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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 7h

New newsletter! About Cats, Bats, and Complications! Mildly interesting, possibly amusing, and with art from DaNi, @nicolascottart.bsky.social, @comixbychloe.bsky.social, and @michaellark.bsky.social! FREE!!

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18 - The Gang’s All Here

A Greg Rucka newsletter

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 51m

Yes, I am aware of the fascism, but it is also #PortfolioDay. So here's a brief respite. Hi! I'm Cheryl Lynn Eaton. I write comics. I talk about comics. I LOVE comics. Here's some of my work (credits in the ALT tags):

DC Power 2024 #1 / Pencils: Asiah Fulmore

Marvel Voices: Spider-Verse #1 / Pencils: Julian Shaw

Batman Secret Files #1 / Pencils: Elena Casagrande

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 7h

We're live, folks! @matthtaylor.com and I have a blood-curdling body-horror story in this talent-packed anthology, about TRANS WITCHES hunting a MONSTER. Of course, that mission goes horribly, horribly wrong.

Panels from "The Three Pillars" story in THE WITCHING HOUR anthology, by Jadzia Axelrod, Matt Aych Taylor and Jodie Troutman, where a witch turns into a monster to the horror of their apprentice.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning

a building with a sign that's only partially lit so that is reads "Rage"

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 8h

Oh! Why, hello, #PortfolioDay! I didn't see you there!

I'm Jadzia Axelrod, I write comics like GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR, as HAWKGIRL: ONCE UPON A GALAXY, well as shorts in DC PRIDE and SHARP WIT & THE COMPANY OF WOMEN.

I could write something for you! My email is freeplanetx at gmail.

A page from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher

A page from HAWKGIRL: ONCE UPON A GALAXY by Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan, Adriano Lucas, Alex Guimarães, Carrie Strachan, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

A page from "Up at Bat," a short story in the anthology DC PRIDE 2022, by Jadzia Axelrod, Lynne Yoshii, Tamra Bonvillain and Ariana Maher

A page from "Creed of the Seamstress" a short story in the anthology SHARP WIT AND THE COMPANY OF WOMEN, by Jadzia Axelrod and Rye Hickman.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 2h

Hi #Portfolioday ! I'm Vash, a concept artist and comic illustrator, with a healthy obsession for ttrpgs, scifi and weird fantasy!

✨ vashtaylor.squarespace.com

A comic page picked out in blues and reds. Its dark and foreboding. A girl sits by a campfire. She begins to cry

concept art for ambrosia sky - Dalia lays gerald to rest.

The musician Tamino, painted in blocky, muted colours

three witches stand around a cauldron, a noxious mist surrounds them. They're dressed in ornate clothing. The forest around them bares the grim evidence of their passing.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 2h

Today's Style

Jadzia is wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, black joggers and pink Converse sneakers.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 2h

Hi: I'm Jodie and I letter comics for basically every publisher. Said books notably include a bunch of Star Trek for IDW and the upcoming volume 2 of Galaxy for DC. Also pretty much anything @cerealpancake.bsky.social or @charliestickney.bsky.social ask me to do. longtalljodie.com #portfolioday

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 7h

The amount of talent in this thing is genuinely absurd and Michele has been busting ass making sure it is all as creepy and witchy as you could possibly want, BACK IT

michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 7h

WITCHING SEASON is live now on kickstarter!

A 150+ page horror comic anthology from me and Lifeline Comics. Excited for everyone to see what we've been building for most of this year🩸🌙

Cover A by @skyepatridge.bsky.social

More info here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Witching Season cover A by Skylar Patridge

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 3h

You are extremely welcome.

Thank YOU for doing such a fantastic job!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 3h

That's the list all right.

Another one of those will be revealed soon. Not [GREEN], though.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 3h

Y'all are gonna plotz when this one is revealed.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 3h

And with that, I'm done with [GREEN].

There'll be revisions, probably. But the heavy lifting is done. Biggest project this year. Feels kind of weird to hand it over.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 4h

Right back 'atcha!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to be more positive.

It's a constant struggle.

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Sweeney Boo @sweeneyboo.bsky.social · 5h

I got to do the exclusive kickstarter cover for WITCHING SEASON which is now live on kickstarter!

A 150+ pages horror comic anthology from @cerealpancake.bsky.social and Lifeline Comics 🔮 🌙 and a long list of incredible creators!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 5h

#portfolioday! I paint genre covers! I do illustration! I make comics! Check out my website for all work and contact info!

thelarsenproject.com

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 5h

The best comic of 2025 is back!!!

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 5h

Denver Leary spent the last three (3!!) chapters of KEEPING TIME trying to get the reserved, attractive pianist he used to know to (re)join his band. He FINALLY succeeded except it's, uh, off to a rough start

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com
🎸Start from the beginning

A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. Three dudes in a band are in their practice space experiencing a full range of emotional reactions to a new band member joining them. The bassist, Stef, crosses his arms surlily, Tomás, the drummer, is an excitable toddler, and Denver holds his hands out at Stef in a 'dude, what gives' gesture as he asks, "Stef, buddy? You wanna say hi back, or...?"

