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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design

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Alberto Gonzalez / Costa Rican 🇨🇷 children's illustrator, middle grade comics author, character designer and multi-trick pony. My nick is my shortened full name. More about me at go.alzamon.com

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · May 6

Well it took way longer than expected but this humble account of yours truly has just crossed the 1k followers mark! 🥳🎈🎉

So, as promised, here's finally the commemorative art for display. "Making of" extra material will be available soon! :D

Children's illustration with text: "Here's to my 1000 friends in the BlueSky". Around the number 1000 with a 3-dimensional character, L to R, my characters: Daniel running with a butterfly catcher net pursuing butterflies around: Susana, smiling atop the 1000 number, and Elias leaning on the last zero of 1000, looking on.

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Del Hahn @delartstuffs.bsky.social · 2h

I made a post about some of my thoughts on Time Management. I definitely want to do a followup for this because in writing this it brought out a lot of new ideas and thoughts.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

036: Time Management

Creating comics is nothing but an exercise in time management

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1h

Since drawing/coloring days are muscle memory for me I get to listen to talking head videos I wouldn't otherwise just to torture myself. 🥹 So I found these guys, bearded old farts as me, downing scotch and f-bombs aplenty over design's future in the age of eye-aye. My kind of content. 😅

Graphic Design Careers in 2026...Great Future or Dead End?

YouTube video by The Angry Designer Podcast for Graphic Designers

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 2h

Not as daring, but once I had this fixation of driving all the way down to Key West FL because it seemed like you were going though the sea to a point in the middle of nowhere. Did it about, what, 12 yrs ago. Life's too short for not doing what you want 😅🚗

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 7h

I ended hating almost all the books I was assigned for obligatory reading on high school. And that hatred didn't get mellower with age.

As an author, getting on those lists might be a blessing in sales, but at the expense of a damned curse.

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 11h

Same reaction as I assume the news itself is slop too. Why should I waste time reading something no human really cared to write.

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 11h

It’s what I’d call the shiny object syndrome. Much of the claims made about AI are for the most part over hyped fluff and marketing to have investors pour money in droves - and so far it’s wildly succeeded. But it’s a bubble overdue bursting. And we’ll see how many still love AI by then. 🎈

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 12h

Está claro que quienes nos metemos a esto no es por la pasta, que desde el vamos no hay 🥹 sino porque no lo podemos evitar, es un llamado más allá de la lógica, es nuestra apuesta para trascender.

Eso, mientras juntamos otras cosas pa pagar las cuentas, que también.

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, every artist’s dilemma isn’t it?

Over time, I’ve been learning to embrace the “it sucks but it’s done“ feeling. Move on and try again at something else.

Sure there is old art I now find horrid and wish to redo, but — got no time for that. Life’s too short 🥲

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 12h

Mi elección en ese particular ha sido @vivaldi.com, hace meses que es mi único navegador en el ordenata, tablet y móvil. Y como es Chromium es compatible con la mayoría de extensiones tipo Chrome. No echo de menos nada, la verdad.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 19h

Lower 50s here and let me tell you: the midlife crisis isn't just real, it hits you like a ton of bricks.

And of course, all this (points everywhere) doesn't help lots either.

But things should get better before long. Or you just stop caring so much. That's where I cling my hopes to. 🥲✊

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 22h

Currently: a series of covers for my own comics projects intended for display on my portfolio. These should look like published projects (most aren't but what gives, fake it till you make it and so on). Coloring and logos still pending. #kidlit

WIP portfolio cover for one of my own comics. Depicted: A boy mischeviously ignites an absurdly tall birthday cake with what seems like dynamite sticks, while a girl below looks on and two of his friends search for cover.

WIP portfolio cover for one of my own comics. Depicted: A girl scout carrying cookies across a park is suddenly chased by a pack of hungry birds.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

* sudden need unblocked * 😬

I see they’ve got other critter-bottles as well

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

They’re all the same everywhere, I see! 😅🎈

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

Internet descubre los zaguates

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

The heck? Not even a prompt about a fitness regime beforehand? These days I don't touch FB even with a 10-feet pole, absolutely not aware of what's going on. This becoming the new normal for those who don't know better is... unsettling 😳

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if they felt their own job in jeopardy because of it, they would think differently about it. Alas, that doesn't seem to be the case or else they would think twice about plastering walls with AI "art". #kidlitchat

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

Aquí aplica perfectamente el dicho aquel de "lo que la vida no da, la universidad (o ChatGPT) no presta". Todos tenemos hoy una cámara en la mano pero eso no nos convirtió a todos en Sebastião Salgado o Frans Lanting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 2d

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

And guess what are genAI LLMs more chock full of...

The whole Ghibli fiasco earlier this year was likely the warning shot for the Japanese government. It has yet to be seen what can they *really* do against OpenAI, but still, 🍿

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

It's like sales numbers telling one story but the official discourse still clinging to another, for reasons yet to be wholly understood. Numbers don't lie, do they? And yet...

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 1d

Well I was going to sign up for a publishing newsletter and

* confused Pulp Fiction Travolta gif * 😳

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 2d

Es simple: cuando una entidad o cliente comienza a lanzar publicidad o comunicaciones con frecuencia en esos estilos que antaño no solían contratar, es casi seguro que se trata de IA, me la juego.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 2d

Greetings #portfolioDay followers!
I'm Alberto and I, um, make original stories in graphic novel / comics format for kids, and character design as well.
Looking for representation, related gigs and / or bags of money. Hit me up. 😬

📬 beto [at] alzamon.com
🎨 Portfolio site: alzamon.com

Portfolio Day (10/2025) collage of comics pages and work from Alberto Gonzalez aka Alzamon. Email: beto@alzamon.com / Website: alzamon.com

Portfolio Day (10/2025) collage of character design work from Alberto Gonzalez aka Alzamon. Email: beto@alzamon.com / Website: alzamon.com

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 2d

Many of Mr. Struzan's movie poster paintings are iconic and rightfully celebrated, but for personal reasons this is my and likely @maxiem0us3.bsky.social 's as well favorite. The background is based on a real NY harbor photo circa 1880s. Drew's signature is visible on the center-right side. #RIP 🙏🏻

Poster art for the animated movie "An American Tail" (1986, Don Bluth) painted by Drew Struzan.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 2d

He had been in very ill health for a long time. His art was a definite part of my childhood and then some. #RIP 🙏🏻