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Shawn McGuan

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Illustrator/Graphic Designer. Nerd. Pretty awesome [citation needed]. @the_mcgone on the Bird Site/Ecchs.

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · Jul 8

It’s #PortfolioDay you say? Well who am I to doubt that. I’m Shawn, illustrator, graphic designer and increasingly bad at social media. Anyway… these are things I have done somewhat recently.

Kate Bishop and Lucky the Pizza Dog for last year’s Pouchtober

Jean Grey, Illyana Rasputin and Kitty Pryde (and Lockheed!) in various baseball gear, as is the X-Men way. Done for the annual Ed Asner Family Center art auction.

The cover of No-Tell Motel, a single player role playing game, featuring a sultry woman looks out window blinds at a seedy motel. She has a secret, proceed with caution!

Tesla Strong riding her hoverboard. She’s p cool!

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 17h

And the finish of the wine lingers for 40 years

Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 2d

No way in hell will it happen, but Stanfield walked away with this one.

Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 2d

Boy, I did not care for PLAY DIRTY, which is mindboggling because it’s Shane Black + Parker, but the writing was on the wall back when they announced Wahlberg in the lead. However! If Black were to follow this up with Lakeith Stanfield’s Grofield in an adaption of “The Blackbird?” Count me in.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 3d

My contribution to the 2025 Ed Asner Family Center auction

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Kevin Nowlan @knowlan.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s the link to this upcoming auction on Heritage:
tinyurl.com/y3ebnpmp
It looks like it’s scheduled to go live around October 9th. This link tinyurl.com/meu5kap8 will take you to the auction home page so you can browse all the art that’s being sold to benefit the Ed Asner Family Center.

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 5d

Up to BURN AFTER READING in my rewatch and still thinking about my Coen-themed Super Smash Bros. idea and realizing it wil be rated *at least* M For Mature thanks to George Clooney’s finishing move

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · Aug 2

Rewatching Barton Fink before the Blank Check episode drops tonight, and I had this ridiculous thought that I wish there was a Coen-themed Super Smash Bros. And by ridiculous I mean I’m obsessed with it and how do I get this made irl.

Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats Matt! It has been inspiring to watch you crush this this past year.

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 10d

My dream would have been for them to do a period Parker starring Michael Shannon right around the time he did THE ICEMAN

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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 11d

UPDATED Sale blog!

*Inventory of PSwap 11x14"s
*CLEARANCING all 5x7 sets
*NES GameChangers are back for sale! DIY kits and some REAL game carts available!

artofrustyshackles.blogspot.com

The Art Of Rusty Shackles

artofrustyshackles.blogspot.com

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Shawn McGuan @smcguan.bsky.social · 24d

Yeah, but I bet this looks amazing if you watch it in the drum circle on your next Ayahuasca retreat

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26d

it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 29d

You’re complying in advance at best and victim blaming at worst. Authoritarians need little input from us to take drastic action.

Also, counterpoint:

Screenshot of article titled Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths 'Unfortunately' Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

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Dylan Todd @dylantodd.bsky.social · Sep 2

COMIC BOOK EDITORS & CREATORS! I'm available for logo work, book design, brand design and consultation, marketing/social media templates and graphics, etc. If you’re a cool person and want to make a cool thing, drop me a line. dylantodd.com/work