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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · Jul 9

Hey, I'm Peter and I draw comics! I've worked on the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, written some Dragon Prince graphic novels, and also a few creator-owned things.

✨portfolio: peterwartman.com
✨comics: shipwreckplanet.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 1h

yay!

Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 4h

I mean, I did prepare four books for print with it (eventually)! I believe in you, Scribus

Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 4h

I have never had a program crash harder than Scribus. I want it to be good but it's got a ways to go.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 9h

Runaway. From my webcomic SABLE, A Ghost Story

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 9h

and, like, that's fine? you don't have to write

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 9h

if you don't want to write and don't care about telling stories no amount of technology is going to fix that

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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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 11h

have you played the new mecha card battler being called "a Gundam good time" (@escapistmag.bsky.social) yet?

Battle Suit Aces combines our love of mecha anime, Star Trek, and rich, heartfelt narrative into one big card-battling RPG with beautiful art. Available now on PC, PS5, and Switch!

Yan, Daciana, and Jaeger laugh with each other over a bowl of snacks at a table. Belmont looks on from the doorway.

Blue Crest, Felix's signature Relic Suit mech rests upright in the hangar.

A space station, grey with purple lights, floats among the stars.

Yan has a picture of Adolphus, a purple haired mystery, up on her computer screen. Daciana is behind her, looking over her shoulder.

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 11h

I've enjoyed it the few times I used it!

Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 12h

I wonder if I should start trying to move to Krita from CSP

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 12h

open source might be buggy but increasingly seems to be the only real, stable choice for creative software

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12h

I'm giving it a 50/50 on this being Affinity going AI because what the fuck does this even mean. Might as well start looking around for a replacement.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t recommend enough that if you want to become a comic writer, you need to read comics. It’s so tempting to try to shove a wall of text into one page or a ton of scene changes, but that makes it really hard on artists to be able to properly adapt that

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 13h

drawing comics may be a silly frivolous business but it turns out it's still a real business

Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 13h

trying to do money math has convinced me it's time to hire a CPA

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · May 30

More from Barria. It says something about the monstrous absurdity of the era that some of the finest editorial cartooning was by a Reuters photographer.

Reuters photo of Trump’s head amidst a bunch of pumpkins.

Famous Reuters photo by Carlos Barria of Trump in the cab of a truck, screaming.

Even more famous photo by Carlos Barria. Trump shouting at a kid mowing the white house lawn.

Trump looks utterly unmanned as Melania makes goo goo eyes at Trudeau.

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 1d

oh my god i somehow never saw the pumpkin one before

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Carlos Barria took just about every great photo of the first Trump administration. He’s in Portland right now documenting what’s actually going on.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 2d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Eyecager @amberbladejones.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d

Alright I’m on my way to New York. See you tomorrow!

A picture of a cartoon version of me riding in a toy cartoon airplane, careening through the clouds.

The title reads Angelica and the Bear Prince @ NYCC

Book Tour!

(Here I come!!!)

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 1d

this looks fun!

josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 1d

#DVPit #GN #A #LGBT

Going undercover as a race car mechanic, a young mobster makes the mistake of falling in love with his target. Unable to quit his mission or his new romance, he is forced to choose between which truth he wants to live. Either could cost him his life.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1d

3rd Voice 1st Passage BOOK is AVAILABLE NOW topatoco.com/products/ed-...

3rd Voice 1st Passage

3rd Voice is an ongoing fantasy graphic novel It concerns a world in a state of apocalyptic crisis, and the precarious lives of many people therein.

topatoco.com

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 1d

Reclamation heavy lift aircraft bringing equipment and personnel into the valley of Two-Sky River.

The small cockpit windows are mainly a backup for the augmented reality sensorium helmets worn by pilots; a technology favored by House Kendi.

#illustration #conceptart #scifiart

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Leland Goodman @lelandgoodman.bsky.social · 10d

Another #knightsofguinevere M7 background that I had SOOO much fun with! 1 massive thank you to Nora Zerczy for the cg greybox I got to work off of, a 2nd massive thank you to AD @amberbladejones.bsky.social and @danaterrace.bsky.social for direction, and a 3rd massive thank you to @glitchprod.com!

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heybiji @heybiji.bsky.social · 2d

It's HERE! Thanks for letting me be part of the team; it was an absolute dream 🥹✨️ Battle Suit Aces is jam-packed with heart and incredible art!! the characters are also very hot. anyway. yippee!! it's out!!

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 2d

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW‼️

Adventure through the stars with the found family of the Zephyr and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Relic suits. Play the Battle Chef Brigade team’s new heartfelt, dynamic card-battling narrative RPG NOW on PC, PS5 and Switch!
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 2d

PureRef is such a useful program, how did it take me so long to find it

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