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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jul 3

You can PREORDER my book about the Assassin's Creed franchise NOW! Please do that. I think it is both a fun and interesting dive into what Assassin's Creed is, how it develops its ideas, and what it says about the world we live in. TOC attached, preorder at the link! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 6h

I LOVE this!!

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seb / zyncren 🌈🐉 @zyncren.bsky.social · 6h

Wild woman for Ilyse, based on this illo 🐎💚 we might add more design elements later💥 Lines healed color fresh!

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 12h

Bugge

A photo of an ink drawing of a green katydid, surrounded by the edges of other drawings in my sketchbook.

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

Space = big. New page of FUTURE PROOF today! futureproof.webcomic.ws #comicoop

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Makes me think of the biologist and her abandoned lots in Annihilation!

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna start giving walking tours called “all the wildlife Virginia sees wandering around Milwaukee’s weird liminal corporate outdoor spaces”. Anyway, here’s some birds I saw today too

A photo of a red-breasted nuthatch in a maple tree.

A photo of a brown creeper heading up the branch of a tree.

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

The batties are back!!!

A photo of a silver haired bat sleeping on a tree with some green plants behind it.

A photo of another silver haired bat sleeping on a tree with treetops in the background.

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!!

Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

Space = big. New page of FUTURE PROOF today! futureproof.webcomic.ws #comicoop

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 1d

Did he spend an hour trying to wake me up just so he could sleep in my spot on the bed? Apparently!

A photo of a black and white cat curled on a pale blue quilted blanket. He looks slightly annoyed that I have disturbed him.

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 2d

Cool bugs I saw today: a sphinx moth, a monarch and this big ass katydid

A photo of a big green katydid on pavement, with my index finger next to it. The bug is as big as my finger!

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Stickyfrogs @stickyfrogs.bsky.social · 2d

Beverley and Trevor have both Increased Their Spherical this week! They are wearing their Striped Party Pants to celebrate!

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 2d

My video game ideas are: this, stop treating your workers like shit, and make Patches a girl.

Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 2d

Once again I would like to propose: the next Assassin's Creed game should be set in pre-Columbian Mexico City. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 2d

Once again I would like to propose: the next Assassin's Creed game should be set in pre-Columbian Mexico City. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

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candice ∞ @infinitymachine.xyz · 3d

folks its really coming together now #zines #lino

a page from my brussels sprouts zine, there are two linocut images. one is a brussels sprout with an x carved in the base. the other, is a medieval style devil with a large fork that had speared a bruskie. text: should you cut a cross into the base? in medieval times, folks believed demons lived between the leaves. the cross would drive the evil spirits away. (it would also help them cook more evenly) text is handwritten in black.

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 3d

Big Midwest sky

A photo of a field with distant black cows and a huge sky with sparse clouds

Similar photo to the first one but with the back of road sign interrupting the middle of the photo

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Casper Pham @ Shortbox Comics Fair (The Luminary Lark-Mirror) @marcheriest.bsky.social · 3d

fanart of doubler and kidbug from @goblinstunts.bsky.social ‘s “Dead Horses”, one of my favorite reads from Shortbox this year. highly recommend it 🐎

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 4d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 5d

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god
- Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table
- Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone
- Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

www.gofundme.com

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 4d

Fun at the farmers market (i did not buy the cabbage, the dino was irresistible)

A photo of my hand on the hugest green cabbage ever.

A photo of me holding a tiny ceramic stegosaurus

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 4d

My brother and i are having laying-on-the-floor looking-at-our-phones time together 😌

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 5d

If you can’t afford to print your zine, design your zine to be cheaper to print. If your motivation wanes halfway through a project then make your project 50% shorter. Don’t become so enamored with possibility that you lose sight of what is actually, wonderfully possible.

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