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Oliver Gerlach

@olliegerlach.bsky.social

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Comics writer: ●OFF MENU/ THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Little Bee/Faber) ●DEVLIN WAUGH (2000AD) ●YOUNG MEN IN LOVE (GLAAD award winner) ●RED SONJA And more! Oggerlach.wordpress.com Open for work! Email on my site. Rep: Stephanie Winter, KOMM

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · Mar 15

Did you know: a few months ago, @kelsijosilva.bsky.social and I released our first graphic novel? 240 pages of beautiful, welcoming YA fantasy about how the restaurant industry chews people up. Buy it here:
UK:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
US:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Me...

The Restaurant at the Edge of the World a book by Oliver Gerlach.

Heartstopper meets Nimona meets Legends & Lattes in this stunning graphic novel where Soup must battle her evil boss in a fantastical cooking competition. At seventeen, Soup is at a crossroads, ea...

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to finesse the second draft of a novel into coherence!

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you, my phone kept resetting me to the UK website!

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Kelsi Jo @kelsijosilva.bsky.social · 18h

or Off Menu if you're in North America!!

bookshop.org/p/books/off-...

Off Menu: A Graphic Novel

Check out Off Menu: A Graphic Novel - <b>The last thing on Soup's to-do list is to make waves at the restaurant she calls home, but when her boss's villainous behavior becomes toxic, she decid...

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 18h

Today would be a great day to buy THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, by me and @kelsijosilva.bsky.social !

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

witch of shadows

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 1d

I've just dropped the price on these because literally zero orders is usually a bad sign 😅 canopyrobin.etsy.com

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 2d

Just added a couple of limited edition stickers at canopyrobin.etsy.com! They're an A6 trans flag and trans dropout loopdeloop.

Unlike my normal easy-peel stickers, these are an eggshell design with extra-strong adhesive, so they'll break at the edges if tampered with and become very hard to remove

a large trans flag sticker, broken along one edge where someone has tried to remove it

the dropout game changer loop de loop symbol as a sticker in the trans flag colours, with text that says we've been here the whole time. The design is broken down one edge where someone has tried to remove it

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 1d

This is an unreasonable amount of personality to cram into people that tiny!

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 7d

My schedule is open for comics!! Hire me!

I especially love telling stories in horror, fantasy, or anything with critters. Previously worked with Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, and Oni Press

Available for interiors and covers ✨

Digitally inked and colored comic page showing a woman nervously leaving her apartment and heading to the subway at night

Ink and watercolor comic page featuring a barn filled with many supernatural creatures and two female humans telling them to behave before walking off

Digitally inked and colored comic page composed of 5 horizontal stacked panels. A man examining a rock face, hands playing tic tac toe, a family kitchen scene, a man at a computer terminal, and a hand reaching for a lizard scurrying across the same rock face from panel 1

“The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Sixth #2” Cover: vultures flying over an armored man with a long shadow made of flames

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2d

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most absurdly on brand thing imaginable. 10/10 perfect no notes, this is the best way to live.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2d

Medea 👀👀

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

No I was very much talking about this idiot! The man who you send in to deal with Bleach Japan!

a man with a beard and a red jacket is peeking out of a hole

Alt: Ichiban Kasuga, everyone's favourite idiot, in a cardboard box

media.tenor.com

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 3d

Holy shit it’s Bleach Japan but UK

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not entirely sure who the British Ichiban Kasuga is but I know we've got a good supply of himbos with stupid hair here somewhere!

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

It's been a shitter of a year! Exhausted solidarity from the depths of the comics pits.

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

This year is very much a famine period for me (and it sounds like for a lot of others too!). It's rough, but I guess these periods just... happen to everyone sometimes.

Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 3d

If you want to be in comics for the long haul, expect there to be seasons of feast and famine. Sometimes you’ll be hot and sometimes you won’t. You may have to break into comics all over again, more than once even. It really is a marathon.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's an Egg Bender for me! Thank you very much!

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 4d

Pendragon absolutely SINGS as a system, I think specifically because it puts so many mechanical restrictions on who your character is as a person. It's so directed and gives you so much framework!

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 5d

ukcomicscreators.org.uk
This closes on Monday, so I'm.just giving a nudge, especially to the senior members of our comics community, to fill this in. It's totally anonymous, and it's done by professional ppl.
Also, please share. The more breadth of data the better.

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey

UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 If you are a UK-based comics creator over 16 years old, we want to know all about you! Whether you are a working professional, a casual creator or a student, if you make ...

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len gogos 🏳️‍🌈👽 Open for work! @lengog.bsky.social · 12d

I WROTE a story for this anthology!! Drawn by my partner in crime @coddledtamago.bsky.social ♥️ It's about a famous photographer whose success is bound to something dark 🕶️ ✨

Kat Calamia @NYCC L-21 @comicuno.bsky.social · 12d

ANNOUNCEMENT: WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology LAUNCHES on Kickstarter October 14th!

"A 150+ page Horror Anthology filled with stories about WITCHES, WARLOCKS, and FAMILIARS from some of the biggest names in comics!"

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 4d

SLUG BABY IS THE SCARIEST THING IN THE WHOLE SERIES

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 4d

"I'm watching you, Trouble"

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

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