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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 2d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 3d

lol, this has to be some sort of op

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 3d

Social media and crowdfunding have turned cartoonists into small business tyrants who are unable to show solidarity for workers or other cartoonists.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 3d

Have you tried the donut vending machine?

Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 10d

The act of mass shooting is inherently radical right wing behavior. I don’t need to dissect a manifesto or a profile to know that. Studying a shooter’s politics feels like a nation wide effort to cope with the fact that we’ve given up on any actual gun control policy coming to pass.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 11d

I often think of the time some guy tried to run over me and a bunch of protesters outside an ice facility back in 2019. It was clear to me that they would have no issues with killing peaceful protesters. It kinda shifted my mentality on what was actually necessary to stop them.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 11d

Silver Jews!

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 12d

My phone is basically nothing but a spam machine at this point. This is what I’m paying for.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 15d

let it be known that my position on Bret's right to free speech has never changed.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15d

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 15d

Nah, I went to CCS years later, it was an art school down South.

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 24d

Excited for my latest and most ambitious comic, Black Arms to Hold You Up, to come out Oct 7 thru @pantheonbooks.bsky.social . You can cop pre-orders thru you local bookstore, anywhere books or sold or thru the pub’s link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671968...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24d

“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 24d

I’m already hearing rumors of this behavior. You messed up big time.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 24d

There’s like a 100% overlap on the venn diagram of liberals who ignore genocide and liberals who defend Charlie Kirk, so no surprises on my end.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26d

I learned a lot about some folks this week. Whew.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 25d

If you find yourself on a 19 hour grayhound busride from SPX back to whatever challenging reality you find yourself in, please know that art will nourish you, and you have every right to make and appreciate art.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 25d

Only with the right credentials and the right class affiliations could you experience, make, or learn about art.
The DIY scene was a direct contradiction to this notion.
Through shows like SPX, I learned that anybody can make art and that art was a nourishing and essential force. Not a luxury.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 25d

Nineteen years ago I dropped out of art school, moved back home, and started working 3rd shift at a local grocery store.
The art school I went to treated creative community like a country club.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 25d

holy smokes we won 🧱

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 25d

That’s my buddy Andrew Greenstone @comicsareforkids.bsky.social

Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

You can get a copy of this print for free with the purchase of my new graphic novel Best of Three debuting at CXC next weekend.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

With the use of these profiles, you can take any full color image and instantly convert it to a specific multi color riso image!

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

colorshift.theretherenow.com Color/Shift is a really cool project. They have taken on the impossible task of profiling a near infinite amount of riso color combinations and offering the icc profiles free for everyone. Color profiling requires a lot of time and special hardware/software.

[color/shift]

colorshift.theretherenow.com

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

Now, I said I did a 3 color print, but since the lineart is solid black with no tones, I didn't need to make a halftone.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

CMYK printing uses different angles depending on the device.

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 26d

When working with 2 overlapping screens, you want to keep your colors 60 degrees apart, and you want the lighter color to be the angle closest to 0. This is to prevent moire. When working with 3 overlapping screens you want to be 30 degrees apart, 4 screens should be 15 degrees apart.

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