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Jerry Bennett

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Graphic novelist, full time illustrator, Global U.S. Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI. (Is having six cats too many? I didn’t think so.) https://artistjerrybennett.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/artistjerrybennett

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 2d

A few of my more rendered variant blank commissions.

#comicart #xmen #lukecage #chewbacca #wolverine #penandink

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Oklahoma Comic Arts Foundation @okcomicarts.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone had fun making and talking comics at Speeding Bullet Comics over the weekend!

Keep an eye out for more locations holding Ink & Draw events!

#comics #makingcomics #oklahoma #okcomicarts

A groups of people all having fun making comics!

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 3d

#scbwiArtober2025 Day 5: Eyes
My apologies if it’s a bit too freaky. I’ve been dwelling on the idea of eyes being windows to the soul. While working, it also brought to mind Junji Ito’s work, not that my stuff even compares.

#art #artober #inktober #penandink #ink #digital #comicart #procreate

Digitally drawn ink drawing of woman with big smile full of braces.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 4d

Representing @okcomicarts.bsky.social for DICK TRACY DAY in Pawnee, home to Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy. Even met one of his grandchildren. He had awesome stories.

#oklahoma #okcomicarts #dicktracy #pawnee #dicktracyday

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 5d

Oh, the #Procreate brush is Liffey, in the pens folder.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 5d

#scbwiartober2025 Day 3: Phantom (yeah, this was a cheat, lol. Didn’t have time to be creative.)

#digital #comicart #thephantom #inktober #ink #procreate

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 5d

ROCK STAR.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 5d

Commission from OAFCon.

#art #comics #comicart #gl #greenlantern #guygardner

Sketch of Green Lantern Guy Gardner on a blank cover.

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 5d

PORTLAND: this is today! See you at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social. #pdxcomics

Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 7d

PORTLAND: First Friday Office Hours are this Friday, October 3rd, 4-6 PM at Books with Pictures!
@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social
Show me 6-8 pages of comics storytelling and I'll give you honest feedback based on my 30 years in comics. Details in the thread linked below: bsky.app/profile/stev...

"steve lieber's office is open" 4-6PM at books With Pictures

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 5d

Man! I wish there had been time at @okcomicarts.bsky.social Festival for a review of my work! Watching your reviews there was pure gold.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 6d

But if they’re making money, what then? That’s their endgame.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 6d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers! 📚

#bookcovers #comicart #comics

1- Kung-Fu Legume from @keenspot.bsky.social
2- Glamorella’s Daughter from @literatipress.bsky.social
3- Comics From the Kitchen from @foreignpresscomics.bsky.social
4- Oklahoma Gazette cover

I love doing covers.

A sentient legume fights a large humanoid turtle.

A large towering king looks upon a young girl twirling a yo-yo, with flames in the background.

Various foods and comic art pages on a stove, while a pot roast type dish is being removed from the oven.

A wrestler, in mid air, has leaped down to pounce on a wrestler who has a Covid dna molecule for a head.

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Oklahoma Comic Arts Foundation @okcomicarts.bsky.social · 6d

INK & DRAW AT SPEEDING BULLET COMICS
Sunday, Oct 5, 2-3:30 PM

Come hang out as we make comics, review comics, and generally talk comics at Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman!

614 N Porter Ave, Norman, OK 73071

#okcomicarts #comics #community

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 6d

Day Two- Night Light

Procreate brush- Inveresk, Pens Folder

#scbwiartober2025 #artober #inktober #ink #firefly #lightningbug #digital #procreate

Cartoon drawing of firefly or lightning bug.

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Oklahoma Comic Arts Foundation @okcomicarts.bsky.social · 6d

DICK TRACY DAY!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 from 10am-6pm!

We’ll be helping with the Comic Creation Station and executive director Jeff Provine will present “The History of Newspaper Comics, featuring Chester Gould”

#oklahoma #okcomicarts #comics #dicktracy

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 7d

By the way, this was the SWIFT brush in the inks folder.

Does anyone have favorites in the new Procreate brush set?

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 7d

#scbwiartober2025 Day 1: Squash

Doing these quick, dirty and digitally, mainly to experiment and play with the new Procreate brushes from @kyletwebster.bsky.social.

@scbwi.bsky.social

#inktober #art #halloween #digital #procreate #sketch

Sketch of a jack o lantern, but using a squash instead of a pumpkin.

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 11d

On Wednesday, my bud, @karammitchell.com, graciously drove us to LITTLE ROCK (5 hours away!) to see and hear from the incredible John Hendrix! His awe-striking exhibit and keynote was precisely what I needed to reenergize my creative side.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

a cartoon character says " and knowing is half the battle "

ALT: a cartoon character says " and knowing is half the battle "

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

I was reading this article to my wife, and she mentioned that Pilocarpine has been used as the ingredient to kill someone in many of the murder mysteries she’s read.
So, I’m both fascinated and freaked out.

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

I love the idea of this, but my wife said that several of her murder mystery novels used the same ingredients for the purposes of killing the victims.
Fascinating… and a tad freaky.

WIRED @wired.com · 13d

Trials of vision-improving substances are showing good results, though so far only two have been authorized for use in the United States. www.wired.com/story/could-...

Could These Eye Drops End the Need for Reading Glasses?

Trials of vision-improving substances are showing good results, though so far only two have been authorized for use in the United States.

www.wired.com

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

I sell a small selection of art prints, stickers and my self-pubbed comics. And they are usually set up as preorders that the students take to their parents.

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

Usually a slideshow talking about the kind of art I do, the journey it took to get here, where I’m going with it, followed with live draw demos and a Q&A! It goes by fast! #kidlitart

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

For sure. It definitely needs to be worth your time. #kidlitart

Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 13d

I’m not published yet! Schools live local talent to show them what it looks like at any stage! #kidlitart