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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 1d

D is and will always be, for Ducks.

Adventures of Lollipop Comics 🇨🇦 @lollipopcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that there are 34 million ducks in Canada? D is for Ducks in today's #adventuresoflollipop Canadian animal alphabet post! 🦆

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly better than his epitaph for Allegra. 🙁

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 3d

This definitely spoke to me 😌

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 3d

Will cat and dog be able to set aside their bickering and catch the Elmwych Vampire? More importantly, how does Lydia keep the tangles out of her hair? (suggestions welcome)
#vampire #werewolf #leopardman

Panel 1: The Elmwych Paranormal Investigation Club are entering the cemetery at night through a hedgerow. Griff and Dylan are in the foreground.
Griff: If the Elmwych Vampire shows up stand aside. We don't want your pretty fur getting all ruffled catkins!
Dylan: Hah! You're too slow for vampires, wolfboy!
Panel 2: Griff is flexing his biceps in the foreground as Dylan looks on, pulling faces.
Griff: Wind your claws in pussycat. It's always been Wolfman!
Panel 3: Amy stands between gravestones with her arms held out as the crescent moon shines above her. The others stand behind her.
Amy: Ooh! There's psychic energy here, stronger than before!
David: Great! We'll set up a sacred circle!
Panel 4: Lydia is pointing to a cloaked figure she has seen retreating between the trees.
Lydia: I don't think you're going to need that David!
Panel 5: A shadowy cloaked figure with glowing red eyes moves towards us as the club members stand in the distance.
David: What the - come on, let's follow. Quietly as we can!
Panel 6: Griff and Dylan continue their dispute as they begin to remove their tops. High above, Lydia is suspended in the air, surrounded by long swirling tresses of hair.
Dylan: That means us, wolfboy!
Lydia: I'll get a bats eye view!
Griff: Easy kitten, don't go coughing up furballs!

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 6d

And hey, while I've got my soapbox out this morning, there is absolutely no excuse for the percentage of women creators on top books in mainstream comics still being this low.

Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · Apr 9

2014
“comics are for everyone”

2017
#MeToo

2020
“Men In Comics Say No” #ComicsPledge

2024
Only 12% of the Top 50 Comics of 2023 were created (written or drawn) by women

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 7d

Love the Lollywood sign!

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Adventures of Lollipop Comics 🇨🇦 @lollipopcomics.bsky.social · 7d

Choose Your Own Adventure Thursday is back! The votes are in across social media and you chose to climb up the Hollywood Sign! Let's see how this one ends... #adventuresoflollipop

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Skree Ghoulsen 🔜 LBX 105✨ @breebird33.bsky.social · 8d

then perish 😀

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 15d

Wow! Thanks for showcasing Elmwych and the kind words!

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for the post, I love that presentation by Banes!

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👽 Anna Fitzpatrick 👽 @blackmotheyes.bsky.social · 16d

I wonder if we should promote our webcomics like AI actually. My comic is here whether you like it or not. you better get on board or you'll be left behind. Yes it's shit but it's existence renders you obliged to consume it!

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 23d

Happy Autumn 🍂

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes with it's jaws open wide showing long teeth ready to snatch a large falling Autumn leaf.

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes holding an Autumn leaf in its mouth. Many other dead leaves litter the ground around the dog.

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Andi Watson @andicomics.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sweater weather

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · Sep 14

Just a reminder:

It's YOUR social media feed. You can block anyone you want for any reason you want and you don't owe anyone an explanation.

Your time and attention are priceless. That's why so many people want to claim it for themselves.

Don't give it to anyone you don't want to.

a close up of a cartoon sheep with big eyes making a face .

Alt: a close up of a cartoon sheep with big eyes making a face and giving a thumbs up sign

media.tenor.com

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · Sep 3

UK artist selling to the US-
My wonderful assistant Sarah and I are working out how we can still sell to you! Here is what we have found so far.
Prints,posters,comics have 0% tarrif BUT Royal Mail will charge 50p per parcel in fees.
Tees and Playing cards (MTG??) have 10% tariff plus 50p fees

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · Sep 6

Idle banter in this Elmych update. I can't promise any actual rabbits on the next page , it's a humourous aside, a turn of phrase, a casual slice of idiomatic speech.
Sorry, I know how much you want rabbits.
#vampire #werewolf #norabbits

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Panel 1: David, Lydia and Amy are walking by a chainlink fence at night, with trees and hedges behind it.
David (caption): So tonight we visit Elmwych Cemetery again, hoping to uncover the strange entity Amy encountered there.
David: You've seen my attempts at magic Amy! How come you never told me you were a witch? Are you casting spells and stuff?
Amy: Yeah, more or less!
Panel 2: Seen from above, the three are walking down a pathway that runs alongside the cemetery.
Lydia: Don't be so modest Amy! She can do other things David.
David: What kind of things?
Lydia: Wellll...
Panel 3: Close up of Lydia's face.
Lydia: ...she can move dust!
Panel 4: As they continue along the path they pass a missing persons poster attached to the fence, with the faces of Chris Clench and his two friends.
David: Ha!ha! so that's why you like sharing a flat with Amy? She does all the spring cleaning!
Panel 5: At the end of the pathway, Griff and Dylan are waiting for them.
David: Well this is it! Are we all ready?
Griff: Never more!
Panel 6: Close up on Griff looking enthusiastic, as Dylan sneers in the background.
Griff: Time to let the wolf see the rabbit!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Sep 6

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

Impish cartoon self-portrait of the artist, a fellow with sticky-up hair and round glasses, shouts at you:

You NEVER NEED TO FOLLOW ME BACK!!!
I want to follow your posts, not insinuate myself into your life!
BUT IF YOU DO FOLLOW BACK AND WE DEVELOP A NICE RAPPORT OVER
TIME, THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY CHILL.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Sep 3

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Sep 1

no joke this is why i throw letters in before i start drawing haha. they don't have to be perfect but it's a real good reminder to leave that space. i'd do it even if i wasn't responsible for the final lettering tbh

(this doesn't save me from when i edit my dialogue after i've drawn the thing oc)

🌮Don Cardenas🌮 @doncardenasart.bsky.social · Sep 1

Obligatory repost

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Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · Sep 1

Laura Daddabbo

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Aug 28

Something special today at BF!

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF.

www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) - Read Tom Humberstone's Comic 'I'm a Luddite! (And So Can You!)' on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF – Broken Frontier

Tom Humberstone provides the lead story from his comics collection 'I'm A Luddite! (And So Can You!)' as part of our series on AI "art".

www.brokenfrontier.com

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JP Sewell @jpsewell.bsky.social · Aug 30

Quite beautiful.