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A.L. Kaplan

@alkcomics.bsky.social

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Shorter than most. Makes comics. Looking for an agent. 💀🖤🏳️‍⚧️✨ DC covers | Circuit Breaker | Stuff of Nightmares | Maw | Full-Spectrum Therapy 🖼️ alkcomics.com 🛒 alkcomics.bigcartel.com 💬 tapas.io/series/fst

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi #PortfolioDay I love making beautiful, psychedelic & queer horror comics and covers.

Looking for agent rep and/or editor interest in a few graphic novels pitches
👽🖤🌈✨

💌 alkcomics@gmail
🎨 alkcomics.com

Circuit Breaker - Jules Jourdain - DC Comics' first transmasc superhero

Maw, written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, published by BOOM!

Poison Ivy and Cyborg cover for Lazarus Planet

Interior artwork introducing Circuit Breaker in Lazarus Planet

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7h

SO DOABLE

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah you've gotta. Everything you've said about it sounds so damn cool

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 8h

Oh RAD

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 1d

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh yeah, great playlist

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 1d

This page looks so good!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 5d

Deathbird up next

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 5d

X-Rated season 2 let's goooooo 💅✨

(Featuring all ur favorite D-listers, and whomever these guys are)

Inking process of a shot of Scott and Jean in not quite Quitely fashion

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 5d

fire & brimstone

closeup of ink process on the cover for Bytchcraft issue 4. I am using a kuretake brush pen to fill in the blacks on Em, a punky wytch bursting out of flames

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 6d

❌

Ink drawing in progress featuring two figures clothed in dark ribbed fabric

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7d

Li'l closeup. I love the ribcage back piece and wish I had it to wear to the Mercury 🫰

close-up of the character to show his hairdo and body jewerly

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7d

It's Halloween 1st and BYTCHCRAFT #4 is out today! Featuring my favorite of the three wytches, Em 🐐😈🌈✨

🌙written by: Aaron Reese
🪄 interior art by: Lema Carril

Comic book cover featuring a witch dressed in punky club attire, bursting out of a plume of flames. Abstract snakes coil in the background. His hair is braided intricately to form two horns. A Tarot-inspired design frames the image

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 7d

Thank youu

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Nick Robles @artofnickrobles.bsky.social · 8d

Al has that spark of artistry magic. <3 LOVE this!

A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 8d

Strange Illumination

Dark drawing with screen tones of two people floating with bubbles. One holds up a cellphone camera, beaming light. The other has their hand pressed up as if against glass.

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 8d

Aw nooo, sorry to hear about the job, Mouna 💔

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 8d

It totally is. And you do that so well!

I'm trying to remind myself, when tempted to add more rendering or whatever, that I've never looked at a finished piece of mine and thought "wow wish there was more fiddly crap." Usually the opposite haha