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kieu @ we must not stop living

@leslekieuart.bsky.social

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Horror artist and occassional vtuber currently making a webcomic about scary cowboys my comic: https://dustndreadcomic.com/ money me: https://www.patreon.com/leslekieuart

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 6h

this is probably my favorite panel of him the demin cutoffs just really add to it

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 7h

He is my favorite teen

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 7h

empty template if anyone wants it too

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 7h

Don't remember if I ever posted these here but I found them again and they made me laugh

Character inspiration for Clayton from my webcomic Dust n' Dread. Characters left right by row are Black Jack from Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack, Darkman from Darkman (1990), Frankenstein's monster (illustration by Bernie Wrightson), Hyakkimaru from Dororo, Man with No Name from Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, and The Batter from OFF

Character inspiration for Holt from my webcomic Dust n' Dread. Characters left right by row are George from Being Human, Vash the Stampede from Trigun, Damemaru from Dai Dark, Chris Jennings from Dark Shadows, The Abomination from Darkest Dungeon, and Eric Cord from the Werewolf (1987)

Character inspiration for Jo from my webcomic Dust n' Dread. Characters left right by row are Frank Reynolds from Always Sunny in Philadelphia, My friend chumpodile.bsky.social, Sun Wukong from Journey to the West, Shimada Death from Dai Dark, Kintaro Oe from Golden Boy, and Xavier Renegade Angel from Xavier Renegade Angel

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 7h

Next week's update is also out over on the Patreon for free members as well :^)

Panel of Clayton in a train car covered in bandages with some mummy ass goonies coming up to him.

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 7h

new Dust n' Dread update! Sometimes you just gotta draw your characters crashing the fuck out because you're sick in the head (a lot like the M&M minis) #webcomic

You can read the whole comic over here

Panel 1
Holt gets up, looking more lucid

Holt: Clayton?!

Panel 2
Holt goes up to Clayton and tries to talk to him, but Clayton is unresponsive.

Holt: Clayton?! Clay? I-I'm sorry for hittin' ya back there, I wasn't thinkin straight! Clay?!

Panel 3
Holt continues to try to talk to Clayton, who is in the foreground still completely ignoring him while looking at the corpse on the ground.

Holt: Come on Clay?! Can't ya say some...

Panel 4
Holt finally notices what Clayton has been staring at

Holt: ...thin?

Panel 5
Close up of bloody Desert Stink Beetles

Panel 6
Zoome out of previous panel. The beetles are crawling out of the open wounds of the corpse.

Panel 1
Jo and Holt are behind Clayton, who is silently reaching for the shovel lodged in the corpse's chest

Holt: Isn't that a bit like y-

Panel 2
Close of the shovel being lifted. There's blood and bugs falling off it

Panel 3
Clayton lifts the shovel over his head with, wide eyed

Panel 4 and 5
Impact shorts of the shovel being slammed into the corpse, bugs and bandages flying in the the air with thre SLAMs

Panel 6
Close up of Clayton with a wild look in his eyes as he continues destroying the corpse with the shovel.

Panel 1
Holt recoils while Jo is surprised as Clayton finally calms down

Holt: What are you doin!?

Panel 2
Holt tries to talk to Clayton

Holt: What's wrong Clay-

Panel 3
Close up of Clayton turned around with blood all over his face

Clayton: Don't you touch me.

Panel 4
Holt looks at him in shot

Holt: Clayton?

Panel 5
Clayton walks away from Holt and Jo

Holt Clayton wait!

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 17h

I have been trying to read this multiple times and I still don't get it is this a roleplay or something

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 19h

Like yeah that’s what it feels like watching videos in bed because you couldn’t sleep

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 19h

The new trend of editing videos like you’re fading in and out of consciousness is certainly making videos a lot sleepier in a very funny way

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 2d

It's like... you can swim over it what the hell are you doing!!!!

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 2d

You really can brute force something if you find it funny enough 🥹

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 2d

what a dream it would be... it's the closest thing we have to video game poisons swamps and we have to go to the bottom of the fuck ass ocean to even see it

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 2d

it wasn't even my main account the person that made the page found my fucking yakuza side account where I was live posting the doc about brine pools and laughing so hard I was crying

screenshot of the twitter account kieu_tip with pictures of an eel dead in a deep sea brine pool. The tweet says "Come into the deep sea brine pool and experience such high levels of saline you go into toxic shock"

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 2d

remember when I got a know your meme page about brine pools because I got so hyperfixated on them for like a month because the thought of a fish that can swim in any direction swimming right into a pool of salt that is so dense that they go right into toxic shock and die was funny to me

Brine Pool Livin' | Know Your Meme

Brine Pool Livin' refers to a series of ironic shitposts referencing and praising brine pools, often accompanied by artwork depicting unusual sea creatures

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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 3d

omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈

Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s goooo 🙌🙌🙌

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

These aren't hot takes they're baked perfectly

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

This wouldn't be for another couple months anyway since I'm currently wracked with a million different things to do so...

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

haha... unless...

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 5d

Now available! Grab this little weird guy!

www.makeship.com/products/the...

A plush toy of The Stranger, a black robed figure with an oversized textured head, haphazardly painted on (?) eyes on a featureless face

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

He looks so cute...

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

Man I would love to stream monster hunter wilds but I think playing that while streaming would fry my computer

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 4d

You really need to look at what is the most necessary part of your lore and learn how to write it into the comic. The last thing I ever want is homework that isn't even part of the comic in order to understand it 😫

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Comic creators who rely on "lore" and "worldbuilding" outside the context of what is depicted in a comic aren't making good comics.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 5d

that attack up L and sonic barrier spam kinda 🫦

it's gotten to a point where I only need to apply it when I see I don't have it anymore because let's be honest, I'm also tanking at the same time LOL