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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 3h

thank you!!!<3

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 13h

Hello everyone!

My new shop drop is here, with new Snoop of Finland stickers, patches and pins, along with new sticker sheets and risograph prints. If you have been waiting on any of these, now is the time to grab one!

Love you all! 🫶

sixgillsart.bigcartel.com

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · Sep 5

GFM update ❤️‍🩹
My tooth almost took my life,I got it pulled + am getting my implant consult soon.

Since then I have been sick with a chronic respiratory issue, & it's cost me tabling RCCC.
I hate to do it, but I am asking for a bit more help. Share if you can 🫶
www.gofundme.com/f/help-lonni...

Cartoon of me sitting on my own hand, with a censored photo of my rancid tooth cackling.
"That guy almost killed me! " I say, and the tooth says "I almost killed you! Nyehehe!"

Comic of me trembling , saying "oh, well I'm glad I got that tooth pulled, now to r-" and I am hit with multiple bouts of sickness.
"In time for Rose City Comic Con". I am hit with a sickness anvil.

I am pancaked on the ground, and I peel my face up, saying "I think I need to rest."

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 13h

Hello everyone!

My new shop drop is here, with new Snoop of Finland stickers, patches and pins, along with new sticker sheets and risograph prints. If you have been waiting on any of these, now is the time to grab one!

Love you all! 🫶

sixgillsart.bigcartel.com

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 2d

My new part-time job at Blind Insect Gallery is looking for new US based artists for their Holiday Show!
It welcomes people trying to break into the gallery scene! Apps end Oct. 31st :0) this show is how artists for solo shows are found
www.blindinsect.com/call-for-art

Call for Art | BI

www.blindinsect.com

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 1d

These two devilish girls are now discounted on my shop! They are acrylic on wood paintings ♥️😈
sixgillsart.bigcartel.com/category/ori...

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 2d

The gallery is Latino-owned and prioritizes people from diverse backgrounds to apply

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 2d

My new part-time job at Blind Insect Gallery is looking for new US based artists for their Holiday Show!
It welcomes people trying to break into the gallery scene! Apps end Oct. 31st :0) this show is how artists for solo shows are found
www.blindinsect.com/call-for-art

Call for Art | BI

www.blindinsect.com

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 2d

Had a long-COVID flareup yesterday so the update will actually be tomorrow 😔 Sorry guys!

Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

I will have a big shop drop of these plus sticker sheets etc. on the 8th! I need to buy a nightgaurd so I don't fracture more teeth 😬

Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 18d

Risograph detail shots :0)

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw MtG was doing Play-Doh cards...girl let me do a card for you I live for that

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

I will have a big shop drop of these plus sticker sheets etc. on the 8th! I need to buy a nightgaurd so I don't fracture more teeth 😬

Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 18d

Risograph detail shots :0)

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

I just talked in front of a classroom over call it was so scary!!!!! But fun :0)

Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

The older I get the queenier I become

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

Me when I hit my 60s

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 4d

The older I get the queenier I become

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Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · 4d

🏆 First a BIG congrats to Lonnie for Putty Pygmalion winning the 2025 LAMBDA Literary Award @lambdaliterary.org for LGBTQ+ Comics! 🌈

💀 Now for Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 3: PUTTY PYGMALION by Lonnie Garcia @sixgills.bsky.social 💔

A twisted story perfect for spooky season. 👻

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 5d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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Angel "Mrs. Movies" Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social · 5d

Consider: in december my surgery is going down. If you notice I am around less but a lot at specific times of day I got a very time consuming day job. I'll be out of work for weeks. Share, like, subscribe

Angel "Mrs. Movies" Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm gonna do more in depth stuff and outtreach to make sure this is knocked out of the park but here goes: the crowdfund for my transition care stuff. I've finally got my consults! i am gonna need some help to make this work! Please circulate and give if at all possible, thank you!

Donate to Help Angel Perez Access Essential Trans Care, organized by Michelle Jane Perez

Hello! I'm Angel Perez, you may know me previously as Michelle Perez!… Michelle Jane Perez needs your support for Help Angel Perez Access Essential Trans Care

gofund.me

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · Dec 30

from my review of 2024's PUTTY PYGMALION

Derryl’s house is not what we’re used to seeing in comics. It’s real. Garcia’s approach is part illustration, the characters, sound effects, and emanata stuff like motion lines, on top of mixed-media: photographs of the rooms the characters occupy, or digital washes of color and woozy background manipulations. The heavily stylized digital artwork and wildly chaotic hand-drawn characters come together like a Popeye animation cell on a 30s setback tabletop shot and it is wonderful and strange. Garcia shoots photographs of a real location, then combines photos with drawings into panels, and then panels into digital layouts. People and what they say on top, flat, and imagery beneath that falls away into three dimensions.

But more on that later, first consider the space Peter and Derryl occupy. The top layer reserved for sound and sensations/realizations (the thought balloon and the lightbulb) is present in nearly every comic, experimental or not. The panel is a window, a hole in the page though which the reader sees the story. The dialog, narration, and inner monologue in a traditional comic rest on the pane of the window. Usually there isn’t a distance between the viewer and the window frame, comics flatten everything like a cinematographer does with film. Putty Pygmalion is a space attached to the window that moves back from it. The characters and speech float on top.

By elevating the characters up to this layer of the comics stratosphere, Garcia’s work brings to mind Disa Wallander, which is not something you can say about a lot of cartoonists. Wallander’s Becoming Horses also lifts the characters up to the same layer as the speech, and forgoes hand-drawn scenes in each panel for abstract imagery used in collage, and photography textures. Often there are no panels at all. There’s a sense in both Wallander and Garcia’s work that the characters are traveling through another world (because aesthetically, they are). Like Jack Kirby’s collage comics, the late sixties Fantastic Four issues.

And so Putty Pygmalion presents another infrequent opportunity, to consider the stratospheric categorization in comics. Speech and what Mort Walker called “emanata” (like the stars that float around a bopped noggin) exist in a contradictory, conceptual space. Peter hears exactly what Derryl is saying, but he can’t see the words we read. The idea exists, but the lightbulb doesn’t- not for the character who experiences it, only for the reader observing. Arguably it’s a defining element of comics, an essential difference between them and other pairings of words and pictures. I like the idea of the explorers being transported up into the level of raw comics while the world they’re investigating breaks the traditional concept of what comics look like, where a comic happens, what a comic is.

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 5d

I keep meaning to share that caterpillar friend with pumpkin is also available! 🐛🎃✨

Matted painting and cell overlay.

$275 (free US shipping)
5x7 inches (8x10 matted)
DM to claim (PayPal/Venmo preferred)

Artist holding matted painting and cell overlay featuring a caterpillar and pumpkin.

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 5d

Someone on Tumblr once drew an au with their ocs based off of my book and that is genuinely the most flattering response I have seen from Putty. So cool and sweet

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone has ever written fic or drawn weird fanart of my book you have to show me Plleeeaaaase

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 6d

The twins 🐕🐕
Another figure sold at Gamjam!

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 6d

Figures I made for Gamjam! Mister Butt has already sold :0)

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 6d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Comics: Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia! @sixgills.bsky.social @silversprocket.net 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 6d

The twins 🐕🐕
Another figure sold at Gamjam!

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