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting

Purple illustrated poster announcing that CAMP exhibitor applications are extended. Poster reads: CAMP (Comic Arts Maine Portland) April 11th, 2026, Portland Public Library | Portland, ME

‘APPS EXTENDED THROUGH OCT 7th Read FAQs and apply: comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting’

Poster has an illustrated chickadee and moose in a yellow tent reading comics, illustrations by Amanda Castillo

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 11d

yes!!!! de young museum in sf has a manga exhibit on til the end of jan and it was SO amazing ToT seeing so many original pages in a museum like that.... AWESOME

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 11d

life goal i didn't even know i had achieved today T_T

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 11d

holy shit the exhibit was so good but getting to see fumi yoshinaga original art for the covers of what did u eat yesterday had me in tears!!!!!!!!!!

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 12d

summer hikaru died anime good...

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 12d

hitting up the manga exhibit at deyoung tmrw >:3

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 14d

been drawing a lot for myself lately which has been great. but it's been making focusing on drawing for work difficult... chugging along...

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 14d

some landon + oliver sketches for u

sketch of an embarrassed, annoyed oliver shaking landon as he laughs hard on the left.

sketch of landon saying "uhm, actually", imitating oliver on the right.

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 15d

projsekai is fun but nothing can replicate the chills from the opening notes of snow halation

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 15d

god i miss ll:sif, gone but never ever forgotten...

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amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 15d

what's a guy gotta do to get some vegetarian khao soi out here... sighs longingly

amanda @mandallin.bsky.social · 16d

i finally read strange bedfellows. soooo good, so much fun. amazing things can happen when comics r weird and silly and real

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Viv 🌲 @vivtanner.bsky.social · 17d

Wee donkey.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 18d

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

Figure 8 Recording Residency 2025 — Trans Music Archive

www.transmusicarchive.org