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Mike Manley

@drawmanley.bsky.social

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Veteran of animation and comics. Artist The Phantom, Judge Parker, editor of Eisner nominated Draw! Magazine and Co-Host on the Pencil-to-Pencil Podcast

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

Another old Skullkids

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

Sporykhin. I love those Russian painters

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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

Another old life painting from Scott Noel’s class. He loved these narratives where he had the models against the big windows in the elevator lobby. Often mixed in with the other students. Quick one class paintings. Hit it fast! Oil 2010

Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

A life drawing from Scott Noel’s class. First he’d pose the skeleton and then the model and you’d draw over the first drawing. Nue pastel in Rives BFK 2008

Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

Ha. It would be better to not have to stitch together posts. And post longer image threads. I was trying to post something yesterday and it wouldn’t let me— so fuck it. Facebook is still the best format that way.

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Phil Hester @philhester.bsky.social · 8h

Check out what can be accomplished by changing the size of the protagonist's figure throughout the page. Makes time changes less dependent on panel borders, creates depth that defies the flat plane of the page, & makes a talking heads page into a journey. Superb acting, also. Garcia-Lopez & Janson.

A comic book page from JLA: Classified by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Klaus Janson depicting a despot lecturing shocked world leaders via television screens.

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 8h

Another great Al Williamson page

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Posting here is so frustrating

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey you know whatever works. My performance in on the board. It only matters what’s on the page or canvas. For the young social media makes it seem that you have to do all this other useless stuff so they can get likes that won’t last as career

Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Old inktober

Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Always a challenge to draw the bed chamber scenes where I can't show The Phantoms face while he is in bed. The domestic scenes are way more of a challenge than action.

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Join us this Wednesday!

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 1d

Cover by Don Heck.

Weird Terror #7 (1953). On the cover, as coal is being shoveled into a furnace by an evil looking dude, and we are viewing this from inside the furnace, a hand is visible in the flames.

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 2d

Kirby and Williamson

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Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social · 2d

An old day in the studio working on the Phantom with @liangarts.bsky.social and @mimisimon.com from 6 -7 years ago. The best way to tech is like this. On the job.