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Mike K.

@mikekillustration.bsky.social

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Illustrator, author, and educator from Brooklyn, now squeaking by in Tokyo. Let’s connect and create! #kidlit #taxtherich #nokings Portfolio: https://linktr.ee/mikekillustration

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Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · Apr 26

I don’t feel like anything I say is powerful enough to make a difference, but I will NOT be silent.

I will use my art.
I will use my voice.
I will learn, and
I will resist.

#Resist #TaxTheRich

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Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 19h

Found this nice little piece today by #ZhaoZhiqian

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 1d

#Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is one of the worst of the best of the worst fun movies I’ve ever seen.
#ErnieHudson #MollyRingwald

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween is hands-down, my favorite holiday.

This year, I’m working hard and will miss out on some of the festivities, but in my mind I’ll be playing a constant reel of horror movies.

(Does that sound crazy? That sounds crazy. Ha! No crazy here!)
#Halloween2025 #Trick-or-treat #KidLit #CrazyTown

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 6d

I’d hoped to do a lot more illustrations for all the fun Halloween prompts going on this month, but 13-hour work days six days a week aren’t making it any easier.

So here is a quick image from last year of ghosts having a seance. #GhostSéance #KidLit #Halloween25

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 9d

All my friends are cats. #MiddleAgedProblems

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 12d

Playing the first season of #TheTwilightZone as I do a bit of drawing and #ScrantonPennsylvania had been mentioned multiple times.

#NoSurpriseThere #SurprisinglyNotSurprising

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 12d

It’s iconic. The Thing is high on my list too.

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 12d

Watched #FrightNight for the first time in a long while. It’s brilliant but a lot less concise than I remember. Enter the house / leave the house / enter the house / leave the house / enter the room/ leave the room / enter the room / leave the room. Still, bloody brilliant.

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Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 13d

#MartinScorsese #AfterHours is hilariously twisted. The cast alone is bonkers.

Reposted by Mike K.

Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 16d

for reasons

#nokings

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Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 16d

#NoKings

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 21d

#NightoftheHunter (1955) is an incredible piece of filmmaking. It’s like a David Lynch film 20 years before David Lynch. The stark lighting and strange atmosphere throughout make it a real joy to watch. (If disturbing is your thing.) it’s hokey in parts by today’s standards but still holds up.

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 21d

Super scary. Haha. I like scary movies but have to admit, I’m squeamish.

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 21d

Had a chance to see #Wendell&Wild

It was fun. There’s something gentle about this animation: there’s a kind of stillness to the action, like when a character throws an object and it sails slowly through the air until it’s caught.

#WorthAWatch

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 22d

With my bizarre work schedule, I’m all over the place in terms of what day it is and when I have time to draw. #Zombie #Kettle #ZombieKettle #FrightFall #RetroSupply #SCBWI #SCBWIArtober2025

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 23d

Would love to be in a place, somewhere up New York way twisting the night away. #SamCooke #FrightFall #RetroSupply #SCBWI #SCBWIArtober2025 #Twist #Mummy #MummyTwist

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 24d

(Repost after spending a little more time with this guy.)

I’ve been using this fuzzy little dude as my profile photo for the past year, so I figured it was time to give him something else to do. #FrightFall #RetroSupply #SCBWI #SCBWIArtober2025 #carve #werewolf

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 25d

I’ve been using this fuzzy little dude as my profile photo for the past year, so I figured it was time to give him something else to do. #FrightFall #RetroSupply #SCBWI #SCBWIArtober2025 #carve #werewolf

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 25d

Ugh. Tried some N4 listening practice today. All these years in Japan and I almost never actually used Japanese. (The downside of being a shut in.) #JLPTN4 #LearnJapanese #Pinhead

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 27d

For every house giving out full-size candy bars there’s always one giving out something… well… else.

This time the prompts were #Eyes and #BenCooperCostumes #FrightFall #RetroSupply #SCBWI #SCBWIArtober2025 #KidLit

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 27d

#DavidLynch #EraserHead. It’s funny. But not “ha ha” funny.

Best line: They aren’t even sure it IS a baby.

Absurdly surreal yet awkwardly appealing, it’s an experience in sound and atmosphere.

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Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 27d

The art prompts for #SCBWIArtober2025 and #FrightFall were #Fuzzy and #BlackCat So, I’m cheating just a bit here, but here’s a fuzzy black cat for you to enjoy while you draw.

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 28d

#TheBrainThatWouldn’tDie: a #MarvelouslyTerrible movie. I loved every second of it.

Nothing about it is realistic—not the science nor the portrayal of people‘s reactions to pretty much anything that happens throughout the entire movie.
Wonderfully melodramatic as only a bad old B movie can be.

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 28d

Enjoying a martini — #SimoneMartini

Mike K. @mikekillustration.bsky.social · 29d

Watched the #FearStreet series recently. They were fun-ish. Although they relied on all the classic slasher / witch / psycho / teen movie tropes, it felt more like a horror adventure series. Not really scary, just gross and fun.