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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34

@monkeyminion.com

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Space/Science/Pop Culture #Artist. Pro Con Artist. Creator: BORBS & more. He/him. Clients: Netflix/Disney/AppleTV. link.space/@monkeyminion #art NO AI I vet all follows. I block liberally. I cuss a LOT.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · Nov 11

I suppose I could do a station identification:

I’m Dane. I’m an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons.
I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA

Monkey Minion Home

Monkey Minion is a 2 person team based in Wichita, KS creating art, books and merchandise featuring space, science, nature and pop culture themes. Geeky goodies made by and for geeks.

www.monkeyminionpress.com

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 16h

hi hello #PortfolioDay i’m alex i am an illustrator/cartoonist and i am currently working on a short memoir graphic novel about the time my grandpa died and we partied around his corpse in the basement

not currently looking for work, just attention (unless it’s REALLY cool or pays me many dollars)

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Sep 3

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

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BoOOOOOoOOoooOOOOoog @das-boog.bsky.social · 10h

OPE #portfolioday again! I'm BOOG, a cartoonist! Main clients these days are comic writers, ttrpg designers and vtubers, but I'm also open to concept art and graphic design/packaging work! Folio is at www.inkandrubbish.com, and at vgen.co/Boog you can find my current halloween commission sale!

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2h

*gasp* 17 year old me loved this game.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2h

Hello, old friend.

An air mattress on the floor with an orange cat in the middle of it.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3h

yeah. Not a fan. Hopefully, I'm clear before next week.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I'm really hoping that my masking kept it from spreading past me.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

"13 year old alien"

Jesus christ, could they sound *less* human?

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

God. Just the best to ever do it.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 11h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

It *is* rude. lol

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

Overall I feel relatively ok. A little snotty. Not any more tired than I'd usually be after a day of traveling. Just sucks bc I have another show in a week I need to prep for, but I know the best remedy for this is to rest.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

Aaaand I came home from NYCC with covid. RAD. Wore my mask all weekend at the show, on the train, at the store, whatever. Boo.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14h

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 13h

If possible, do not bring your real phone. Write at least one phone number on your body in sweat-proof sharpie in case you get kettled and need to call someone.

Wear a mask, if you're going to be crowded in with people.

Wear the most common and nondescript clothing you can.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14h

The absolute best to ever do it. A style unto himself. He was always able to capture the magic of the possibilities of film. Even bad movies are amazing through his eye and brush. RIP Drew Struzan.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 17h

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 15h

Happy #PortfolioDay!

I’m Nicole and I specialize in fantasy portraits, commission work. I also dabble in comics.

Email: [email protected]

Portfolio: aorticinkwell.wixsite.com/nicoleellison

#Art #Commission #Illustration

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 19h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Lots of folks came by my table carrying your prints over the weekend.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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˚ʚ Belle ɞ˚ @ working too damn much @torrent-empress.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah happy indigenous people's day, casual reminder!

Columbus landed in Queskeya/Ayti which is now the Dominican Republic/Haiti. The people that Columbus met - the Taino people of the Caribbean still exist - and are still suffering the effects of colonialism - free the islands!!!!!

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 9d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Ennio Morricone

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Ennio Morricone

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus