Bink
@binkysky.bsky.social
Retired comic book artist and art teacher. Sonoma County.
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I'm a old cartoonist and language crank. I HATE hearing everyone under 55 using "like," meaninglessly, CONSTANTLY. God forbid you speak a forceful, simple declarative sentence--like an American, ffs--without instantly retreating mealy-mouthed to Like-land. What tf happened to you? Knock it off!
I'm a old cartoonist and language crank. I HATE hearing everyone under 55 using "like," meaninglessly, CONSTANTLY. God forbid you speak a forceful, simple declarative sentence--like an American, ffs--without instantly retreating mealy-mouthed to Like-land. What tf happened to you? Knock it off!
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I'm a old cartoonist and language crank. I HATE hearing everyone under 55 using "like," meaninglessly, CONSTANTLY. God forbid you speak a forceful, simple declarative sentence--like an American, ffs--without instantly retreating mealy-mouthed to Like-land. What tf happened to you? Knock it off!
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I’m starting a movement against music in waiting rooms. If I’m sitting for an hour, I want to read, not listen to music I didn’t choose.
Who’s with me?
#waitingrooms #readers #rant #issues
Who’s with me?
#waitingrooms #readers #rant #issues
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I’m starting a movement against music in waiting rooms. If I’m sitting for an hour, I want to read, not listen to music I didn’t choose.
Who’s with me?
#waitingrooms #readers #rant #issues
Who’s with me?
#waitingrooms #readers #rant #issues
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I promised to put this up a few weeks back and forgot after our podcast.
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I promised to put this up a few weeks back and forgot after our podcast.
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Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.
Some truly striking scenery at Smith Rock State Park near Bend, Oregon. Family vacay, 2014
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Some truly striking scenery at Smith Rock State Park near Bend, Oregon. Family vacay, 2014
Somehow this place didn't make it. A restaurant on Mission St., San Francisco about 10 years ago. These are, I swear, select actual items from their menu.
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Somehow this place didn't make it. A restaurant on Mission St., San Francisco about 10 years ago. These are, I swear, select actual items from their menu.
At last, I'm able to name the worst performed and written song of recent times, or possibly ever.. Now playing at my gym: "Robbery" by JuiceWRLD!
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
At last, I'm able to name the worst performed and written song of recent times, or possibly ever.. Now playing at my gym: "Robbery" by JuiceWRLD!
Hong Kong has many virtues, but is noted for its crowded housing. One public housing project was named "Pak Tin," which tickled me.. couldn't find my (dull) picture of it, so here's a shot of another, optimistically named "Healthy Village."
December 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hong Kong has many virtues, but is noted for its crowded housing. One public housing project was named "Pak Tin," which tickled me.. couldn't find my (dull) picture of it, so here's a shot of another, optimistically named "Healthy Village."
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Rosa Parks showed how one act of courage can spark change. Today we honor her legacy by standing up for equal rights and demanding a stronger democracy.
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Rosa Parks showed how one act of courage can spark change. Today we honor her legacy by standing up for equal rights and demanding a stronger democracy.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
A demo I did solo, trying out for penciling and coloring Dan Brereton's cool women-in-demon-prison Vampirella tale for editor Bon Amiglano. Inker was the best, my pal Mike Manley. ~2008.
(I did OK, but soon felt I'd drawn it too NICE: eye-comforting, rather than seamy and intense.)
(I did OK, but soon felt I'd drawn it too NICE: eye-comforting, rather than seamy and intense.)
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A demo I did solo, trying out for penciling and coloring Dan Brereton's cool women-in-demon-prison Vampirella tale for editor Bon Amiglano. Inker was the best, my pal Mike Manley. ~2008.
(I did OK, but soon felt I'd drawn it too NICE: eye-comforting, rather than seamy and intense.)
(I did OK, but soon felt I'd drawn it too NICE: eye-comforting, rather than seamy and intense.)
From Rick Remender's "Doll & Creature", c. 2000. Pencils mine, inking by Mike Manley. Toning by the then young Peter Secosh and/or Jeremy Saliba. These guys made this maybe the most beautifully crafted page I've ever had a hand in.
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
From Rick Remender's "Doll & Creature", c. 2000. Pencils mine, inking by Mike Manley. Toning by the then young Peter Secosh and/or Jeremy Saliba. These guys made this maybe the most beautifully crafted page I've ever had a hand in.
😳🙈😳😍comic strip great Noel Sickles
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
😳🙈😳😍comic strip great Noel Sickles
"Action Planet Comics Hot Twisted Love." I was goofing on old love comics, written for females by men. The story that inspired me was drawn beautifully by Frazetta! I stole a couple lines whole, which appear all in boldface on the last page.
In this solo effort, I aimed to draw à la W. Wood. FUN!
In this solo effort, I aimed to draw à la W. Wood. FUN!
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Action Planet Comics Hot Twisted Love." I was goofing on old love comics, written for females by men. The story that inspired me was drawn beautifully by Frazetta! I stole a couple lines whole, which appear all in boldface on the last page.
In this solo effort, I aimed to draw à la W. Wood. FUN!
In this solo effort, I aimed to draw à la W. Wood. FUN!
The next Doll and Creature page. I shoulda posted these in one post (cue clown music)!
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The next Doll and Creature page. I shoulda posted these in one post (cue clown music)!
Another page of a "Doll& Creature" pencil action sequence...
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Another page of a "Doll& Creature" pencil action sequence...
My 2-yr stint as a Marvel guy was not much. My superhero penciling was so-so. Still, 5 years on, Rick Remender brought me onto his new title "Doll and Creature"! He chose to make it all-action for the first hunk of pages. A ballsy move, considering. I didn't stink it up, sez 2025 me!
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My 2-yr stint as a Marvel guy was not much. My superhero penciling was so-so. Still, 5 years on, Rick Remender brought me onto his new title "Doll and Creature"! He chose to make it all-action for the first hunk of pages. A ballsy move, considering. I didn't stink it up, sez 2025 me!
Read in The Atlantic today about something I've been hearing on Thanksgivings for decades: that bit of wisdom about turkey putting you to sleep because of the tryptophan in it. Not supported by science, it turns out.
Now I don't believe in nothing no more!
(Jimbo, The Simpsons, 1994)
Now I don't believe in nothing no more!
(Jimbo, The Simpsons, 1994)
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Read in The Atlantic today about something I've been hearing on Thanksgivings for decades: that bit of wisdom about turkey putting you to sleep because of the tryptophan in it. Not supported by science, it turns out.
Now I don't believe in nothing no more!
(Jimbo, The Simpsons, 1994)
Now I don't believe in nothing no more!
(Jimbo, The Simpsons, 1994)
This is WONDERFUL.
Trump Administration hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness all rolled into one ad...
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is WONDERFUL.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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The Trump administration is planning to open 1.3 billion acres of U.S. oceans to oil and gas drilling, expanding the production of climate-warming fossil fuels. Scientists say we need to phase out fossil fuels to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Trump administration is planning to open 1.3 billion acres of U.S. oceans to oil and gas drilling, expanding the production of climate-warming fossil fuels. Scientists say we need to phase out fossil fuels to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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