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 5h

Denver Leary spent the last three (3!!) chapters of KEEPING TIME trying to get the reserved, attractive pianist he used to know to (re)join his band. He FINALLY succeeded except it's, uh, off to a rough start

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com
🎸Start from the beginning

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 23h

I just want everyone to know @hannahtempler.com is absolutely *crushing* the art on this.

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hey, hey! Looks like the secret's out! The incredible @hannahtempler.com and I are doing a Hanukkah story starring Galaxy and Kat for DC's Holiday Special, I SAW MA HUNKEL KISSING SANTA CLAUS!

The cover for I SAW MA HUNKEL KISSING SANTA CLAUS, by Chrissie Zullo

Ah, the holidays. A time for joy and togetherness, presents and carols...and emotions, drama, and chaos galore. Join our merry gang of heroes and villains as they navigate the highs and lows of holiday romance.
Supergirl kicks off her winter vacation with a blind date! Galaxy tries (and fails) to clear her superhero-ing schedule to spend Hanukkah with her sweetheart!
And so much more! Warm up your winter with this collection of heartwarming and heart-racing tales coming to shelves this holiday season!

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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 11h

Hi, #PortfolioDay ✨
I'm Kej, freelance artist based in Portugal. I'm mostly interested in queer and fantasy themes and I'd be happy to work in illustration, book covers, character design and more!

[email protected]
my links

A collection of horizontal crops of 5 of my digital drawings.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 20h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 6h

hi portfolio day! I'm a cartoonist! however,I am spending the day in several airports. but here is my book that I made

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 20d

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

cover of hello sunshine featuring alex laying in a red flowers with eyes. red hands reach up from the ground to touch him. in the background the other four kids and cass the dog stand in a line in a field of daisies

a photo of alex with his back to the camera facing a red monster with daisies for eyes on the ceiling

the protagonists from hello sunshine sitting in a row looking nervous with the daisy eyes monster behind them in the darkness. in the center of the panel is an inset panel showing a cassette tape

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Jul 8

What up #PortfolioDay!

We’re Brandt&Stein, and together we make comics. Marvel, DC, Power Rangers, some Darkwing Duck, and a lot more besides!

We co-created Marvel’s first trans mutant (Escapade), made Green Arrow’s son asexual, and drew the multi-award nominated CROWDED.

Nice to meet you!

A page from Great Petspectations, printed in Harley Quinn: Black & White +Redder issue 2.

Panel 1: a header says “fourth event, extraordinary talent” as we see Haley, the three-legged Bitewing riding a unicycle while balancing a ball on her nose.

Panel 2: Haley is yelping in shock as paintballs hit her, knocking her off the unicycle.

Panel 3: Robin looks pissed, snatching Harley’s paintball gun away from her. Harley looks more smug though, as she is looking at…

Panel 4: the pet show’s judges are melting down as The Squiddler does his mind-reading trick and is writing their bank account numbers on a whiteboard.

Panel 5: Harley is giving a serious pep talk to Bud and Lou, her hyenas.

Panel 6: Harley’s going full pageant mom, putting the fear of god into Bud and Lou.

A double page spread from “Morgonna the Crimson,” first printed in Red Sonja: Black, White & Red 5.

Panel 1: Sonja’s kicking an evil wizard out of a small village.

Panel 2: Sonja’s running away, overwhelmed by the unnecessarily fervent gratitude of the villagers.

Panel 3: Sonja is stood, fuming, as a cardboard standee advertising someone who is clearly biting her style in terms of outfit.

Panel 4: Having defeated a monster and tied it up, Sonja is running and yelling at the people loading unwanted rewards onto her horse.

Panel 5: Sonja is walking through a forest, tearing down every poster put up by her imitator.

Panel 6: Sonja is leaping, sword swinging, at a giant inflatable standee of her imitator outside a wagon dealer.

Panel 7: an extremely grouchy Sonja is riding her terminally-overburdened horse. There is a goose sat on her head.

A double page spread from CROWDED issue 3.

Panel 1: wide across the top of both pages, showing an airport drop-off point and Trotter, the celebrity Reapr killer, standing out the sun roof of his limo, talking to his adoring fans.

Panel 2: inside the airport, Circe the assassin has noticed a bright-looking suitcase on the baggage claim that clearly isn’t hers.

Panel 3: outside the airport, now with the suitcase, Circe is walking towards another limousine.

Panel 4: at the limousine, Circe places her hand on the fingerprint scanner, her technological gloves hacking it, causing it to accept her as its intended guest, Mr Hufnagle.

Panel 5: full page width, split panel. On the left half, Trotter is in his limo, talking to his assistant Cameron. On the right half, Circe is in her limo rooting through her stolen suitcase.

Panel 6: Trotter is walking up to a hotel, posing for paparazzi.

Panel 7: Circe is climbing out of the sunroof of her limo.

Panel 8: Circe is jumping off her limo in the middle of the street, letting it continue to its destination.

A comics splash page. We’re looking out over a vibrant night scene at a food market filled with an eclectic and weird mix of people milling through it. Above the market a sci-fi city stretches into the distance, each area having its own architectural style and gravitational direction. Nearby a hover-bus is pulling into its stop.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 7h

I really fell in love with Luz and Yarrow writing this, so its really too bad about...*motions to everything horrible that happens to them*

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