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Award Winning Cartoonist - Side Quest / Heart of the City • SLICE President • Comics Editor • Educator • They/Them • Queer • Black • Rep- Anjali Singh Gocomics.com/heartofthecity Oheysteenz.com

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · Nov 7

When 45 won in 2016, I started a protest zine series called Take Comfort Take Care, filled with art, prose, and poetry of peoples feelings about the election. Until I consider if I want to do a redux for 2024, here's a link to the zines our community made. There's power in art.
tctcstl.wordpress.com

A screenshot of the Take Comfort Take Care Zine Website

A screenshot of the Take Comfort Take Care Zine Website

A screenshot of the Take Comfort Take Care Zine Website

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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 13h

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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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 13h

11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Ink & Drink 15-Year Anniversary Panel, moderated by Steenz @oheysteenz.bsky.social
Ballroom, 5th floor

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 14h

GROSS

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 14h

MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) needs volunteers! If you're around Boston and love comics and want to help out in December, you can get more info here (and sign up to volunteer!) www.micexpo.org/volunteer

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 2d

THE BEAT AND K-COMICSBEAT ARE HIRING:

We are looking for a new person to fill the job of Managing Editor for KComicsbeat.com and manga/anime editor for The Beat. Knowledge of webtoon, manga and publishing business required. There is some pay as a PT position.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

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A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

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. Its 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.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI 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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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

CORRECT

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

Thaaaaaanks!!

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

It's so nice!! And thank you!

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!!

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

My birthday gift for myself arrived! A custom denim hat with my name! Thanks @mrtylercrook.bsky.social for telling me about Ape + Bird! The pencil holder will absolutely be doubling as a joint holder.

Steenz showing off their new denim ball cap with a customized script that says "steenz" embroidered on the front.

Steenz showing off their new denim ball cap thats being worn backwards

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sat. Speak on it.

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 5d

As much as I'd love to keep doing Heart of the City for 30+ years, I would ALSO love to get some new voices in the funny pages. I think @suprdee2.com, @crabgrasd.bsky.social and everyone taking up legacy strips like myself are doing great. But that's only a handful of new voices in how many years?

Suprdee2 @suprdee2.com · 5d

I got a particularly hot one:

With ALL due respect to Schulz, Peanuts remaining in newspapers 25 years after his death set a bad precedent for newspaper comics and practically killed the industry from bringing in newcomers.

And it's one of those open secrets no one really likes to talk about.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7d

Never thought a whole bunch of white Brits would move me to tears...but here we are. In the end it comes down to a very simple good vs evil...nothing else matters

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 7d

Here is my occasional note: if you are black TTRPG designer and can use help with anything - design advice, brainstorming, connections - please feel free to reach out and I will do what I can to help or find someone who can help.

We need more black TTRPG designers.

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 7d

That's what I'm sayin!!!

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Josh Trujillo 🏳️‍🌈 @losthiskeysman.bsky.social · 8d

Howdy! I'm looking for an unpublished (or barely published) queer artist to collaborate with me on an upcoming, non-profit queer horror anthology short. Full color. Under 10 pages. There is a page rate, but it is admittedly small.

If interested, PLEASE REPLY HERE. If you DM me I will block you. ❤️💀

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Kris Werewolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 9d

Gaming-Only journalists and analysts are pretty accurately calling this EA acquisition what it is: a doomed idea that will cause untold human misery and kill the company and probably bury all its IPs

Tech/Gaming Journalists keep trying to find a silver lining. Huh. Curious. Strange. Odd. Quirky.

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Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 9d

Just poppin’ out to say RACCOON CITY PUNKS is still available to preorder. If you love survival horror, skating and PS1 this is the comic for you. Beautifully illustrated and riso printed by Sean Mac and written by me.

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 9d

Loved it!

Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 10d

Cameron Cade is a final girl. In this essay I will