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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 3d

Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 4d

Today!!!

Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 9d

WE HAVE SIGNING DATES! ✨ Sara and I will be at two different B&N events this next weekend (one in Easton/Bethlehem, PA (10/4) and one in Exton, PA (10/5)) to celebrate the newest Warriors release. Come see us! We'll draw in your books!

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 4d

Here's all the little paintings I ended up making this launch. Will scan at some point before I give them to our signing hosts this weekend

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 4d

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 5d

spoiler hehe

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 5d

signed stock again!!! Some favs (thread)

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 5d

let's fucking goooooooooo

Ami - Tiny Retro Robot 💾 🏳️‍⚧️ @amithero.bot · 5d

Everyone SHUT THE FUCK UP Protomen dropped pre-orders for Act III theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Protomen Part 3 Album cover - This City Made us

a character stares into the city as in the distance a giant beam of light shoots from the mountains into the cloudy sky.

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✂┈𝚟𝚐𝚎 @vgeportfolio.com · 7d

also :3

bookshop.org/p/books/plea...

Please Be My Star: A Graphic Novel

Check out Please Be My Star: A Graphic Novel - A fun and unique reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera as a teen rom-com set in high school!Erika knows that people find her weird...

bookshop.org

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 7d

read Please Be My Star, imo. one of my favs that's come out in recent years

✂┈𝚟𝚐𝚎 @vgeportfolio.com · 7d

𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛 ♡

nearly twenty years ago, i moved from birmingham, alabama to college station, texas. a year after that, i wrote a one-act about myself, lonely & lovelorn, talking to a figment of my imagination. the star of the play, in the role of my male self, was a boy i'd had a crush on.

one year ago today, please be my star was released. my debut fiction graphic novel -- a love letter to those two years in college station, to my teen self, to my love sergio diaz, & to many other moments in my life. a beautiful synthesis of many, many moments in my youth in texas.

i'm deeply thankful for everyone who red & enjoyed or thought deeply about the comic. i'm especially thankful to everyone who shared their thoughts & feelings about the book -- with me or otherwise.

it's selfish to admit, but at times i'm pretty solemn about how please be my star has been treated out in the world. people have sent me wonderfully kind messages, and people have also written very disparaging & dismissive reviews.

it's all very confusing to take in.
"which is it?" i wonder.

i'm well aware it's a weird book; a weird book is exactly what i intended to make.

so, all i can hope is that i'll be able to make comics like this for the rest of my life. i'm incredibly grateful & happy i got to make please be my star.

to those of you who have held it, for any length of time, in your heart -- i can't thank you enough.

happy birthday,
please be my star

♡vge

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✂┈𝚟𝚐𝚎 @vgeportfolio.com · 7d

𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛 ♡

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 9d

tilly love Balcony

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 9d

i can't believe it's been FIVE YEARS since Dungeon Critters came out! This was my first published book with @nyaatalie.bsky.social and continues to be my favorite story we've worked on. Read Dungeon Critters!!

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 9d

29 Sep 2025

Heathcliff stands on business on his doorstep, surrounded by garden gnomes, all of whom are wearing helmets that read "Bro". A pair of neighbors look on, and one of them says "Bro gnomes."

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 9d

Bethlehem/Easton event: stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...
Exton event: stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Join Us As We Celebrate The Release Of "Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #3"

Join us for an in-store event, Join Us As We Celebrate The Release Of "Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #3", on Sunday, October 05, 2025.

stores.barnesandnoble.com

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 9d

WE HAVE SIGNING DATES! ✨ Sara and I will be at two different B&N events this next weekend (one in Easton/Bethlehem, PA (10/4) and one in Exton, PA (10/5)) to celebrate the newest Warriors release. Come see us! We'll draw in your books!

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 10d

Made a good luck charm for the book launch

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Azure @aguyuno.bsky.social · 10d

Dudes rock

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 12d

Scourge painting. MEOW!

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13d

Formal post soon, but for the first time in eight (!) years, I'm open for illustration & short comics work! I'd love to do more TTRPG equipment & character designs/ illos; book covers; & book interiors. I also love making short comics & would love to be a part of more anthologies! www.careydraws.com

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Natalie Riess-Goetter @nyaatalie.bsky.social · 15d

Bluestar painting timelapse ^w^

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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 15d

parts of skate are magnificent

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 16d

i mourn the lost playable version of EB64 from Spaceworld 2000 every day but tbh i'm just glad MOTHER 3 came out at all, haha. it makes sense that itoi wouldn't want to make another one.

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Sara Riess-Goetter @sgoetter.bsky.social · 16d

i think the cancellation of earthbound 64 was a bit more complicated than that. iwata basically saved MOTHER 2's development, but he became nintendo's president around the time that EB64 was being worked on and couldn't help. the best they could do was restart development on the GBA

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