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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 7h

Wondering if any cartoonist friends can recommend a freelance editor? I have a very tired brain and maybe I'm just not remembering who exactly I know, but I'd appreciate any recs or reminders!

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omallj.bsky.social @omallj.bsky.social · 8d

newhope.shelterbuddy.com/Animal/Profi...

At-Risk Profile: Reese

Reese is at-risk of euthanasia and needs placement. Please consider opening your home today!

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 7d

This is so awful. Star Fruit Books was such an exciting project, I have a small collection of their published works. Matt was such a great guy. Rest in peace.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 8d

A personal remembrance of Matt Haasch.

www.tcj.com/remembering-...

Remembering Star Fruit Books publisher Matt Haasch, 1990-2025 - The Comics Journal

Zack Davisson pays homage to the late Haasch, who died of cancer on Sept. 6.

www.tcj.com

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 8d

Katsuhiro Otomo, 1985

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Jan 25

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Sad Snack @sadsnack.bsky.social · 21d

THIS IS IT! Sad Snack’s debut album, Vending Machine, is graced by the artwork of Toronto based illustrator, Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social! Coming THIS WINTER from @selltheheart.bsky.social!!!

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 23d

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 26d

Good morning! Ken here this Friday gathering up a big order that ended up pushing us over that rent line!
Open today 10-1, 3-5.
(Featuring @funeralbeat.bsky.social )

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 28d

Honestly, it's not bad compared to being very stressed at almost all times!

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 28d

Home from Winnipeg, but made the mistake of taking too much of my anxiety medication and now my brain is working really slowly. More slowly than usual. Like, it took me a while to figure out how to get my backpack open.

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · Sep 2

This Sat Sept 6 at 7pm, join comics creators @jefflemire171.bsky.social (Jeff Lemire: Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder) & @funeralbeat.bsky.social (Jenn Woodall: Magical Beatdown, Space Trash) for a @prairiecomicsfest.bsky.social 2025 presented event! - mailchi.mp/grant/pcf-2025

Jeff Lemire & Jenn Woodall join us to discuss comics!

On Saturday September 6 at 7pm, join acclaimed Canadian comics creators Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder) and Jenn Woodall (Magical Beatdown, Space Trash) as they discuss ...

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · Aug 31

Poilievre is such a fucking bozo. Lost his seat, gets given a pity seat by the Cons. Clinging to relevancy by piggy-backing on headline topics and culture war grifting. How much more of a loser can someone be

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Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · Aug 30

🌾✨Our very own Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social is a special guest at the Prairie Comics Festival!!
✨ For more details: prairiecomics.com

We’ve got a whole collection of Jenn's amazing creations available through our shop! 💖

Go meet Jenn, snag some faves, and celebrate indie comics!! 👀💎

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · Mar 19

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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Léa 🏎️🏎️🏎️💨 @leavt.bsky.social · Aug 19

also #artfight attack for @okenki.bsky.social with Hope from webcomic Goth Boyfriends! (and Jasper, great influence on each other, what could go wrong)

watercolor illustration of two characters posing with a bright red car. Hope, a young asian guy with brown hair and a big smile is posing on the roof and Jasper, famous small ginger, blowing a strawberry sat at the wheel with the door open. They both wear red short shorts and red bomber jackets, doing the horn sign with their hand, ready for shenanigans

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Stoop Shop @stoopshopbaltimore.com · Aug 15

It’s finally happening! Our Kickstarter is now LIVE!!! Please consider supporting our campaign so we not only can bring these comics into the world and into your hands, but to continue sustaining our operations while publishing artists around the globe!
#kickstarter #comics #indiecomics #baltimore

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SAJAN @planetsmudge.bsky.social · Aug 15

loved doing this commission of Mo for @teanwitch.bsky.social

fantasy artwork of a shiba inu adorned in patterned robes, sitting in the flowery shade on a hill, with cherries dangling above. The dog has a sheathed sword, is summoning a tiny thunderstorm

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Prairie Comics Festival @prairiecomicsfest.bsky.social · Mar 26

We've got so many rad things to tell you about on this platform, but first up: the PCF 2025 Poster by @floodkiss.bsky.social! Our new home this year is the @manitobamuseum.bsky.social, and we're welcoming 95+ exhibitors as well as headliners @jefflemire171.bsky.social & @funeralbeat.bsky.social!!

Cute chibi fairy creatures jostle with an ink pot, pen, and an open sketchbook on a blue sky background with a standard rainbow attached to a trans rainbow.

Text from top to bottom reads:
SPECIAL GUESTS: JEFF LEMIRE & JENN WOODALL
PRAIRIE COMCIS FESTIVAL
Artists, Publishers, Panels

September 6-7, 2025, FREE TO ATTEND, Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave.

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · Aug 18

Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · Aug 18

ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.

The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.

Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy

Photo of a photocopied flyer:

ZINEDUMP

New Toronto Zine Fair

(then the same information as in the post)

Apply more and learn more:
www.zinedump.fyi
IG: @zinedump.fyi

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · Aug 17

Can I ask where you got that riso patch??

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · Aug 15

New collab comic available at Zine Dream this weekend from me, Paterson Hodgson and Kristel Jax - ✨GIRL COMICS #1 ✨
Available for sale online after the weekend

A comic cover featuring 2 blue-skinned aliens girls reading some comics with earth in the background.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Aug 15

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · Aug 15

New collab comic available at Zine Dream this weekend from me, Paterson Hodgson and Kristel Jax - ✨GIRL COMICS #1 ✨
Available for sale online after the weekend

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tomorrow, at Ella Minnow in Toronto, join me for the launch of my second middle grade kids horror book, SCAREWAVES: BEYOND THE GRAVE!

There will be a short chapter reading and a signing! 2:00pm!

a book launch poster for my new kids book scarewaves:beyond the grave, 2:00pm at ELLAMINNOW, 991 Kingston Road, Toronto

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